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Note: The price has been reduced from $3 to $2 because most achievements are unavailable in this version. Steam recognizes this game as Life in World and links its test achievements from Life’s a Beach (Porcupine Sex, Eggs Abortion, and Explore the Entire Map).
This release includes everything from the Steam version—2 minutes 30 seconds of in-engine cutscenes and full gameplay—but without achievements. this version includes explorer mode as its the most up to date version of the game.
Life’s a Beach is a comedic sandbox adventure where you and a friend can explore a giant map, trigger bizarre in-engine story sequences, and laugh together on the couch—fast, chaotic, and endlessly silly. The game contains 11 achievements, 7 challenge sections filled with personality, wall running, and speed, and a 2-player mode that takes place on a single screen. Get your copy today!
At 60 cents during the 2025 Winter Sale, the game offers the essence and polish of a $60 title—while requiring far fewer development resources—giving you a high-value, 17-minute to 30 minute experience that rivals much longer games in quality and fun. however. its essentially the same as a 60 dollar game with 28 hours worth of content.
On Linux, requires Proton 7.0.6
Contains a third-party EULA compact between users, players, and developers of Unreal Development Kit 3 games.
Not designed for Windows 7 Service Pack 2, but it can run on it. See the Windows 7 obsolescence section at the end.
Troubleshooting can be found in the developer help section before the Windows 7 obsolescence section.
Have you ever wanted to explore a deep and endless ocean instead of fighting your enemies? Have you ever? You know what I've always wondered about porcupine sex. They have all those quills and poison. It just seems dangerous to me and yet I've never heard of any porcupines dying from sex in the span of human history. It's just something we never really think about.
Multiplayer: Say no to splitscreen! All multiplayer happens on the same screen, on the same TV locally—you don’t need two TVs or internet.
Explore a massive UDK 3 map: The world is larger than a typical UDK 3 map—about 5 miles—and full of surprises. Along the way, you’ll uncover quirky in-game movie sequences, including a hilarious take on porcupine sex and another on abortion. the rest of the jokes take place within their own themed challenge area that loads nearly instantly and seamlessly allowing you to explore the world at your leisure.
Achievements:
One for watching the porcupine sex sequence
One for watching the abortion and eggs sequence
Explore the world
Discovered Challenge 1: Some things truly can't be explained
One step at a time: Discover the secret of dark humor
Or what we call a pyramid scheme: Discover the stock scheme
What, it is: Discover scientific method
But I want government: Defeat supreme leader bear
More French fries: Discover the history of potatoes
Don’t cry: Survive the river that drowned the world
Where’s Ferris: Discover the secret area
Fast, seamless gameplay: Load times in challenges are only ~1.5 seconds, and you can move across the map so quickly you’ll sometimes hover over the ground.Â
Fun with friends: Drop objects to attack each other, explore the world together, or activate the in-engine movie sequences. Everything is designed to be enjoyed on a single screen—perfect for couch co-op.
Steam Deck compatible:Â Works with Proton 7.0.6; 720p and 1080p tested. FOV adjusts automatically depending on resolution. For best results, 4K is recommended.
Ways to Play:Â Share one keyboard, with Player 1 controlling the camera. Use two keyboards and a mouse, or two keyboards and two mice. Play via Parsec or Steam Remote Play Together (if using Steam Deck at 720p, the highest-resolution screen should be host)
Extras: Fly faster than Sonic, discover hidden comedy bits, trigger a solar eclipse, and explore the largest possible UDK 3 map—all for just $3.
Windows 7 support:Â DRM-free and playable on Windows 7 Service Pack 2 64-bit even after Steam support ends.
Controls (local & multiplayer):
Player 1: WASD to move, Z mine /X/C vertical/horizontal shooting, Space jump, R teleport to Player 2, mouse to move camera
Player 2: Arrow keys, K mine /I/O vertical/horizontal shooting, Comma teleport to Player 1 / activate sequences, Right Ctrl jump
Camera: Period/Slash to rotate view for either player
Stop Moving while in the air to land.
0 activates explorer mode increases acceleration reduces top speed and keeps the player anchored to the ground.
multiplayer compatibility ps2
Works best on a single screen or TV
Smaller screens (like Steam Deck) may work at 720p if both players are using a small screen
Multiplayer at 720p and below is untested
devlog we did it ps3
The game has now been approved for release on Steam. We've essentially completed the work on the game. There is 2 minutes 30 seconds of in-engine movie sequences added, each with its own challenge gameplay section that really adds to the comedy of the movie sequence. They're really great.
Tomorrow we’ll be connecting all the movie sequences together back to the game world. In order to spawn you in the right place for the 7 challenge movie sequence game sections, you need to spawn around where you are in the game world when the section ends. But until all the movie sequences are done, some of the links wouldn’t have all of the game world on them since they weren’t made yet.
With the game complete, those can now be added. We also need to add the additional achievements for all those movie sequences, which is trivial. There are also some surprisingly simple things I need to do, but I already know how to do them. There isn’t any thinking involved for it per se, but it will be tedious to implement.
