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"I torture myself over every last detail": Stardew Valley's creator is having a real time of it with Haunted Chocolatier's recipe book interface (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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Stardew Valley creator Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone has released his latest reminder that yes, he's still working on sweetshop action RPG Haunted Chocolatier.

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Tracing blueprints in Paralives is so easy it freed me from 25 years of The Sims' grid-based tyranny (www.pcgamer.com)
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One tiny mod for Paralives has finally made my childhood dreams of more realistic life sims floor plans possible.

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Now that we have Paralives, Inzoi, and The Sims 4, life simmers finally have the variety we've been begging for (www.pcgamer.com)
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With Paralives joining the party, I finally feel like there's a real buffet of choice for life sim players.

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Paralives continues to sound promising with a roadmap outlining free updates The Sims would normally charge for (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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Given that all updates and expansions will be supposedly be free, this one's a win for Paralives.

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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 (www.pcgamer.com)
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Nightlife's remixes live rent-free in my head.

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Paralives is the very definition of early access, but it's already a promising Sims rival (www.pcgamer.com)
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Paralives still feels very early in development, but its potential is blinding.

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Paralives: 45 Minutes of Gameplay (www.youtube.com)
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Less than a week until Early Access!

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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 (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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The next patch for The Sims 4 brings a laundry list of fixes and changes to infants.

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inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories - Review (gamersocialclub.ca)
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inKONBINI combines convenience store management with character-driven storytelling. Stock shelves, manage 1993 HONKI PONKI, and help quirky customers find clarity and peace

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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 (www.pcgamer.com)
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HoYoverse reaches for the stars with a cozy life sim that's more ambitious than it first appears.

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The Peak of Life, a lifesim set in a major metropolis, with professional development, enterpreneruship and investment, released on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
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The Sims 4's microtransaction Marketplace has officially shown me the door after 24 years of Simming (www.gamesradar.com)
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Crop is Stardew Valley except you arrive at your farm naked and in the boot of a car (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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If Stardew Valley is a cosy farming game the Crop is a what you get if you make it a horror farming game.

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Witchbrook's taken 10 years because "Harry Potter meets Stardew Valley" got old and the devs wanted time to make "something more unique" (www.gamesradar.com)
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Chucklefish is bringing the magical life sim out this year

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Petit Planet, the upcoming 'cozy galactic life sim' from HoYoVerse, is taking signups for a new beta test happening later this month (www.pcgamer.com)
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There's still no release date, but it's getting closer.

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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' (www.pcgamer.com)
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Yeah, that's pretty much how it works.

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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 (www.gamesradar.com)
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GTA comes to inZOI before GTA 6

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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 (www.gamesradar.com)
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Grave Seasons arrives in under 5 months

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Stardew Valley farmer takes advice from AI, ends up brewing 136 useless bottles of rice juice (www.pcgamer.com)
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Don't listen to Google and mill your rice for vinegar.

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'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' (www.pcgamer.com)
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The Sims 4's original lead AI programmer says he pitched the entire AI system not long before alpha and rewrote it from scratch.

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The Sims announces a Creation Club-style Marketplace and Maker program enabling content creators to sell their work directly to players (www.pcgamer.com)
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The Sims 4 Marketplace will go live on PC and Mac on March 17, and will follow on consoles later this year.

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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] (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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It's more of a sneak peak, but an enticing one all the same.

Nivalis - Gameplay Showcase

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"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" (www.gamesradar.com)
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I think I was just at the point where I knew it was so close. I needed to finish the game

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10 years later, I still can't believe Eric Barone thought Harvest Moon fans would hate Stardew Valley (www.pcgamer.com)
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"I still didn't think it was going to be super popular," Barone said of the days leading up to Stardew Valley's launch in 2016.

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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' (www.pcgamer.com)
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"Burbank" was set to be a life sim with dramatic storylines.

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