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Paralives
Paralives is a life simulation game about building homes, lives and bonds. Through both hardship and success, where will your story take you?
89% of 20,709 Steam reviews positive
At a glance
● Pros
- Steam reviews: "Very Positive" (89%)
- English supported
● Cons
No notable downsides in the data.
Great for
- Relaxed building, managing and life sims
Summarized automatically from Steam reviews, Metacritic, language support, price and spec data.
What players talk about
How often each topic comes up in 59 Steam reviews (English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese) · 69% of them recommend the game
- Bugs👍 20 👎 10
- Amount of content👍 9 👎 8
- Graphics👍 8 👎 7
- Performance👍 9 👎 5
- Freedom & exploration👍 11 👎 2
- Price👍 7 👎 5
- Story👍 5 👎 2
- Controls👍 3 👎 4
- Grind & repetition👍 3 👎 2
- Difficulty👍 3 👎 1
Counts how many reviews mention each topic, split by whether the review recommends the game.
“For the price of one Sims 4 expansion, you'll get this lovely indie game with ALL future updates being free.”
About the 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!
Source: Steam store page (provided by the developer/publisher)
PC requirements
Minimum
OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 @ 2.5 GHz Memory: 12 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 1060 or RX 6600 XT DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 8 GB available space Additional Notes: If your framerate is low, lower the display resolution and other graphic settings
Recommended
OS: Windows 11 Processor: Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 @ 3.0 GHz Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: RTX 2060 or RX 7600 XT DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 8 GB available space Additional Notes: If your framerate is low, lower the display resolution and other graphic settings
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Updated October 27, 2026 · Source: Steam