inZoi Early Access on Steam coming March 28th

[Beebo Brink]

I've watched numerous videos of play through from creators who received early early access to inZoi, so I'm familiar with the general outlines of this simulation game. To my disappointment, my (brand new) computer meets minimum standards only, so I'm wary of trying it out. It strikes me as a game where "minimum" would be painful, and I'm not willing to gamble the cost of the game to find out for sure.

Realistic life simulator inZOI with high PC requirements. Devs prepared extensive explanations

I expected an uncanny valley effect, but the entire world is so realistic that the zois (aka sims) don't feel out of place. It's that very realism that I find both amazing and somewhat unappealing all at the same time. The gameplay is quite earnestly realistic, and completely lacking the kind of quirky, silly outlandishness that I find so endearing about sims. I'm impressed, yet it left me cold.

For me, this looks like Second Life without real people, just automatons. So somewhat creepy, like a Twilight Zone episode. This may be because I don't play other games at all, so I'm just not accustomed to realism at all. In that way, mine is probably a very minority reaction to the effects.

 

[Free]

Realistic life simulator inZOI with high PC requirements. Devs prepared extensive explanations

Interesting.

In the video at 10:15 or so into it, is she working on an IBM PC compatible computer? Barely a 286 I think. Irony...

 

[Noodles]

It looks neat, but I think your final note there may be accurate a bit because it kind of just looks like a "very pretty SIMS".

Which isn't a bad thing or anything.

 

[Beebo Brink]

A few more thoughts...

Watching a realistic sim zoi take a piss is kinda gross, like perv-peeking in real life. Then the light bulb went off -- silly me for taking so long to catch on. This entire game will go to porn so fast. It's guaranteed to be a success.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

To my disappointment, my (brand new) computer meets minimum standards only, so I'm wary of trying it out. It strikes me as a game where "minimum" would be painful, and I'm not willing to gamble the cost of the game to find out for sure.
Realistic life simulator inZOI with high PC requirements. Devs prepared extensive explanations

Damn those are high requirements. You'd think they'd realize that Sims players tend to not be using high end hardware.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Damn those are high requirements. You'd think they'd realize that Sims players tend to not be using high end hardware.

You're assuming that their target audience is Simmers, and I'm not sure that's the case. There's overlap, to be sure, but the realism of inZoi, not to mention the lack of any silliness, speaks to a very different sensibility. My guess would be their target audience is true gamers, who are accustomed to the realism in their action games, like Grand Theft Auto. Hard-core gamers are already going to have the rig to play inZoi.

The question is whether enough of those action gamers are interested in a life simulation game to make up for the Simmers who won't or can't make the leap over from The Sims 4.

As in Second Life, sex sells. If the Mod community can do the equivalent of Wicked Whims for inZoi, then I expect the game will do very well indeed. Instead of all those rando pervs coming into Second Life trying to get laid after a perfunctory "Hi" IM message, they can just log into inZoi. Although I suspect the zoi have higher standards for initiating a sexual encounter than do many real people in SL....