
As EA continues releasing new content for The Sims 4 and hyper-realistic competitor inZOI gears up for its early access release later this month, another colorful life sim begins its hold on my heart – Paralives, an indie spin on the genre launching sometime this year.
The upcoming life sim incorporates some of The Sims community's most highly requested features, including throwback mechanics from EA's older entries like The Sims 3. Paralives' developers show these off regularly online, with their most recent post highlighting something I've been yearning for ever since The Sims 3 introduced me to it: the color and pattern customization tool. Everything in Paralives can be edited by players freely.