Start as a destitute beggar collecting scraps, then transform into entirely different character archetypes—priest, thief, rat whisperer, or arsonist—each unlocking distinct story paths and mechanics. This text-based idle game weaves incremental progression with darkly comedic medieval city politics and genuine consequences for your choices, appealing to players seeking narrative depth alongside their passive earnings.
About this game
You play as a beggar in an idle incremental game where you beg for food. Become a priest, a thief, a rat lover, or a sadistic pyromaniac. Textually explore a city during medieval times, complete with church politics. But first, could you spare some food?
Players, last 30 days
Peak 7 · Low 0
Daily peak concurrent players, sampled once a night from Steam.
What players are saying
▲ Recommended0 hrs
Seems interesting and like it's 90% there, though I am disappointed that it followed it's inspiration's choice to lock out other classes of the same tier. Could also use some QoL (mouseover descriptions in the log, increase the sensitivity of the mouse scroll wheel for scrolling up and down lists, more signposting). But if the dev treats this like early access, I think it can be pretty good incremental.
It's hard to explain how I felt while playing. The gameplay reminded me a bit of Kittens Game but Beggar's Life quickly grows even more overwhelming than Kittens Game, which is odd considering how complex that game is. I think it's due to some QoL issues that Beggar's Life has right now. The screen space looks big but quickly becomes cluttered and cramped due to the amount of things happening, even when you don't have any moods turned on that reveal new options. Menu-ing feels unintuitive, both like this was made to run on a smartphone AND a widescreen monitor at the same time?? It's also hard to keep track of which moods you have turned on and whether they've run their due because again, there's so many options on the screen that you will lose it when you scroll. Active effects should be highlighted, like on its own spot above everything or with just icons or something. I haven't gotten an ending yet but from how I'm understanding it, you need many many playthroughs to get all the achievements due to classes being exclusive, which I am not a fan of. Closing the game and reentering changes the order that the menus appear on the screen which is so odd??
All in all, this has potential. But I cannot recommend this at its current state. I hope the developer will continue to tweak it more and add some QoL fixes.
Do I think it's a good game? No. With all its depth and originality of theme, the UI/QOL is terrible. (see the earlier comment about scrolling). No ability to queue actions. Red text on black background. UI popup elements get locked. And if you don't realize that "Locations" are hidden, you'll miss half the game. I did. I'm upvoting to help the developer. We need more idle games. 'nuff said.
Hey everyone, just a development blog on Beggar's Life.I'm currently working improving the UI. Most of the improvements are focused on the desktop UI, but the mobile UI should be considerably easier to play too. Not just the UI but the experience in general. Some of this new experience also needs some new content to really shine.While I have done some testing, more testing is necessary before release. I think I will create a Patron only beta to test out the UI problems so I can iron out some bugs before release. This version will come with new content that hopefully pleases newcomers and veterans alike.If you want to the see the UI I have some screenshots on Discord, here is one of them:The discord channel since the one in the game is broken (will fix in the next update): https://discord.gg/yb8w8vjZqZNo idea when I'll be done with the next update though, but putting in the effort to make it great!
