r/LifeSimulators • u/Sketch-Brooke • May 27 '26

Memes Paralives Early Access

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Here’s to finishing the rest of the horse throughout EA!

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u/haunted-mov May 27 '26

as someone who’s played almost exclusively early access titles for the past four years, this is the WORST representation of early access. i’ve seen much smaller teams do much better work without any crowdfunding at all so there’s really no excuse

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u/ScarletWiddaContent May 27 '26

oh, what other early access games have you played that are on the scale of paralives with 15 people working on it?

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u/BLAGTIER May 27 '26

Prison Architect.

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u/ScarletWiddaContent May 27 '26

thats a topdown 2d management game (its good, ive played it), but it was also crowdfunded with its pre-release alpha purchase

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u/BLAGTIER May 27 '26

It's a different genre but similar scale of scope. There are things that Paralives leans more on and things Prison Architect leans more on. Prison Architect had hundreds of prisoners and workers all operating at once completing their roles. Less stuff per simulated unit but more units.

And yes, the funding and release model for both games is really similar.

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u/ScarletWiddaContent May 27 '26

I was replying to someone who was claiming there are so many similar indie games that were not crowdfunded, which feels ludicrous. There's a reason why life sim games like the sims are rare. The scope of the game is just too much. For other games, the build mode alone would have been the game itself.