# Life by You - Paradox Interactive's take on "The Sims"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-by-you-paradox-interactives-take-on-the-sims/997079
**Category:** The Game Room
**Tags:** video-games-e-games
**Created:** [February 4, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-by-you-paradox-interactives-take-on-the-sims/997079 "2024-02-04T01:54:34Z")
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-by-you-paradox-interactives-take-on-the-sims/997079/1 "2024-02-04T01:54:34Z")
Continuing discussion from
> [@SimCity (2013) 10 year anniversary](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-2013-10-year-anniversary/980898/10):
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> Slightly off-topic, but I just discovered that the publisher of _Cities: Skyline_ is taking another cut at EA. They’ve announced _Life by You_, which will be a direct competitor with _The Sims_. They’re promising _Life by You_ to be extremely moddable, which is a high bar considering how moddable _The Sims_ is.
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> I’m a huge fan of _The Sims_, but not EA, and I’ll be following this development closely.
It’s been delayed again.
> **[Life Update: Early Access June 2024 - Paradox Interactive](https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/life-by-you/blog/life-update-Early-Access-Date-Change)**
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> Paradox Interactive is a world leading PC games publisher known for games such as Cities: Skylines, Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings.
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### Author:  [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2024, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-by-you-paradox-interactives-take-on-the-sims/997079/2 "2024-02-04T02:39:54Z")
I was looking forward to this game at one time. Then I bought City Skylines 2, and was incredibly disappointed that they released it before it was even close to ready. Even worse, they gave the mod community the finger by removing mods from Steam Workshop in favor of their own mod website, which of course is not ready, and probably won’t be for quite some time until they work out all of the bugs (which are significant) in the vanilla game. I’ve essentially lost all faith in this gaming company.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2024, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-by-you-paradox-interactives-take-on-the-sims/997079/3 "2024-02-04T05:40:00Z")
As noted in thread which spawned this one, the team responsible for _Life by You_ is headed by the guy who also led the team behind _Sims 3_. This is the second delay for _LbY_ so, presumably, he knows what he’s doing.
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2024, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-by-you-paradox-interactives-take-on-the-sims/997079/4 "2024-02-04T12:05:16Z")
Hopefully he will steer them back to the original goal, which was that you would be able to design your SIMCity and then have your SIMs live in it. The tortoiseshell sunglasses are all very well and good, but we were promised macro worldbuilding with micro life testing. I, for one, am still waiting.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2024, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-by-you-paradox-interactives-take-on-the-sims/997079/5 "2024-06-06T02:14:57Z")
Delayed indefinitely now. I requested a long weekend and was hoping to play it; oh well.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2024, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-by-you-paradox-interactives-take-on-the-sims/997079/6 "2024-06-18T11:21:36Z")
Canceled.
> **[Paradox cancels life sim Life by You, CEO says they gave the studio 'a fair...](https://www.pcgamer.com/games/life-sim/paradox-cancels-life-sim-life-by-you-ceo-says-they-gave-the-studio-a-fair-shot-but-now-believe-it-is-better-to-stop/)**
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> Paradox says "the road leading to a release that we felt confident about was far too long and uncertain" to continue.
Sounds like Paradox’s habit of releasing undercooked games bit them way too hard with Cities Skylines II and now they’re gunshy about another public disaster.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2024, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-by-you-paradox-interactives-take-on-the-sims/997079/7 "2024-06-20T13:16:46Z")
Disappointing but, if they can’t get it to work the way they want in a reasonable period of time, it’s for the best. After all, it’s a clone of The Sims, not Star Citizen. 😃