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Paralives

Alex Massé and team · Paralives Studio · 2026-05-25

Steam

SimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 25, 2026 (Mac), May 25, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Paralives is a life simulation game about building homes, lives and bonds. Through both hardship and success, where will your story take you?

Paralives is a Simulation and Early Access game released in 2026, priced at $31.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (90% of 20,486 reviews).

90%
positive of 21k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
68/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
269
Nexus mods (280k downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$31.99
steam price (US)
Paralives is a life simulation game developed and published by Paralives Studio for Windows and macOS. The game features character creation, house building, and life simulation gameplay set within an open world environment. It was released in early access on May 25, 2026.

Trailer

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Paralives - Launch Trailer

≈223,487 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 3,502 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~438/week).
  • · Review velocity down 78% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (11,166 reviews).
  • · Top 2% of 16,568 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 425k–957k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 21,258 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $31.99 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 2 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
10k10k20262026Week of 2026-05-25: 10,004 positiveWeek of 2026-05-25: 1,162 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3,060 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 255 negativeWeek of 2026-06-08: 1,312 positiveWeek of 2026-06-08: 131 negativeWeek of 2026-06-15: 676 positiveWeek of 2026-06-15: 89 negativeWeek of 2026-06-22: 450 positiveWeek of 2026-06-22: 63 negativeWeek of 2026-06-29: 531 positiveWeek of 2026-06-29: 86 negativeWeek of 2026-07-06: 441 positiveWeek of 2026-07-06: 70 negativeWeek of 2026-07-13: 322 positiveWeek of 2026-07-13: 61 negativeWeek of 2026-07-20: 254 positiveWeek of 2026-07-20: 25 negativeWeek of 2026-07-27: 203 positiveWeek of 2026-07-27: 25 negativeWeek of 2026-08-03: 174 positiveWeek of 2026-08-03: 32 negativeWeek of 2026-08-10: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-08-10: 6 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.99$31.992026-05-252026-08-132026-05-25 — best price $35.992026-06-01 — best price $39.992026-06-25 — best price $31.992026-07-09 — best price $39.992026-08-06 — best price $31.992026-08-13 — best price $39.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

5.8k1162026-05-28 — 5,787 pageviews2026-06-01 — 3,000 pageviews2026-06-05 — 1,653 pageviews2026-06-09 — 1,035 pageviews2026-06-13 — 872 pageviews2026-06-17 — 640 pageviews2026-06-21 — 538 pageviews2026-06-25 — 567 pageviews2026-06-29 — 654 pageviews2026-07-03 — 438 pageviews2026-07-07 — 346 pageviews2026-07-11 — 409 pageviews2026-07-15 — 249 pageviews2026-07-19 — 249 pageviews2026-07-23 — 219 pageviews2026-07-27 — 225 pageviews2026-07-31 — 198 pageviews2026-08-04 — 187 pageviews2026-08-08 — 284 pageviews2026-08-12 — 238 pageviews2026-08-16 — 234 pageviews2026-08-20 — 215 pageviews2026-08-24 — 201 pageviews2026-08-28 — 191 pageviews2026-09-01 — 154 pageviews2026-09-05 — 181 pageviews2026-09-09 — 164 pageviews2026-09-13 — 203 pageviews2026-09-17 — 125 pageviews2026-09-21 — 125 pageviews2026-09-25 — 116 pageviews2026-09-29 — 120 pageviews2026-10-03 — 260 pageviews2026-10-06 — 151 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam WorkshopAdjustable Text SizeCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultyMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeStereo Sound

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Simplified Chinese

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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