Various Daylife is the galaxy brained version of a Square Enix name and no one can believe it's real

Various Daylife
(Image credit: Square Enix)

Square Enix has announced that Various Daylife is coming to Switch, PC, and PS4 during yesterday's Nintendo Direct, and now nobody seems to be able to get over the title.

Various Daylife was originally released for iOS via Apple Arcade in 2019. Think of it as a traditional JRPG where you engage in turn-based battles with a party of four characters. Various Daylife got a mediocre response at launch, but it's now on Switch and PC for $28.99 USD and will be coming to PS4 on September 16.

Various Daylife. The game was developed under the leadership of Tomoya Asano and his appropriately named production group, Team Asano, who you'll probably know best as the folks behind titles like Bravely Default, Bravely Second, Octopath Traveler, and Triangle Strategy. All names that have been pretty relentlessly mocked over the years.

But hey, at least you can connect the Bravely games to their gameplay systems, Octopath Traveler to its eight protagonists, or Triangle Strategy to its plot revolving around three warring factions. Various Daylife could mean anything. A trailer tagline describes it as "an RPG of everyday life and adventure," and that seems to be what the title is going for - but listen, I'm living out some Various Daylife as we speak.

The broader internet's reaction to the name has been similarly confounded.

For my part, I can't tell if I love or hate Various Daylife. I'm going to pull back the curtain on video game news writing so you can get an idea of the level of obsession this title brings me. When somebody at GamesRadar+ writes a news post, we present a list of potential headline options in a group chat for everyone to provide input. Here are the rejected headlines for this story.

  • Nobody can believe Square Enix really named a game Various Daylife
  • Square Enix announced Various Daylife and now no one can return to their various daylives
  • Square Enix is pretty much daring us to make fun of Various Daylife
  • I can't stop saying Various Daylife
  • Nothing is the same now that we've heard the name Various Daylife
  • Various Daylife Various Daylife Various Daylife Various Daylife Various Daylife

On a normal story, that list would be three items long. But this is not a normal story. Various Daylife is not a normal video game. Our various daylives will never be the same.

Various Daylife has brought us to a state where the announcement of Octopath Traveler 2 seems completely normal now.

Dustin Bailey
Staff Writer

Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.