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Working out how to build a pond in The Sims 4 isn’t quite as straightforward as building a pool, so here’s how to get started. Coming up we cover all the things you need to do to actually build a pond, as well how to accessorize it, add fish to it, as well as catch fish, and more.

How to build a pond in The Sims 4

How to add fish to ponds in The Sims 4

To turn your beautiful new pond into a fisherman’s paradise, you’ll need to first add the “Fishing Allowed Sign” to your pond from the “Pond Objects” section of the “Outdoor Water Decor”. Selecting the sign in Live Mode will allow your sims to add fish, and also see which fish are available to catch in each pond. 

However, in order to add fish to a pond your sims will have to have already registered some fish in their notebook – you can’t just buy them from a catalogue or anything. There are two easy ways to do this though:

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How to enable The Sims 4 debug cheat

Before you can use The Sims 4 debug cheat, you’ll need to open the cheat console and enable cheats following the simple rules below:

• The Sims 4 PC cheats: Hold Ctrl and Shift, then press c
• The Sims 4 Mac cheats: Hold Command (⌘) and Shift, then press c
• The Sims 4 PS4 cheats: Hold down all the four shoulder buttons at once
• The Sims 4 Xbox One cheats: Hold down all four shoulder buttons at once

A text box should appear across the top of the screen where you can enter your cheat codes.

The Sims 4 debug cheat

The Sims 4 debug cheat allows players to access a whole new series of objects that wouldn’t normally be available in Build Mode. This is your red pill, blue pill moment. Do you want to unleash the secret hidden objects? Well, here’s how. 

Once you’ve enabled cheats, you must type testingCheats true into the console. Then, there are two codes to use:

• bb.showHiddenObjects
• bb.showLiveEditObjects

bb.showHiddenObjects activates the ‘Buy Debug Mode’ meaning players can access hidden, playable objects like collectibles, rocks, trees, bushes and more. 

While bb.showLiveEditObjects allows players to access an even wider range of objects totaling over 1200 and including items such as decor, trees, and even cars.

Importantly, you must enter bb.showHiddenObjects before you can use bb.showLiveEditObjects though, so make sure you enter them in that specific order and you must be in Build Mode.

Once you’ve entered them, go to the Build Mode search bar in the bottom left corner of the screen and type in debug. Select one of the **DEBUG** options to access all the new items. 

And that’s it for this one. It’s time to enjoy trying out all the new items that The Sims 4 debug cheat has to offer. If you want to try out any more The Sims 4 cheats, we’ve got a lot more to offer you.

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The best games like The Sims…

My Time at Portia 

Developer: Pathea
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, PC, Nintendo Switch

Instead of taking up residence in Oasis Springs or Willow Creek, why not move into Portia? Pathea’s cutesy open-world life sim has so much to offer fans of the genre, with a whole mish-mash of occupations to keep you busy. As the new resident in town who inherits a workshop from their relative, you can earn money by crafting all manner of gadgets of gizmos to fulfill commissions. But it doesn’t stop there. With mining, fishing, farming, crafting, cooking and so much more besides, there’s no end of ways to making a living. The true heart of Portia lies in its thriving community and the many, many residents you can form friendships and romantic relationships with. Just like the Sims, you can get married, have children, decorate your house, and customize the look of your character. There’s so much to do in My Time at Portia, it’ll certainly keep you busy. 

Stardew Valley

Developer: ConcernedApe
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, PC, Nintendo Switch

Ah, Stardew Valley. As another time stealer with oodles of heart, this charming farming sim is like The Sims 3 if you were a farmer in the pixelated countryside. Going at your own pace, you can build up your farm, decorate your house and get engrossed in Stardew Valley’s endlessly interesting community. Just like the Sims, you can form relationships with every character in each household of the Valley, and all the residents have a their own unique story and background. There’s so much more than meets the eye to this delightful RPG. Fishing, mining, cooking, farming and raising farm animals are just a handful of ways to keep yourself occupied. From its relatable characters to its hidden secrets, playing one in-game day’s worth won’t be enough. Before you know it, you’ll sink hours upon hours into making your farm just right without realising how much time has past you by. 

