I got to playtest inZOI, a new ultra realistic life sim game

🚨 I will be livestreaming inZOI on Saturday, November 18th, at 7PM EST on twitch.tv/acottonsockk Feel free to ask your questions about my experience, available interactions in the game, or anything else as we play the game together

The game got the K-Pop trainee career quite right actually. As a trainee in the K-Pop industry, you're not really exposed to the public. Most companies don't publicly reveal their trainees (as most of them fail and only a few qualified trainees get to debut as artists). And these trainees' daily lives are kept secret.

Literally the best thing these new life sims can do is use the sims as a blueprint and make it 10x better

As someone who is obsessed with character creation and has spent countless hours in CAS, this character creation nearly looks like a dream. I'm amazed.

This is one year of development???? Dude this looks so polished. Imagine what a couple more years will bring!

these graphics are almost too good, i feel like my computer won't even be able to run this game unless theyve done some serious optimization EDIT: yall please give it up and stop telling me to get a better pc. games don't have to run on every rig but game studios have a huge financial incentive to optimize their games so the most people can access it. games with hyperrealistic graphics and lighting tend to run worse so it's logical to be concerned about optimization. it's been months and i still get notifications repeating shit ive already heard 😭 enough already

you just know the wicked whims folks are circling the wagon on this one

I can see how this can be dangerously addictive.

Seeing as the game is still in development, even all the flaws and drawbacks, the lack of naming for babies, no real reaction to death etc, they can all be changed and improved on if the developers listen to the feedback from the play testers. And i love that. We need developers that listen to what the players request.

This is how you do realism without uncanny or tacky look

i know a lot of people are not a fun of realism, but this game has SO MUCH potential it's actually crazy. Personally I really like realism, even in the job aspects, so I think I'd really enjoy this. It's also so important to support new life sims, especially to force other more famous ones cough the sims coughs to improve themselves as currently they're extremely lacking, and getting away with wayyyy too much.

The fact that you can control the schedules for family members not in the same household is absolutely incredible. I’m guessing this means that the zois you control don’t all have to live together (unlike sims)? If so, this will really change the game! So excited for this to be released 😆

I actually like that it took longer for the zois to die of hunger, since realistically, it takes quite a while! As long as they’re super uncomfortable for a while at low hunger, I don’t mind it. But I agree with your criticisms about the other features (except the kpop trainee career, the game actually has it accurate), it sucks that you can’t even name your kids… still, this game looks so beautiful and I like the small attention to details. I’ll definitely be getting it upon full release!

So this is what a GTA x The Sims game would look and feel like… and I LOVE IT!

It’s still in early development though so I’m still so excited by this. It looks beautiful and has lots of potential

You can survive a week without eating, a month if you can drink water. A Zoi surviving 24h seems pretty reasonable for a game mechanic

This game is absolutely beautiful. the fact they want honest feedback from you so they can improve on this is so great to hear

As much as I can tell this isn’t final product ready, I am blown away by how many things they nailed from the start from big to small details. How is this the first time I’m even hearing of this game?? It deserves so much recognition already! Edit to add: and while I look forward to see more of this game, I really hope employees behind this are being properly appreciated and not overworked 💜

It's been in development for a YEAR??! That's wild! It looks so good, I'm baffled. Is it like a huge studio?

The editing of clothes and furniture is a game-changer just like TS3's color wheel was back in the day. I can't wait to see more!