Following its cancellation of Life by You, Paradox Interactive has introduced the closure of its developer, Paradox Tectonic. It was established in 2019 to work on the life sim title and comprised 24 staff.
Paradox CEO Fredrik Wester said, “That is troublesome and drastic information for our colleagues at Tectonic, who labored arduous on Life by You’s Early Entry launch. Sadly, with the cancellation of their sole mission, we now have to take the powerful determination to shut down the studio. We’re deeply grateful for his or her arduous work in attempting to take Paradox into a brand new style.”
Introduced in March 2023, Life by You would have been a competitor to EA’s The Sims, particularly with Rod Humble, former head of The Sims label, main improvement. Some noteworthy options included an open world with no loading screens with real-language conversations, Creator Instruments to make content material, direct management of people in third-person and way more.
It was slated to launch into early entry for PC in September 2023 however confronted a number of delays. On its most up-to-date, Paradox introduced an indefinite delay to take a “wider view” of the mission, which led to its current cancellation.
Although it might have supplied extra time to enhance the title, Paradox deputy CEO Mattias Lilja stated that “after we come to a degree the place we consider that extra time is not going to get us shut sufficient to a model we’d be happy with, then we consider it’s higher to cease.” Lilja acknowledged the title’s strengths and praised “the arduous work of a devoted crew that went into realizing them.”
