Every upcoming life simulation game compared (which looks best?)

New life sim games coming soon! Comparing every upcoming life simulation game like The Sims!

[esibriwa]

I'm excited for them all because EA needs some serious competition.

[marieperrott]

Totally agree with your summary at the end. I'm really happy for sloppy Sims to get some competition. I love building, but I've pretty much given up on playing, because it's super frustrating. Maybe this will push them to give us something better or get alternatives to the Sims to play, for less money.

[SshhhTrouble]

I’m most excited for paralives as well but I’m glad so many are coming out and I hope they all do really well just bc I’m sick of The Sims having the monopoly on life simulation games.

[mewletter]

Best possible gameplay: Life by You
Best graphics: Inzoi
Most 'balanced' game: Paralives
A fully functional multiplayer Sim game: Vivaland
Most 'Sus' game: Project Renee

[Sissy.]

Satch, did you hear EA want's to put in-game ADs in their most popular games? The Sims 4 could have more more ADs than just their flashy shopping cart

[mimosansgaming]

I personally feel like Life by you will give me what I loved in Sims 3 and potentially build up on it. I mean the art style will hopefully be improved upon during early access but I think gameplay and content wise I'll love it. Also I'm supporting Paralives since 2019 on Patreon and it looks like a great cozy game I'm looking forward to aswell. 🎉

[MayannHanna]

I love LBY the most because of the customization potential. I love the idea of building a city full of my own characters with my own written lore.

[human]

hopefully these games change the way EA handles Sims. Paradox made Cities Skylines and that ended Sim City and It had other issues too. One common thing among these games mostly is fully open world. The Sims 4 has so many loading screens it makes me think which game has more loading screens Sims 4 or Starfield.

[cloudsurfer]

I love that you are able to follow them everywhere with inzoi, i tend to play with single sim households, so i really don’t like rabbitholes, i want to follow them to work or wherever

[mickeyg]

Paralives is what I'm looking forward to the most. Sure, it has the least "realistic" art style compared to the other two, but it just sits well with me. Second goes to Life by You, although Paradox is starting to show cracks. InZOI's graphics are incredible, but I don't think its style is what I'm looking forward to in a life sim, and its world being fixed is kinda a deal-breaker for me - if Sims 3 doesn't exist, I would probably be interested in it.

[passionable]

I'm most excited for Inzoi and Paralives. I'm a sucker for visuals, and I love how the people in both Inzoi and Paralives look. I can't get myself attached to the Life by You people YET, but that could very well change. I'm excited for all of these simulation games, either way. I need more to play with lol

[anastasiasux]

Dude, Inzoi reminds me of if Rockstar Games made a life simulator. Which I never understood why they haven’t done. Premade worlds and houses like GTA or red dead, but completely customizable characters and furniture

[benn]

I think we should look forward to each of the new games. They all have a slightly different twist. So there should be something for everyone. Who would have thought 1-2 years ago that the Life Sim genre would no longer just be dominated by EA/Sims so soon?

[theeffectsofgamesonworldhi]

Life by You is the biggest life sim ever made and it shows. Nothing is faked or uses props. All made using the tools they give you PLUS they have exposed the gameplay so we can change it our way. I loved TS3, LBY is my vibe. < 1 month to play cant wait!

[fateme]

I think Life by you emphasize more on the gameplay than graphics which is fair. Like people always say they love Sims 2 because of gameplay and they are still playing it instead of S4. If the game have options and operate smoothly I have no complaints.

[marchymeow]

INZOI is the first time a realistic style doesn't look uncanny

[aruki.]

I'm really excited for LBY! I have really high hopes for the gameplay and so far what I've seen is mostly right up my alley gameplay wise. I agree that the character models still need a bit of work but they dont look inherently digusting and unfixable as some people claim, it is something they are aware of and keep asking us for detailed feedback on the models! So as long as they show progress with them I'm 100% fine with the current state, particularly since it's only an early access release and not full release. I'm also in love with how transparent they've been with their plans, bugs and so on <3 Out of all upcoming life sims it's lby im most excited about~

[Theescapist_]

I'm buying Life By You in 3 weeks because it is fully customizable. I can build my worlds from scratch and connect them as well. I can place buildings wherever I want in the world, including building true row houses. I can create whatever jobs I want my characters to have and delete the ones I don't want in my world. I customize the townie population down to the smallest details including their hair color, skin color, ages, traits, and likes and dislikes. I can decide store hours, create ingame "quests" for them to do autonomously, ride around on cars, bikes, motorcycles, skateboards, and ATVs. Go shopping for food and clothing in actual stores again, and build with actual 3D moulding on walls.

This level of customization will give me long lasting gameplay that extends far beyond the simple joy of looking at something pretty on the screen. Sims 4 gave me pretty graphics in a pretty world, but everything was just set dressing. I can't go back to that which is why LBY is my top choice and Paralives is my second choice. Although I really hope someone makes a graphics overhaul for the paras to make them look closer to the earlier versions of Maggie and Sebastian.

[NopWorks]

I really like how there's a new life sim game made for every kind of simmers. Paralives, Life by You, InZoi, and Vivaland. They're all distinct from each others & has their own strengths and selling point.
It's like each game have picked out each niche among life simmers, and I feel like there's going to not be much left for EA/Project Rene 😂 😂

[nathanbentley]

I'm genuinely curious if one of these games becoming successful will cause EA to abandon the Sims like they did with SimCity when Cities: Skylines took off.