Paradox Interactive announced that Life by You is coming to early access on September 12. This moddable and open life simulator video game gives players the ability to create humans and live out their lives, all without loading screens.
Life by You offers an open game world experience where everything can be customized. In addition to being able to design and live out the lives of the humans they create, players can also build their homes and make their households. Players can also look forward to real-language conversations along with the ability to switch between third-person perspective and direct control gameplay. With this, players should be able to connect with them at an emotional level.
Making things more fun are the wide range of creator tools and editors which let players tweak each aspect of their experience. This gives them the choice to either live their life to the fullest or break the rules.
Key features of the game are:
- Play in an open world
- Be able to live life with no loading screens.
- Strike up real-language conversations.
- Drive or bike to the countryside.
- Discover and complete quests to unlock new experiences.
- Expand your creativity
- Players can make their own in-game content through mods.
- Use a wide range of deep Creator Tools.
- Change the gameplay anytime.
- Take direct control
- Drag and drop the humans into their place or drive them directly in third-person mode.
- Live the life of one or tell the stories of many.
- Tell stories through conversations
- Each real-language conversation is generated based on the unique situation of the human created.
- Players can even craft their own conversations in-game.
- Design your own world
- Build the dream homes of the humans or their businesses from scratch.
- Furnish them from top to bottom, inside to outside.
- Drag, demolish, and rearrange entire towns.
- Create fully customized humans
- Design families using the Human Creator which include deep personality and character traits.
- Style and restyle the humans created at any time.
Life by You is developed by Paradox Tectonic, led by Rod Humble. Humble is an industry veteran known for his pioneering work on the life simulation genre. In a statement, Humble shared that the game evolves the genre with real language conversation, modern style, and unmatched freedom of expression. He went on to say that the extensive customization tools of the game allow for unparalleled levels of storytelling.
Pre-order Life by You now on the Epic Games Store or wishlist it on Steam.
