🎥 WATCH THE PC GAMING SHOW ON SUNDAY + Preview Clothes Shop + New shorts for the PAM
Hey there, it’s Alex!
We have a few updates to share this week on various topics, but first, we have exciting info to share!
⭐ Paralives will be part of the PC Gaming Show on Sunday, June 8th, 2025, where we will reveal a brand new trailer for the game!
Be sure to tune in to the show to learn about many upcoming PC games, including Paralives: https://www.youtube.com/@pcgamer
Town Showcase: an Exclusive Preview of one of the Shops
Hello everyone! Léa here to bring you an exclusive preview of our clothes shop! Chloé already showed you some of the buildings she built in this post, and the building I’m revealing today is directly facing them, on the other side of the plaza!
All new building always starts with a moodboard and a sketch to give us a rough idea of our direction. I named this establishment “L’Armoire”, a French word that translates to “The Wardrobe”. I wanted the owner of the building to built a store vaguely inspired by French fashion stores in Paris, while still being located in the Old Town of our city and staying coherent with the rest of the Plaza.
The building is placed on a hill and the shop is on two levels with two entrances, one on the plaza, and the other on the street. The first floors have floor-to-ceiling window displays that allow you to see some of the clothes that are sold there. There is an apartment on the last floor and a terrace on the rooftop.
For now, it hasn’t been confirmed if this building will be a rabbit hole or not.
Just like Chloé did in her last post about the town, I had to blur a few buildings to keep some surprises for later!
The street side of the shop, with a view of the private balcony of the apartment upstairs.
PAM Showcase: a Variety of New Pants, Shorts, and a Skirt
Last week, I was on a mission: get the game ready for summer by adding as many jean shorts as possible! For good measure, I also added a cute little jean skirt. I also added two cargo pants, one baggy, one fitted. Having clothes easily found in everyone's wardrobes is still one of our big objectives with the PAM in order to help you recreate your everyday outfits!
Let’s take a closer look!
That’s it for today, I can’t wait to read your reactions to the new trailer coming up. Thank you for following along on this crazy journey!
See you on Sunday ♥️
Léa 🐶
Edit - August 14th, 2025: This post is now public, feel free to share it!
Comments (57)
I love that there are so much more options for men u like the Sims
Omggg I’m so excited I’ve been waiting for this game for five years 😭😭
I need somone to talk about the early access coming out! Omg im so excited!!!!
It's GORGEOUS! December 8 can't come soon enough!!!
The trailer waw beautiful!
December 8th, LET'S GOOOO!!!!!!
I just saw it! Oh my... I can't wait for 8 December
Idk you guys, this new reveal trailer already feels so EPIC and it hasn't even premiered yet! I'm so excited 😊
I'm really loving the look and progress of this game!
The paramaker items look great as always and I'm loving the town so far! Personally, I am totally happy with the shops being rabbit holes but I think it would be amazing if they did have gameplay value. Maybe you could use the shops to unlock clothes and hairstyles. I'm not sure how to clearly explain this 😅 but these are just some ideas of how it could possibly work Clothes: Obviously when you originally create your para you will have access to everything. However, when accessing the paramaker after that, maybe you initially only have access to the clothes your para is wearing. Their wardrobe is small. But you could increase their wardrobe by buying clothes at the shop. The purchased items would then always be permanently unlocked for that para, always available for your para when you open the paramaker. Hair: You could do something similar with hairstyles. Again, when originally creating your para you would have access to everything. But when accessing the paramaker after the initial creation, all paras will only ever have access to 5 hairstyles at any time, or 5 hair 'slots'. These 5 hairstyles could be chosen during the initial character creation. However you could use the hairdresser's to change WHICH 5 hairstyles are available in the paramaker. Sort of similar to how BG3 tackles spells. In BG3, your character might have 5 spell 'slots' but you can change which 5 spells you currently have equipped. So for example, maybe I chose hairstyles A, B, C, D and E when I created my character. During gameplay, I can use the paramaker to switch between these chosen hairstyles whenever I want. But if I maybe want to change things up for my para, I could go to the hairdresser's and maybe swap hairstyles A and B for hairstyles F and G. Now, I have a different set of 5 hairstyles that I can switch between when I want (hairstyles C, D, E, F and G). I think a system like this would incentivise players to go into town to use the shops without making the paramaker feel too limited during gameplay.
Si está súper buena la idea
The clothing shop is beautiful. I can't wait to go shopping with my Para.
I absolutely LOVE all your buildings in this game. Such wonderful detailed artistry and care. No to mention that this kind of architecture is among my personal favourites! In the dance picture every single Para seems to be dancing with their own unique style. Most games I see see (also outside life sim) when the game has characters doing the same thing, they usually end up synchronised, which isn't particularly realistic. How did you accomplish that? Is it individually done specially for this photo, or do you just have so much variety in your dance moves that you can set 7 Paras dancing at slightly different times and count on them all looking different in the snap shot? Does this mean if we, in game, set a lot of Paras dancing, they won't end up unrealistically in sych?
Thank you!! We have a few variants of the same animation so not all Paras play the same. Also, because they need to walk to their position before starting the animation. not all Paras get to their position at the same time so they don't start the animation at the same time either :)
I would love for us players to actually be able to go inside and shop for clothing instead of a rabbithole! 💕
Cannot wait for the trailer and cannot wait for release! I want to play so bad!!!
