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Tracing blueprints in Paralives is so easy it freed me from 25 years of The Sims' grid-based tyranny

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One tiny mod for Paralives has finally made my childhood dreams of more realistic life sims floor plans possible.

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Now that we have Paralives, Inzoi, and The Sims 4, life simmers finally have the variety we've been begging for

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With Paralives joining the party, I finally feel like there’s a real buffet of choice for life sim players.

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Paralives continues to sound promising with a roadmap outlining free updates The Sims would normally charge for

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Given that all updates and expansions will be supposedly be free, this one’s a win for Paralives.

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I'm not ashamed to admit that The Sims 2 got me into house music, especially since its devs hired the best DJs in the biz to score it

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Nightlife’s remixes live rent-free in my head.

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Paralives is the very definition of early access, but it's already a promising Sims rival

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Paralives still feels very early in development, but its potential is blinding.

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Paralives: 45 Minutes of Gameplay

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Like fleshy, diaper-wearing cars, infants in The Sims 4 have been "tuned up", making them faster to feed and change, and it's easier to clean up their poop

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The next patch for The Sims 4 brings a laundry list of fixes and changes to infants.

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inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories - Review

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inKONBINI combines convenience store management with character-driven storytelling. Stock shelves, manage 1993 HONKI PONKI, and help quirky customers find clarity and peace

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Petit Planet is exactly the Animal Crossing clone it looked like, but after 15 hours of it I'm shocked by how many new ideas it has too

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HoYoverse reaches for the stars with a cozy life sim that’s more ambitious than it first appears.

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The Peak of Life, a lifesim set in a major metropolis, with professional development, enterpreneruship and investment, released on Steam

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The Sims 4's microtransaction Marketplace has officially shown me the door after 24 years of Simming

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Crop is Stardew Valley except you arrive at your farm naked and in the boot of a car

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If Stardew Valley is a cosy farming game the Crop is a what you get if you make it a horror farming game.

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Witchbrook's taken 10 years because "Harry Potter meets Stardew Valley" got old and the devs wanted time to make "something more unique"

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Chucklefish is bringing the magical life sim out this year

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Petit Planet, the upcoming 'cozy galactic life sim' from HoYoVerse, is taking signups for a new beta test happening later this month

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There’s still no release date, but it’s getting closer.

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Inzoi Studio head says early access was unavoidable, but he feels kind of bad about it: 'The users are testing it on our behalf, so I always feel sorry for them'

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Yeah, that’s pretty much how it works.

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New inZOI patch dubbed the "GTA 6 update" by eager fans, adding everything from cozy flower shops to car theft to the Sims 4 competitor

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GTA comes to inZOI before GTA 6

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Stardew Valley-like farming sim, [Grave Seasons], with a romanceable "supernatural serial killer", [and horror elements], gets an August release date, with a demo coming soon

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Grave Seasons arrives in under 5 months

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Stardew Valley farmer takes advice from AI, ends up brewing 136 useless bottles of rice juice

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Don’t listen to Google and mill your rice for vinegar.

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'I took those files and deleted them': Former Sims 4 developer says he totally rewrote the sims' AI in the middle of development and 'that was a scary thing to do'

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The Sims 4’s original lead AI programmer says he pitched the entire AI system not long before alpha and rewrote it from scratch.

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The Sims announces a Creation Club-style Marketplace and Maker program enabling content creators to sell their work directly to players

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The Sims 4 Marketplace will go live on PC and Mac on March 17, and will follow on consoles later this year.

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While you wait for a release date announcement, have a gander at Nivalis' opening moments [lifesim/management from the creators of Cloudpunk and set in the same world]

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It’s more of a sneak peak, but an enticing one all the same.

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"I don't know what I was thinking": Stardew Valley creator went through hell 6 months before launch, and the game didn't come together until "the last moment"

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I think I was just at the point where I knew it was so close. I needed to finish the game

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10 years later, I still can't believe Eric Barone thought Harvest Moon fans would hate Stardew Valley

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“I still didn’t think it was going to be super popular,” Barone said of the days leading up to Stardew Valley’s launch in 2016.

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XCOM designer Jake Solomon announces surprise closure of his studio alongside a first look at its canceled life sim, 'the game we poured our hearts into'

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“Burbank” was set to be a life sim with dramatic storylines.

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Pokopia finally gives starving Pokemon Mystery Dungeon fans some food with its talking 'mons as the life sim's devs "really focused" on conveying each one's "unique personality"

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Mystery Dungeon fans can finally eat good, or at all, really

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Good news, Stardew Valley enthusiasts: the 1.7 update will make children 'a little more interesting' and add two new marriage candidates

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Stardew Valley creator breaks silence to shoot down myths about Haunted Chocolatier, including that 2030 release rumour

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Halcyon Days at Taoyuan, a Stardew Valley clone set in historical China, with beautiful period-inspired pixelart, released on Steam

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The Sims 4's most notorious sex mod gets launched 400,000 times a day, which is more people than I realized were even playing The Sims every day

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The Sims 4: Royalty & Legacy | Official Reveal Trailer

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Cozy Caravan is a feast of little cooking minigames

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Former Stardew Valley dev's upcoming life sim has a brilliant quality-of-life feature for its fishing that speaks to my completionist heart

