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Does inZOI have multiplayer?
Not in the game you can buy today. Every version of inZOI, on Windows (Steam, Early Access since March 28, 2025) and on Mac (Steam and the Mac App Store, since August 20, 2025), is single-player. You control one household in one city: Dowon, Bliss Bay or Cahaya. Nobody can join your game, visit your lot live or play co-op.
| Question | Answer (November 2026) |
|---|---|
| Is inZOI multiplayer now? | No |
| Is multiplayer confirmed? | Yes, in development under the name inZOI-online |
| Release date | None announced |
| Who builds it | A separate team, in parallel with the main game |
| Will it be required? | No, Krafton calls it an optional feature |
| Co-op with a friend on PC | Not possible yet |
| Cross-play with PS5 | Not announced; PS5 version is due in the first half of 2027 |
Search results and videos showing inZOI "multiplayer" usually mean one of three things: Canvas sharing, footage from Krafton's internal town tests, or the 2025 announcements that multiplayer was being considered. None of them is a mode you can switch on in your copy of the game today.
What Krafton has confirmed
Before launch, Krafton's FAQ said the team was "considering various multiplayer features, such as the ability to meet up with other online players or invite them over to your home" but that details had not been decided. The 2025 Early Access roadmap had no multiplayer in it.
In November 2025 the game's director said on a podcast that a multiplayer mode was already being worked on. He said the push came from South Korea's president, Lee Jae-myung, who asked about co-op during a visit and suggested making inZOI multiplayer. No timeline was given.
In January 2026 Kjun (Hyungjun Kim, head of inZOI Studio) published a roadmap that made it official. In his words, multiplayer is built by "a dedicated internal team working in parallel with the existing core development team", "it will not take resources away from single-player development", and it "is being developed as an optional feature".
In September 2026 he described the direction more plainly: inZOI is "becoming an online life simulation where players gather and live together in a town."
The inZOI-online roadmap, and what slipped
The January 2026 plan set monthly targets. None of the multiplayer steps have reached players as of November 2026.
| Target | Planned feature | Status |
|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | Account-linked personal Zoi; save and resume hosted sessions | Not public |
| February 2026 | Online main page, plaza, lobby and chat rooms on the web | Not public |
| March 2026 | Decorate your house, save it to your account, let other players in to play together | Not available (players noted this in May 2026) |
| June 2026 | Host tools for rules and participants; official mods in multiplayer | Not public |
| October 2026 | Dedicated servers with hundreds to thousands of players per server, visiting major cities | Not public |
Kjun warned at the time that "there are still many unresolved questions" that need internal and external testing. Many players also asked the team to finish the single-player game first; a January 2026 forum thread was titled "Multiplayer already in March? Please NO".
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Import my Zoi →The town tests: what inZOI multiplayer will look like
The clearest picture came in September 2026, after the team showed the game at an event in China. The plan now centres on small-scale tests of a shared town:
- 20+ players living at the same time in one town.
- Door locking and visitor eviction, so you control who enters your home.
- Core features checked for multiplayer on the Dowon map.
- Canvas Town, a new town in development where every lot except roads can be edited. Kjun has said the team is researching whether plots and small cities can be edited and shared among several users.
Kjun said these tests are meant to "evaluate whether the experience of playing together in a town with other players offers genuine value". In other words, the shape of multiplayer is still being decided. Playtest bug reports, such as Zois from different families being unable to ride in the same car, show it is a working build, not a finished mode.
The November 6, 2026 developer letter, "One Step at a Time", does not mention multiplayer. It focuses on bugs, build mode and the December 2026 update, which brings a free base-game update and a new DLC that is free during Early Access.
Why inZOI multiplayer is taking so long
Life sims are hard to put online. A single-player game can pause, speed time up to many times normal and let you jump between households. In a shared town, everyone has to agree on the clock, and every Zoi's needs, jobs and relationships must stay in sync across players.
Krafton's own notes point to three reasons for the delays:
- The base game keeps changing. Kjun wrote that inZOI-online "is being developed while continuously migrating and matching the base game". Each Early Access update, like v0.11.0 in October 2026, has to be carried over to the online build.
- The value is not proven yet. The September 2026 tests exist to check whether living in a town with other players is actually fun, before the team commits to a full mode.
- Players asked for fundamentals first. Krafton's 2026 plan starts with "Fundamentals First", a list of about 150 fixes and polish items for the single-player game, and the community pushed back hard on multiplayer arriving early.
The upside of the separate team is that single-player updates keep coming. Since the roadmap, inZOI has gained Lua script mods, new Create a Zoi content and new build tools, while multiplayer stays in closed testing.
What you can share with other players today
- Canvas: Krafton's sharing platform. Upload and download Zois, homes, rooms and lots. Since v0.11.0, Zoi and property presets keep their preferences and autonomy plans when uploaded. On launch day Canvas had over 1.2 million players and 470,000 uploads.
- Mods: thousands of mods on CurseForge install through the game's Mod menu, so friends can run the same setup. Krafton's roadmap includes playing official mods together once online play exists.
Be careful with anything that claims to unlock inZOI multiplayer today. There is no official co-op build, so such downloads are fakes or unofficial tools that can break saves.
A life sim that is already online
Part of the appeal of an online inZOI is a town that feels alive, with people who have their own lives instead of standing around waiting for you. That doesn't need a gaming PC.
LifeSim is a free online life simulator that runs in the browser on a computer or phone, with no download and no packs. You can be anyone in any real city on Earth and live a life day by day. Characters have needs, jobs and relationships, and the townspeople are driven by AI. It is a quick way to play a life sim set in a real place while inZOI's online town is still in testing.
inZOI platforms and what to expect next
| Platform | Status | Multiplayer |
|---|---|---|
| Windows (Steam) | Early Access since March 28, 2025, $39.99 at launch | No |
| Mac (Steam, Mac App Store) | Early Access since August 20, 2025; Apple M2 or newer, macOS 15 | No |
| PlayStation 5 | Delayed from 2026 to the first half of 2027 | Not announced |
| Xbox | "Under consideration", not confirmed | Not announced |
Next on the calendar is the December 2026 update. Krafton has not tied multiplayer to it. Krafton has said it wants to discuss online results and direction with the community based on testing, so watch the official inZOI forum and Steam news for test announcements.