Ever wonder why adulting feels like climbing a tower while carrying an increasingly absurd amount of stuff? Life Balance turns that feeling into a physics platformer: every life choice straps a real, physical burden to your wobbly ragdoll, and then you have to climb with it.

Play solo, or grab a friend for 2-player split-screen co-op and carry each other's baggage.

Get educated? Congrats, here's a backpack. Start a career? Have a briefcase. A credit card, a pet, a wedding, a startup, a mortgage... 28 life choices, each with a perk and a catch.

Every burden has real weight. It swings when you jump, pulls you sideways on narrow ledges and drags you down when you fall. Level your choices up for bigger perks, or drop them when the climb gets too heavy. Some of them, like the mortgage, you can't drop at all.

• Give your partner a leg-up to a ledge they can't reach alone.

• Grab them before they fall, or drag them up the last step.

• Hold hands to cross narrow beams with shared balance.

• Hand over your baggage when theirs is lighter.

• Shared lives: fall, and you come back right next to your partner.

• Friendly fire is optional. Use it wisely.

The tower climbs through school, work, money, home, the social scene and your own mind, each with its own obstacles. And life doesn't wait until you're ready: a toddler wants to play, your boss "has a minute", the paparazzi find you, a worry cloud follows you around and your phone explodes into a notification storm.

Smash through lockers and piggy banks, outrun a deadline and sneak past a dragon sitting on its hoard.

• Physics comedy: wobbly ragdoll movement where every slip, swing and fall is a laugh.

• Solo or 2-player split-screen co-op: player 2 can drop in at any time.

• 28 life choices with real weight, perks and catches.

• Themed life zones with their own obstacles, set pieces and bosses.

• Life events that turn up when you least expect them.

• Destructible places: punch, smash and topple your way up.

• Hidden memories to collect and achievements to unlock.

• Four difficulties, from Trust Fund Baby to Hardcore.

• Full controller support and 9 languages.

Add Life Balance to your wishlist to get a notification at launch, and follow the game for development updates. You can also find me on X, TikTok and Instagram, where I post clips of the climb and the funniest fails.