Paralives – the promising, colorful indie competitor to The Sims 4 first unveiled in 2019 – is on life sim fans' minds following its recent delay and a subsequent sneak peek at gameplay footage that is… well, not entirely what everyone was expecting to see.
For anyone out of the loop, Paralives was initially set to launch into Early Access on Steam this year. In fact, it was supposed to drop next month, on December 8. Unfortunately, just days after posting an update telling readers not to "expect hundreds of hours of gameplay" out of the new life sim, developers announced that they were delaying Paralives until May 25, 2026, as it "isn't up to the standard we wanted it to meet."
