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Paralives Guide
Paralives Cheats List and Console Commands
Tips and Things to Do First
Paramaker and Character Creation Guide - How to Make Parafolk
Requests and How to Complete
How to Move Households
Secret Passage Puzzle Guide - Location, Solution and Reward
Paralives Roadmap
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Paralives Guide

By Meg Koepp, Miranda Sanchez, Jen Rothery, +3 more
Updated: May 27, 2026 2:51pm UTC

ReleasedPlatforms
May 25, 2026 Macintosh, PC
DeveloperPublisher
Alex Massé and team Paralives Studios

Paralives is an doll house life simulation indie game for PC and Mac. Build your dream house, create some characters and manage their lives the way you want inside their homes and all around an open world town!

Paralives Wiki and Guide

IGN's Paralives wiki is here to help with any burning questions you may have about the life simulation game, whether you want to know about the Paramaker, collectibles, hidden secrets, cheat codes, and more.

If you're just starting out in Paralives, check out these guides:

  • Tips and Things to Do First
  • Paramaker and Character Creation Guide - How to Make Parafolk
  • Paralives Roadmap

Paralives Cheat Codes and Secrets

Just like The Sims, Paralives has cheat codes to help make day-to-day life easier - whether you want to level up your Para's Skills quickly or just enter the Paramaker again, you can use console commands to do so.

Head to our Paralives Cheats List and Console Commands guide for the full list of Paralives cheats, plus a tutorial on how to open the cheats menu!

Alongside cheat codes, did you know Paralives has secrets? One such hidden easter egg is the castle's hidden treasure, and you need to solve a puzzle to claim it for yourself.

Our Secret Passage Puzzle Guide - Location, Solution and Reward guide has the full walkthrough.

Paralives Skills

There are currently 19 different Skills for your Para to learn, including seven Knowledge Skills and 12 regular Skills. Visit our Skills Guide to learn more.

We also have individual Skills pages, where we go into more detail about how to level up each Skill:

  • Food Knowledge Skill
    • Cooking Skill Guide
  • Music Knowledge Skill
  • Fitness Knowledge Skill
  • Technology Knowledge Skill
  • Art Knowledge Skill
  • Repair Knowledge Skill
  • Science Knowledge Skill

Paralives Requests

As you explore the town in Paralives, you'll notice some Paras have exclamation marks over their head - this means they have a request for you. There are also bulletin boards where you can pick up requests.

Visit our Requests guide to learn more about requests in Paralives, including a list of requests and how to complete them.

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Paralives
ParalivesAlex Massé and team
Initial Release: May 25, 2026
MacintoshPC
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