Paralives

From a young age, I have played the sims religiously off and on for many years, but around 2019 I was sick of the communitys complaints being unheard, our requests ignored, and constantly treated as a cashcow for new dlcs that brough nearly zero fun to the game, lacked effort and frankly - had ZERO competitors. As it stands now, you must spend over 1900+ dollars to even have all content related to the Sims 3 and over 1500 for all content related to sims 4. I was sick of their treatment of the sims community and I gave up the Sims completely in boycott. Then in 2019, I came across Paralives. And I've followed it's development until early release last year. This game is a breath of fresh air. So many things the community of the sims asked for is implemented without question. There's no glitching to put clutter and decvor in your homes. There's no paywalls behind most of the modding community (but the option to support through patreons if you choose to!), there's massive support for modding. There's choices. There's the intention to implement even bigger systems that the sims just refused to do. There's group interactions. There's many many stuff that Paralives, DESPITE its bugs, does 10x better than the sims. AND? The art style? 20 times better than the Sims. It's unique. It's got character. and it's beautiful. That said it's early access. I've delved around 85 hours into the game and have definitely come across bugs. But the devs are listening and updating as the game goes. There's a LOT of community support for modding bugs, for normal bugs, and for sharing fixes while the devs hardcode fixes. And the best part? The developers will not be asking for more money for dlcs. Now while that is very idealistic, I am worried about their compensation for continuing to work on the game- but maybe a good compromise can be found. Or maybe they'll accept donations like some older game communities with community devs keeping it alive. I don't know. All I know is that paralives is special. It has the character and love put into it by its creators that is rather rare these days. You can tell this was a work of art, a love child. If you're on the fence about coming to Paralives, don't hesitate. It's better than the sims even in its early access. Imagine how much better it'll be when they're done. And you only pay once. Thank you to Paralives for providing such a cool, creative and fun game. Personally, in early access, I'm not a huge fan of the live mode. I have always been a builder. But I can say the build mode is so flipping fun.

I bought this game in honor of my late fiancee. She passed away this past Nov in a car accident with a drunk driver. The sims was her favorite game and she was so looking forward to this one coming out and talked about it all the time. I really want to create her story here for her in her memory. Unfortunately, I do have to admit that although I love what all I have seen so far, the game does seriously overheat my laptop and shuts it down after a short play session. I have an older laptop with a 2080 in it and 32G of Ram. Despite that, what I have seen if very cute and cozy. I am not a big gamer and I have found everything to be easy to understand and get into. I cant wait to be able to play more when they hopefully sort the overheating issues Im having. I know they are working hard on fixing and optimizing the game. Im patient. :)

This is the perfect game for those of us who love The Sims franchise but are real tired of EA's BS