Paralives

Paralives

Early access since May 2026

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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Evaluation

Paralives launched into Early Access on May 25, 2026, following a delay announced on November 14, 2025. Lead developer Alex explained at the time that expanded playtesting had revealed impactful bugs and a lack of in-town activities, and that the team needed more time to polish the simulation. That same announcement made clear the team's intention to release free updates and expansions after launch. Since entering Early Access, the team has maintained a brisk and transparent update cadence. Patch 0.1.3 arrived on June 6, 2026 with new gameplay features including group eating, teen romance, and an Unpacking collaboration. Patch 0.1.4 followed on June 18, 2026 with Steam Workshop improvements and additional bug fixes. Patch 0.1.5 shipped on July 2, 2026 with significant quality-of-life improvements including a complete save file overhaul and Steam Cloud support. Patch 0.1.6 arrived on July 16, 2026 with revamped vacation day systems and new animations. Most recently, patch 0.1.7 launched on August 10, 2026 with a wide range of new features — a baby visual update, a food storing system, street addresses, coffee mechanics, and more — followed by hotfixes on August 10 and August 11, 2026. The game is being developed by a small team of roughly 15 people and is clearly in active, ongoing development with new features and content being added regularly throughout Early Access. A roadmap outlining future planned content remains in place, and the developer has not indicated that Early Access development is nearing its conclusion.
Evidence
Patch 0.1.7 shipped with numerous new features: baby visual update, food storing system, street addresses, coffee mechanics, bed assignment, improved intimacy system, new ground textures, and more.
news post · Aug 10, 2026 source development ongoing
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Patch 0.1.5 shipped with a major save file overhaul (files reduced from 500MB to 30MB), multiple autosaves, Steam Cloud support, appearance editing via mirrors, and new items.
news post · Jul 2, 2026 source development ongoing
high

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Details

Publisher
Paralives Studio
Achievements
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Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
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Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player

About this game

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.

What kind of life will you build?

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?

You live and then you die. At least, do it in a nice house!

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.

There are lives to create and stories to tell

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!

Key features

🏡 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.

To be added during the Early Access phase

  • 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!

Last evaluated Aug 17, 2026
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