Now that we have Paralives, Inzoi, and The Sims 4, life simmers finally have the variety we've been begging for

Paralives continues to sound promising with a roadmap outlining free updates The Sims would normally charge for

I'm not ashamed to admit that The Sims 2 got me into house music, especially since its devs hired the best DJs in the biz to score it

Paralives is the very definition of early access, but it's already a promising Sims rival

Paralives: 45 Minutes of Gameplay

Like fleshy, diaper-wearing cars, infants in The Sims 4 have been "tuned up", making them faster to feed and change, and it's easier to clean up their poop

inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories - Review

Petit Planet is exactly the Animal Crossing clone it looked like, but after 15 hours of it I'm shocked by how many new ideas it has too

The Peak of Life, a lifesim set in a major metropolis, with professional development, enterpreneruship and investment, released on Steam

The Sims 4's microtransaction Marketplace has officially shown me the door after 24 years of Simming

Crop is Stardew Valley except you arrive at your farm naked and in the boot of a car

Witchbrook's taken 10 years because "Harry Potter meets Stardew Valley" got old and the devs wanted time to make "something more unique"

Petit Planet, the upcoming 'cozy galactic life sim' from HoYoVerse, is taking signups for a new beta test happening later this month

Inzoi Studio head says early access was unavoidable, but he feels kind of bad about it: 'The users are testing it on our behalf, so I always feel sorry for them'

New inZOI patch dubbed the "GTA 6 update" by eager fans, adding everything from cozy flower shops to car theft to the Sims 4 competitor

Stardew Valley-like farming sim, [Grave Seasons], with a romanceable "supernatural serial killer", [and horror elements], gets an August release date, with a demo coming soon

Stardew Valley farmer takes advice from AI, ends up brewing 136 useless bottles of rice juice

'I took those files and deleted them': Former Sims 4 developer says he totally rewrote the sims' AI in the middle of development and 'that was a scary thing to do'

The Sims announces a Creation Club-style Marketplace and Maker program enabling content creators to sell their work directly to players

While you wait for a release date announcement, have a gander at Nivalis' opening moments [lifesim/management from the creators of Cloudpunk and set in the same world]

"I don't know what I was thinking": Stardew Valley creator went through hell 6 months before launch, and the game didn't come together until "the last moment"

10 years later, I still can't believe Eric Barone thought Harvest Moon fans would hate Stardew Valley

XCOM designer Jake Solomon announces surprise closure of his studio alongside a first look at its canceled life sim, 'the game we poured our hearts into'

Pokopia finally gives starving Pokemon Mystery Dungeon fans some food with its talking 'mons as the life sim's devs "really focused" on conveying each one's "unique personality"

Good news, Stardew Valley enthusiasts: the 1.7 update will make children 'a little more interesting' and add two new marriage candidates

Stardew Valley creator breaks silence to shoot down myths about Haunted Chocolatier, including that 2030 release rumour

Halcyon Days at Taoyuan, a Stardew Valley clone set in historical China, with beautiful period-inspired pixelart, released on Steam

The Sims 4's most notorious sex mod gets launched 400,000 times a day, which is more people than I realized were even playing The Sims every day

The Sims 4: Royalty & Legacy | Official Reveal Trailer

Cozy Caravan is a feast of little cooking minigames

Former Stardew Valley dev's upcoming life sim has a brilliant quality-of-life feature for its fishing that speaks to my completionist heart

I was getting a bit bored of the traditional life sim routine, but it turns out I just needed more hobbies which Heartopia is happy to provide

My Winter Car is a 'dangerous, depressing and tiring' life sim, and the developer doesn't want you to play it unless you've mastered the infamously tricky My Summer Car

As The Sims Project Rene switches to being "mobile-first," EA vaguely tease the series' "next evolution"

Life sims are in a slump and the only way out is becoming strategy games

Schedule 1 developer TVGS is 'an actual game studio' now, with an office, desks, and a new guy named Rob: 'By the end of the year, there will likely be 4 people working on Schedule 1'

Eric Barone doesn't want to 'reveal much yet,' but Stardew Valley's 1.7 update is starting to sound like another big one

FarmRPG Milestone: 1,000,000 Members

Netflix sells the studio behind Cozy Grove back to its original owners, freeing the studio to bring its mobile life sim to other platforms

Galaxy Princess Zorana is like if you made BG3 passive checks into a whole game, a great tale of political intrigue, and will give you like 4,000 ways to die embarrassingl

As if Disney Dreamlight Valley could get any more magical, the Wishblossom Ranch expansion adding horses has improved the entire experience more than I thought it would

GTA San Andreas modders tease fully-fledged standalone indie game inspired by Stardew Valley, Graveyard Keeper, Mafia and Schedule I

inZOI tells The Sims 4 wait, I've got this – actual schools are coming to the life sim for free, in a move fans of EA's own game have waited 11 years for: "We aim to create a real school – not a rabbi

The Sims' biggest sex mod creator says that around 300,000 people use it—that's more than some of Steam's top games: 'It doesn't make sense to me'

Build a new life after a revolution on Jupiter in the very Animal Crossing-esque, co-op life-sim Young Suns

Despite getting delayed, Paralives looks like it's avoiding Inzoi's biggest flaw

The Sims 4 legend behind piracy tool rendering nearly $1,500 of DLC totally free quits town and takes his loot with 'em, players pay tribute as copycats immediately try to charge for alternatives

After a lackluster launch and "Mixed" reviews on Steam, [Mirthwood], the Stardew Valley-esque medieval life sim RPG I wanted to adore in 2024 redeems itself with a massive free update