Two Point Hospital

Developer: Two Point Studios
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, PC, Nintendo Switch

In the Sims 4 Careers expansion, being a doctor is arguably one of the most entertaining jobs to do because you actually get to control your sim and treat patients. If managing a little sim hospital ticked all the right boxes for you, Two Point Hospital will scratch that itch and then some. The endlessly fun management sim lets you design your hospital from start to finish and the mechanics aren’t a million miles away from building rooms in the Sims. You’ll also be tasked with managing your staff, improving the hospital’s reputation, and making sure everything runs smoothly. With its own unique blend of humor and its tongue and cheek representation of running a healthcare system, it’ll keep you playing just as long as any hearty Simming session. 

Cities: Skylines

Developer: Colossal Order
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, PC, Nintendo Switch

Who doesn’t love being able to decide the fate of Sims? Whether you want to help them fulfil their dreams, or be the cause of their untimely demise by trapping them in a pool or setting a stove on fire, having all the power is what makes it so much fun. If this is why you love to get stuck into the Sims world, Paradox’s Cities: Skylines will feed your desire to be a virtual god even more. Instead of just managing a household, you manage an entire city, with all manner of ways to help it thrive or cause chaos. And if building and designing is your bag, you’ll be glad to know you get to design and build up your city however you wish. All jokes aside, if you thought managing a big family household or town was a challenge, managing a city takes it to a whole other level. Contending with natural disasters, pollution, and traffic jams are just some the problems a city can encounter, and you can deal with it in whatever way you want.  

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Developer: Nintendo
Platforms: Nintendo Switch

We waited so long for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and it was worth every second. The game doesn’t just let you build and decorate your own home, but a whole island. All the best features are there – designing your own clothes, sending letters and gifts to friends, and collecting adorable home furnishings – but now you can also travel to other islands courtesy of Dodo Airlines, and even indulge in a spot of terraforming to create ponds, rivers, and cliffs wherever you want.  Its never-ending gameplay loop of fishing, catching bugs, improving your home, and making friends with an ever-increasing cast of quirky critters is incredibly comforting, and if you’re looking for thrills there are always tarantulas to stalk and the turnip stock market to play.

Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles

Developer: Prideful Sloth
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, PC, Nintendo Switch

Ever wondered what lies beyond a Sim’s town? If you long for something with more exploration, Yonder’s world of Gemea might just be for you. In the shoes of a hero, the gentle open-world RPG lets you explore all that Gemea has to offer at your own pace. With some similar elements to the Sims – such as different jobs and skills to try out, tons of character customisations options, residents to meet, and friends to make – it’s a great option for anyone who’s are after a more laid-back experience. Those who loved befriending animals in the Sims Pets will undoubtedly enjoy befriending and adopting Yonder’s adorable creatures. And if you want to take a break from exploring, you can build up your very own farms across the various different landscapes – from tropical beaches to forested areas.  

Fantasy Life

Developer: Level-5
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS

While it’s a little older than most on our list, Fantasy Life is one of the best 3DS offerings that’s in a similar vein. As the title suggest, it’s essentially like a fantasy version of the Sims where you can create and customize your own character and take on any one of the 12 lifestyles with different occupations. With everything from being a paladin to a tailor or chef, it lets you live a life of your own making. Alongside crafting, decorating your home, having pets, befriending the neighbors and potentially getting married, there’s a lot of cutesy fantasy fun on offer. 

Jurassic World Evolution 

Developer: Frontier Developments
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, PC, Nintendo Switch

No one ever said you couldn’t swap the Sims with dinosaurs, right? Jurassic World Evolution is a dinosaur theme park management sim that lets you unleash your designer streak by creating your very own park from scratch. You then manage and maintain the park, and make sure the T-Rex you just added doesn’t get break free and starting snacking on your visitors. Keeping your dinosaurs secure and your park visitors happy isn’t always the easiest task, but seeing a theme park of your own making rack in the big bucks and operate smoothly is just as satisfying as running a happy household. With lots of nods to the Jurassic series, and a great look and feel, this is a slightly different kind of sim that will bring out the budding dino park manager in you. 

