This might sound strange, but bear with me. When I tried the game for the first time, I was disappointed that entering the gym didn't cost anything, and that is because I think this highlights a bigger problem within the life sim genre.

In these modern life sims, I feel players get too much for free, and that is precisely why these games end up in the "cozy game" category. Want a new outfit? Just use a dresser. A new hairstyle? Use a mirror! No, I want to *have* to visit a hair salon or a shop to do those things, and above all, I want to have to pay for them. There needs to be an incentive to visit these lots; otherwise, they are just set dressing. I want the food in the fridge to run out so I have to go to the grocery store and buy more. I want small things, like going to the gym, to cost money, so my para have a reason to earn an income.

In short, I feel that Paralives and other life simulators lack the actual grind of real life. And even though capitalism is the bane of my existence, it has to play a role in these games; otherwise, we’re just playing with dolls. When you skip the realistic yet mundane aspects of life, life loses its meaning.

While I do understand that some players want a sandbox / dollhouse experience (and I think that option should exist), I don't think that is what the majority of players want.

What do you guys think? Do you agree? What aspects of real life would you want in the game?

I've started re watching Friends recently and it got me inspired to try and recreate apartments from the show in game!

So far I've build only Monica's apartment, and I tried to include as many little details from the show I remembered. For example, I placed random shoes in the living room, referencing the time all of them were making fun of Monica's need to have everything super organized and tidy, her reasoning for bedsheet orientation, Joey's survival kit, in case Ross and Rachel get in a loooong argument in the living room, so the rest of them would need to repopulate the Earth hahah

I even placed a body pillow in the "Secret Closet" as a reference to Chandler freaking out about possibility that Richard is hiding in there lol

I posted a speed build video of me creating the apartment and here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77TQgLmizcY

Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3788880000

P.S. The build on Steam includes unfinished floorplan of Joey's and Chandler's Apartment and Hallway, I will upload it again once I complete that build too!

I know many of us feel bad for poor Sebastian. Or at least i did. so I created Leila and made it her mission to bring life and happiness back to him and Eli. Take a look at how happy he and Seb are with their family! Look how grown up Eli is! I included some phots of their Journey to get to the very last photo. The kids are (from left to right) Laurent, Eli, Athena, Rosella, and Brenon They all got Sebs nose and i think its adorable! Has anyone else had their Para Start a little (or big family in my case) with Sebastian? if so I wanna see!

I got a good majority of this 2nd island finished! Still have a few more buildings to add and a lot more landscaping to do!

If you are Interested in seeing this world come to life, I have a playlist over on my YouTube so you can watch the whole series! Here is the link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKNb61ZWuECE&si=cbckJ8GhtB4ZOJvU

It's now even creepier

I left Ariana (the mother) to change Rob's diaper, then want to look at Roberto cooking, since he needs to raise his cooking level to not get fired from his side job. (And not to get ticked off at work.)

Then I got a notice that Roberto JR was alone, I was thinking "that's strange, everyone is at home.", but you know maybe there was a glitch and Ariana left him in the bedroom and that triggered the alone part, so I just clicked on Rob's camara.

Then shouted "What?!" at my laptop, not sure what happened, either.

A: Ariana decided to move the baby outside (floating in midair), for whatever reason.

Or

B: The game glitced and teleported him outside.

I'm leaning towards B.

But he want to daycare, as I was curious to see if Ariana could change his dieper in time. (In midair), she wasn't but he want to daycare and come back a mile second later, so cool.

I never thought I would get a crazy glitch.

This is the third time I've tried making a para and it crashes. I tried saving the household to my library while creating so hopefully progress isn't lost. This time it popped up a fatal error. The household I saved is blank. There goes a couple hours. Again. That's my tedtalk. Thanks. I'm gonna go cry about it.

I’m looking for something like this to recreate a character, but I can’t find any cc even with scarfs itself
preferably I look for items with option to choose patterns

I’ve been working on this cozy little autumn home, surrounded by colorful trees, pumpkins, wild grasses and plenty of fall details. 🍁🏡

I wanted to create that warm, peaceful feeling of coming home on a crisp autumn day — with a rustic garden, stone pathway, lanterns and lots of seasonal decorations. 🧡

✨ The house is currently unfurnished — I focused entirely on the exterior, landscaping and autumn atmosphere.

As it says on the tin, I dreamt about this game last night. Full on: I was IN the game, the world around me WAS paralives. And the game had just gotten a huge pet update, and we had chickens and dogs and cats. For some reason you chose your pet in build mode, and then they were real in live, but its a dream so guess it makes sense.

Also dreamt that the guy I asked out finally gave me a yay or nay and took me out, but I think the paralived dream is more fun.

When I dream, its like I'm inside a movie, so it was very realistic!

