Paralives townies: the people of Melino

The townies in Paralives are the premade households that live in Melino, the town of the game. You do not control them, but you can meet them, make friends with them, and switch to their household.

A “Para” or “Parafolk” is a character in Paralives. A townie is a Para outside your active household. The Steam page says that the game has Townies to meet. Paralives entered Early Access on Steam on May 25, 2026, so the list of townies can change in a patch.

How many townies are there?

The sources do not agree on the number. The fan wiki wikily.gg lists 49 premade households with 106 characters. It puts 41 households in the town and 8 in the household library as templates. Sims Community profiles 25 households. The Sims Tree describes 12.

Most townies have no written story yet. The Sims Tree says: “At the time of early access release, most local Parafolk do not have detailed biographies.” wikily.gg names 10 “lore families” with official biographies: Marquez, Barnes, Preston-Beaumont, Wolf, Gervais, Nasser, Stark, Strong, O’Reilly and Reed. The official wiki says the game also has non-lore Parafolk that are based on Patrons, the supporters of the studio on Patreon.

Some households of Melino

This table uses The Sims Tree (May 28, 2026) and Sims Community (May 25, 2026). The two guides spell some names in different ways, for example Noah and Noa Pelletier.

For the jobs that these townies have, read Paralives jobs or the full Paralives jobs list.

Melino is the open-world town of Paralives and the first world of the Early Access game. The official wiki says Melino will have about 50 to 70 lots, some public and some for homes.

The wiki splits Melino into four districts:

• Old Town. Stone townhouses and a small castle. The wiki says Old Quebec gave the idea for this district.
• Industrial. Old factories and brick houses. Some are empty, and some are now lofts.
• Mountain. Hiking trails on the hills. A large chasm separates the mountain from the town centre.
• Countryside. Large lots with a lot of space to build.

Patch 0.1.7 gave Melino street names and addresses. The wiki gives Castle Alley and Mountain Scarf Drive as examples. Some townies also have a public role. The wiki names Mayor Gloomberg, from an article in the in-game newspaper.

The Steam page lists “Tools to edit and create towns” as a plan for Early Access. Melino is the first town of the game. To change its houses, read Paralives build mode.

“Something happened in town” is an alert that an event happened somewhere in Melino. It is not a bug, and your own home lot usually does not change.

Nerd’s Chalk says the alert “usually means a town event, environmental change, or vandalism incident has occurred somewhere in Melino.” The alert can come while your Paras sleep, because the town runs on its own schedule.

What causes the alert?

• A meteor. Nerd’s Chalk calls this the most common cause. The newspaper of the next day tells you where the meteor fell.
• Vandalism. Players found broken benches, a destroyed bus stop, tags on roads and broken vending machines. The official wiki lists a road with the tag “CHEATER !”.
• Other changes in the town. Nerd’s Chalk does not give a full list.

What do you do when you see it?

1. Do not reload your save. Nothing is wrong with it.
2. Buy a newspaper and look for the meteor or the vandalism report.
3. Open the map and find the public lots that you did not visit recently.
4. Send your Para for a walk in Old Town, the parks and the plazas.
5. Look for new objects, crowds or damaged items, and click them.

Some damaged items still work. The Sims Tree says a broken vending machine can give free food. Nerd’s Chalk says you can also repair it.

Paralives has four weekly town events: yoga, the astronomy club, the Sunday market and the treasure hunt. The in-game newspaper tells you about most of them.

The studio added “a few activities to do around town as well as newspaper articles to announce them” in January 2026. The guides give no start or end times for the events.

The table uses The Sims Tree (June 23, 2026) and Sims Community (April 6, 2026). Sims Community quotes Chloe, a Paralives developer, on the market and the chests. The market stalls change every week. The Sims Tree says the chests show as patches of dug earth.

How do you get the newspaper?

The newspaper is called The New Paper, the official wiki says. The Sims Tree says your Para can buy one each day from a vending machine on the street. The cheat generatenewspaper also makes one. The paper gives the yoga and astronomy days, the market, meteor falls and vandalism reports.

For the cheat console, read Paralives cheats or the full list of commands.

The Steam page lists “Calendar and organizing social events (parties, weddings)” as a plan for Early Access. You cannot plan your own party yet. For the dates, read the Paralives roadmap.

Townies do not age by default, and full story progression for townies is not in the game yet. Townies do walk around the town, visit shops and have jobs.

Aging

Allthings.how says the setting “Non-Household Paras Age” is off by default. When you turn it on, “NPCs around town age alongside your household.” Follow these steps:

1. Press Esc, or click the three dots in the top right corner.
2. Select Storyteller, then Customize Storyteller.
3. Find the Time section.
4. Turn on Non-Household Paras Age. It is below Household Paras Age.

The Storyteller is the set of rules for your save, such as the speed of life stages. Patch 0.1.7 changed the average lifespan from 98 days to 112 days.

