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The best life simulation saga is back

The Sims 4 is the latest installment of the popular life simulation saga developed by Electronic Arts. In this new title, available for free, you can customize the appearance, personality, skills, aspirations, and relationships of your Sims, as well as design and decorate their homes, explore different places, interact with other Sims, and much more.

By recovering the best features of The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 and giving a new twist to its gameplay, The Sims 4 represents the grand return of one of the biggest life simulation franchises of recent years.

What can you do in The Sims 4?

The Sims 4 offers you a wide variety of possibilities to have fun with your Sims for free. You can start by creating your ideal Sim, choosing from hundreds of options for facial traits, hairstyles, clothing, and accessories. You can also modify their voice, walk style, and personality traits, assigning them personality traits and a life aspiration.

Once you have your Sim ready, you can choose a place to live, either in a pre-built house or one you build from scratch. The build mode in The Sims 4 allows you to design the house of your dreams, placing walls, doors, windows, furniture, appliances, and decorative objects. You can also change the color, material, and style of each element.

But the fun doesn't end there. The Sims 4 also allows you to control the everyday life of your Sims, making them perform all kinds of activities, such as eating, sleeping, showering, reading, watching TV, playing video games, exercising, working, studying, going out with friends, dating, getting married, having children, and much more. Your Sims have needs that you must satisfy to make them happy, as well as emotions that change depending on what happens to them.

In addition, The Sims 4 offers a wide range of expansion packs at varying prices that add more content to the game, such as new professions, hobbies, vacation destinations, pets, paranormal phenomena, and even vampires and aliens. Each pack offers new ways to play and new stories to tell.

Enjoy the creations of The Sims community

With the rise of online modes, it's not surprising that The Sims 4 includes a very successful way to interact with the rest of the player community. We're talking about the Gallery mode, an interesting feature that allows us to share all our houses, decorations, or designs online.

The Gallery mode in The Sims 4 greatly facilitates locating and adding countless new ideas and modifications to the base game from within the game interface, without the need to break our heads to add them to our game.

Some enhancements

With its latest update, The Sims 4 promises a more balanced and stable gameplay experience, especially for players patiently unlocking Login Event rewards and those dipping their toes into the DirectX 11 Preview. A focused effort on housekeeping, the update tackles fairness and technical issues. It eliminates exploits that grant early access to coveted rewards from the Happy At Home Login Event, ensuring a level playing field for all players. Meanwhile, the DirectX 11 Preview gets a stability boost with a fix for a launch-time crash using MSAA, alongside general improvements intended to enhance overall performance and reduce crashes.

An essential life simulator

The Sims 4 is a very fun and addictive game that will captivate lovers of life simulation video games, as it offers great freedom to do whatever you want with your Sims. Additionally, it is a very diverse and dynamic game, as each Sim is unique and has its own personality and emotions. Although at first glance its base game lacks much content compared to its predecessors, this is easily solved thanks to its many expansion packs. Therefore, it is a must-have for franchise enthusiasts.

FAQ:

  • Can I play The Sims 4 without an EA account?

You cannot play The Sims 4 without an EA account. To install and register The Sims 4, you need the Origin client and an EA account. Once the game is installed, it is not necessary to be online to play, but you do need an EA account.

 

  • What are the minimum requirements to install The Sims 4?

To install The Sims 4, you need at least a computer with Windows 10; an Intel Core i3-3-3220 processor at 3.3 GHz (2 cores, 4 threads) or an AMD Ryzen 3 1200 processor at 3.1 GHz (4 cores); 4 GB of RAM, and 25 GB of free storage space, as well as an additional 1 GB for custom content and saved games.

PROS

  • Improved character editor
  • The Sims now have personality and consistent behavior
  • Very intuitive interface
  • You can share content online thanks to the Gallery mode
  • Friendly and colorful graphics

CONS

  • Limited content without its expansions
  • The camera control could improve
  • Loading time is quite high

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User reviews about The Sims 4

  • Naisha Exantus

    by Naisha Exantus

    so cool and it have a lot of people in their in you dont have to do nothing and the best thing you can whowst on youtube.

  • Student David Gonzalez Aguilar

    by Student David Gonzalez Aguilar

    it is awesome because you get to have a real life in a video game

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    by alexandra candy

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  • Elizabeth Hampton

    by Elizabeth Hampton

    I saw so many great vids of the sims 4 so I wanted to play. so I tryed and tryed till I did it.

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  • Thepower bby

    by Thepower bby

    Wrong game. Disappointed. Do not recommend downloading and wasting your time


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