Nintendo has announced a special Direct about Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream for January 29!

It will start at 6 AM PT / 9 AM ET and last 20 minutes.

Since Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is one of my most-anticipated games of 2026, you can imagine how thrilled I was to see the news.

I didn’t think it was a big enough game to get its own focused Direct, so I’m happy to be wrong.

There’s still a lot we don’t know about this upcoming Tomodachi Life sequel. Even though it’s had two trailers so far, neither showed too much about the game’s features. Twenty minutes of new information sounds like exactly what we need.

Some fans have predicted they’ll remove romance and only have a friendship system, which I hope isn’t true, because watching Miis end up in strange and unexpected relationships was a lot of fun. So I hope they confirm romance, along with other things I want to see, like a wide range of customization options and lots of random events. Overall I just hope it’s as wacky and bizarre as the 3DS game was.

Since it’s due out this spring, it seems likely that we’ll get a release date, too.

If Living the Dream is as crazy as Tomodachi Life on the 3DS was, it’ll be a rare time when I’m tempted to buy a digital copy over physical, so I could more easily play it a little here and there while also playing other games. But we’ll see.

What are you hoping to see at the Tomodachi Life Direct?