Life simmers have been chronically bored for years—so much so that asking "how do you keep Sims 4 interesting for yourself?" is a bit of a cliché. My theory is that life sims need to be harder, or at the very least get back in touch with the strategy roots that made The Sims so enticing way back when. I truly thought I was just yelling at clouds, and yet Paralives has just launched into early access and it is, in fact, doing the exact thing I was begging life sims for.
Before you jump into Live Mode for the first time, Paralives asks you to choose from three default "storytellers," personified figures who hand out nightly gameplay effects, personality upgrades, and pull the strings of the game's difficulty from a laid back experience to a more challenging one.
