In a new video posted to the various social media accounts for Paralives developers showed off some new Paralives wants and interactions that are linked to how your Parafolk are feeling, and how these can be used to upgrade your Parafolk’s personality.

Let’s break them down and unpack how these Paralives wants and emotions can impact gameplay.

We’ve done lots of different articles covering Paralives updates, which you can read here.

Paralives Wants & Emotions Overview

The video snippet showed a Para on their phone and the player being able to choose an emotional reaction to something they have just experienced.

Depending on which emotion you choose, you will get different options for wants that your Parafolk want to complete.

In this example, the Para’s sad wants are to either clean something, level up their food knowledge, spend two hours outside, or watch TV for 2 hours.

Once they begin to watch TV – or do whichever activity you select for them – you’ll see the want progression bar slowly start to fill up.

And once it is complete, you’ll begin to level up their personality.

Level up their personality enough, and you’ll unlock personality rewards. The quick video snippet showed off a couple of the available options, but it also makes it clear that, while the game is still in early access, it is still being developed.

How These Could Impact Your Gameplay

It’s becoming clear that these Paralives wants and completing them are going to be key to your Parafolk development and growth.

Using these personality upgrades, you can take two seemingly identical Parafolk and make them feel like much more unique, rounded individuals.

From the three options shown in the video it looks like these upgrades can make it easier to keep needs full and give other Parafolk buffs to increasing skills. These differ from the kinds of traits we’re used to seeing in other life simulation games like The Sims 4 where traits affect lots of areas of life, Paralives seems to be focusing personality upgrades on more niche areas, with all of the ones shown here being around food.

It will be nice to see what other areas of daily life the development team create personality upgrades for, like slower hygiene need decay or better social interactions.

Watch The Full Video Preview Here

The full clip is available to watch on all Paralives social media accounts.

As well as this new wants system, we also got to see some of the animations on screen while your Parafolk watch TV!

What do you think about this new Paralives wants and emotions system? How do you think it could be expanded on as development continues?