The Sims

Paralives describes itself on Steam as

Paralives is an upcoming doll house life simulation indie game for PC and Mac. Build your dream house, create some characters and manage their lives the way you want inside their homes and all around an open world town!

Several articles have been written about it but this PCGamesN article does a pretty good job explaining some of the features the game is planning to have.

Paralives also has a website and Patreon for those interested.

While it's not The Sims and it's only going to be reaching early access in early 2025 I wanted to say I'm fine with people post about Paralives and other Sims adjacent stuff here. I like the idea of promoting smaller projects whether it's games, mods, or open source engine recreations.

To be clear though by life sim I mean general life simulations not job simulations like firefighter or trucker simulators. That's a bit too general and probably better suited for general gaming communities on Lemmy.

My only hope is that people realise these are often fan made creations with teams significantly smaller than EA's and that they set their expectations accordingly. They might need time to breath and develop.

This is still a really small Lemmy community but if you have any thoughts feel free to let me know in the comments.