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inZOI vs Life by You vs The Sims 4 - Who Wins?

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I was very excited about the new life simulation game Life by You by Paradox, with its whole open world and great building tools. But I became reticent after seeing the lack of progression with the characters. They just felt like a mix between Second Life and The Sims 2 - just stuck in the past. All of the characters sort of looked the same. The women look very masculine, something is wrong with the arms (although, the arm sliders means that you can make them as long or short as you want to), but something just seems out of place. Life by You Character And with someone who has as much experience as the Rod Humble developing the game, they felt too crude. It is 2024, the characters shouldn't look like that. But all we have is The Sims and the Indie game underdevelopment Paralives along with the farming sim:  Farm Folks yet to hit the market, whose characters look great I might say. Farm Folks is a multi-player farm simulation game with some life sim character...

New Life Simulation Games on the Horizon and I'm Here for It

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I am pretty stoked about the life simulation genre. It is a game genre I enjoy playing but it has been dominated by one developer, EA, for a long time. It seriously lacks diversity and is heavily skewed toward the queer community. Lastly, the Sims 4 is riddled with bugs and the developers ignore them and just churn out more packs because people are willing to pay more money hoping the game will be fixed and work as they envision. It won't, but they continue to live in their delusion. Wanting to get away from the toxicity of the Sims community and play a life sim game that actually works I was very excited when Life by You was announced earlier this year.  However, following the development of the game over the last few months and the promises by Rod Humble, I don't know if Paradox has given the game developer, General Manager Rod Humble , an ex Sims EVP and ex CEO of Second Life , the budget to hire people to really build a high-end life sim game. Life by You (LbY) is b...