Graveyard Keeper 

Developer: Lazy Bear Games
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, PC, Nintendo Switch

Where there is a life sim, death will inevitably follow. If you’re after something a bit darker in tone and a lot more morbid, Graveyard Keeper will hit all the right notes. Just as Death appears in the shape of the grim reaper in the Sims, here death becomes a prominent part of your livelihood as you become the new manager of a graveyard in a medieval town. You can even design the layout of the graveyard and craft items to help you please the locals and make life in the medieval world a bit easier. The darker side doesn’t just stem from the element of death though – plenty of questionable decisions will pop along the way that will make the choices you make in the Sims seem like a piece of cake. 

House Flipper

Developer: Frozen District
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, PC, Nintendo Switch

The Sims 4 truly perfected the house building system into a game of its own. Spending a good chunk of time creating a giant mansion plucked straight out of your imagination is incredibly satisfying and enjoyable. If building up towns and decorating homes is the main draw for you, House Flipper is the answer to all your prayers. Empyrean’s realistic house renovation sim lets you buy rundown houses off the market and fix up them to make a healthy profit from your efforts. Transforming a grimy, cockroach-infested kitchen into a sparkling, beautifully designed cooking haven makes you feel like a true DIY champion. All in first-person with some very fun building mechanics, you can let your creative juices flow and give some neglected houses a new lease of life in any style you want. 

Looking for more suggestions? Be sure to check out our list of games like Stardew Valley. 

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The Sims 4 Farmland mod is a free download for PC players available on Arnie’s Patreon (opens in new tab), while The Sims 4 Cottage Living expansion pack costs $40/£34.99 for PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PS4, and PS5. After The Sims 4 Kits controversy shed light on just how expensive Sims expansions can be, the Farmland  release seems especially poignant. Deciding between the two is entirely dependent upon your financial situation, preferred gaming platform, and your favorite way to play The Sims 4. You may determine that having both is the best way to go, or pick one bit of content over the other. I’m just here to help you make an informed decision. 

Note: You will need both The Sims 4 Cats and Dogs and The Sims 4 Seasons for the Farmland mod to work.  

A semi-open farmland

For many Simmers, the lack of an open world breaks the immersion of The Sims 4, as there’s nothing quite as jarring as going to visit your next door neighbor just to immediately get a loading screen. In Arnie’s popular Brookheights open world mod, there was a mix of Open Venues your Sim could explore without a loading screen and rabbit holes, which are areas in which your Sim disappears to complete a task. Farmland is a bit different, as it mixes open world areas with traditional Sims 4 gameplay features.

Farmland takes the semi-open world concept and runs with it to the bank (which you can actually visit with this mod). Eden Hills replaces the Sable Square neighborhood in Brindleton Bay, which comes with The Sims 4 Cats and Dogs expansion). You’ll encounter an initial loading screen to travel to Eden Hills, but once you’re there, you can freely visit five huge lots that have multiple, massive open areas within each of them. The farms and fields area alone is bigger than five of the largest Sims 4 lots combined, and is divided up into pieces of land you can purchase in order to get your farm on. If you need to get a loan for said farm, you can walk into the bank and procure one, or head to city hall to get the proper permits – again, without loading screens. “I missed the Sims 3 open worlds so much that I decided to try and do something similar, that would make the worlds feel a bit more alive in-game,” explains Arnie.

Eden Hills is impressive and expansive, but the best part about it is that many of the decor buildings are functional in some way, which is a far cry from The Sims 4 base game. A hut by the horse ranch can be used for storage, and a gorgeous church called the Love Temple can be used as a wedding venue. There’s even a supermarket that lets you buy fresh veggies, seeds, and toys or sell your own produce to other Eden Hills residents. 

Farmland versus Cottage Living 

The Sims 4 Farmland mod has a ton of content stretched out across a massive space – it’s more than 40 64×64 lots (the largest lots in the game) combined. Meanwhile, the official Cottage Living expansion offers a new world, Henford-on-Bagley, which has three neighborhoods containing four lots each – and only one 64×64 lot. 

Farmland offers several more farm animal options than Cottage Living, including pigs, sheep, and horses that require very little maintenance. You can collect the clay that clumps on your pigs’ rotund little bodies and use it to make sculptures, or shear your sheep for some high-quality wool to make a Weasley sweater. 

