Family Life

Family Life gives every household real rules and real consequences. Parents set a curfew, hand out chores and allowance, check the homework and decide how strict they want to be. Kids obey, negotiate, beg, lie, cover for each other or sneak out the window. Everything happens through new conversations in the game's own menu, and a panel keeps track of the whole family.

Play as the parent or as the kid. The panel changes with the Zoi you control: the parent sees the rules, the chore chart and the decisions to make; the kid sees their chores, their curfew, their allowance and how much their parents trust them.

👪 Parenting styles

• Every parent has a style: Strict, Balanced, Chill, or Neglectful when they stop caring.
• It starts from their personality traits, then moves with what they do: every punishment, reward, yes and no pushes it one way or the other.
• Strict parents get more obedience, and more resentment. Chill parents get less obedience, and a better relationship.
• Parents can have a favorite child. The favorite gets away with more, and the others notice.
• Two parents with opposite styles argue. A kid who asks the other parent after a no might get caught playing them against each other.

🙋 Rebel or Obedient

• Every kid has a Rebel / Obedient gauge, shaped by their traits, their age and how they're treated.
• Good deeds (chores, homework, apologies, coming home when called) make them more obedient. Faults push them the other way.
• The more obedient, the better their chances when they ask for something.

🏠 House rules

Turn each rule on or off and set it up in the Rules tab:

• Curfew by age, later on nights without school.
• No school-night outings.
• Screen time limit: phone, computer, TV and video games count. Homework and errands don't.
• Homework first on school days.
• Bedtime (optional): kids still up past it go to bed, or get caught.

Breaking a rule is a fault. The parent decides: ground them, cut their allowance, ban screens, lecture, time-out for the little ones, or let it go. Kids you don't play break the rules on their own, depending on who they are.

🧹 Chores and allowance

• A weekly Chore Chart: dishes, cleaning, trash, laundry, gardening, cooking. The panel sees the chore being done in the game.
• Extra chores show up in the chart too, with the reason (a punishment, a deal, a sibling who covered for you…).
• Allowance paid every Sunday, plus a bonus for each chore done. Kids can ask for extra money, and what they spend in the game comes out of their allowance.

📚 School

• Parents set a goal for the week. Friday's Report Card compares it with the kid's real exam preparation.
• Help with Homework, Ask About School, Praise, Scold.
• With High School Life installed, kids tell their parents about their real day at school… or lie about it. The panel never tells you if they're lying.

🌙 Going out, sneaking out

• Ask to Go Out for tonight or any night of the week, to a party, a study group, the prom or just out with friends.
• Got a no? Ask again. A chill parent may give in. A strict one may lose patience and punish you for insisting.
• Go anyway and sneak out. Parents who are awake and at home may notice you're gone. A brother or sister can cover for you… for a price.
• Call a Kid Home: click on the parent and call a kid back. Will they come?
• Skip an event: a parent can keep a kid home from the prom or a party.

💘 Partners

• The panel knows who each kid is dating.
• Do You Want to Meet My Partner? The partner comes over, knocks, says hello and answers up to 3 questions from the parents. If you play the parent, you pick the questions. If you play the partner, you pick the answers. If you play the kid, you watch and hope.
• Parents can love them, accept them, or hate them. A strict parent may forbid dating, or give an ultimatum: break up within 3 days, or leave the house (kick-out is optional and off by default).
• Break Up for My Parents, Ask to Give My Partner a Chance, Can I Bring My Partner Home?
• Parents can talk to the partner too: Ask to Stay Away From My Child, Meet the Partner, Say You're Happy They're Part of the Family Now.
• Can I Host a House Party? If the parents agree, the kid's best friends come over.

🧸 Little ones

Children have their own conversations, made for their age:

• Ask for a Bedtime Story
• Ask if Santa Is Real, Ask if the Tooth Fairy Is Real: keep the magic alive, or tell the truth for good.
• Ask What Love Is
• Play the Tooth Fairy: when a kid loses a tooth, click on your own Zoi tonight and leave some money under the pillow. Forget, and they may stop believing.
• Time-Out instead of grounding.

👫 Siblings and couples

• Siblings fight, make peace, tattle and cover for each other. The parent settles fights: take a side, lecture both, or hug it out.
• Parents talk about the kids together: Discuss Parenting, Present a United Front, Talk About a Kid, Argue About the Kids.

📖 Family Log

Everything that happens is written down: missed curfews, chores skipped three days in a row, report cards, first meetings with the partner, the Tooth Fairy…

🏫 Works great with High School Life

Family Life works on its own. With High School Life installed:

• each kid's card shows their school identity, reputation and clique;
• what they did at school can come up at dinner;
• parents can forbid a friend group, and grounded teens can't go out with their clique.

⚙️ Good to know

• Every choice window pauses the game until you choose, then the game runs again at the speed it had.
• The panel follows the family of the Zoi you control. Switch to another family and it picks up that family's story.
• The minimize button turns the panel into a small round icon. Don't put the panel in "Hidden UI": it stops running there.
• The Settings tab has the kick-out option, a 12h/24h clock and cheats to set any parent's style or any kid's gauge.
• For translations, please check out the AshCodesTranslations mod.

📦 Installation

Install with the CurseForge app, or unzip the file into Documents/inZOI/Mods. Start the game: the new conversations are in the Family Life category of the conversation menu, and the panel opens on its own.

💬 Feedback and bugs

Come say hi on my **Discord: https://discord.gg/WT3A7cjFm**. Bug reports, ideas and screenshots are all welcome!

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