Life By You, announced earlier this year, is an upcoming life simulation game that could rival The Sims 5.

 

 

Those of you who are looking forward to The Sims 5 may want to keep an eye on Life By You. It’s an upcoming life simulation game that clearly draws inspiration from EA’s best-selling franchise. Life By You offers a more mature, detailed and modern approach to the framework set by The Sims. As such, it provides new opportunities for life-sim fans and newcomers to the genre alike.

Life By You is published by Paradox Interactive, a company whose portfolio includes cult classic games such as Cities: Skylines and the Europa Universalis franchise.

Paradox Interactive’s pedigree, as well as the compelling and engaging gameplay foreshadowed by the game’s trailers and tutorials, has contributed to the growing anticipation for Life By You. While it once seemed unthinkable that a game could challenge The Sims as the leader of the life simulation genre, the long wait for The Sims 5, coupled with the explosive growth of the life simulation genre with games like Stardew Valley, has paved the way for a more direct The Sims competitor. It seems that Life By You could be just that.

 

 

 

 

Why could Life By You be a challenger to The Sims 5?

 

The Sims 4 was released in 2014. Since then, while it has received several valuable expansions, the core game has remained primarily unchanged. Many series fans are still happy with the open, creative gameplay. Others, however, may be looking for something new. For gamers who are interested in reimagining the life simulation genre but are not interested in more extreme titles like Animal Crossing, Life By You could be a promising alternative to The Sims 5.

Although players won’t really know the quality of Life By You until the early access period starts next year, what has been shown so far looks promising.

The parallels with The Sims are immediately striking. After all, players control several different characters, some their own, some predefined, and are guided through tasks that can be mundane or life-changing. Even the visuals and many elements of the user interface are unmistakably Sims-inspired. But Life By You differs from the Sims formula in other ways.

The most significant difference in Life By You is the size and attention to detail. Instead of controlling just a select few characters, Life By You players will have control over every NPC in the game. Life By You simulates every second of each character’s life without loading screens. This process can take well over seventy years in-game. The sheer scale is incredibly ambitious from a technical point of view. But it also offers a wealth of opportunities for the player. Theoretically, they can orchestrate, monitor and influence an infinite number of possibilities for their individual characters and NPCs. Other features of Life By You, such as full-fledged dialogues instead of approximate conversations, also serve to create a sense of immersion and realism.

It’s worth noting that Rod Humble, the man responsible for The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, is leading the development of Life By You.

It is likely that Humble’s aim will be to correct what it perceived as shortcomings or missed opportunities during its time overseeing the development of The Sims. This could help Life By You improve the formula for The Sims. The game draws on the experience of a high-level The Sims developer. This insight, combined with the ambition of the developers and the hardware innovations of the past nine years, could produce a game that has a chance to threaten The Sims 5 as the leader of the life-sim genre. We may soon discover how much Life By You can improve on its predecessor.

Source: Paradox