No game has yet come along to truly dethrone The Sims as the king of the life sim genre, but when Paralives was announced way back in 2019, it seemed poised to finally offer a bit of competition to Maxis' venerable series. Paralives was finally set to launch into Early Access in just under a month's time, but after the latest playtests, the devs have decided we need to wait a little bit longer – until the space recently left by GTA 6, in fact.
Paralives is now scheduled to launch into Early Access on May 25, 2026, just one day before Rockstar's open-world epic was previously going to release. Coincidence? Maybe, but I suspect the devs probably would've avoided that date if a game the scale of GTA 6 were still around to suck up all the energy of the gaming world.
