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The Sims 4

The Sims 4 base game is the fourth installment of The Sims simulation game released on September 4, 2014. If you're feeling nostalgic or interested in the latest news, you can find all theSims 4 news on the site. For those new to the game, here's a quick introduction. The Sims 4 offers online features such as the gallery, but is played solo. Model sims with particularly precise settings in Create A Sim, and control your characters' emotions with the mood system. 

For the first time since the start of the franchise, you can download The Sims 4 for free, on any platform, from October 18, 2022.

  • Available on PC, Mac, Xbox, Playstation
  • Solo game
  • Published by Electronic Arts
  • Developed by Maxis

Features

Customize Sims

The Sims 4 game features a particularly comprehensive Create-A-Sim mode, allowing you to model your characters precisely, whether you want to create your own simself, a celebrity or a Sim with an original physique. Customize your Sim's face, choose a nose, head features,...

Choose outfits for everyday life, for parties and for going to bed. The Sims 4 offers a wide choice of clothes to give your characters style.

Define your Sims' behavior by giving them character traits that will influence their interactions with others. You can also give them goals with aspirations.

Your Sims can have color, music or style preferences. A Story mode also lets you choose the background of your characters as soon as they are created. Are they just out of university, do they already have a job, etc.?

Build and construct

In The Sims 4, you can build the perfect home for your Sims. With the tools of Construction Mode, you can create rooms, decorate them, landscape your garden, basements and more...

The Terrain tool lets you shape the ground around your Sims' home. You can raise the ground, make hills or ditches, and dig ponds.

Each terrain can be further customized with terrain features that can make gameplay a little more complicated by adding mouse invasions, for example. If you're looking for more details, all these features are explained in our Sims 4 tutorials !

Play as you like!

You can play with your Sims, imagining their lives. Let them live in one of the three basic game worlds: Willow Creek, Oasis Spring or Newcrest. Choose a Sims 4 career to earn a few simflouzs and get started!

Keep an eye on your Sims' needs and test new emotions to make sure all is well. If you neglect your character and he dies, the Grim Reaper will come!

Take the game a step further by using cheat codes to add money to your household, refill your need bars or even unlock Sims 4 skills and promotions.

If you don't know what to do in the game and you're getting bored, you can try your hand at one of the multiple challenges and challenges Sims 4 designed by the community to bring a little novelty to your gameplay.

To complete your game, you'll undoubtedly want to take a look at the DLC created by Maxis. There are 4 types:

  • The Sims 4 extensions offer several new gameplay features, new items, outfits and often a new city. The theme is often vast enough to allow for several additions.
  • The Sims 4 game packs are new to the fourth opus, and revolve around the addition of a smaller number of new features.
  • The Sims 4 object kits simply unlock new items and outfits. You can find an item that brings new gameplay features.
  • And finally Sims 4 kits unlock either items or outfits. These can be compared to the sets offered in the Sims 3 Store.

Sims 4 downloads

The community offers thousands of custom content and Sims 4 mods that you can add to your game at any time. We've put together a small selection of CC Sims 4 to download!

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Sims 4 Mods

To customize everything in the game

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Land

Community homes and lots to visit

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Dresses and hairstyles

Dress your Sims from head to toe