The game is a fun showcase of 2 minutes 30 seconds worth of entertaining in-engine movie sequences:
There is a multiplayer component where you and a friend can explore the world, possibly activate some of the movie sequences, and attack each other.
The world is the largest size possible for a UDK 3 map. The world is mostly empty, but you can move across it quite effortlessly so fast that you'll often hover over the ground.
The multiplayer should provide some fun. It's designed to easily be played on one screen with one keyboard in local multiplayer. You could of course use two keyboards if you want to, but this mainly works because Windows treats two keyboards as if they’re the same as 1 keyboard.
If using Parsec or Remote Play Together, you can play with friends easily with them using their keyboard over the internet, which controls the host over the internet.
One of the frustrations with the movie sequences made for "Life in World," which is the game we first made the map for: the map was too large. It was difficult and frustrating to set up port forwarding and it was difficult to find people on the huge map. This is solved in "Life's a Beach" mainly out of necessity.
This is mainly for people reviewing the game, but a new section has been added with a red ocean texture. This leads to a movie sequence about me talking about bleeding from going to the dentist a couple of years ago.
There is an AI you can avoid that looks similar to the Demon Tide Heartless in Kingdom Hearts 3. It's basically just a bunny firing bottles, but it hovers characteristically like Demon Tide in KH3 as it fires bottles — similar to Demon Tide in Kingdom Hearts 3. It must be a characteristic of the random behavior in Unreal Engine.
Game has 2 minutes 30 seconds worth of movie sequences, a large map, and a working multiplayer component that takes place on one screen. Comma teleports Player 1 to Player 2. R teleports Player 2 to Player 1. The game should be worth 3 dollars.
Steam Deck settings
7 720p windowed: this setting is only for Steam Deck. This setting causes glitches when used in Windows OS. Useful for using utilities like my utility Process Linux for Steam Deck. Process Linux for Steam Deck can be found in community hub discussions warning about Steam Deck support.
8 720p fullscreen windowed: this setting is only for Steam Deck. This setting causes glitches when used in Windows OS.
The multiplayer part of this game is 2-player only.
technical features
With in-engine movie sequences and 2 in-engine sequences without them. Load times at best and at worst are about 1.5 seconds loading in a challenge area, but loading between them is seamless. To make them instantaneous, try visiting the community discussion on hypercompression in "Life's a Beach."
There is a two-player mode that takes place on one screen. Works great over Parsec and Steam Remote Play. The challenge areas are incredibly fun. It took about a day to link them to the rest of the world. If I ever add a swath of new content to the game, I'm taking 3 days to link the new content to the rest of the world — it's seriously tedious.
But anyway, there's a ton to explore, and with friends, enjoy the game.
Summary switch
In order for Player 2 to activate movie sequences, they have to teleport you to their location when they are near one of the people that does the comedy bits.
Reaching the end of the map gives you an achievement. Listening to all 11 comedy bits and completing the 7 themed areas that unlock them in full and reaching the end of the map is currently the extent of the achievements.
The idea is to explore the map, but a friend can also follow on the same screen in local multiplayer, meaning no internet connection is required to play together. With Steam Remote Play Together, you can play with a friend over the internet. You can also use other software as well to do the same thing.
We chose to use Remote Play Together because of its support for Steam Deck. Essentially, you can drop objects on the ground that eliminate the other player’s health. They also cause you to move to the other player’s position. Those items have different collision ranges than the things you attack people with that move.
The map is large, and the movie sequences are entertaining and can be explored with a friend. With the amount of content in the game, we are selling the game for 3 dollars.
You can see a solar eclipse by activating a switch in the game.
Play local multiplayer on the same screen as friends on the same TV.
You can place things on the screen that kill instantly, or you can fire both horizontal and vertical objects.
There are 10 in-engine sequences that can be discovered:
One about porcupine sex
The other about abortion
The games default price is 3 dollars at the moment. we try to have as many sales as possible but this relies on us getting accepted into the many themed sales on steam.
were a small developer with no advertising which affects visibility which affects sales which affects visibility which affects sales which means we may not be able to participate in sales which could improve our visibility on steam. weve tried to enter one so far. as the reason I created a steam account was to buy things during the black friday sale when I was a kid. we should always be available during the steam winter sale.Â
If you play with friends, it may be worthwhile. The in-engine sequences are funny and well-animated, and there’s always a massive world to move across.
The two movie sequences are triggered by moving close to a person on the map. There is an achievement for each movie sequence and a third achievement for reaching the end of the map.
The game was originally based on Unreal Tournament 3, but those assets have now been removed.
You can now fly at ungodly speed across the map faster than Sonic. You can also discover the secret of porcupine sex with friends and explore a huge map, all on a single screen.
developer help vita
Steam Deck compatibility:
Game only works on Proton 7.0.6
If the game takes more than 30 seconds to boot, verify integrity of game files. The launching game message should take less time on Steam Deck. You may want to do this after every game update. Not sure why it happens — may be the Steam runtime.
