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Developed by Paradox Tectonic, Life By You looked to take the life sim genre even further than before with an ambitious open-world experience. This, among other features, would have allowed you to get fully immersed in your virtual character’s adventures, making your way around an open-world map as you go.
If you’re a fan of these types of games, then you may have guessed from the headline that we have some bad news.
Does Life By You have a release date?
Sadly, it has been announced by Paradox Tectonic that Life By You has been cancelled and will never release.
After being pushed back a couple of times, we had a release date for early access which was June 4, 2024. Again, this was delayed, leading to the aforementioned full cancellation of the title.
So, for those who were looking for an alternative to The Sims, you’ll unfortunately have to just settle for whatever innovations come in The Sims 5.
Life By You trailers
Two fully-fledged trailers were released for Life By You – the teaser and announcement trailers.
The teaser trailer is a short but sweet video that briefly introduced you to the game and a sneak peek into the design of the world. Take a look for yourself below.
The announcement trailer however went into a bunch more detail, showcasing various gameplay aspects including the character creator, building mechanics, how conversations work, and more.
In conjunction with the trailers, the official Life By You YouTube channel has a bunch more in-game explainers on how to use the various tools within the game which is brilliant and something that will be very helpful since you may have other life sim games’ hotkeys etc. ingrained in your brain.
Life By You platforms
Life By You was expected to launch on PC only via both the Steam and Epic Games platforms. This news is probably disheartening to those who are used to scratching their life sim itch via console, but it made sense seeing as though it was initially being released into early access.
Like The Sims, the format of the game can definitely lend its hand to console controls, even if it is a little janky, so if Life By You had launched, the 1.0 release could have very well made it onto PlayStation and Xbox.
Can you pre-order Life By You?
Pre-ordering games have been a main staple for some time now but with Life By You, things get a little complicated. You could place a pre-order for the game but these have since been stopped and refunds issued to those who purchased the title before launch.
Life By You early access price
If you wanted to get into the early access of Life By You, it would have set you back $39.99/€39.99/£34.99.
This is quite a high price considering it isn’t the full experience but for that, you do get to throw your thoughts over to the devs on new features and what you would like to be changed, coupled with those bonuses that have hung over from pre-orders.
Life By You system requirements
Here are the Life By You minimum and recommended system requirements as stated on the game’s Steam page before cancellation.
Life By You minimum system requirements
- CPU: Intel Core i5-8600 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB or AMD Radeon R9 380 4GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 25 GB
Life By You recommended system requirements
- CPU: Intel Core i5-10400F or AMD Ryzen 5 3600
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 25 GB
