Sims-like Life by You gets delayed by half a year

Early Access for Life by You will start later than planned

Marco Wutz | Jul 27, 2023

Sims-like Life by You gets delayed by half a year /

Initially scheduled to start into Early Access in September 2023, Paradox’ Life by You is not going to be playable this year after all. Former The Sims boss Rod Humble, who leads the responsible studio Paradox Tectonic, announced in a video update that Life by You’s Early Access has been delayed into next year. It will now be playable on March 5, 2024.

Life by You is an ambitious attempt by Paradox at grabbing some of the market share EA holds sway over with The Sims. First impressions will be key to make that work, so it’s no wonder that the team wants to play it safe. According to Humble, the studio will use the time gained by the delay to implement feedback gathered from the community so far regarding visuals, UI, mod tools, language support, and technical performance.

Anyone who’s already pre-ordered the game on the Epic Game Store will be refunded, publisher Paradox has stated. Life by You wasn’t available for purchase on Steam yet, hence no refunds on that platform.

We recently had the chance to interview Rod Humble about his upcoming project, which plans on allowing players a lot of freedom and flexibility thanks to in-depth mod support and other tools to make the open world map their own.

EA and Maxis, meanwhile, are working on The Sims 5, codenamed Project Rene, which looks to be a free-to-play title.

Published Jul 27, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg