Tomodachi Life Living the Dream is officially out, which means that your Miis have been released from demo completion house arrest. Now that they’ve returned to their normal selves from being living advertisements for the game, it’s time for them to get out there and make some connections! Making friends in Living the Dream adds chaos to your island as Miis chat and run into wild situations together. But how does one make Tomodachi Life friends?

Getting Started With Tomodachi Life Friends

Before you can have your Miis befriend each other, they have to know each other. This is a pretty simple thing to achieve — just pick up your Mii and drop them over to the other island resident you want them to meet. They will chat a little, which is called “Getting familiar” and then end up in the Acquaintance category.

Requesting To Be Friends

To make Tomodachi Life friends, keep having your Miis interact with each other. They may do this autonomously, but you can easily intervene (or manipulate, depending on how you see it) by dragging and dropping Miis next to each other to force them to interact. Sometimes, this will trigger a cutscene, but other times they’ll just start chatting. As a side note, Miis will hang out when you’re offline, so it’s possible to log back on and find friendships have been formed.

Once acquainted, if a Mii likes another Mii, they may say they want to be friends and ask you to help them. If you agree to help them (you can say no!), they will ask for a topic to chat about in their friendship attempt. This can be a person, thing, activity, or “something else,” which is just anything that doesn’t fit into the other categories. You can type in whatever you’d like them to talk about and then off they’ll go to try and officially befriend the other Mii. 

If it goes well, they’ll be elevated to Friends status. At this point, they’ll ask to give each other custom nicknames, which you can choose. Type in something logical or silly depending on your style, or exit out of the interaction if you don’t want nicknames. 

Other Ways To Make Friends

The path to making Tomodachi Life friends can also involve Miis setting each other up to be friends. A Mii may suggest that two people they know would make good friends and then they facilitate a meet up.

You can also further Miis’ relationships by sending them to rescue each other from the various issues they run into, like falling over or freezing up.

Relationship Statuses

When it comes to making Tomodachi Life friends, there are different categories and subcategories of relationships. Miis start out in the Acquaintance category after meeting someone. They’ll have subcategories based on their interest in the other Mii, like “Seems-like minded,” “Vibes with,” and “Wants to be friends” if they like the other Mii, or “Not interested” if they don’t. 

The next relationship status is Friend, with subcategories including Friends, Good Friends, Great Friends, Best Friends, and Ultra Friends. These subcategories aren’t always positive, though. If their relationship is struggling (which can happen if Miis get in a fight or a romantic rejection occurs), you might see a subcategory like “Kinda getting along” or “Not getting along.”

It’s also important to note that in relationships, the two Miis won’t necessarily share the same opinions of each other. For example, Mii A could have the “Vibes with” subcategory with Mii B, but from Mii B’s perspective they are “Not interested” in being friends with Mii A. This is because making Tomodachi Life friends depends on personality compatibility. 

Compatibility Matters When Making Friends

Not all Miis are destined to get along with each other. There are 16 different personalities in Living the Dream, and they will determine your Miis ability (or inability) to form friendships and later romances. Now, who gets along with who is not something the game is going to tell you. It’s going to take some trial-and-error on your part to figure out which personalities mesh. Which might make things awkward if you create your best friend in-game and then your Miis’ personalities clash. But such is the unpredictable, random nature of Tomodachi Life friends and Living the Dream in general. 

There’s no cheat code for fostering relationships, platonic or romantic. While you can certainly keep making your Miis hang out, who your Miis decide to befriend is not entirely in your control.

What are your thoughts on Friendships in Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream? Let us know in the comments down below and stay tuned for latest Tomodachi Life Guides and Overviews!