Paradox Delays The Sims Competitor Life by You Again — and This Time There’s No New Release Date

Paradox has delayed its The Sims-style game Life by You once again, but this time there is no new release date to go along with it.

Paradox announced Life By You in March 2023 as a new entry in the life sim genre from its Paradox Tectonic studio. At the time, an early access launch was planned for September, but the game was delayed to March 2024 to improve various elements.

Life by You was delayed a second time in February to June 4. Now, just two weeks before that planned launch, Paradox has delayed the game for a third time. In a statement, Mattias Lilja, deputy CEO of Paradox Interactive, said additional development time was needed and that it had held off announcing a new release date because when it does finally do so again, it wants to be sure it will hit it.

Here’s the statement in full:

After much consideration, we regret to announce that we have decided to retract Life by You’s Early Access release date, previously set for June 4th. This was not an easy decision, especially since we understand the anticipation and excitement that many players have for the game. However, we believe that additional development time is needed.

While we would have preferred to commit to a new release window, we believe it is more prudent to hold off while we plan ahead, rather than committing to a new date that we cannot be certain to meet.

We will provide more information as soon as possible, until then we want to sincerely thank you for your continued support and patience.

Paradox is having a tricky time following the disastrous launch of city builder Cities Skylines 2, which it is still working to sort out. Paradox has also delayed jail sim Prison Architect 2 a number of times, the latest to this September after the discovery of “unexpected issues occurring too often.” The Paradox-published Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has endured a troubled development, although a release date now looks in sight.

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