Cottage Living has similar gameplay functions that tie-in with the new available animals: you can collect chicken eggs, milk cows, and shear llamas. But the inclusion of even more animals in Farmland may be a major draw for Simmers – especially those who want a chance to take their horse to Old Town Road. Keep in mind, however, that the horses aren’t exactly the smoothest mode of transportation, and actually move quite slowly in comparison to going places by foot. 

The Sims 4 Cottage Living also requires a lot of work in order to get your crops going, including regular weeding, watering, bug spraying and fertilizing. Several times during my Sims 4 Cottage Living preview, I was chastised for filling my Sims’ queue with farming tasks as I tried to make sure she tended to all her crops. The Farmland mod can automate some of the farming tasks, with self-watering setups, greenhouses to protect out-of-season plants, and the tractor which is meant to help spread seeds. It doesn’t always work, but when it does it’s a helluva lot easier than doing it all manually.

And like Arnie’s last major mod, Brookheights, there’s a beautiful story at the center of Farmland that you can choose to follow along if you so desire. While Cottage Living has some lovely lore, Farmland goes a bit deeper when it comes to tying gameplay to a cohesive story.

Decisions, decisions 

In my preview, I said Cottage Living is proof EA is listening to players – and I meant it. The expansion has both breadth and depth, a far cry from fiiller-heavy packs like Star Wars Journey to Batuu. But for many long-time Sims players, Cottage Living may feel like too little, too late, a feeling only exacerbated by the recent release of similarly themed custom content that doesn’t cost anything to play.

The Farmland mod is wildly easy to find, download, and play. As someone who has never used the best Sims 4 mods in the past, I had no trouble accessing the necessary files, booting up my base game, and jumping into Eden Hills – just keep in mind that this is a mod and it does have bugs, as it’s not officially supported by EA or extensively QA-tested by a team of devs. But, for Simmers who don’t have the money to buy another expansion pack, the Farmland mod may simply be the only possible way to enjoy farming gameplay. After all, owning all the Sims 4 content would cost you more than $800, and that’s untenable for a majority of the community. 

“I remember that during the first few years of The Sims 4, I couldn’t afford any DLC and would spend hours online trying to find new content, and I was in such awe, admiring creators for doing this,” Arnie tells GamesRadar. “It is also part of what made me want to start creating mods for the Sims… Having free content made by players, for players is essential, that makes people grateful – and they let you know that they are!”

If you’re someone who can afford to buy Cottage Living, I’d suggest dabbling in a bit of both. Farmland’s semi-open world is a great way to enjoy The Sims 4 as it gives you a chance to experience a more lived-in universe without waiting for a loading screen. And the handful of new animals that aren’t in Cottage Living will only add to the expansion’s experience (even if the horseback riding is a bit wonky). I’m mostly curious to see how the new extra-large crops of Cottage Living will fare with Farmland’s automatic watering devices, or how the different animals will exist side-by-side. That’s something the modder is interested in exploring in the future.

“I can see wonderful things happening this summer between the two of them,” Arnie says when asked how Farmland and Cottage Living may work together in the future. “Once I get my hands on Cottage Living, I will try to make a version of my mod that would mix the features together. I have been saying this several times but let’s say it again and again: Simmers have been waiting for farming content for ages, I tried to introduce this through a mod, and now the official game releases a DLC, so the players have been really served if I may! Plus, they have different animals, gameplay, worlds, and overall feeling! This means more content for players, more hours of creativity, more storytelling, more smiles… and this makes me really happy!”

Farmland and Cottage Living releasing almost simultaneously shows that EA has come to better understand what Sims players want in the last year or so. Whether that understanding will translate into The Sims 5 and/or include some of the features Simmers like Arnie are adding via mods remains to be seen.

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That’s why the announcement of The Sims 4 Cottage Living garnered so much excitement. Not only is it finally introducing farming to the game, but its trailers promise a bevy of new, tangible content. Naturally, Simmers were cautiously optimistic, wondering aloud if the gameplay would actually mirror what EA was presenting. Now that I’ve spent some time playing The Sims 4: Cottage Living ahead of its release on July 22,I’m happy to report that it delivers on every advertised front – and then some.

