Everything confirmed to come with Paralives, the brand-new life simulation game releasing by the end of this year.

Paralives is an upcoming brand-new life simulation game described by the team as a dollhouse life simulation indie game. It will be available for PC and Mac on Steam on December 8, 2025.

Here is all the information and the features the Paralives team has confirmed for the game’s Early Access release, along with what to expect when it launches!

Price and DLC

The Paralives team has confirmed that the game will cost $39.99 USD when it launches in Early Access and that the price will increase after the full release. It hasn’t been confirmed if regional pricing will be available. Regional pricing means the cost is adjusted based on the player’s location, making the game more affordable in countries with weaker currencies and better aligned with local economies.

The team also confirmed that the game will only receive free updates and that they will never have paid DLC, even after the Early Access period.

Rating

The Paralives team has stated on their Discord server that the game is aiming for a Teen rating. It will not include mature themes such as drugs, murder, explicit violence, or gore. In addition, the game will not feature any kind of religious content.

Platform and Requirements

• Paralives will be available for PC and Mac on Steam and there are no plans for a phone or tablet version in the future.
• The game will be a single-player experience and will not require an internet connection to play.
• The system requirements have not been made public yet, but the team is ensuring that the game will be as accessible as possible for all players.

Mods

The community will be able to share their custom content, mods, and other creations through Steam Workshop. However, there are no plans to allow script mods for now.

Open World and Weather Systems

The Paralives team has confirmed that the game will be open-world. On day one of the Early Access release, there will be one town available, with more worlds being added throughout the Early Access period. They have also confirmed that players will have access to tools to edit and customize the worlds. In the town, Parafolks will have access to shops, restaurants, museums, and collections.

It is also confirmed that the game will feature a day-night cycle on launch day, while weather effects and seasons will be added in a free update later during Early Access.

Build Mode

The Build Mode will introduce several new and exciting features to the game, such as grid-less construction with snapping and an optional grid for alignment, as well as curved and straight walls of any precise length. A terrain tool will also be available. Lots will be fully customizable and resizable, and pre-made houses will be provided for players who don’t feel like building from scratch. Later, during Early Access, players will also be able to create boathouses.

Furniture will be resizable, stackable, and flippable. Everything can be customized using pre-made swatches, a color wheel, or pattern customization.

Live Mode

It’s confirmed that Parafolks will have advanced personalities, character autonomy, skills, emotions, personality traits, needs, and the ability to age, have children, and die. A family tree is not planned for the first release, but it is one of the promised features that will come in a free update during Early Access.

Parafolks can have careers and go to work (rabbit hole) and will need to pay bills. Gameplay will include cars, bikes, and boats, a cooking system, the possibility of house fires, the ability to swim, garden, and fish, and the option to organize social events such as parties and weddings!

Parafolks will have a wide range of social interactions for relationship development, and players will be able to multi-select characters to perform actions as a group. NPCs will have story progression.

Cats, dogs and horses will be available in a future update after the release, but they are also confirmed to come during Early Access!

In-game Language

The Paralives team confirmed that the Parafolks will use a simple gibberish language when talking to each other. The written text will be in real language by default, but it will be fully customizable, allowing players to edit the phrases and use any language or text they want.

Paramaker

In Paramaker mode, players will be able to equip any outfit, facial hair, or body hair regardless of the Parafolk’s gender, with customizable patterns available for certain clothing items. A color wheel will allow customization of hair, skin, eyes, clothes, and even skin tones. To edit the Parafolk’s body, players will have access to a height slider, body and face sliders, realistic fat and muscle sliders, and precise placement for tattoos, moles, and scars.

You can watch the Paramaker Overview here, which includes a demonstration of how the height slider works:

Disabilities

The Paralives team has stated that they understand the importance of representing disabilities in the game, but items related to physical disabilities will be decorative in the initial release. In their own words:

Many people have been speculating on our view regarding disabilities in Paralives. As devs, we feel it is important for us to be able to represent as many people as we can with our game. Disabilities are everywhere around us; be it our friends, our families, or even us, devs. Be it visible, or invisible.

There are many things to consider regarding disabilities in the game, especially with gameplay features. It requires a lot of design (for instance, how to tackle pathfinding with Paras with mobility restrictions), research, even consulting, and programming, to get things right.

While we won’t be able to do more complex Live Mode features related to disabilities for the Early Access launch, we thought there must be a way to at least represent our player base living with disabilities in the game. (…) Nevertheless, we hope it will help you better represent your Paras individualities as you decorate your house with items that truly embody them.

Quote from the Patreon post Build Mode Clutter & Decor + Showing Some Disabilities-Related Items!

The Paralives team have also confirmed that they will not include any form of direct diagnosis for neurodivergence in the game, and that they don’t want to gamify real-life mental health conditions. However, players will still be able to represent certain effects using traits and other customization options.

LGBTQIA+

The Paralives team has been presenting LGBTQIA+ themes in a very natural way and even featured a lesbian couple in the release trailer. They also confirmed that the game will include functional binders!

Soundtrack and Sound Effects

The soundtrack and sound effects are being created entirely with original material, and the team has shared parts of the creative process behind the scenes, including one of the community’s most iconic videos, where Andrei Castañon demonstrates how the sound effects for footsteps were recorded. You can watch the full video here:

You can learn more about the sound effects in our article Sound Effects in Paralives: A Behind the Scenes Look.

Features not included in the initial release

The team has confirmed some features that will not be included in the initial full release, though some of them may be added in future updates.

• Active jobs and schools
• Supernaturals and occults
• First person mode or WASD/arrow keys control mode

Even though they mentioned that occults will not be included in the first release, they teased a Parafolk dressed as a vampire in their Halloween 2024 post and have not completely excluded future implementation of any of the mentioned features.

If you want to learn more about the features that will be available on Early Access you can check our article What is coming on Day 1 of Paralives Early Access? Answered!.

Paralives is set to release on PC and MAC on Steam on December 8, 2025.

What do you think about all the revealed features coming with Paralives? Let us know in the comments!