🎉 PARALIVES 2025 RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT + 🎥 VIDEO: 7 MINUTES OF LIVE MODE GAMEPLAY (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

I’m extremely excited to reveal our brand new live mode gameplay video and to share that Paralives will be releasing in Early Access in 2025! Watch the video above if you haven’t already and feel free to share it since it’s a public Patreon post and video! 🎉

🎥 The Gameplay Overview Video

We’ve been hard at work making this video and it follows Anisa, a new townie that just moved into town. Through her journey, discover how Parafolks can define their personality, find work, develop skills and build relationships.

Screenshots taken from the video (watch it at the top of this post).

The features shown today have been shared with Patreon supporters over the last months in our weekly Patreon posts. If you want more info about each gameplay element, please read these Patreon posts that have just been made public:

🧠 Personalities: Create the personality of your Para and see how it impacts the gameplay.

🤝 Relationship labels: Develop relationships in unique and exciting ways.

💓 Together Cards: Interact with other Parafolks by selecting interesting twists for your conversations with them

👨‍👩‍👧 Do any interaction as a group: Togetherness is an important feeling we’re looking to create in Paralives so we made it easy to select multiple characters and order them to do any interaction together.

💼 Jobs and careers: Make your Parafolks go to work and flourish professionally.

🍎 Needs and wants: See the thoughts of your Paras to help them have a nice day.

📆 Early Access Release in 2025

We’re thrilled to finally announce that Paralives will launch in Early Access on Steam in 2025! The exact date will be confirmed and announced as we get closer to the release. Early Access means that we are launching the game for everyone to play, even if it will still have missing features and bugs. The goal is to get player feedback so that we can improve the experience along with the community.

Even if there will be bugs and some important features missing, we think Paralives’s Early Access will be quite enjoyable. Players who like to create characters and build houses will have a lot of tools and content to get creative with and the live mode will have its core features established which will allow people to create great stories for their Parafolks! During the Early Access phase, we will be releasing frequent updates to fix bugs, add more content and add missing features like cars, bikes, pets, weather, seasons and more.

As always, you can look at our detailed public roadmap to see what’s done and the exact elements that are still to be added before the Early Access release and beyond. You might have noticed that some features that were originally planned for the first day of Early Access have been pushed back to come out sometimes during the Early Access phase instead. This decision was made to ensure that we can release a first version of the game in Early Access in 2025. Basements and pools, for instance, are part of the features that have been pushed and won’t be there on the first day of Early Access.

🍰 Paralives Will Never Have Any Paid DLCs, Only Free Updates

When Paralives comes out in Early Access, we will be making frequent updates to release new features and content for free. Then, after the Early Access phase and the launch of the 1.0 version of the game, we will keep making big updates and they will always remain free.

The reason for this decision is that, as players ourselves, we believe that purchasing a game should come with the guarantee of a fleshed out experience. We aim to make Paralives our labor of love for years to come, continuously coming up with exciting new stuff to experience in the game. As a small team without any shareholders to please, we believe the money we make from selling the game alone will be enough to support us and the development of free updates in the long run.

We hope you liked today’s reveals and feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below! We’re eager to share more sneak peeks at the game up to its release. ✨

Cheers!

- Alex and the whole Paralives team