Because of how broad The Sims 4 experience is, its expansion packs need to cover a lot of  bases for all of its different player types. There should be build items that add more variety to home design, Create-A-Sim (aka CAS) items that allow for more character customization, and new gameplay elements that entice players to spend even more time in the life sim. Cottage Living covers all these areas, making it a must-have expansion for every type of Simmer – and EA goes above and beyond with free new content, as well.

Hay girl, hay 

Simmers have been asking for a farming expansion for nearly a decade, and the options for introducing farming are endless – do you add a whole host of livestock that require a ton of management, or give players large-scale farming tools like tractors and harvesters? For Cottage Living, EA settled on a garden-to-table theme, which fits in well with the quaint English countryside towns that inspired Henford-on-Bagley.

Cottage Living lets you buy and take care of chickens, cows, and llamas, and all three animals seamlessly integrate into The Sims 4’s particular brand of irreverent humor. Chickens can roam anywhere if not properly fenced in, showing up by your side while you’re trying to fertilize crops, and llamas will pitch a fit if you try to groom them without getting to know them first. The animals all provide goods for your Sim to use in cooking, baking, and knitting, as well. And with new Lot Challenges, like Simple Living requiring Sims to cook only with the ingredients they have available (goodbye, infinite fridge), Cottage Living is one of the most cohesive packs yet. 

Speaking of ingredients, The Sims 4 Cottage Living adds even more ways to garden with gigantic plants that you can turn into delicious meals or put into the weekly Finchwick Fair competition. There’s also a new canning option that will let you make a variety of delectable preserves and a whole host of English-inspired new recipes (Yorkshire pud, anyone?).

Be warned: The Sims 4 Cottage Living takes the cuteness factor that we saw in the 2017 Cats and Dogs expansion and turns the dial up to a level we’ve never seen before. Cuddling your cow will cause it to let loose an adorable chorus of moos, and wild rabbits will hesitantly approach you looking to become fast friends. With that level of squee comes the necessary danger of all of these animals dying, however, so make sure you go into options and turn that off right quick if you want to avoid what happened to me – the camera panned over to a wild fox dying in the far corner of my property and I cried so hard I had to go pet my IRL cat for a few minutes to calm down. 

Cottagecore 

I’m a builder in The Sims 4, spending most of my time perfecting New-Orleans-style haunted mansions or Brooklyn brownstones I could never afford IRL. I dabble in some gameplay, but always find myself drifting away from a household after a few Sim days just to start a brand new family in need of an elaborately constructed home. For my fellow Simmers who spend most of their game time swatching wallpaper and rotating end tables until they’re just right, The Sims 4: Cottage Living is going to get you very, very hyped. 

Cottage Living is like a wicker basket packed to the brim with delicious goodies, except the basket is the build menu and the goodies are thatched roofs, creeping wisteria, and adorable knick-knacks that would make a minimalist hyperventilate. Do you want a circular stained glass window depicting an adorable fox? Cottage Living has it. Or maybe you’d prefer a toadstool that doubles as an actual seat? Cottage Living has it. Everything you could imagine you’d find in an English grandmother’s Gloucestershire home is in this pack, down to the basket of cross stitching supplies tucked away next to a shabby emerald green armchair. 

During my preview, I spent at least four hours building a warm and inviting cottage tucked away on a large plot of land that was mostly dedicated to my crops and farm animals. I meticulously placed smatterings of daisies and lavender bushes all over the property, and hand-painted a new pink-hued stone path. There are so many lovely new build options that add an extra layer of lived-in realness to the world of Henford-on-Bagley. 

Perhaps most importantly is the addition of the pond tool, which is a free update coming to the base game that couldn’t be timed more perfectly. Nothing says pastoral English life quite like a moss-covered pond, and the new tool lets you build one anywhere on your lot. You can even populate it with animals like ducks, swans, and alligators (can you imagine if alligators were native to England? The chaos).

