Exciting Live Mode Updates + Starting to Deliver Patreon Rewards + New Team Member! (Patreon)

Hey everyone, it’s Alex!

Today, I’ll be sharing various progress updates regarding different aspects of life simulation in Paralives: relationships, wants, personality and more.

New Team Member!

Before discussing live mode gameplay, I’m happy to introduce a new team member, Émélie! She will be joining us for a temporary contract to recreate Patrons as characters that can appear in the game. We have 2000+ Parafolks to create for people who pledged at least 3 months on the Legend tier and Émélie, an expert at character creation, will be handling that!

Starting to Deliver the Hero and Legend Tier Rewards

Over the coming months, we will gradually reach out to all Patrons by email (thanks in advance for your patience!) to send out forms that you will be able to use to claim the rewards highlighted in the image below. You can read more about each reward here.

If you are not on the Hero or Legend tier and would like to claim these rewards, you still have time and you can upgrade your pledge here. In any case, we’re extremely grateful for your support and for making Paralives possible!

Being Mean In Paralives

Some Together Cards have multiple variants. This way, the player can make their Parafolks express different intentions through a given card. Please note that the interface, icons and colors are still a work in progress!

Making an ironic compliment, for instance, could make other Parafolks in the conversation embarrassed, angry or sad. They could then be offered Together Cards to insult the specific Para that was rude to them.

For those who are curious, Parafolks can insult someone else about many things, including the context of the conversation or the personality of the Para. If you feel like insulting someone because they are not as skilled as you in cooking, if they have a lower paying job than you or if you want to fully blame them for the house being dirty, you can!

When characters are mean to each other, you can choose to make them enemies. If a relationship between two Parafolks has the Enemy label, it will unlock more Together Cards and ways to reflect this special relationship dynamic.

New Wants

Based on their personality, relationships and emotions, Parafolks will have different wants that they wish to complete. Alejandro recently added many more wants to the game. 

Some examples:

[Fitness talent trait] 💪 Do 50 pushups

[Jack-of-all-trade talent trait] 🔧 Level up 2 different skills

[Serious vibe trait] 👩‍🏭 Get an upgrade point at work today

[Has met someone new recently] 🤝 Become friends with [Parafolk] 

[Has been seeing someone romantically] 💞 Get intimate with [Parafolk] 

[Just moved in and doesn’t have a fridge] 🍇 Purchase a fridge

To give you an idea, here’s our document listing all the wants that are being added to the game right now:

I know it’s hard to read, but you will be able to discover these wants when you play the game later on!

Personality Trait Evolutions 

In Paralives, completing wants gives you personality points. When you have enough points, you can level up your personality and choose one evolution for it.

Level 1 - You start at level one after you have selected personality traits for your new character in the ParamakerLevel 2 - Pick one vibe trait evolutionLevel 3 - Pick one social trait evolutionLevel 4 - Pick one talent trait evolution:

Level 5 - Pick 1 extra stat point:

Level 6 - Pick one vibe trait evolutionLevel 7 - Pick one social trait evolutionLevel 8 - Pick one talent trait evolutionLevel 9 - Pick one more social perk or talent perkLevel 10 - Pick one trait evolution (the one you picked at level 9)Level 11 - Pick 1 extra stat pointLevel 12 - Pick one trait evolution (the one you picked at level 9)

We’ve been working on adding more and more personality trait evolutions and effects, and we’re looking forward to sharing more examples!

Keep in mind this is very much a work in progress, so all this might still change before release and after, as we receive feedback from players 🧐

That’s all for today everybody! Have a wonderful weekend and feel free to leave comments down below!

Cheers,

Alex

Edit - August 28th, 2025: This post is now public, feel free to share it!