While many reviews highlighted the game's bizarre take on life-simulation avatar game with a plenty of quirks and charms, some pointed to the somewhat tedious and repeated aspect of avatar interactions and mini-games as potential shortcomings. Nintendo's release of the sequel title in North America and Europe was mostly met with favorable and curious reviews from video game review sites, holding an aggregate average of 72/100 on Metacritic, a score of 8.4 on IGN and a 7.5 on Polygon. The game's commercial success in Japan eventually gave rise to the development of the sequel title Tomodach Life. Upon the release of Tomodachi Collection in June 2009, the game became the best-selling title of the week in Japan, with over 102,000 unites sold, and by September 2009, it had become the fourth-best selling video game in the first half of the year after selling 1.15 million copies in total. The game was released in North America and Europe on June 6th, 2014. On April 18th, 2013, the sequel Tomodachi Life was released for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan (shown below, right). On June 18th, 2009, the Nintendo DS life simulation game Tomodachi Collection was released in Japan, in which the player performs everyday tasks to take care of the basic needs of their digital avatar character (shown below, left). Similar to other life-simulation games like The Sims and Animal Crossing, the player can make friends, feed, dress and instruct the character to perform a variety of activities and have it interact with other Miis living on Chin island.

Players in Tomodachi Life control a digital avatar known as a Mii, which can be imported from other devices, created from scratch or made using a photo taken with the 3DS camera.

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