Create living worlds
Create your world, imagine the lives of its residents and bring their stories to life.
VirtualSociety is a creative life simulation game in development, where you will be able to build your world, guide its residents and discover their stories.
In development for PC and Mac. The game is also planned for iOS and Android.
VirtualSociety in videos
Build more than a place.
In VirtualSociety, a room can become a scene. A cafe can become a meeting place. A street can become a story. You create the world, decide who lives there, and set what can happen.
Build the place
Design rooms, homes, streets, cafes and tiny worlds exactly how you imagine them.
Create the residents
Create residents with outfits, styles and identities that fit your stories.
Set the story in motion
Add dialogues, choices, interactions and events that make your world react.
What you can create
VirtualSociety gives players accessible tools to create worlds that feel personal, expressive, and alive.
Build places
Design rooms, homes, streets, cafes, schools, villages, strange little worlds, or any place your story needs.
Create residents
Customize residents, outfits, body shapes, styles, and identities to populate your worlds with people who feel right for your stories.
Design interactions
Add dialogues, choices, object interactions, events, and simple story moments to make your world react.
Share your world
Play solo, create with friends, or invite others to explore, roleplay, and tell stories inside your world.
Create places where stories can happen
VirtualSociety is a life simulation game where you will be able to create residents, build their world and choose how to play: guide their daily lives, play as a character or let them follow their own path.
The mood stays gentle and welcoming, while the focus remains firmly on creative tools: building, customizing, designing interactions, sharing and playing stories together.
A long-running project turned indie studio
VirtualSociety started as Nico's personal project, then became VirtualSociety Online with Jimmy and an early player community.
Nico and Jimmy, who both hold PhDs in computer science, founded Cats & Foxes to develop VirtualSociety in 3D with an independent team.
Read our storyDevelopment updates
Follow the making of VirtualSociety, from tools and features to visual progress, behind-the-scenes decisions, and community updates.
Building tools
Residents
Interactions
Community
Behind the scenes
Help us build VirtualSociety
VirtualSociety is an ambitious indie sandbox game. Patreon helps us dedicate more time to development, share better devlogs, create more visual updates, and build the community around the game.
- Support development directly
- Get behind-the-scenes updates
- Vote on non-critical creative priorities
- Help us create better tools for players
- Become an early supporter of the project
Even wishlisting the game helps us a lot.
Questions
VirtualSociety is a creative sandbox game where players build places, create residents, design interactions, and share their own living worlds.
Yes. If you follow life-sim games and projects such as The Sims, Paralives, Life by You, or inZOI, VirtualSociety explores the genre through a creative sandbox where you build worlds, create their residents, design interactions, and shape the stories you want to play.
You can build rooms, homes, streets, cafes, schools, villages, public spaces, strange little worlds, and any place your story needs. The goal is not only to decorate a place, but to make it feel like something can happen there.
Yes. Resident customization is a major part of VirtualSociety. You can create residents with different styles, outfits, body shapes and identities to populate your worlds and stories.
Interactions are the things that make your world react, including dialogues, choices, events, object actions, story moments, and social situations. They help turn a static place into a living scene.
Yes. The game and its architecture have been designed with modding in mind from the start of development. Creator-facing tools are developed and expanded progressively as the project evolves.
Yes. You can build and explore on your own, use VirtualSociety as a personal creative space, or prepare worlds before sharing them.
Yes. Multiplayer is part of the vision. You will be able to create, visit, roleplay and share worlds with other players, depending on the available build and server options.
VirtualSociety is currently in development. Follow the devlog, wishlist the game on Steam, and support us on Patreon to follow progress and future testing opportunities.
The best way is to wishlist VirtualSociety on Steam and support development on Patreon. Sharing the game, following the devlog, and showing the project to creative players also helps a lot.
The same tools, beyond the game
The creation technology behind VirtualSociety is also used by Cats & Foxes in professional projects around education, accessibility, health and inclusion. This game site focuses on the creative sandbox. Professional use cases are presented separately.
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