
Paralives is a life simulation game about building homes, lives and bonds. Through both hardship and success, where will your story take you?
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Hop on, we’re leaving, and your new life awaits! Paralives is a sandbox life simulation game with a great cast of Townies to meet, as well as a vibrant open-world town to explore and make your own. You will feel right at home, should you choose to embark.
Whether you focus on your career, finding love, building a family, or becoming the richest person in town, the story is yours to write in Paralives. But twists and forks in the road await. What will you leave behind?
Thanks to an ever-evolving catalog of furniture, decor and clutter objects, staging the perfect homes for your Parafolks will be a breeze: resize, recolor, stack and place items freely for a tactile building experience.
Paralives allows truly grid-less constructions with curved walls, split-level floors and more. Recreating your house or building an intricate 8-story mansion has never been this easy.
You will be handed an advanced character creator called the Paramaker. Adjust the height of your Parafolks, tweak a wide array of facial and body features, design stylish outfits and create complex personalities. From head to toe, no small detail will be left out!
🏡 Explore an open-world town filled with shops, parks, restaurants and museums
👕 Create Parafolks of all looks and styles
💼 Find a job and try out flexible career progression paths
🧠 Discover unique personality traits, skills, wants, needs and emotions
❤️ Find love and make friends, or enemies
👨👩👦 Multiselect Parafolks and do anything as a group
👵 Grow up, have children and live a long life
🔨 Enjoy the customization and flexibility of our house-building tools
⚙️ Experiment with our in-game modding interface to edit or add content to the game
💌 Find community-made mods, houses and Parafolks through the Steam Workshop
More features and content will be added during Early Access and after through exclusively free updates, as we have pledged to our community.
Weather and seasons
Dogs, cats and horses
Cars and bikes
Boats and houseboats
Pools and swimming
Calendar and organizing social events (parties, weddings)
Story progression for NPCs
Family tree
Gardening and fishing
Tools to edit and create towns
More personality traits, wants, emotions, jobs, etc
Thank you for taking part in the development and shaping Paralives with us!
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Simplified Chinese
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 790 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 787 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
Its a great game with limited features right now. i'm excited to see what is to come of the game as development progresses.
I intentionally waited to leave this review, wanting to give myself time to truly feel this game in all of its forms. I opened it without expectation, even after waiting 7 years for the release, knowing it's in early access, aware it would be missing features and suspecting it would be buggy af. After over 100 hours, I can honestly say I am impressed. Do I think it's perfect? No. But I do think it has amazing potential! Watching the dev's communicating with the players, spending time reading our bug reports, releasing temporary fixes, updating the game regularly, it's refreshing. Coming from another simulation game where the dev's would answer every complaint with the stock standard "You aren't happy with our game? Well, here, have another dlc release that will only break your game further. Fix it with updates that actually fix the issues addressed? Wtf is that?" answer, I am HERE for THIS! Paralives is more than I expected in its current state. Do I feel like we need better, less lack luster conversation options? Yes. Do I get annoyed having to redraw walls to fix the missing floor glitch? Yes. Are the stairs finicky and irrationally irritating? Yes. But, no matter how many times I answer yes in this scenario, the voice in my head screams louder, reminding me that we have found a developer who actually listens to concerns and is working to fix the issues that we, the players, are reporting! Live mode is decent, character creation is exceptional, build mode is phenomenal, all in all, this will keep me coming back to play and 2 years down the road when I am installing dlc I have confidence that I won't be doing it on an already broken beyond repair game.
Świetna gra! Już dawno byłam znudzona Simsami, a jeszcze bardziej poirytowana ich monopolem. Dlatego od początku kibicowałam temu projektowi - i się nie zawiodłam! Jestem bardzo zadowolona, tym bardziej że to dopiero early access (o czym wielu wciąż zapomina) i gra wciąż ma nam do zaoferowania bardzo dużo (m.in. pory roku czy zwierzaki). Więc ja jestem jak najbardziej za i mega polecam <3
Sin duda es mucho mejor que los sims 4. Aún que me gustaría tener un poco mas de opciones de construcción (como una piscina por ejemplo) y un poco mas de decoración. por lo demás 10/10
As a sims girlie who has played for 500+ hours on pc and 600+ on console, I am confident in saying that Paralives is the superior game. I almost shed a tear when I opened build mode because of the customization options, this game isn't even done being made yet and they've already done things that we've been begging EA to do for years if not decades at this point. Not only that but they actually listen to their community. Especially as it is still in early access the devs encourage feedback and suggestions from their players not to mention they are strictly against DLC's so no more $60 expansion packs! Yes this is still a work in progress and yes sometimes there are bugs but this only the start of what this game is going to become. If you're interested I strongly recommend to buy it and at least try it out, or watch the hundreds of reviews already on YouTube of this fabulous game.
jadore
As an avid Sims player for 20 years, this game is amazing. Everything I wish the Sims still was. I can't wait to see what this turns in to.
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It's always improving and the building mode is incredible! Can't wait to play more :)
My laptop does not have all requirements, but when I close all the other apps and put the performance to best and lower everything in the game it works. I enjoy it. It is early access so I had to restart the game a few time and there is a lot of things coming that I am looking forward to, but for early access is good.
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Engagement
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Audience
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