Life By You is the life sim with a world of possibilities

thesixthaxis.com:

Life By You might be a game that’s technically within the life simulator genre, but it could just as easily be a god game. Yes, it’s challenging The Sims’ crown, and many people will surely play it as a drop-in replacement, but this game’s design is so inherently customisable and mod-able that you barely have to play within the “rules” if you don’t want to. At every stage, you can inject your whims and desires into Life By You for the ultimate in role-playing fantasy.

At its core as a life sim, Life By You looks pleasantly broad and expansive, right from the off. Our hands-off demo followed Ronnie Maisonet as they got their day started and went to work at the gym.

Looking to continue their crawl up that particular career path from a basic trainer to higher positions at the company. To do so, you’ll have various performance goals to meet, whether it’s making sure that the gym is clean and tidy for customers, reviewing gym applications, creating new workouts, or simply practising yoga routines to run classes with.

Bumping into a colleague in the morning, the conversation that follows is a mixture of personality traits and a deep real-language dialogue tree that aims to cater for whatever situation your human can face. Perhaps feeling a little put out after missing out on a promotion, an antagonistic set of dialogue options let Ronnie just outright say “You didn’t deserve that promotion”, but one of the most immediate ways you can personalise the role-playing in the game is to replace the written dialogue on the fly. The underlying chat tree doesn’t change from that, but you can inject a little more personality into how you stink up the workplace relationships.

However, just as in real life, a job can be just a job. Ronnie also