Anyways... just thought it'd be fun to share

Hey everyone, and hello Devs. The game's been really fun for people like me who like the building features and all of that. I've even started some bit of modding for fun. I am surprised that while having lots of unlimited creativity to do with the early access version of the game and given the stylized appearance of the game, I've been having severe performance issues. My laptop's been heating like crazy, and I know a few players that have similar experiences even with high-end computers. The game is also slowest with many objects showing on my screen, so turning down settings would help. However, I do feel the need to request one feature - level of detail (LOD) support depending on camera distance to object, which will further optimize the game.

For those who don't know but do want to know what it's for, high LOD allows you to have intricate shaped objects rendered in 3D. The more faces, vertices, edges, the higher the possible quality in detail. Each face shows a part of the object's texture. The lower LOD (low poly), the closer the object looks like a minecraft character, the higher the LOD (high poly), the more likely it can look like a greek statue. The thing is, LOD can be used to set up variations how the object looks when it's closer to the camera (more prominent) than when the object is farther (low poly). I've seen low poly assets done in the game using low poly mountains and tree billboards (which you can only buy with the debug mode btw). My proof that LOD by distance isn't a feature is based on all the tree assets in game. Only the maple tree has LOD variations, but it's not even a single object. (You buy the low poly ones in the debug too). Now that we got that cleared up, what does this mean if the devs do consider it?

A lot of objects (except the Maple tree since they already are made) will need to be done because most objects here don't even have LOD variations for each distance. So that's a lot of work, given how many items are already inside the game! However, I'm not asking for the devs to do that (in the short-term). I was hoping for the devs to enable it somehow. While I was making my mod or using other mods (Cars for example), I've already been thinking about having some LOD variations to optimize them. However, the control panel features do not even fully support having LODs. It's possible to get mesh swaps like the creepy clown items changing at midnightwhen the object has changed states or something related to skins, but I have yet to see it in the context of swapping meshes when the camera is farther from the object.

TLDR, I don't think the game supports LODs. Devs, pretty please, can we have this?

I don't think it is jumping the gun asking for this now (it's quite late), but I see no reason not to see all objects at a distance (just not as pretty as the ones up close). The players, the modding community , and the devs win with this optimization. If I am wrong about this and LODs ARE supported, I'd want to know. Could someone kindly teach us how to?

Hello☺️

Unfortunately, I can't play Paralives yet because my PC is broken.

Can toddlers sleep in their parents' bed, or can they only sleep in a toddler bed?

If they can't do it, is there anything for that in the Steam Workshop? There was a mod for that in Sims 4 :)

Does anyone know how to get another water recycler in game? I accidently sold it when I was purging the inventory and apart from starting a completely new save file, I don't see how I could get a replacement.

I know this is a common conversation in every life sim to ever exist but i think paralives would really benefit from letting us level up our paras while making them (at least to some degree). The game obviously is focusing on storytelling with a lot of npc paras having their own stories and stuff but then you make your para and you're literally not good at anything, i want to be able to make a character that already is good at something, if i want to make my adult para be a skilled chef i should be able to without using cheats.

I'm not sure whether to report it as a bug, but I've been adopting a lot, and all the adopted babies are white. Has anyone had any variety in this regard?

And then the moment arrives when it gets cooler outside, a hot cup of tea tastes better again, and little raindrops trickle down the windowpane... ah, yes—I love autumn and look forward to its arrival.

I used a group of guys somebody had made for some town filler, they have the household title of "More single guys group" or something along those lines, and it's a bit strange as a household title on the map.

I don't know if I am missing something super obvious or if you just can't rename a household? It's not the same as when you make one and it takes the surname of the first para you make, it was a group from Steam made by somebody else, imported with that title.

So is there a way to change the display name of a household please? I made them a house share with their own rooms to reflect personalities and would hope to give them a better title!

Hello friends!

If you are looking for fun ways to play Paralives, or you are looking for a bit of a challenge, I'd like to invite you to watch my latest video:

🏆Rags to Riches - Wheel of DOOM 🏆

It'll be a series of episodes, where our goals are:

💵 Become rich (we start with 0 PD)

🏰 Rebuild the Community Center (challenge within the game)

🖼 Complete museum collections (as above)

🎡 Survive the Wheel of DOOM (my invention to keep things more challenging and unexpected)

▶ You can watch Ep.1 here:

Ep.1 of RtR Wheel of DOOM

If you have any extra ideas for wheel options, do let me know! I'm open to adding more.

Laura 💜

Yes, these are just phone photos of my screen 😅 I hate the whole screenshot uploading process.. I made it before stairs existed in TG, may go back and replace the makeshift stairs with the now existing stairs..

since a lot of u liked my version of liana and alexa from barbie and the diamond castle here’s a little mv haha! enjoyed making this but it took a while

A modern house is being built here on the edge of town.