Cottage Community  

The Sims 4 Cottage Living expansion pack has as many layers as a trifle. There’s the farming gameplay elements and cottagecore build and buy items that sit at the top – the obvious additions that we’d all expect. Then the are the unexpected additions that add more depth to Henford-on-Bagley: the townsfolk and their dramatic relationships, tea they willingly serve if you spend a few hours in the pub with them; the mysterious man who lives in the forest, tending to the animals; the return of perpetually cranky Agnes Crumplebottom, who will step out from behind the counter of her garden stall to beat you with her purse if you get a bit cheeky. All of these things make Henford-on-Bagley feel like a real English village and make it easy to spend hours exploring it – even for someone like me, who quite often overlooks gameplay elements in favor of building. 

But the July 22 release date of The Sims 4 Cottage Living won’t just include paywalled content. EA has folded in some free base game updates in what has become a much-appreciated new normal. Last year’s The Sims 4 Snowy Escape brought lifestyles and platforms, while Cottage Living introduces pond tools, Lot Challenges, and the ability for kids to cook (finally they can earn their keep). These are base game updates which means you do not have to buy Cottage Living in order to enjoy them. Considering I recently explored The Sims 4 Kits controversy and how much the community does to fuel content updates, it’s lovely to see EA folding in more free base game updates when rolling out a new buyable expansion pack. 

The Sims 4 lives on, precariously balanced between “dead game” comments on Reddit and beautiful expansion packs that breathe life into a game that’s nearing a decade old. Cottage Living makes that balance less precarious, giving players highly sought after paid content updates mixed with some necessary, free quality of life improvements. If this is a sign of what’s to come down the Sims 4 content pipeline, I think it’s got another several years in it. 

The Sims 4 Cottage Living will release on July 22 on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PS4, and PS5. The expansion pack costs $40/£34.99. 

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Kid Beyond (opens in new tab) (aka Andrew Chaikin) was a voice actor on The Sims 2 and dished out some secrets behind recording the infamous Simlish language. Not only is there no Simlish, but there’s also no script, and actors just “make up gibberish” on the spot. This revelation came in the form of a quote tweet that Chaikin wrote in response to fellow musician Lolo Zouaï (opens in new tab), who tweeted (opens in new tab) “How do I get my songs officially translated to Simlish?” Chaikin elaborates on Simlish further with a Twitter thread, giving us even more insight into the language.

So. I was the male voice on The Sims 2, and a bunch of other Sims games.I recorded hours + hours + hours of Simlish.When I started the gig, they told me a lil’ secret:🤯 There is no Simlish. 🤯🤖 — And no script. — 🤖The actors just make up gibberish.But…(1/4) https://t.co/ag0nmw6ex8June 28, 2021

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“It had to sound like *American* gibberish. Not Swedish, or Japanese, or random nonsense. And since we’re voicing hundreds of situations, it couldn’t just be the same gibberish over and over. It had to be a whole vocab. Straight of the dome,” reads Chaikin’s tweet (opens in new tab). In order to accomplish this surprisingly difficult task, Chaikin says he’d “grab a magazine, turn it upside down, read some juicy backwards words, turn the page and repeat” during recording sessions. Apparently after several lengthy sessions, he’d struggle to “get English back”, which is unsurprising after spending hours speaking gibberish.

Lolo Zouaïi likely asked about getting her music translated to Simlish in response to the recent announcement that The Sims 4 will stage an in-game music festival. During that festival, recording artist Bebe Rexha will perform a Simlish version of her hit single ‘Sabotage’, along with performances from Glass Animals and Joy Oladokun. According to Chaikin, Lolo Zouaï’s song ‘Caffeine’ “would sound killer in Simlish”, although it’s unclear if the artist has any plans to actually record it. 

