#life simulation games

[lugosimmer]

credits: @lugosimmer

[videogames-i-wish-were-real]

Videogames I wish were real #2

A farming game but it all takes place underwater. You play as a merfolk person. You cultivate corals and algae and some sort of underwater fruits and veggies. Your cattle are oysters and jellyfish. Your mount is a seahorse. Instead of the usual mining mechanic being descending into a mine, in this game you ascend through the mine. The higher you go the more monsters you find. Sometimes you'll also find land animals, and, if you're very very lucky, even humans! Your charming lil aquatic town is near an ocean trench. A very deep and very dark ocean trench. You descend there sometimes too. The deeper you go, the rarer the creatures are. They always fetch some nice prices back in town, because very few people dare to venture into the deep darkness, and the archeologists in the museum always pay well for some of the unique specimens. There's a reverse fishing mechanic. You tie something buoyant to your pole and let it flow to the surface. The things you fish in the surface range from surface trinkets to materials or trash. There's a tunnel that leads to an underground cave with air and good soil where you cultivate some surface fungi and plants that don't need sun. Pretty early in the game a human cruise ship sinks. You're the only one that dares to go near. While the exterior chambers are submerged, there's plenty of inner rooms where there's still air, and that's where you find a human hermit. Upon befriending them you learn they stole and sank the ship on purpose. The hermit is self sufficient, and you trade stuff sometimes. They don't speak of whatever happened to the surface people. You've been told there's no danger of the tragedy spreading to your people, so you don't ask. You tend to your farm and your animals and befriend and romance npcs and keep living your best life in your lil underwater town.

Similar videogames that actually exist: Stardew Valley, Coral Island, My Time at Portia/Sandrock, Story of Seasons, Harvest Moon... and any other farming sim you can think off, basically

[simsllama]

So, there's Life by You, Rene Project, Paralives, and TinyLife. Are there any other upcoming games in the life simulation genre that are worth checking out?

[oatmilk-vampire]

Have you guys heard of the new game called InZOI from developer Krafton? It reminds me of Free City from Free Guy, or more accurately what Life Itself was supposed to be.

The developers are even working on online and multiplayer features which is super exciting to me.

It's mostly compared to a combination of Sims 5 and GTA 6

[beebreadgames]

No video Friday, but who cares!! Look at this! (New blog post!)

[fefyla]

NEW RESHADE PRESET

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[cattailsgame]

What ways will you help your colony to grow and thrive in the Wildwood? 🌲

https://cattailsgame.com

[there-are-many-ways-to-smile]

I'm only 10 minutes into the "life by you" announcement event on YouTube and you can already tell this is going to be a completely different game then Sims 4.

After finding out about this game a repeated thought in my mind for the Sims 4 has been "Count your motherfucking days!"

However, I can see myself playing both games, I don't think I'll completely drop the Sims 4..

I have spent so much money on it🥲

It is insanely nice finally to have competition for the sims 4, hopefully they'll take this as a good thing and try to improve. Because with all its flaws I do like the Sims 4 and no one not even me likes having to complain all the time about the same issues.

[bas-fish]

games (kinda) similar to "Do Not Feed The Monkeys" to play next

Not For Broadcast

Song of Farca

Orwell: Ignorance is Truth

Booth: A Dystopian Game

Talk to Strangers

Papers, Please

Beholder

Killer Frequency

(awesome Mr. Innocent Old Man fanart, posted by Honey rat on the DNFTM Steam Community!)

[playeverlife]

🗣️ CALLING ALL LIFE SIM FANATICS!

After 3 years of solo development, Everlife, the ultimate birth-to-death life simulator, is OUT NOW on iOS! 🎉🥳

The game is free to download and has ZERO ads❤️‍🔥

Check out the launch trailer 👀

✨Download Here✨

[ivorysnowplays]

So, the Life By You trailer dropped and I could not be more excited.  I have been a long time lover of life simulation games. Since the Sims 4 dropped, it has been cleared that my beloved franchise no longer valued the relationship it had with it’s community. When even the most basic things are missing or blocked by a paywall, they just hit us with more content to purchase. 

Life By You’s trailer has shown me that there is still hope that my perfect Life Simulation game is out there.  Mod friendly is an understatement. The developers have really curated a game where you can control EVERYTHING and fully tell your own stories. 

