Does no one else get uncanny valley vibes with the characters? I remember there was so many complaints/ video game “journalism” articles about having that uncanny valley feeling back in 2010 and it never occurred to me until now with this game.

I tried the demo and the people just freaked me out, I have to say I don’t care for this realism.

Also the character creator got my gpu up to ~75 degrees Celsius which seems unoptimized (even with 60fps lock and DLSS).

I love how they are being done. Not creeped out at all. Is it all a bit too perfect, too artificial? Yes, but this is a game. In today's world I could use a bit of some things like that...a bit of escape from what is going on now.

The last part of this video was hilarious.

Who wants to bet that dog print texture will be on everything?

I am a bit creeped out by the realism. I think I've always found the unreal aspect of Sims comforting somehow. Also, the light in inZoi bothers me. It's all too stark. I don't think this will be a game for me, but I'm happy for those that are getting something new to play with.

*Edit: Watching the second LGR video on gameplay and getting a different feel than all the ads I've seen. It's looking more interesting, but I am still on the fence.

I am so excited about this game. I haven't purchased yet... but I'm pretty sure I'm going to. I love early access... it means there's a chance for big and small changes before actual launch.

I'm just thrilled that there is actual competition and that EA can't squash.

So as it stands, it seems the game is being developed with some lightly homophobic undertones unfortunately. This video covers the concerns overall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_sE_cRwDQg

To summarize:
1) Unlike sims, inzois have dedicated and fixed sexual orientations. This is neat, but every single pre-made and townie type inzoi is straight, with no way to change this. This means any gay inzoi you make is doomed to be single forever if you try to find them a partner through normal gameplay.
2) They use partner instead of husband/wife for same sex marriage
3) The devs have been cagey about it so far when asked.

Ideally these things will be fixed before release, but it is definitely a red flag to watch for.

Also, they don't allow you to have a baby out of wedlock to add to the social conservatism underpinning the game. No 100 baby challenge here, no long term unmarried partners having kids here. No having a kid and then getting married after. So many stories and real life families can't be played if that restriction stays.

Both of these are enough to at least turn me off what was otherwise a promising game. Shame.

One thing I have noticed is that the devs for this game seem to have a pattern of being cagey, and then changing their minds.

Wow! They aren't even hiding that they are ripping off the Sims. Couldn't they come up with their own unique ideas?

To be fair, the fruitcake thing came from a Xitter exchange, where EA sent Inzoi fruit-cake when they released their paid demo.
I don't visit X so I found that out from a reddit post.

It was a X (twitter) message I think, I found it on reddit too. EA sent a message directed at the Inzoi account offering cake, and the Inzoi team made a cake using the in-game tools to resemble the EA cake, as a way of saying 'I accept your cake, thank you and hello!'. So no-one ripping anyone off, this was just a demonstration of the Sims and Inzoi teams being nice to each other.

https://www.videogamer.com/news/dir...s-of-downloads/

Welcome to our world InZOI!

Although there's a chance that during early access the game will change tremendously and will look very differently than today, there's one thing that can prevent me from ever buying it, and that might be the city karma system.

All I know about it comes from reviews, posts and comments, so I may misunderstand how it works now, but I have an impression that InZoi is a very judgemental world. It labels the zois as bad guys and good guys, rewards what it considers good behavior and punishes (even with death, as some comments assume) bad behavior. It's not you, the player who make the judgement, it's the game (the Cat God), and it forces you to follow the moral command (scold the bad ones, and accept that only the good karma zois can win the lottery, for example). So if you choose to play a grey morale character, or a criminal, or a hot-headed bar brawler, the game starts to spam you with 'Behave, or else!' pop up messages.

This whole concept very much reminds me (funny as it is) of a Death Note/Light Yagami type world, where Kira rules and he judges who is worthy to live and worthy to die, based on his own personal standard of good and bad. He thinks this is a utopia because at last the good people can live safe and everone is happy, thanks to Kira. Apparently this is a dystopia because anything you do can make Kira furious and can kill you immediately. Light is blind to see that this is a dystopia, and also InZoi is blind to see that it is. (Again, I may misunderstand how the game karma works now.)

Now I know that it's my personal opinion only, but imho a life simulator shouldn't be judgemental. Firstly, because real life is not. We all know that IRL 'bad people' can also win the lottery, they can have successful life in every possible way. And secondly, because it destroys the roleplayer / storyteller type gameplay. You can't play many different personalities, if the game forces you to be a goody-goody person every day in every situation. It destroys replayability if all your characters do the same things because that's the way to be rewarded in the game.

I hope perhaps an InZoi player corrects me if I'm wrong about the concept. But if I'm right, and this is how city karma works, and it stays this way in the final game version as well, I don't think I will ever purchase this. Yagami Lighto-kun won't force his own moral judgement on me.

As an InZOI player I feel I have to answer.
Every night that bloody cat appears in my Zoi's dreams and warns her that karma is very bad. After my Zoi wakes up she is hungry and has to go to the bathroom and forgets all about her dreams, and so do I. She didn't win the lottery but otherwise, nothing bad happened to her. So far.
The game also tells me how to improve karma: not by doing good deeds but by spending 5000 (meows - ??? Which genius thought of that?) (In case you are interested in international banking: 1M is roughly equal to 1 Simoleon). This seems to me exactly the kind of advice Elon Musk might have given and the one I will certainly not follow; therefore I just ignore the whole thing.
On the other hand, my Zois don't go around murdering people or talking about cryptocurrency, so I am probably not the right kind of player to answer your question.

I have yet to see an Inzoi player who actually knows how this system works Everyone is super confused about it.

And I agree, I don't like the Karma System either, and from what I've seen, most people don't. I hope they either remove it or make it optional. They seem to be listening to feedback, so there's still hope.

That Karma system seems ridiculous so I would want that to be gone, or at least an option to shut it off.

https://youtu.be/IfIfVuNoJzw?feature=shared&t=1111

Krafton, you have some explaining to do. Why does this baby have a face of a 40-plus year old man?

Yikes!

I'm not a fan of the traits system. You pick one and you get a cascade of things? That doesn't create a lot of variety, doesn't it? Not sure about the karma system since I don't really understand its implications for game play.