If Tomodachi Life Living the Dream is consuming your Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 playtime, you don't have to fork out the $26.99 cost for the officially licensed Nintendo Switch Touch Pen to have a good time drawing up some nightmare-inducing Miis. You don't (and shouldn't) need to resort to using a carrot as a stylus either - though I admire the ingenuity.
I like the best Nintendo Switch 2 accessories with the official branding as much as the next gal, but I instead picked up a set of MEKO 3 in 1 Stylus Pens for £7.99 (Amazon) / $9.99 (Amazon). The rubber tips aren't pixel-perfect by any means. But I've still managed to draw countless Miis and customized treasures without forking out a fortune, scratching the screen, or smearing a vegetable across my pricey Nintendo tech, which is a win in my book.
The MEKO Stylus Pens set on Amazon UK has been one of the best Switch 2 accessory investments I've made in 2026, as it's made customizing far more fun and intuitive. Before, I was just using my fingertips, which still worked, but never left me creating anything I was pleased with - just Miis that looked so bizarre that they had more in common with my sleep paralysis demons than any famous anime characters I was trying to recreate.
Switching out my grubby fingertips for the 0.2-inch rubber tip of the shimmery Rose Gold stylus changed all that. My creations weren't instantly perfect, as drawing on a Switch 2 feels alien, no matter what you're using. Yet dragging that soft rubber nib across the handheld 7.9-inch display felt closer to real digital art, and so I was able to doodle away with the end results looking at least more like what I intended them to. There's now a little Mii running around my island that looks vaguely like Frieren from the Frieiren Beyond Journey's End anime series, down to her iconic earrings and green-lit eyes. I've even added a GamesRadar+ Mii that has our orange logo for a face - a simple shape but one that was far easier to put together with a stylus in hand.
My favorite creations that only felt possible with the stylus set were the addition of some of my most beloved real-life albums. Just last night, I gifted my own personal Mii a copy of Nirvana's In Utero, which featured the iconic angel and her red wings - all of which I drew myself. I don't want to float my own boat too much, but I'm sure even those with a passing knowledge of grunge and 90s music would recognize the cover, even if I missed out on a lot of the atomically correct details.
I could have created the album cover with my fingers and saved some money. The customization screen is pretty generous with its options, and you can zoom in pretty close to draw pixel-by-pixel. But the fact of the matter is, the small £7.99 investment made the drawing part actually enjoyable. Not to mention, it didn't leave fingerprints smeared all over my screen, which makes every penny I spent more than worth it.
If you can't spare the £7.99 / $9.99, by all means use whatever you can muster up and afford. I love the creativity Tomodachi Life Living the Dream players have displayed, and I've even witnessed TikTok user felinequeenie MacGyver-ing a stylus out of a Q-Tip, aluminum foil, and a drop of water. The girl in me who grew up on council estates and lived off second-hand Nintendo tech applauds fans for it, but the small, less than £10 / £$10 investment in a pair of rubber-tipped styluses is still worthwhile if you want drawing to actually feel fun, and your screen to remain scratch and fingerprint-free.
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