{"id":732759,"date":"2025-11-22T04:59:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/paradoxs-sims-like-life-by-you-has-been-delayed-again-and-is-now-aiming-for-june?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed"},"modified":"2025-11-22T04:59:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:59:52","slug":"paradoxs-sims-like-life-by-you-delayed-again-now-aiming-to-launch-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/paradoxs-sims-like-life-by-you-delayed-again-now-aiming-to-launch-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradox&#8217;s Sims-like Life By You delayed again, now aiming to launch in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/paradoxs-sims-like-life-by-you-delayed-again-now-aiming-to-launch-in-june.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nParadox Interactive has announced another delay for its ambitious Sims-like Life By You, which is now due to enter Steam and Epic Games Store early access on 4th June.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLife By You, the first game from Paradox&#8217;s Tectonic studio (headed up by former Sims boss and Second Life CEO Rod Humble), was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/paradoxs-life-by-you-is-an-open-world-real-language-take-on-the-sims\">officially unveiled last March<\/a>, promising a game that would let players &#8220;create humans and live out their lives without loading screens&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is, essentially, the Sims, albeit with a few key selling points intended to differentiate it from the current iteration of EA&#8217;s juggernaut franchise: it&#8217;s fully open-world with no loading screens, it features &#8220;real language conversation&#8221;, its digital human can optionally be controlled directly in first-person, and &#8220;everything is customisable&#8221;. It also sports a more realistic art style compared to the Sims 4, which, last year at least, unfortunately looked both drab and bland.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/paradoxs-sims-like-life-by-you-has-been-delayed-again-and-is-now-aiming-for-june?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/paradoxs-sims-like-life-by-you-has-been-delayed-again-and-is-now-aiming-for-june?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradox Interactive has announced another delay for its ambitious Sims-like Life By You, which is now due to enter Steam and Epic Games Store early access on 4th June. Life By You, the first game from Paradox&#8217;s Tectonic studio (headed up by former Sims boss and Second Life CEO Rod Humble), was officially unveiled last March, promising a game that would let players &#8220;create humans and live out their lives without loading screens&#8221;. It is, essentially, the Sims, albeit with a few key selling points intended to differentiate it from the current iteration of EA&#8217;s juggernaut franchise: it&#8217;s fully open-world with no loading screens, it features &#8220;real language conversation&#8221;, its digital human can optionally be controlled directly in first-person, and &#8220;everything is customisable&#8221;. 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