Life-sim adventure Paralives is out in early access on Steam, and like with other life sims, your characters age over time. However, if you want to, you can turn off aging. While this may impact realism, it’s great for when you want a casual, care-free experience.
Thankfully, it’s easy to turn off aging completely.
Table of contents
- How to remove aging in Paralives
- All life stages in Paralives explained
How to remove aging in Paralives
The opportunity to remove aging appears extremely early on a new save. Once you’re through the tutorial and you’ve created your Para, you need to choose a storyteller.
The early access build offers two different Storytellers. While Maxence is the easy difficulty, the other one provides a bigger challenge. You can pick either (I went with Maxence because my reality is hard enough as it is).
When you finalize the Storyteller, you’ll get the option to customize. Paras age by default in your household, but you can toggle that off. There’s also an option to decide if all non-household Paras age.
You can also decide how long the stages of life will be from this menu. These features allow you to craft a story experience of your liking. If you decide to go with aging, let’s find out what the different stages are and how they work.
All life stages in Paralives explained
There are eight life stages in Paralives (you can also choose the starting stage when you create your character). Each stage lasts for a specific number of days (depending on how short/long the stage is). Days here represent in-game numbers and not real life.
| Stage | Short (Days) | Normal (Days) | Long (Days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baby | One | Three | 13 |
| Toddler | Two | Four | 17 |
| Child | Five | 11 | 47 |
| Pre-Teen | Three | Seven | 31 |
| Teen | Six | 13 | 55 |
| Young Adult | 10 | 21 | 87 |
| Adult | Nine | 19 | 79 |
| Elder | Six | 13 | 55 |
If you decide to disable aging, the Paras in your household might not grow older. However, they can still die, and there are multiple causes. Hence, you can’t actually cheat death (unless you resort to literally using ‘cheats‘).
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