I for sure will be preordering this! Will you?

[lugosimmer]

Build mode from the new life simulator, inZOI.

The lighting and textures are amazing :D

Credits: Krafton's Official Youtube Channel.

https://www.youtube.com/@KRAFTONofficial

[videogames-i-wish-were-real]

Videogames I wish were real #37

A cozy and laid back MMO game where instead of the usual battle classes, the classes are all about crafting, gathering or selling products or services. All the combat classes that would normally be available to players (paladins, archers, wizards, etc) are only available to npcs.

You can choose a crafting related occupation, such as the artisan class, and then pick a certain subclass and become a blacksmith or a tailor, or the catering class and become a baker or a chef or open a small café. In order to avoid unfair competition, when setting the price of a product there would a be a minimum and maximum price range for every product. You can also open a shop to sell your wares directly to customers, as well as hire npcs to help you gather resources or to manage the shop while you are away/not playing, although you will need to pay them a fair wage and they'll get a day off a week.

If you'd rather go for a gathering class you can become a miner, woodcutter, farmer, angler, etc, and sell your produce to shops and merchants. Since some of those occupations would require you to abandon the city to gather materials, if you intend to go to a dangerous area you can hire adventurer npcs to act as your guards, or if you want to venture into an unknown area, you could spend money in a map, or pay a cartographer to chart a map for you.

And if you wish for a more adventurous occupation that allows you to travel through the world, you could always pick jobs such as mail carrier, merchant, archeologist, cartographer, etc.

Besides hiring npcs to help you run your store or act as bodyguards when you explore dangerous parts, you can also befriend and even romance and marry them, and if you cultivate a strong enough platonic or romantic relationship with an npc, they might offer you discounts, sell you rare items, gift you stuff or even offer to help you for free.

Player level is tied to the occupation of a character, if you switch to a different job you've never tried before you'll start at level 1. Whenever you get bored of a certain life, you can just switch to a different one or create another character.

Similar games that actually exist: Fantasy Life and Fantasy Life i: The Girl who Steals Time (suggested by @fantasy-life-fan), Palia

[herhighness-thequeenofhearts]

Started playing Dreamlight Valley on Xbox, and as much as I dislike Disney, this game is actually really fun 😭 Those saying that it’s just Kingdom Hearts that Disney has more control over are incorrect (about it being like Kingdom Hearts, not the second part). It’s a life simulation game; you do tasks, recruit new villagers and make friends with them, customize your character, obtain resources and craft with them, upgrade yours and you neighbor’ houses, etc (I’d say the closest comparison is Animal Crossing, not KH). There are also questlines that you can follow and complete. Supposedly, when the game comes out in full it will be free to play and the only microtransaction will be for a currency that a) you can just earn in-game and b) is only for cosmetic items (so no pay-to-win). If that’s true, I’m a big fan of that decision, but I’ll wait to pop the champagne.

Right now the characters available to recruit are:

Merlin

Mickey

Goofy

Donald

Minnie

Moana

Maui

Remi

Wall-e

Mother Gothel

Ursula

Anna

Elsa

Scrooge McDuck

Kristoff

Ariel

Eric

Scar

Buzz and Wood have been announced, but aren’t in the game yet.

I might make a follow up post to this one with a more in-depth look at the game. For now, final thoughts are: the game is fun, it’s not a Kingdom Hearts rip-off, and if you like life simulator games like Animal Crossing or the Sims you’ll probably like this one. 

[claramj]

Baby & Toddler Reveal! - Paralives News 2023

[tirsden]

Had to start the Tiny Life demo over because somehow my main SSD became unbootable. Not sure if it’s bad or if it somehow got messed up while I was formatting an old hard drive, but let’s just say yesterday was not fun. Windows 10 reinstalled fine so I really don’t know what happened. I lost so much crap, it’s... best to just move on. And this time, back up the Super Tiny Life saved game. It’s one of the newer things I hadn’t bothered to do yet.

Meanwhile, hellspawn tiny Tirsden is back to levelling skills and contemplating what job to max out first. Her house is more or less rebuilt the way it was before, in fact I like the tweaks in this version better.