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Paradox's Sims-like Life By You delayed again, now aiming to launch in June


Paradox Interactive has announced another delay for its ambitious Sims-like Life By You, which is now due to enter earl…

It is, essentially, the Sims, albeit with a few selling points indended to differentiate it from the current iteration of EA's juggernaut franchise: it's fully open-world with no loading screens, it features "real language conversation", its digital human can optionally be controlled directly in first-person, and "everything is customisable". Life By You was originally supposed to launch into early access last September, but July brought the news Paradox would pushing its release back to 5th March this year, so it could improve the game's UI, visuals, and just generally made a "more well-rounded experience". An accompanying FAQ, however, points to a more significant list of areas it's looking to address ahead of Life By You's early access launch, including bugs, performance and stability, character art, proportions, character idles and facial animations, reduced clothing clipping, smoother animation transitions, building assets and UI, gameplay refinements, and mod tool usability.

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