The Sims games have always had Simlish versions of hit songs that you can play from radios or jukeboxes – my personal favorite is the hilariously nonsensical Sims take on ‘Hot in Here’ by Nelly, which changes the lyrics “hot in here, so hot in here” to “haspa, so haspa heeee.” If only that version played at my 8th grade dance…

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The Game Pack has kicked up a ton of excitement in the Sims community, especially for those who focus on the build portions of gameplay. It adds a few new outfits, new likes and dislikes, new gameplay features, and a ton of new furniture, which is clearly the main draw. For those of us who love building, the addition of new build objects centered around a career that lets you makeover homes is, well, it’s a dream. Unfortunately for the families whose homes I’ve renovated, it’s been more of a nightmare…

Not so Caliente 

The Caliente family is my first job as a Dream Home Decorator. When I get to the Calientes’ and see their Mediterranean-inspired home with its stucco walls and terracotta tiles, I’m ecstatic that I have the new Garden Oasis Stuff Pack. “Oh, this is gonna be good,” I say out loud to my cats. 

I spend some time chatting with the family, which gives me a chance to learn their likes and dislikes. Unfortunately, the Calientes aren’t very helpful in terms of décor – I only learn that one of the family members likes singing, while another hates the piano. I look over at the piano in the corner of the living room, now my only source of direction. 

I ask them to leave so I can get to work, then delete everything and add a gorgeous terracotta tile floor. I paint the walls a soft beige stucco. Based on the singing interest I glean from one Caliente, I decide to turn this living room into a modern Italian karaoke bar, complete with ample sitting space, a microphone, and a huge flat screen TV. I place orange trees on either side of a simple but chic bar, which has two repurposed wine bottles holding plants resting on its corner. A reddish L-shaped couch takes up the other side of the room. Simple, mission-style lights hang from the ceiling and a gorgeous painting of what may be a fruit brings the entire room together.

Excited about my work, I call the Caliente family back to look at their gorgeous Italian karaoke café. They enter with their hands over their eyes and I feel my heart swell with excitement as my Sim makes a sorta “ta-da” noise and sweeps her arms over the space. The entire family – children included – start hysterically crying. 

Home Hack 

I decide to quickly leave the Caliente home after receiving a horrible verdict, no money, and a severe blow to my reputation, just as the matron of the household storms out of her new living room to stress eat from the refrigerator. Heading home slightly dejected, I instruct Simlyssa to go to bed and immediately choose another home decorating gig. “I have good taste!” I insist to my monitor. “I do!”

The next house I head to belongs to the Partihaus crew, a group of Berlin-adjacent young people whose place looks like a frat boy won a $10,000 Bed Bath and Beyond gift certificate. The Partihaus people tell me they don’t like garden décor, pianos (which are nowhere in sight) and the color red – which is everywhere. I send the family away, take some quick pictures, and decide to turn their main floor into a hyper contemporary space with some dashes of plant life. 

I spend around 30 minutes perfecting the space, subbing out the red for green and the brick for concrete. I call them back in and promptly watch as they groan and “yuck” at everything I’ve put in the space, and cringe as I see the results screen: no money, even less reputation. During this, my Sim gets a text from Dina Caliente: “I hope your day is as terrible as your so-called design sense.”

“Well f*ck this,” I say to my glass of wine. I put on a Plumbella video (opens in new tab) and watch her hack her way to a great review by only adding objects based on the client’s likes. At my next job, I do just that. The only information I get from eight family members is as follows:

• Likes: Snowboarding
• Likes: Skiing
• Dislikes: Mischief

I decide to renovate a bedroom – and by renovate I mean put a snowboard in one corner and a set of skis in the other. That’s it. I call them back, show off the items, and get eight incredibly positive reviews (including a hug). “I give up.” I say to my mid-century modern Miami-style bedroom. “Maybe I just have crap taste.”

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While this isn’t the first open world mod, Brookheights does take the mod to new heights (get it). There’s a single active lot in the center of Brookheights, and a massive interactive area surrounding that. Enjoy no loading screens as you travel between places in your car (ah!), rent a lodge in the Greenmount Forest, go to a musical on Broadstreet, hit the gym and get your swole on, and go grocery shopping. 

There’s so much to do, I’m overwhelmed at the beautiful banality of it. You can even live in Brookheights if you pay your rent on time (you can’t own a single lot) and can even work – if you apply for a work visa. It’s just like living in another country, IRL. Oh yeah, and there’s rabbit holes, which are a Sims 3 feature where Sims could enter a building and do activities but the camera can’t go in there. Brookheights is a lovely little melding of Sims 3 and Sims 4 features.

