Mattias Lilja

Swedish games firm Paradox Interactive has closed Tectonic, the studio that was working on sim title Life by You. 

Paradox Interactive has announced plans to close its Tectonic studio following the cancellation of Life by You.

Following its cancellation of Life by You, Paradox Interactive has announced the closure of its developer, Paradox Tectonic. It was established in 2019 to work on the life sim title and comprised 24 employees.

Paradox Interactive has officially canceled its Sims-like life simulation game, Life by You.

Swedish games firm Paradox has cancelled its long-in-development simulation title, Life by You. 

Life By You, the Sims-like management game previously troubled by several delays, has been canceled by Paradox Interactive, and Californian studio Paradox Tectonic have been shut down. The news of the game’s cancellation came last night through a forum post, with Paradox deputy CEO Mattias Lilja painting a picture of a game still too “lacking” for more development time to fix. This morning, it emerged that Paradox Tectonic, the studio working on the game, have been shuttered, via GameWatcher.

Paradox Interactive has cancelled its upcoming life sim Life By You.

Last month, Paradox Interactive announced that it was going to indefinitely delay its Sims competitor Life By You, and now the publisher has gone a step further by cancelling the project outright. Mattias Lilja, Deputy CEO of Paradox Interactive, released a statement as to why Life By You has been cancelled, with the key points being an uncertain development timeframe, a failure to meet expectations, and the game not delivering in important areas.

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.

Paradox Interactive has cancelled Sims rival Life By You, weeks after delaying the game indefinitely.

Paradox Interactive announced that its long-delayed The Sims-style life sim Life by You is officially canceled in a post on their website today.

was finally set to get some serious competition with , but the sudden cancelation of the upcoming game dashes all hopes for to offer its own engaging experience. Developed by Paradox Tectonic to be published by Paradox Interactive, promised a flexible take on the formula with extensive support for mods. series has been at the forefront of the life simulation genre for over two decades, and a competitor on the scale of was an attractive prospect.

Paradox Interactive has announced that it is cancelling Life by You, its upcoming life sim game, which was being billed as a competitor to EA’s The Sims. Mattias Lilja, deputy CEO of Paradox Interactive, announced the game’s cancellation with a message shared on the official Paradox forums. This follows an indefinitely delay for the game’s early access release on Steam, which was announced in May.

After multiple delays to its Early Access release, The Sims-like life simulation game Life by You has been canceled by publisher Paradox Interactive and developer Paradox Tectonic. It would have been available for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store.

Life By You, Paradox Interactive’s potential The Sims 4 competitor, has been canceled. Paradox Interactive deputy CEO Mattias Lilja announced the game’s cancellation in a post on the publisher’s forum. “Sadly, we’ve decided to cancel the release of our long-awaited life sim Life by You,” Lilja wrote. “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.”

Having already faced several delays ahead of a planned Early Access release, Paradox Interactive has now delayed their The Sims rival Life By You indefinitely.

, the robust simulator developed by Paradox Tectonic has had a rough development cycle and it seems the game's woes aren't over yet as it's just been delayed once again. Positioned as a major competitor to EA's, little is known about beyond the fact that it aimed to provide one of the most immersive life-simulator experiences on the market by offering unmatched customization and control over players' characters. That all sounds like a great deal of work, which may explain why publisher Paradox Interactive halted its imminent launch.

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.

The neighbourhood citizens of Life By You are positioning themselves as bright-eyed pretenders to The Sims. But in this ultimate game of keeping-up-with-the-Jones, the life sim from Paradox has slipped on a wet kitchen tile. The game has been delayed for a third time, and the developers are reluctant to set a new date for the planned release into early access. "[We] believe it is more prudent to hold off while we plan ahead," said Mattias Lilja of Paradox Interactive, "rather than committing to a new date that we cannot be certain to meet."

Life by You, an upcoming simulation game, has been hit with a third delay. This time, it has no new release date, despite its early access launch initially being scheduled for just two weeks from now.

Paradox Interactive’s The Sims competitor life sim Life by You was set to enter early access in a couple weeks’ time, though right ahead of the looming milestone, the company has announced that the game’s early access release has been delayed.

Publisher Paradox Interactive and developer Paradox Tectonic have delayed Life by You from its previously planned Early Access release date of June 4 to an unannounced date. This is the game’s third delay. It will be available for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store when it launches.

While Cities: Skylines 2 has made progress on the performance front, not everything about the troubled citybuilder is on the up. In fact, player reception to the recently released Beach Properties DLC has proven so un-sunny that both developers Colossal Order and publishers Paradox Interactive have issued a joint statement apologising for the state it launched in.

Less than a month after having released the Beach Properties DLC for Cities: Skylines 2, Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen and Paradox Interactive deputy CEO Mattias Lilja have taken to the game’s forums to offer an apology for the state of the game, as well as for the poor state of the DLC. The DLC, which at the time of writing currently sits with aggregated Steam user reviews of Overwhelmingly Negative, with only 4 percent of reviews being positive, is being turned into a free DLC and those who purchased it are being refunded.

Alongside offering a lengthy apology for the state of Cities: Skylines 2 as well as its recently-released Beach Properties DLC, CEO of developer Colossal Order, Mariina Hallikainen, and Paradox Interactive deputy CEO Mattias Lilja, have revealed that the console release of the city builder is being pushed back.

Cities: Skylines 2 developer Colossal Order has posted a clear apology over the current state of the game and is issuing refunds for the recently released Beach Properties DLC, which went down like a lead balloon with the community. The console release of the game has been further delayed as a consequence of a renewed focus on improving the base game on PC.

Cities: Skylines 2 is still having a very rough time, to the point where every player who bought the recent Beach Properties DLC will soon be offered compensation, and its devs are delaying the Bridges and Ports Expansion as well as the console release of the base game.

Cities Skylines 2 DLC is being refunded and added to the base game for free after being “rushed out” in an unsatisfactory state.

Months after release, Cities: Skylines 2developers Colossal Order and publisher Paradox Interactive have issued an apology over the poor state of the game and its recent DLC, Beach Properties, along with the lack of updates to address player concerns about performance and the lack of content.

The developer of PC city builder Cities Skylines 2 has offered refunds for the game’s latest DLC amid a backlash from players over the state of the game.