Beautiful upcoming Sims competitor Inzoi reveals tons of weird features like sleepwalking, custom crime rates, and relationship hard mode
After so many years of Sims series dominance, we're about to have tons of Sims competitors in the life simulation space. The prettiest one of the bunch, announced late last year, is called «inZOI,» and it's being made by PUBG publisher Krafton of all places. Inzoi is expected to launch at some point this year and the developers have just revealed a lot of features planned for the game in a new video this week.
As its developers note, we don't know a ton about Inzoi yet, so they wanted to show off lots of things they've been working on in the upcoming life sim. Here's the quick and skimmable list of what they covered:
One of the most-requested features, project director Hyungjun Kim says, is drivable cars. We're getting our wish, but «driving in inZoi will not be like what you see in Grand Theft Auto,» Kim says. «We designed our driving system strictly with 'life simulation' in mind.»
To that end, you can hop into a car and see things from a first-person driver's seat view, but it looks like you're probably just riding along, not actually controlling the wheel. You can invite other characters («zois») to hop in when you stop nearby. And if you happen to be in a convertible, folks may be impressed by you as you pass by.
Kim also describes a reputation system, currently called «karma» that's influenced by your good and bad deeds. As you lean in either direction, new actions like tripping someone or stealing money might become available—so maybe it's not that unlike GTA after all, huh?—and even things you do alone, not witnessed by other Zois, can factor in. Interestingly, Kim says «It could have an effect on your future offspring, for example. It's still a work in progress, so our viewers can let us know if this is something you would like to have, and we will keep developing it.»
Kim spent some time mentioning that Inzoi is planning to support mods and custom content, but Inzoi will also have an in-game catalog of user content—think The Sims 4's gallery—called the
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