Paralives looks packed with tiny features I've been desperately wanting in The Sims for years

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Paralives is finally right around the corner—it's launching into early access on May 25 following last year's delay. As that day quickly approaches, Paralives Studio is well and truly dangling the carrot in front of us with a nine-minute video showcasing some of the bits we can expect.

I suspect this is intentional, but so much of what is shown off is the kind of stuff I've wished to see in The Sims for years. Tiny quality-of-life tweaks here, or mind-bogglingly absent features in The Sims that are happily present in Paralives' early access launch.

The video kicks off by showing a little bit of the character creation screen with—gasp—adjustable height sliders! It's such a small feature that's missing from The Sims, but one that I think can add so much variety to Paras. Everyone needs at least one short friend and one ridiculously tall friend in their lives, with Paralives' slider going up to a whopping two meters tall—that's 6...

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