LIVORA

I was really excited for this, but right now I don't think it's playable. Its gameplay consists of 2 elements - the UI and the writing, and both are... broken. I don't know what resolution/display this is designed for but on my PC at 1080x1920 UI elements overlapped one another, some messages were unreadable. The writing reads like it has been machine translated from another language, it really doesn't make sense a lot of the time.

This breaks my heart to write this review, but after reading the new player guide, the quickstart guide and trying to start a new life, I am overwhelmed. I like the concept a lot. I like the idea of having to manage different stats for your character. The problem is that there isn't really any guidance when you begin a game. I would really like a guided tutorial of sorts, a guided loop so that we can actually use the UI while it's being explained to us, what it means, etc. I'm also disappointed in that you can't start your own life from birth. People's lives are often shaped by their childhood and plays a defining role in how one navigates their adulthood. That's not a game breaker for me though; just a preference. As if right now, I have to give it a thumbs down. I hope the developers can make it easier to learn how to play the game. While the guides do explain the UI, I would like actual guidance before playing the game for real, not just something to read. Hopefully with improvements, this will be fixed! I'll keep an eye on this game, and hopefully I will change this into a thumbs up in the future.

I went into LIVORA expecting a fairly straightforward life sim, but it ended up being one of those games that completely pulled me in. What initially seemed quite simple quickly became a surprisingly deep balancing act, and I found myself thinking far more carefully about my decisions than I expected. A lot of the game revolves around keeping track of money, bills, work, health, relationships and everything else happening in your life, then deciding what deserves your attention before another problem develops somewhere else. Individual choices can seem small at first, but LIVORA is very good at making those decisions connect. I would concentrate too heavily on one part of my life, only to realise that something else had slowly started falling apart in the background. That is probably what I enjoy most about it. There is constantly something competing for your attention. Money, housing, stress, family, work, health and your longer-term plans all matter, and you cannot always deal with everything at once. It makes even ordinary decisions feel meaningful because you are often thinking about what they might lead to later. It is not a fast-paced game, and I actually think that works …

LIVORA is one of the more interesting life simulation games I’ve come across because the concept feels quite different from most others in the genre. From my first impressions, I really like how many aspects of life are brought together. You’ve got careers, finances, education, relationships, housing, businesses, vehicles, pets and plenty of other systems to explore, which gives the game a lot of depth. I also really like the way LIVORA focuses on choices and how different parts of your life can influence each other, rather than everything feeling like a collection of separate mini-games. Another big positive is how active the developer is. The game is constantly receiving updates, fixes, improvements and new features, and it’s great to see the developer regularly listening to feedback and continuing to build on the game. LIVORA already feels like a really interesting take on the life simulation genre, and I’m looking forward to seeing everything else it has to offer.

>LIVORA is definitely a [b]complex life simulator[/b] (I really like the genre!) in which you have to read the events, pay attention to money/bills, work, relationships and health, try to choose the options that won't cause nasty problems later. The decisions seem simple at first, but over time you begin to see how everything is connected and shapes the course of your life. If you like Life Sims, it's worth paying and playing it. I'm enjoying every minute of it, it's a comfortable paced game that runs smoothly on my Windows 10 Home desktop and the developers seem to constantly developing and improving it. Now days, when most newer games seem so cheap, unassuming, and downright primitive, this is a hopeful glimmer in the right direction. As the publisher/developer of the game is based in the UK, that explains the excessively Woke frames and images.

I was so glad to see that the new update improved interface and was about to give thumbs up but after testing it I can't do so yet. Though it's reassuring that the developer continues to develop the game and maybe it will become better. 1) Today section now shows how many messages I have. I saw it any way, it's easy to find. What I want is my appointments and social events there with one click to get to them. Now I have a job interview. I need to go to Calendar, click to see the day, scroll through a dozen entries that I can do nothing about (like it's New year, but I've already made my choice in the corresponding event. a deadline for a bill that I've already paid in advance, weather, and such), click the entry and get to Career, click the tab Interviews and only then I can click the interview. It's too many clicks every game day. 2) something like Life journal that keeps strange entries like A decision waits too long. What decision? It doesn't tell me but wants me to promise to make that decision soon or something. I can't promise, I don't know what we are talking about. Or it tells me to make a follow-up for a job application. I didn't receive any answer yet, I don't even have …