All signs pointed to 2025 being a banner year for Sims players. After decades with only one series to choose from for our dollhouse-core fantasies, two new competitors— Inzoi and Paralives —set launch dates for this year. Meanwhile The Sims 4 publicly buckled down on bug fixes for its DLC-crammed game.

But Inzoi didn't deliver the adrenaline shot I'd predicted and (still upcoming) Paralives has always been expected to be the smaller contender. Now, news about the future of The Sims series itself just keeps getting worse. The life sim revolution I'd predicted didn't turn up this year and now I'm worried it never will.

Eleven months ago I was optimistic. Even though we'd already gotten the bad news that there isn't going to be a Sims 5 , things were looking swell for the rest of the series

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