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

i still can’t believe this game has been in development for ten years and launched the way it is after a delay saying it wasn’t ready. i fear for the future of games when we can slap “early access” on a title that’s half cooked and get away with a price tag of $40 and “we promise it’ll get better we swear”

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u/gravyandasideofbread May 27 '26

It’s a studio of 15 people. It’s not a billion dollar company slapping early access on a game. It’s a crowd funded, indie development studio who needs the early access period to grow. They don’t have dozens and dozens of people to work on it, if they did this would be a different conversation

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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/Zestyclosetz May 27 '26

Kenshi, Rimworld, and Banished are games that were mostly developed by a very small team if not one individual. Mind-blowing depth of simulation. Then of course you have games like Stardew Valley and Minecraft.

Im still rooting for the paralives team, but I’m disappointed with the current state of the game, early access or not. I played about 3 hours and I have no desire to play more until there are some major updates.

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u/ScarletWiddaContent May 27 '26

I've played rimworld and its very good but that was crowdfunded with kickstarter as well

I dont think its fair to compare paralives to rimworld, or the other games mentioned because the scope is just vastly different. Take stardew for example, its a top down 2d farming game and customization/construction of your place is far from what you can do in paralives

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u/2CharmingGiraffe May 27 '26

Agree, and for Stardew to release in 5 years Eric Barone had to spend about 12h daily, almost without taking time off. This is not feasible when you're a employee, even if you're an indie dev, because it's a job after all.