Story progression

The Development page and the Steam page both list “Story progression for NPCs” as a plan for Early Access. So it is not in the game yet. We found no source that says when it comes.

What townies do now

• The studio “Improved Townie autonomy to make them visit shops and public lots more often.”
• The guides list a job and a workplace for most adult townies.
• Patch 0.1.8 says a household leaves its home after all of its Paras die.
• Patch 0.1.7 added an option to show townies on the town map in real time.

For how the Parafolk choose what to do, read Does Paralives use AI?

Yes. You can switch to the household of a townie and play it. The guides also describe ways to edit and delete a townie with the cheat console.

Play a townie household

Sims Community (May 24, 2026) gives these steps:

1. Zoom out to the town map.
2. Click the home lot of the household.
3. Select the option to swap to that household.
4. Wait for the short loading screen.

wikily.gg says you can also move into a premade household when you start a new game. The 8 template households in the library go on any empty lot.

Edit a townie

Gamesfuze says the cheat editcharacter opens the character editor, called Paramaker. That guide does not talk about townies. Swap to the household of the townie first, then use the cheat. We did not test this in the game. For the editor, read the Paralives character creator.

Remove a townie

Nerd’s Chalk (June 2, 2026) gives these steps:

1. Make a backup of your save.
2. Open the cheat console with Ctrl + Shift + C or Ctrl + F1.
3. Click the small arrow next to the commands and select Parafolk Profiler.
4. Search for the townie by name, or use the filters.
5. Click Find to move the camera to the townie, if you are not sure.
6. Open the three-dot menu on the profile and select Delete Character.

The deletion is permanent. Nerd’s Chalk says the game can also remove or change the relationships and jobs of that townie.

You meet townies when you go to the public lots of Melino and talk to them. Townie requests are the fastest way to make friends.

Paralives uses Together Cards for talk. A Together Card is one social action that you play when two or more Paras spend time together. A better relationship opens new cards. At friendship level 3, patch 0.1.7 lets your Para ask a friend to move in.

What are townie requests?

A townie request is a small task from a townie, such as to bring an item or to talk to someone. You find requests on the town bulletin boards and on townies with a yellow exclamation mark. XboxPlay names two boards: one at the Townhall and Library, and one at Rail Plaza. The boards change every morning.

1. Click the board or the townie to open the request.
2. Read the task and the reward, then accept it. It goes to your Goals panel.
3. Do the task. Put any items in the inventory of your Para.
4. In the Goals panel, hover over the task and click Find Parafolk.
5. Select Talk To and play a few green Together Cards.
6. Play the red Together Card for the request to get the reward.

wikily.gg lists 29 requests. It says most pay $100 and give +1 friend level with the townie. The guides do not agree on the limit. wikily.gg says 3 requests a day, and XboxPlay says it found no limit. Patch 0.1.3 says a request fails if the townie dies.

What comes next

The October 2026 development update says “Townies will sometimes prompt you through Together Cards.” It also says the studio “will enhance the rewards for completing townie requests.” Both are for the first Major Update. The studio first announced that update for the end of 2026. Now it says that it needs “a little more time.” For the changes so far, read the Paralives patch notes.

LifeSim, our game, is for players who want the people of the town to feel alive. LifeSim is not affiliated with Paralives Studio.

In LifeSim, you live one life, a day at a time, in a real city that you pick on a 3D map of Earth. The people of your city live their own days. They talk back in their own words, remember what you said and tell their friends. You type what you say. There is no list of cards. LifeSim is free, with no ads and nothing to buy. It plays in any browser at play.lifesim.com, and there is an iPhone app.

LifeSim does not fit every player who likes Paralives:

• LifeSim has no build mode. You cannot design houses as in Paralives.
• You do not control a household of many people. You live one life.
• LifeSim is slow. You live a day at a time, not a full life in one evening.

Read how LifeSim plays, or see other games like Paralives. For the basics of Paralives, read what Paralives is.

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• Paralives on Steam
• Paralives: Development page
• Paralives: Patch Notes 0.1.3
• Paralives: Patch Notes 0.1.7 Quality of Life
• Paralives: Patch Notes 0.1.8
• Paralives: Development Update, October 2026
• Paralives Wiki (wiki.gg): Melino
• The Sims Tree: Paralives townies, every household in Melino
• The Sims Tree: Paralives town events guide
• Nerd’s Chalk: Paralives Something happened in town explained
• Nerd’s Chalk: Paralives NPC deletion guide
• Sims Community: Meet the Paralives residents
• Sims Community: A first look at Paralives town events
• Sims Community: Managing households and lots in Paralives
• wikily.gg: Paralives households
• wikily.gg: Paralives requests
• XboxPlay: How to turn in requests in Paralives
• Allthings.how: How to turn off aging in Paralives
• Gamesfuze: Paralives, how to edit existing Parafolks