While it is not yet a fully fleshed out system with multi-family properties, rentals, etc., your Paras are not restricted when it comes to owning multiple lots outside of their main lot! Businesses cannot yet be purchased, but any empty lots or uninhabited homes are up for grabs as long as you have the household funds! You can pretty much endlessly purchase homes in Melino, as long as you’re willing to fork over the funds and the possible frame rate drops.

Owning Multiple Lots in Paralives

Unlike other games where you have to sell a previous property to get a new one and therefore, your profits from the sale go towards the new home, you have to independently sell your property if you want to use its sale towards a new home. This means that you can also have multiple properties to float around to, you can purchase homes for family members and split them into their own household, and so much more! As far as I found, Paras will still treat your original/first lot as their primary home and will return to there if you opt for them to return home.

How to Purchase a Home

Purchasing a home is an easy part of the game, so long as you have the Paradimes for it! Whenever you create a new family, you will be asked to purchase them a home lot, so it is something the game will introduce to you straight away. Managing Lots & Households functions similarly. You can purchase properties, bulldoze them, split households into or out of properties, move lots, and save them to your library or upload them to the gallery. (If you’re looking to share your builds or households, make sure to check out our author Claire Maria’s post on the Steam Workshop!)

To purchase a new lot, go into the overhead town map view (Signified by a slightly hazy filter and icons popping up over each lot to tell you what they are) and click on any uninhabited home lot, which will have an icon above it telling you it is for sale. If you have the Paradimes available, you will be able to purchase the home and will get a pop up for confirmation, asking if you are sure and letting you know how much money will remain in your households funds. Once you’ve purchased the home, as previously stated, you can choose to sell any other home and use it as your primary property, move the lot, demolish the entire home, etc. The choice is yours!

Pros & Cons

Owning multiple properties can be a fun aspect of the gameplay. This lets you set any children up for success by buying them a home before they move out, or it lets you have properties in the country and in the city that you can treat kind of like a “vacation home”. It gives you a change of scenery if you have properties spread throughout the world that take different architectural inspiration and such, like a seaside cottage versus an industrial apartment.

While this option is available and you can technically choose to own many properties, I could not recommend it in casual gameplay until it is possibly added as a fully fleshed out feature. This is because, unlike other lots, your home lots are always loaded. Having multiple homes loaded at once, especially once you hit 5+ properties, does cause a bit of a performance hit that can be fairly noticeable. Especially when viewing the town from overhead in the map, I found a lot of performance drops, especially when it came to my frame rate. This is also because, since the game is early access, performance optimization is still a high priority for the Paralives Studio development team.

Will you be playing with multiple lots in Paralives, or are you a one-and-done kind of player? Let us know! Paralives is out NOW in early access, retailing for $39.99 USD. Make sure to check out our guides at The Sims Community, as well as other info and news about the game’s release and early access stage!