The Sims™ 4 artworkFree to play86%Very Positive

The Sims™ 4 Stories You Invent Yourself

Build homes, play matchmaker with cartoon Sims, and see where their messy little lives take you. ===

Is The Sims™ 4 worth it?

The Sims™ 4 is worth it if…

  • you like inventing drama for characters you create yourself
  • you enjoy making people from scratch, down to small details
  • you want to design a house and then furnish and decorate it
  • you like low-pressure sandbox play about daily life and relationships

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Invented lives and daily drama

You tell your own stories with the Sims you make, and you imagine those stories for them. You can replay pieces of your own real life with them. You steer the good and rough turns of everyday life, including who they grow close to. You develop relationships, including romance, and pursue careers and life aspirations alongside them. You decide how Sims spend each day.

Made-up people and the homes they live in

You choose how each Sim looks, acts, and dresses in fine detail, and creating characters is a strong point. You design and build homes for each family, and building houses is a strong point too. Lay out rooms, then furnish and decorate them with pieces you pick for each household. Fine detail runs through both sides, from Sims to homes.

Neighbourhoods, Sims, and community extras

You head out across different neighbourhoods and cross paths with Sims with lives of their own. Each area feels different, and an ordinary outing can veer into something unplanned. Custom content and mods add much to the gameplay. Without expansion packs the base game feels incomplete, which matters most if you plan to stick with the base game alone.

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