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Paralives

Alex Massé and team, Paralives Studio

Paralives is a life simulation game about building homes, lives and bonds. Through both hardship and success, where will your story take you?

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About This Game

Hop on, we’re leaving, and your new life awaits! Paralives is a sandbox life simulation game with a great cast of Townies to meet, as well as a vibrant open-world town to explore and make your own. You will feel right at home, should you choose to embark.

What kind of life will you build?

Whether you focus on your career, finding love, building a family, or becoming the richest person in town, the story is yours to write in Paralives. But twists and forks in the road await. What will you leave behind?

You live and then you die. At least, do it in a nice house!

Thanks to an ever-evolving catalog of furniture, decor and clutter objects, staging the perfect homes for your Parafolks will be a breeze: resize, recolor, stack and place items freely for a tactile building experience.

Paralives allows truly grid-less constructions with curved walls, split-level floors and more. Recreating your house or building an intricate 8-story mansion has never been this easy.

There are lives to create and stories to tell

You will be handed an advanced character creator called the Paramaker. Adjust the height of your Parafolks, tweak a wide array of facial and body features, design stylish outfits and create complex personalities. From head to toe, no small detail will be left out!

Key features

🏡 Explore an open-world town filled with shops, parks, restaurants and museums
👕 Create Parafolks of all looks and styles
💼 Find a job and try out flexible career progression paths
🧠 Discover unique personality traits, skills, wants, needs and emotions
❤️ Find love and make friends, or enemies
👨‍👩‍👦 Multiselect Parafolks and do anything as a group
👵 Grow up, have children and live a long life
🔨 Enjoy the customization and flexibility of our house-building tools
⚙️ Experiment with our in-game modding interface to edit or add content to the game
💌 Find community-made mods, houses and Parafolks through the Steam Workshop

More features and content will be added during Early Access and after through exclusively free updates, as we have pledged to our community.

To be added during the Early Access phase

  • Weather and seasons

  • Dogs, cats and horses

  • Cars and bikes

  • Boats and houseboats

  • Pools and swimming

  • Calendar and organizing social events (parties, weddings)

  • Story progression for NPCs

  • Family tree

  • Gardening and fishing

  • Tools to edit and create towns

  • More personality traits, wants, emotions, jobs, etc

Thank you for taking part in the development and shaping Paralives with us!

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  1. ParalivesSteam announcement

    Development Update - October 2026

    Hi everyone! We’re testing out this new format to deliver frequent development updates from our team directly to you. In this first entry, we want to share a short overview of…

  2. ParalivesSteam patch notes

    Hotfix 0.1.9b

    Fixed two bugs introduced in the last patch, one where foliage was grainy and one where Parafolk's textures would sometimes render incorrectly.

  3. ParalivesSteam announcement

    Patch 0.1.9 is Now Available!

    A new patch is out now, with a game engine update to Unity 6! Enjoy this fresh batch of quality of life improvements and bug fixes ⚙️ Patches are a little smaller while we work…

  4. ParalivesSteam patch notes

    Patch Notes 0.1.9

    Paralives Patch Notes 0.1.9 Patch 0.1.9 continues 0.1.8’s trend of being mostly bug fixes and minor additions as we continue focusing on new features and content for our upcoming…

  5. ParalivesSteam announcement

    🍂 Steam Autumn Sale on Now!

    🍂 the leaves are changing and it’s getting chilly, so that means it’s a great time to play Paralives! get it at a 20% discount during the Steam Autumn Sale, now through October…

  6. ParalivesSteam announcement
  7. ParalivesSteam patch notes

    Hotfix 0.1.8b

    Fixed a bug where players couldn't create new mods with FBX mesh files.

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