Life By You Early Access release pushed back to March 2024

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Paradox Interactive’s The Sims rival, Life By You, has been delayed all the way until 5th March 2024, the company has announced, with this added time hoping to make the game a more rounded and refined experience at the very first point at which players can go hands on.

Here’s studio General Manager Rod Humble to give this update in video form.

Since its original reveal, Life By You had been set to head into Early Access in September of this year, but even though this wouldn’t have been the final game, Paradox is aiming to fine tune it more before going public. In particular, the game’s UI and visuals will be improved, as will the mod tools that allow players to expand upon the experience in a modular fashion.

Looking to eat The Sims 5’s lunch, Life by You takes the life-sim genre by the horns, with all of the standard features that you would expect, but with a far deeper degree of customisation and control for the player. You’ll naturally be able to build their home, with ingrained customisation for colour palettes and designs, and then guide your humans through life, through careers, love and more. You’ll be able to take direct control of people (any person in the world) and move them in the world, and be able to engage in contextually generated conversations with other people. Pretty much all of this can then be modded, from creating custom styles to writing your own dialogue, create events, items, shops, careers, skills, traits and more. It’s very ambitious in that regard.

The game is made by Paradox Tectonic in Berkeley, California, having been founded in 2019 with Rod Humble as the studio lead. Humble has a storied career, but is most notable in this context for his contributions to The Sims 2 and The Sims 3.

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