But the main draw of Brookheights is the story at its center – Amos is trying to find out where he’s really from, and you have to help finish his origin story by finding clues. You’ll have to help Amos find Brookheights and start a new life there, all in the brand-new story mode that this mod includes. 

Creator Arnie lost his job due to COVID-19 and spent his free time building Brookheights Open World, and the attention to detail is downright inspiring. This is an absolutely incredible The Sims 4 mod, and one that I’m very tempted to download right now. For all the information on Brookheights Open World, head here (opens in new tab).

The Sims 4 Snowy Escape trailer just dropped, and I’m shook.  

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“It’s something we’re calling Create-A-Sim Stories, and this is going to be a way to infuse a little personality, and starting conditions, into your sim before they even hit live mode,”  explains producer Graham Nardone in the video update.

“This doesn’t change anything about the old process. If you still want to create your sim the normal way you totally can.”

It’s part of a bigger update that gives the main Sims 4 home screen a little makeover and unlocks over a thousand new objects in the catalog for you to add to your lot. The catch? You’ll need the expansion pack that object is tied to access it. 

“You can see all of these objects that have the little globe icon in the top right, those are all objects that were previously environment objects,” points out Nardone. “You’d find them out in the world but you weren’t able to place them on your lot, but now you can.”

That includes huge movie props from Sims 4 Get Famous (opens in new tab), billboards, news vans, ominous military structures from Strangerville, and enough plants to stock a garden center. 

The new update will go live in The Sims 4 soon. Until then, check out our Sims 4 cheats (opens in new tab) list to help live your best sim life. 

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Let It Die reincarnates cult classic Killer7 

Grasshopper Manufacture is mixing its old Killer7 magic with its free-to-play PS4 game Let It Die. We don’t know much about the collaboration just yet, but we can expect it to happen later this spring (and we’d crawl over broken glass for more Harman Smith action). 

Far Cry 5’s live-action trailer deserves an HBO series 

Live-action trailers don’t always work, but this latest one for Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5 is giving us the True Detective, ‘give me a mini-series’ feels. Now to go back into cryosleep until the actual game is out on March 27.  

From the people that brought you Conan Exiles’ wangs…

Funcom is publishing a new game, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, and it’ll hopefully receive less genitalia-focused coverage than Conan. A tactical adventure game, it’s being being made by Hitman and Payday developers and will be released later this year for PC. 

Want to dress Final Fantasy 15’s Noctis in a Sims llama suit? 

If the answer is yes, seek help. If that fails, you can grab a copy of the Final Fantasy 15 Windows Edition on Origin and get Sims special costumes to use in the game. It’ll be included with all purchases of Final Fantasy 15 on Origin until May 1. It goes both ways, too: you’ll also be able to access “Noctis’ signature Prince’s Fatigues” in Sims 4 soon.  

Wreck-it Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks The Internet trailer is unrealistically porn free 

There’s a new trailer for Disney’s upcoming sequel out, and while we can’t wait to spot more game references and hang out with Vanellope, there’s no denying that this movie’s internet looks way nicer than the real one. 

Even more news:  

Krypton star Cameron Cuffe on playing Superman’s grandfather

Sea of Thieves ‘fully embraces’ power levelling, according to the design director (it’s not what you think)

The unlikely rebirth of an MMO shooter could give Destiny a run for its money

Overwatch’s new hero has been canon for years, but her support-tank playstyle is all new

March is gonna be good: PlayStation Plus free games get Bloodborne and Ratchet & Clank

Injustice 2 Legendary Edition squeezes $100 worth of DC Comics fighting into a $60 package

Live out your horror fan fantasies with The Blackout Club, a co-op game that echoes Stranger Things and It Follows

Star Wars Rebels just made time travel canon – how will it affect a galaxy far, far away?

Tony Hawk has parted ways with Activision, and the future of Pro Skater just got a little bit more depressing

Celebrate 40 years of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in the new SFX magazine – on sale now!

“Missing a truly menacing bad guy” – Here’s what critics have to say about Jessica Jones season 2

Crackdown, The Witcher 2 and more get Xbox One X enhanced backwards compatibility- here’s how to turn it on

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