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What is inZOI? Krafton's Life Simulation Game Explained

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What is inZOI?

inZOI is a life simulation game from Krafton, the Korean studio behind PUBG, built in Unreal Engine 5. You play a Creator working as an intern at the fictional AR Company, looking after virtual people called Zois.

The thing that got everyone's attention first was the graphics. Zois look like photographs of people rather than stylised cartoons, and the cities are modelled on real places closely enough that Korean players recognise specific Gangnam street corners. But the reason people are still playing after a year of Early Access is what runs underneath: your Zoi has a job with an actual interview, a school timetable with Thursday tests, a phone with people's numbers in it, and a birthday that decides when they age.

What you actually do​

You pick a family, move them into a house, and run their lives from there.

Day to day that means food, sleep, work, school, and the endless business of talking Zois into relationships and back out of arguments. You build the house they live in, or download someone else's off Canvas. You send them on holiday to a resort island. You watch them get old.

There's also the option to open a cafe, commit fraud, get arrested, hire a lawyer, and lose in court anyway. Prom king is on the table. So is dying and carrying on as a ghost for three days.

Character creation​

Create a Zoi (CAZ) goes deep. Facial sculpting rather than preset faces, adjustable weight and muscle, hair with physics on it, and a makeup and tattoo system that people use to recreate real celebrities well enough to be recognisable.

Personality is four separate systems:

  • Traits. One per Zoi, from 18 options. Since June 2026 a trait can shift over time if a Zoi repeatedly acts against it.
  • Characteristics. Up to two per Zoi from 16, added in the October 2025 mentality rework. Bookworm, Slacker, Depressed, Workaholic, that sort of thing.
  • Values. 10 principles that drift based on what your Zoi actually does, rather than what you picked for them.
  • Preferences. Likes and dislikes that feed into mood and autonomous behaviour.

Desired Life sits on top as an optional life philosophy, and ambitions give you concrete goals to chase. Both are yours to choose now. Ambitions used to be assigned at random.

See Also: How to Create Your First Zoi Guide

The simulation​

(Daily life and social interaction are where most of your playtime goes)

These systems feed each other constantly. A Zoi who sleeps badly is in a foul mood, and a foul mood slows skill gain enough to cost them the promotion they were counting on to cover the mortgage. Miss enough payments and their friends start getting texts about the debt.

The world​

  • Dowon. Seoul, four seasons, K-pop agencies and temples.
  • Bliss Bay. Santa Monica, warm year-round, beaches and an amusement pier.
  • Cahaya. A Southeast Asian resort island, renamed from Kucingku in June 2025 and released free on August 20 as the Island Getaway DLC. Your Zois visit rather than move in.

The City Editor lets you change weather, plants, animals, and billboard images across a whole city, and adjust stability sliders that quietly govern how often your Zois fight, fall in love, or set the kitchen on fire. Getting around means driving cars, motorcycles, scooters, bicycles, boats, jet skis, or hovercrafts, and travelling between cities by shuttle or seaplane.

Build Mode​

(Build Mode handles everything from walls to wallpaper)

Walls, roofs, stairs, platforms, pools, elevators, apartments. Recolour anything, swap materials, apply your own patterns, or type a prompt and let AI Textures generate one, then hand a flat 2D image to the 3D Printer and get back a placeable object or a wearable accessory.

AI Build goes further. Tell it how many rooms you want, describe the house you're after, and it generates one. Running it needs an RTX 3000-series with 8 GB of VRAM or an RX 6000-series with 12 GB.

See Also: Building Your First Home Guide

The AI features​

Smart Zoi is optional and expensive to run. It makes Zois behave more independently and surfaces their Inner Thoughts. AI Emote builds custom poses from a reference image or video, and there's experimental facial and motion capture that maps your movements onto a Zoi.

On training data: In a statement published on May 13, 2025, the inZOI team detailed what these features were trained on. 20 million Creative Commons-licensed images for AI Textures, roughly 46,000 3D models for the 3D printer, and 1.7 million in-house motion samples for Video-to-Motion. Our summary: How inZOI's generative AI features were trained.

Mods and Canvas​

The official ModKit shipped on June 13, 2025 as a free Epic Games Store download. It covers outfits, furniture, hair and skin, architectural pieces, translations, animations, faces, and MetaHuman assets, with Maya and Blender plugins. Mods install through CurseForge from inside the game.

Script mods are still missing. They were pushed from December 2025 into 2026 when the team switched the scripting language from Blueprint to Lua, and they haven't landed yet.

Canvas is the sharing side: browse and download Zois, houses, rooms, furniture, and full style presets that other players have uploaded. You need a KRAFTON ID.

See Also: Does inZOI Support Mods? FAQ

Where it's up to​

  • Early Access, launched March 28, 2025. No date announced for 1.0.
  • $39.99 USD, varying by region. Every DLC released during Early Access has been free, Island Getaway included.
  • Windows PC via Steam, Mac on Apple Silicon since August 2025 (free if you already own the Windows version on Steam), plus Steam Deck and GeForce NOW.
  • PS5 is confirmed for 2026 with no date attached. Xbox is under consideration and has not been confirmed. See platforms and releases.

It's demanding hardware-wise, though less so than it was. A dedicated GPU with 6 GB of VRAM is still the official minimum, but Intel Iris Xe integrated graphics became supported in June 2026, and the move to Unreal Engine 5.6 in April brought a Performance Safeguard that dials settings back when it detects your machine struggling.

See Also: Platforms & Releases Overview, PC System Requirements FAQ

Where to go next​

Update history​

  • March 28, 2025. Early Access launched on Windows with Dowon and Bliss Bay.
  • June 13, 2025. v0.2.0 brought the ModKit, cheats, adoption, and flexible gender identity settings.
  • August 20, 2025. v0.3.0 added Mac support, Cahaya, City Trips, swimming, fishing, farming, mining, and loans.
  • October 30, 2025. v0.4.0 added playable ghosts and funerals, rebuilt personality around traits and characteristics, halved the day length, and removed Karma.
  • December 23, 2025. v0.5.0 added businesses, crime, trials, multitasking, and group interactions.
  • March 26, 2026. v0.7.0 added the calendar, birthdays, movie theatres, flower shops, Memories, and custom keybinds.
  • April 29, 2026. v0.8.0 rebuilt careers, added freelance work, and moved the game to Unreal Engine 5.6.
  • June 19, 2026. v0.9.0 added playable high school and support for Intel Iris Xe graphics.
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