Life by You was Paradox Interactive’s attempt to challenge The Sims, but the embattled publisher has instead canceled the project.
The Sims has been a massive cash cow for EA, so it wasn’t super surprising when Paradox Interactive announced Life by You, their take on The Sims formula developed by a new team led by former Sims boss Rod Humble. Unfortunately, Life by You didn’t end up being the easy layup it seemed like it should be, as the game’s early access launch was delayed multiple times, and now Paradox has announced they’re outright canceling the game.
Here’s what Paradox deputy CEO Mattias Lilja had to say about Life by You being canned…
“Sadly, we’ve decided to cancel the release of our long-awaited life sim Life by You. This was an incredibly difficult call to make and is a clear failure on Paradox’s part to meet both our own and the community’s expectations. We realize this raises some large questions; here we hope to shed at least some light on why we opted to cancel, rather than delay as we communicated earlier. Life by You has been in the works for a long time and we’ve been very excited about the promise and the potential of this game. Our hope was always that it would be able to leave a mark in this exciting and new genre for us.
