How can I play Tomodachi Life Living the Dream?

Hello everyone on this forum, I’m new to this operating system and I wanted to know if anyone has been able to play Tomodachi Life Living the Dream. (If I made any mistakes in this post, I’d appreciate it if you could let me know so I don’t make the same mistake next time I ask a question.)

I didn’t try this specific game but i don’t see why it wouldn’t work

Welcome to the community @gato334 :waving_hand::smiley: :enos_flag:

I don’t know anything about Nintendo Switch games, or emulation. However, this might be a place for you to start:

Installing AUR packages is done using yay, like this:

yay -Syu ryujinx-canary

Oh right, this is a switch game. If you want to make you life a little bit easier you might want to use Lutris to launch your games. In Preferences > Runners you can add different emulators (ryujinx being one of them). But as long as this game doesn’t require a constant internet connection it should be a quite pain free experience. I haven’t used this emulator in a few years so i can’t really advise you on the best way to use it but i’m pretty sure some people on this forum/the internet will provide better advice on that subjet.

Uh Ryujinx is dead and you should be using Eden these days for Switch emulation and yes they have a linux build

I can’t speak from experience with using these emulators, but from a development standpoint, the project would appear to be quite active:

Ryubing is a fork of Ryujinx since Ryujinx was forced to shutdown. Ryubing is in maintence mode basically these days since the main dev GreemDev left the project months ago at this point in time.

GreemDev is still pushing commits as of last week, although it looks like they’re not having a good time with configuring CI based on their commit messages :grimacing: :sweat_smile:

And to be clear, as I already alluded to, I’m the noob in this space, so I’m not wrestling for Eden vs Ryubing. Just noting what I see :wink:

According to Discord GreemDev still manages the infrastructure

9:22 PM]Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 9:22 PMTwinkle Mr Jean [LOKI], Server Tag: LOKILOKI: All the commits are Forgejo-related
[9:22 PM]Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 9:22 PMTwinkle Mr Jean [LOKI], Server Tag: LOKILOKI: Basically cause they own the domain etc and havent transferred yet but yes they are completely out of the emulator

AKA this isn’t a Eden VS Ryubing battle I am just letting you know that Ryubing is basically in maintence mode becuase the main dev stepped down months ago and Eden is still being actively worked on. I am in both discord servers so I have been keeping an eye on them Since Nintendo took down the OGs