I just love how normal and basic (in a good way) all of the clothing is so far. It's so hard to find normal everyday clothes in sims. Thank you so much 🖤🖤🖤
I hope this isn't too much to ask but could we get alts for the big shop windows where they are exactly like in the reference images? Talking about the top glass tiles being changed into wood. I think having variations of these windows would be so nice to have! Maybe even ones that have no middle huge glass tile and be a passageway (like a doorway arch). I'd love to have some variations for those! Image what we could build with these?! They're so pretty! 😭😭
I'm so excited to see the new gameplay trailer this weekend! I hope we are also lucky enough to get a paramaker demo! :)
I love what we've seen for build mode so far, but a little critic is that when it comes to roofs and floors, they tend to end up looking a little thin. Like the side of the roof that's hanging look very thin. Is there anyway as a player I could extend the white borders there or thicken up the roof myself? Also I'm very excited for the showcase. Literally counting down the days!
Thanks for the good feedback, I totally see what you mean! We plan to improve roof tools during the Early Access to allow more customization like that, same for floor thickness
Thanks so much everyone for the kind words! See you on Sunday!!!
the short shorts are my absolute favourite, the para modelling them is gorgeous as well 🥰 am sooo excited for sunday!! and while i wish you'd kept the original creme and lavender colour palette, the shop building turned out great. now i'll simply have to build a pretty purple shop myself once we've got early access 🥳
Great I will now have something to look forward to on Sunday, can't wait.
what a delightful treat to look forward to come Sunday! The summertime-fine clothes look awesome and don't get me started on how gorgeous the town is shaping up to be, I'll cry 😭💞
This is turning into a real feeling moving into a new town. I really love love
Great work, and yay! yay! for the stream on Sunday!!! ✨️
I'm French and I love all the little references in town to France !
Beautiful building of L'Armoire! But I just can't with the Death Note's L font for the name 😆
Looks amazing :D Are you going to keep that bluish tint on the windows and doors rather than making them fully see through?
I imagine the purpose of that is to hide the fact that there’s nothing on the inside for most buildings, so for consistency they have it the same for L’Amoire. But maybe having more transparent windows for visitable lots would make it more obvious that your paras can go to them
SO EXCITED 😍 I'm following the journey of Paralives for several years now and it's amazing to see the progress you made. The game still looks so beautiful and you can tell how much passion everyone of the team puts into creating it. I really hope my laptop will run the game 🤩 And I'm also curious if the game manages to keep me playing for longer than a few days. I'm more into live mode and get quickly bored playing the game of the competition.. 😂
Love the shorts and the skirt! Can’t wait to see the new trailer, as well!
I am so excited! Can't wait to see what all has come together! Also careful now, your driving up a lot of hype for this.
Sundaaaaaay 🎉 I am sooooo excited.
And this Clothes Store ist sooo beautiful ❤️ Is it possible to live in the apartment/roof terrace at some point? I love every single detail of this post. Thanks guys.
I'm so excited for non-patreons to see what you've been cooking. Can't wait till Sunday!
this is all so exciting!!! i hope we get more extra baggy/skater pants and shorts too!! especially with alt detailing :DDDDDD cant wait for the new trailer!!
YAY, SO EXCITED FOR SUNDAY!!! Also I agree EVERYTHING MUST BE JEANS
That denim skirt is so cute! Sunday can't get here fast enough! I'm looking forward to the new trailer! Also I really love and appreciate that you all show different skin tones and body types in your posts. It may seem like nothing but it really shows that being inclusive does matter 💛
Oh, and obviously super excited by the new trailer, too!!!! 😂 See what you did now, Léa, with making the town post too amazing? I forgot to mention the trailer!! 😲
Perfection as always ❤️
Hope you will share highlights!
Sooo excited for the trailer!! Will it be possible to live in the apartment above the shop?
Sublots won't be there for the initial release but we plan to support that later on!
Ooohhh, such a great post!! I think town posts are my new favourite because everything just looks so amazing!!! 😍 Not to say the PAM stuff isn't great, just the town stuff manages to beat that high bar! I just love how tight together everything is on the rooftop patio - it looks so realistic! Have you had a chance to playtest the layout? What I mean is: is all the furniture accessible and usable the way it's currently placed? That would just be the cherry on top of a very amazing cake! And don't think I didn't notice that you have living quarters on top of a shop 😉 I know you're not aiming for mixed use lots for Early Access, but I have to admit it gives me a lot of hope you might try for it in the future 🤞 Either way, it gives so much life to the building!! Oh, and fitted cargo pants guy... when is he and Jason becoming official? 😉 Heck, throw in pink shirt jean shorts guy while we're at it!! 😁 Amazing work, as usual. Thank you so much for the post Léa!! ❤️ ️❤️ ❤️
Thank you Zahlea!!! There might be a chair not usable on the rooftop! We haven't tested it much because players won't be able to get there since the appartment won't be for sale because the shape uses that lot and we don't have sublots yet :)
Trailer!!!🥳🤩
So, release date on sunday. Got it.
Smaller release window at least? 🥺
Amazing!! I can't wait!
Can’t wait for Sunday! I also love how the plaza is coming together!! And the clothing is as usual amazing 😍
I'm gonna force all my friends to watch the show live with me! 😍
So excited to see the trailer!
Omg so excited ❤️
Can’t wait to see on Sunday!
I can’t wait to see the reveal!