Steam Windows 7 obsolescence
The game is designed with Windows 10 and 11 in mind. However, the game is DRM-free and does work on Windows 7 Service Pack 2 64-bit.
When Steam stops working on Windows 7, this game will still be launchable from the Steamapps folder without launching Steam, so you’ll always be able to play it.
Although the game is not designed around 32-bit, it makes extensive use of memory. The game can possibly be played in 32-bit — just go to binaries/32bit/udk to give it a go. 32-bit is not officially supported.
The game can be played with 1 or 2 players. Both players play on the same screen. The FOV is adjusted depending on resolution.
You don’t have to spawn your 2nd player into the game. The 2nd player spawns next to Player 1 immediately when the game starts. This uses up no resources.
If for some reason you start playing as Player 1 but want Player 2 to join you, you can press R to teleport Player 2 to Player 1, or Comma to teleport yourself back to Player 2.
The game takes place on a single screen and can be played on a single TV. 4K is recommended for multiplayer. Even 8K is, but it has not been tested. In theory, it should be a great experience.
When playing on an 8K screen, tilt the view forward so you can’t see behind you. This gives you full advantage of the fantastic field of view used for 8K.
M exits the game, mainly used as a safeguard in case someone uses the Steam Deck BAT on Windows.
Mature Content Description
The developers describe the content like this:
makes a joke about porcupine sex. makes a joke about eggs the food and abortion. it contains a joke about bleeding at the dentist.
System Requirements
Minimum:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:Â Windows 10 Windows 11 recommended for 11th gen processors and newer
Processor:Â works out of the box i3-1115G4 processor tested with windows 11 where youd have to follow steps under additional notes to play intel celeron n4500 tested with windows 10 expect poor performance at the minimum spec multiplayer has not been tested on the minimum spec 64 bit processor recommended processor should be running from 2.6 to 2.8 ghz constantly and should be a processor from 2021 m2 nvme drive with a 24000 minimum 24000 gigabyte maximum required at this spec this can be found on a asus laptop br1100ck. preferably the m2 drive is not the same drive that windows is installed to use 32 bit open the binaries folder and go to 32 bit then click on Udk
Graphics:Â intel celeron 2021 uhd graphics check your celeron processor release date by typing it into google.
DirectX:Â Version 11
Storage:Â 27 GB available space
Additional Notes:Â expect 2.5 second load times for challenge areas based on a n4020 with 24000 minimum 24000 maximum page file with a 2gb download for the game logs may increase this. process lasso required settings based on a n4500 celeron udk cpu priority above normal process watchdog udk.exe if above 80 percent set io priority to low if below 75 percent cpu set io priority to high. under options general set the refresh interval of the governor and of the gui to 2 seconds. set cpu priority of process lasso to always idle. set cpu priority of process governor to below normal set cpu affinity of process governor to use only cpu 0. these optimizations to process lasso reduce the amount of cpu overhead that process lasso has which is neededfor this cpu. if using an n4500 celeron. asus laptop br1100ck required. C drive eemc page file required 750 megabytes. this is a low performance drive. maximum throughput can be achieved by using a smaller page file. mileage may vary D drive nvme drive set page file to 24 gigabytes. page files are static for example minimum 750 maximum 750 minimum 24000 maximum 24000 resolution required 640 x 480 th folder unfortunately because the game makes use of bats and has dependencies this game may not work well on linux which sucks. to run the game on steam download throttlestop make sure to turn it on. the icon on in taskbar will be red if its on. set the following settings click on the c1 button set package c state locked to c1 set c1 undemotion to on set c3 demotion to on set pkg undemotion to on turn c1e off do not turn speed shift on as this can cause instability and crashes. in throttlestop click tpl make sure under power limit controls disable controls is not used then disable the short power limit it can cause the cpu to go over its power limit and this causes the cpu to throttle. make sure the short power limit is not used and that the turbo time limit slider is set all the way to the right. then make sure to use sync mimo. the settings for setting long power limit and sync mimo need to be reapplied everytime you start up throttlestop.
Recommended:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:Â Windows 10 Windows 11 recommended for 11th gen processors and newer
Processor:Â intel 8750h 64 bit processor recommended to use 32 bit open the binaries folder and go to 32 bit then click on Udk
Memory:Â 8 GB RAM
Graphics:Â intel uhd graphics 630
DirectX:Â Version 11
Storage:Â 12 GB available space
Additional Notes:Â it is theoretically possible with process lasso realtime cpu priority and io priority low to get .984 second loading of the challenge areas on a fast computer.ased on a 8000 minimum 8000 maximum page file with a 2gb download for the game logs may increase this.on modern hardware game runs very well with a 62 fps framerate that can be adjusted in settings.
if you have a history of seizures do not play this game. *this game contains a third party eula compact between users players and developers of unreal development kit 3 games.
