Paralives

About Paralives

Paralives is a life simulation about home, personal journeys, and relationships. Through good times and bad, where will your story lead?

Paralives is a sandbox life simulation developed by Alex Massé and his team. It launched in Early Access for Windows and macOS through Steam on May 25, 2026. Players explore an open-world town with shops, parks, restaurants, museums, and a varied population. The Paramaker offers detailed control over height, facial features, body shape, clothing, and complex personality traits, giving every character a distinct identity. Career progression, social life, romance, marriage, and family form parallel life paths. Players can focus on wealth, professional achievement, or relationships. Traits, skills, desires, needs, and moods influence behavior and development. Multiple characters can be controlled as a group through growth, aging, and the birth of children. Gridless construction supports curved walls and split-level floors. Furniture and decorations can be resized, recolored, and stacked to create highly customized homes. Built-in modding tools connect with Steam Workshop for sharing and downloading mods, houses, and characters. During Early Access, the team plans to add free content including weather and seasons, cats, dogs and horses, cars and bicycles, boats and houseboats, pools and swimming, a calendar and social events such as parties and weddings, autonomous NPC life progression, family trees, gardening and fishing, and town-editing tools.