Live now
- live
Build mode
Free-form room sculpting, curved walls, fine-grained object placement. The headline EA feature.
- ETA
- Live since EA launch
- Source
- Steam page
Affected guides: build-starter-home, build-tiny-house - live
ParaMaker
Character creator with hand-drawn art style. Used by the Legacy and Not So Berry challenges for inheritance rules.
- ETA
- Live since EA launch
- Source
- Steam page
Affected guides: challenges/legacy - live
Vibes and Story Cards
Five vibes drive emotional state at launch (three more come later); ~250 story cards inject one-shot life events. The Paralives equivalent of Sims moodlets.
- ETA
- Live in EA
- Source
- Official devlog
Affected guides: guides/getting-started
Promised for Early Access — no date given
- confirmedHigh demand
Pets
Dogs, cats and horses — officially confirmed to arrive during Early Access as a free update. No date announced yet. Will reshape the Legacy and 100 Baby challenges when they land.
- ETA
- During Early Access — date TBD
- Source
- Steam page (EA notes)
Affected guides: challenges/legacy, challenges/100-baby - confirmedHigh demand
Weather and seasons
A spring-through-winter cycle. Listed on the Steam page for the Early Access phase, with no date attached. Listed on the Steam page for the Early Access phase, with no date attached. Will unblock the 'survive a winter' Legacy clause.
- ETA
- During Early Access — date TBD
- Source
- Steam page (EA notes)
Affected guides: challenges/legacy - confirmed
Pools
Pools and swimming are listed on the Steam page among the features to be added during Early Access. No date announced.
- ETA
- During Early Access — date TBD
- Source
- Steam page (EA notes)
Affected guides: guides/build-modern-mansion - confirmed
Career tree depth
Current careers are surface-level. Branching career trees with daily-task variance are on the roadmap.
- ETA
- Unknown
- Source
- Official roadmap
Affected guides: challenges/rags-to-riches - confirmed
School episodes
Children attend school but episodes are limited. Full school depth (events, friends, grades affecting careers) is planned.
- ETA
- Unknown
- Source
- Official Discord pin
Affected guides: challenges/legacy - confirmed
Gardening & fishing
Gardening and fishing are listed together on the Steam page among the features to be added during Early Access. Full farming — crops at scale, livestock — has never been committed to.
- ETA
- During Early Access — date TBD
- Source
- Steam page (EA notes)
- confirmed
Cars, bikes, boats & houseboats
Vehicles for travel between districts. Officially listed on Steam among the features to be added during the Early Access phase.
- ETA
- During Early Access — date TBD
- Source
- Steam page (EA notes)
- confirmed
Town editing
Edit world lots, place new buildings, redesign the open world. Listed on the Steam page as 'tools to edit and create towns' for the Early Access phase — no ordering against pets or weather has been announced.
- ETA
- During Early Access — date TBD
- Source
- Steam page (EA notes)
- confirmed
Calendar & social events
A calendar plus organised parties and weddings, listed on the Steam page for the Early Access phase. Today you can only stage these manually.
- ETA
- During Early Access — date TBD
- Source
- Steam page (EA notes)
Affected guides: challenges/legacy - confirmed
Family tree
A proper family tree view, listed on the Steam page for the Early Access phase. Multi-generation challenges currently need a spreadsheet.
- ETA
- During Early Access — date TBD
- Source
- Steam page (EA notes)
Affected guides: challenges/legacy, challenges/100-baby
Ruled out by the studio
- ruled out
Multiplayer
Officially confirmed as NOT planned. Paralives is a single-player game. We're listing this here so the question stops getting asked.
- ETA
- Will not ship
- Source
- Steam FAQ
- ruled outHigh demand
Console versions (PS5 / Xbox)
Not in development. Steam lists Paralives for PC and Mac only, and the developer has described a console port as a cool idea to explore later if there is ever time and resources — not a plan.
- ETA
- No plans announced
Affected guides: fixes/system-requirements - ruled out
Mobile version
Ruled out. The developer has said a phone or tablet version is not happening at any point, so this is the one platform question with a permanent answer.
- ETA
- Will not ship
- Source
- Developer FAQ
Paralives seasons: confirmed for Early Access, no date
Seasons are not in the game yet — as of patch 0.1.9, Paralives has no weather and no season cycle. What exists is a promise on the record: the Steam store page lists "Weather and seasons" under "To be added during the Early Access phase", and the wiki's planned-features table files it in the same column, "Planned during Early Access Post-Launch".
One design note is on file from the studio's 2022 roadmap: "Seasons affect day/night cycle". How seasons will interact with everything else is mostly unconfirmed — the wiki's gardening page says season integration is only "under consideration". So the direct answer: yes, Paralives is getting seasons, promised for the Early Access phase with no date attached.
Paralives gardening: planned, not yet in the game
There is no gardening in Early Access today — no seeds, no watering, no gardening skill. The Steam page lists "Gardening and fishing" among the features to be added during the Early Access phase, and the wiki's planned-features table places Gardening in that same post-launch column, next to Swimming and Fishing.
The wiki's gardening-system page describes the plan: Paras will "pick up gardening as a hobby, by purchasing seeds in Build Mode and planting them on their own lot", with plants requiring "regular watering". Selling produce and cooking integration are floated as possibilities; a gardening skill and season integration are "under consideration". The first prototype came out of a 2023 Hackweek — carrots, eggplants, pumpkin and tomatoes — but was de-prioritized for the Early Access release.
Until it ships, gardens are still buildable: the garden ideas guide covers planting beds and outdoor styling with today's tools, and the greenhouse build needs nothing but Build Mode.