Paralives Has Thousands of Player-Made Content Options Already Available on Steam

Paralives has finally been released into Early Access, and it's already proving that it can challenge The Sims 4 even in its unfinished state. Of course, a life sim needs a strong community if it wants longevity in the genre, as it's the community that creates challenges and mods that keep the game interesting between official updates.

Luckily, Paralives is already receiving a ton of love from fans of life simulators, myself included. It's still in an early build, and you can feel that it's far from being finished when you play it, but the potential is there, especially if you're like me and nostalgic for older versions of the Sims like The Sims 2. Despite the early build, the Paralives player community has absolutely stepped up and flooded the Steam Workshop with custom content that anybody can add to their game.

How to Find and Add Player-Made Paralives Content

If you look at Paralives in your Steam Library, there's a set of options under the banner image and "Play" button. Under the date you last played the game, you'll find "Workshop." Going to the workshop lets you see the thousands of pieces of custom content that are available to add to your game, which are currently separated into Modpacks, Households, and Houses.

When you look at a piece of custom content, you'll see a green and white plus sign button show up, which lets you subscribe to the custom content and add it to your game. The subscription part essentially lets you know when that content is updated by its creator, which is useful when you're playing an Early Access game that's likely going to get updates that break the custom content in its current state.

The Abundance of Content Available for Paralives

As of writing this, there are 1,561 items in the Modpack category, 8,325 items in Households, and 2,711 in Houses. These numbers have been increasing at a steady rate over the past few days, as I've been checking in to see Considering Paralives has only been available for about a week, these numbers mean that it's averaging over 1,000 pieces of player-made content being added each day.

To explain the categories:

• Households are families that are already made and ready to add to your game.
• Houses are pre-constructed houses that you can place on lots for your Paras to live in.
• Modpacks cover the content that adds everything else from items to new functions.

Depending on what you want to add to your game, you may need to find Modpacks that other pieces of player-made content rely on for their creation, especially for households and houses, so you always need to read the descriptions in order to make the content work properly.

The Modpacks, in particular, do a lot of work. They give you new hairstyles, character creation options, additional jobs, clothing options, and even overhauls for Paras' needs. I honestly can't believe the amount of content players have already made and shared, and it's good quality, too. If you haven't taken the time to browse the Steam Workshop, or didn't know that it existed, then you definitely need to check out what the community is creating for Paralives, and I'm sure that the choices will continue expanding as more content is created by both players and the devs.