Paradox Interactive completely cancelled Life by You (update Paradox Tectonic to close)
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Paradox Interactive announced today that Life by You from their studio Paradox Tectonic is now fully cancelled, after previously being delayed.

Very surprising. The game looked like it had a lot of potential and could’ve been the most popular sims alternative, but it’s suddenly been cancelled.

  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
    91·
    5 months ago

    No surprise. I was really shocked when I saw the videos they released a while ago. Game ran like shit and looked even worse.

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
      32·
      5 months ago

      Yup… It looked like a really bad attempt at photo realism in 2024. At this point you either need to use cartoon-like graphics or some sort or actually pull off the photo realism.

      It was pretty obvious that game was never going to reach either of those marks.

      I was definitely excited for the prospect of a Sim’s competitor, but this wasn’t going to be it… I think they did the right thing pulling the plug.

      • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
        1·
        5 months ago

        Stylized graphics would have not helped with the performance, or the mismatching scale of objects & people, or the garbage UI structure, or the garbage game structure. The whole thing was just amateurish and cheap looking.