The inZOI team has shared an extensive update outlining their long-term vision for the game. This update focuses on two major pillars that will guide development throughout 2026: “Fundamentals First” and the 2026 Roadmap.

The goal is clear: before endlessly adding new systems, the developers want to strengthen, polish, and refine the core gameplay experience based on community feedback.

A New Direction: “Fundamentals First”

As development moves into 2026—especially in the second half of the year—the team plans to dedicate more resources to improving existing systems rather than expanding content endlessly. This approach aims to fix long-standing frustrations and improve realism, immersion, and player control.

The roadmap becomes intentionally lighter later in the year to allow deeper focus on quality, stability, and usability.

Core Gameplay Improvements (Fundamentals First)

🧍 Zoi Behavior & Autonomy

  • Smarter conversations and movement (side-by-side walking, better positioning)

  • Fewer interrupted actions and canceled interactions

  • Improved hunger, seating, multitasking, and idle behavior

  • Better group logic and more natural social interactions

  • Adjustable autonomy rules for flirting, cheating, and routines

  • More meaningful traits, ambitions, and personality-driven reactions

❤️ Family & Relationships

  • Expanded family trees including non-blood relations

  • Deeper romance and breakup systems with multiple outcomes

  • Divorce trials, custody disputes, and lawsuits

  • Baby showers, gender reveal events, and multi-birth pregnancies

  • More emotional reactions to grief, cheating, and relationship changes

  • Family photo shoots and family-level Canvas sharing

🖥️ UI, UX & Tools

  • Fully customizable HUD with save/load options

  • Improved interaction visibility during multitasking

  • Better map, travel, and schedule displays

  • Cleaner UI layout with less screen clutter

  • Advanced search, filters, and favorites in menus and Canvas

  • Expanded Photo Mode and mod/property filtering tools

🛍️ Economy, Jobs & Shopping

  • Realistic shopping flows (checkout, scanning, ownership)

  • Expanded retail systems, food trucks, delivery jobs, and services

  • New careers including musicians, couriers, taxi drivers, and writers

  • Improved loans, inventory management, and early-game balance

  • Full restaurant workflows and publishing systems

🚗 Transportation & Travel

  • Family parking zones and home garages

  • Multi-Zoi vehicle boarding and new vehicle types

  • Bicycles, public transport, airports, and subway systems

  • Emergency services like ambulances and fire trucks

  • Fuel, maintenance, and realistic travel behaviors

🎭 Animation, Presentation & World Systems

  • Improved animations tied to skill progression

  • Personality-based walking styles and new dances

  • Better environmental realism (weather, lighting, seasons)

  • Expanded world reactions such as news systems and karma effects

  • Seasonal locations and atmosphere updates

🎨 CAZ (Character Creation & Customization)

  • More body sliders, presets, and advanced facial controls

  • Infant, toddler, child, and senior customization expansions

  • New hairstyles, outfits, accessories, tattoos, and piercings

  • AI-assisted face generation and improved clothing systems

  • Expanded cultural, seasonal, and event-based outfits

🏗️ Build Mode & Systems

  • Group object movement and drag-based selection

  • Advanced building cheats and AI-assisted building

  • Terrain editing, basements, and modular walls

  • Child-friendly objects, play equipment, and safety items

  • Expanded system progression, healthcare, sports, and naming tools

Crime, School & Social Systems

  • Expanded crime, arrest, trial, and prison systems

  • Security systems for homes and vehicles

  • School events, discipline systems, and backpacks for students

  • Richer social dialogue tied to personality and traits

2026 Roadmap Overview

inZOI 2026 Roadmap

📅 Q1 Highlights

  • Expanded job systems and police careers

  • Reputation, rivalry, memory, and fate systems

  • High school campuses and farming expansions

  • Major engine and performance upgrades

📅 Q2 Highlights

  • Freelance and elderly-focused careers

  • Prison facilities and K-pop content

  • Superstar events and performance systems

📅 Q3 Highlights

  • Part-time jobs for teens

  • Diary and event memory systems

  • Curved walls and value systems

📅 Q4 Highlights

  • Terrain editing foundations

  • Advanced interior and exterior building systems

  • Continued balance and system refinements

Community Feedback Comes First

The developers emphasize that not every listed feature is guaranteed to arrive in 2026. Priorities may change based on technical limits and player feedback. Some improvements have already entered development, focusing on the most urgent issues raised by the community.

The team is also exploring better ways to collect feedback, including surveys and wider community discussions.

Looking Ahead

Despite the ambitious scope, the message is clear: quality comes before quantity. With a stronger foundation, inZOI aims to grow into a deeper, more immersive life simulation experience.

The developers thank the community for their patience, passion, and continued support—and promise to keep pushing forward with a clearer, more focused vision for 2026.