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I was getting a bit bored of the traditional life sim routine, but it turns out I just needed more hobbies which Heartopia is happy to provide

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My Winter Car is a 'dangerous, depressing and tiring' life sim, and the developer doesn't want you to play it unless you've mastered the infamously tricky My Summer Car

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As The Sims Project Rene switches to being "mobile-first," EA vaguely tease the series' "next evolution"

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Life sims are in a slump and the only way out is becoming strategy games

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Schedule 1 developer TVGS is 'an actual game studio' now, with an office, desks, and a new guy named Rob: 'By the end of the year, there will likely be 4 people working on Schedule 1'

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Eric Barone doesn't want to 'reveal much yet,' but Stardew Valley's 1.7 update is starting to sound like another big one

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Netflix sells the studio behind Cozy Grove back to its original owners, freeing the studio to bring its mobile life sim to other platforms

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Galaxy Princess Zorana is like if you made BG3 passive checks into a whole game, a great tale of political intrigue, and will give you like 4,000 ways to die embarrassingl

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As if Disney Dreamlight Valley could get any more magical, the Wishblossom Ranch expansion adding horses has improved the entire experience more than I thought it would

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GTA San Andreas modders tease fully-fledged standalone indie game inspired by Stardew Valley, Graveyard Keeper, Mafia and Schedule I

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inZOI tells The Sims 4 wait, I've got this – actual schools are coming to the life sim for free, in a move fans of EA's own game have waited 11 years for: "We aim to create a real school – not a rabbit hole"

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The Sims' biggest sex mod creator says that around 300,000 people use it—that's more than some of Steam's top games: 'It doesn't make sense to me'

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Build a new life after a revolution on Jupiter in the very Animal Crossing-esque, co-op life-sim Young Suns

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Despite getting delayed, Paralives looks like it's avoiding Inzoi's biggest flaw

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The Sims 4 legend behind piracy tool rendering nearly $1,500 of DLC totally free quits town and takes his loot with 'em, players pay tribute as copycats immediately try to charge for alternatives

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Question about this comm's definition of 'life simulation games'

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… Does it basically have to be cozy/cartoony/lighthearted?

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After a lackluster launch and "Mixed" reviews on Steam, [Mirthwood], the Stardew Valley-esque medieval life sim RPG I wanted to adore in 2024 redeems itself with a massive free update

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The Sims 4 fans left baffled as rumors suggest EA's latest life sim entry could be getting a remaster, despite ongoing support: "What will they be remastering exactly?"

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Has anyone here been playing Palia? Seems like a relaxed life sim/farming MMO

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"Don't expect hundreds of hours of gameplay": Sims 4 competitor Paralives unveils early access plans, showing what "won't be ready for launch" and what's coming "within the next 2 years"

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The life sim revolution isn't coming

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The Sims 2 lead designer on the importance of the series' diversity: "It’s a medium of self-expression"

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After EA's buyout and creator exodus, The Sims team wants you to know their "values and commitment remain the same"

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Some of The Sims 4's biggest content creators have just stepped down from EA's creator network in the wake of the $55B Saudi-backed buyout: 'This situation is a nightmare for our community'

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Server shutdowns claim another victim: The Sims Mobile will disappear for good in January

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Kokoro Kitchen, a cute Japanese restaurant management game with farming/cooking with narrative and mystical elements, released on Steam.

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Disney Dreamlight Valley has shared details on its next update, The Winter Ball, which will bring one of the games most anticipated characters to the valley

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Animula Nook, an upcoming cozy life sim where you're a tiny person (think "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids") living on a desk

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Stardewy warlock schooler Witchbrook delayed to 2026, but its devs have magicked up an interactive map

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It's been 20 years and I still have no idea how The Sims has managed to convince so many artists to rerecord their biggest hits in a gibberish language

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Cropia (in development) a cute looking 3D, 3rd person farm management game with farming, animal husbandry, mining, exploration and townsfolk interaction, releases a demo on Steam.

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BMX delivery, sumo-wrestling, fishing: Cozy gaming gets a little Crazy Taxi, as a treat, in Tanuki: Pon's Summer

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The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits expansion adds Custom Venues, Imaginary Friends, and ambitious new getaways

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PuffPals: Island Skies, a cosy game that earned $2.5 million on Kickstarter, has been slammed with refund requests after its website and online store disappeared

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Palworld devs announce Palfarm, a multiplayer farming life sim with less survival game grit and more Stardew Valley energy, days after Nintendo reveals Pokemon farming and crafting game Pokopia

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Goofy open world sim Wobbly Life launches into space for its 1.0 update, adding rescue missions, asteroid mining, and the chance to be a space detective

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Little Witch in the Woods Review - LadiesGamers (game exited Early Access September 14)

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Delive R us, a colourful urban delivery sim x lifesim hybrid, set in a world of anthropomorphic animals, released on Steam (demo available).

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35898161

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Sims challenger Paralives is out in December, so it's time to scientifically assess those flirting animations

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The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits' first gameplay trailer presents an ethically concerning look at imaginary friends

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The Last Craftsman, a crafting and gathering 2D lifesim set in a mysterious mountain village, released on Steam.

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Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar is a good farming simulator, but it's made great by its sense of community and willingness to get you involved

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Haunted Chocolatier has fishing, books, and a new screenshot so pretty I want to live in it

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