The ultrarealistic game from Krafton (the same studio behind the megapopular battle royale game PUBG) first made headlines last year when it released its custom character demo. I’ll be the first one to say: the features looked impressive. A little too realistic for my taste, but I admired the level of detail and finetuning. After the demo dropped, former Simmers took to Reddit and TikTok to declare 2025 as the end of The Sims era. I took these claims with a grain of salt, and I’m glad I did. As someone who’s played over 10 hours of early access, I have to be frank. inZOI is great — and has a lot of impressive features that outdo The Sims — but it is not the Hail Mary many gamers believe it to be.