Fans of The Sims franchise will be pleased to learn that they will soon get their hands awaited on The Sims 5 since it’s already being playtested for the market under the name Project Rene (via Screen Rant). The popular simulation game has nurtured a loyal fanbase by allowing players to customize specific aspects of the game through mods and custom content packs.
While The Sims 4 already has a lot of thrilling and exciting features, players can dial up the notch for realism with the help of various mods. From overhauling the reactions of the Sims to giving them unique personalities, mods can make the game feel more lifelike.
Life Tragedies
Tragedy, heartbreak, and disappointment are a part of life — even for Sims. Gamers who accept that life isn’t always sweet can install a mod called Life Tragedies which incorporates various mishaps that could befall a Sim or an NPC.
Some of the tragedies included in the mod are being infected with a life-threatening disease, getting hit by a car, or being brutally attacked by a homicidal criminal. The various disasters and misfortunes in the mod can bring some much-needed dark realism to The Sims 4.
After School Activities
Just like real-life people, Sims also go to school. However, the school aspect in The Sims 4 is rather limited. Through the mod After School Activities created by KiaraSims4, the academic life of a gamer’s Sims is enhanced and made more realistic.
The After School Activities Mod adds various aspects to the simple activity of going to school by letting Sims make friends and gain useful skills. It has more than 30 after-school programs that a Sims student can pursue, including yoga, band, and dance.
Emotional Socials
One of the main reasons why The Sims 4 is an excellent life simulation game is due to its comprehensive moods and emotions system. This can be elevated by Helaene’s mod Emotional Socials, which adds more than 60 brand new social interactions depending on the emotional state of a Sim.
Thanks to the mod, a Sim can do more unique actions depending on their mood. This can greatly increase the level of engagement a Sim is capable of and diversifies the interactions a Sim can experience, from expressing impatience to creating when they feel inspired to venting about feeling grungy when they feel uncomfortable.
More Best Friends
The Sims 4 has one of the most complex and exhaustive life simulation systems. Just like in real life, a Sim can grow up, go to school, get a job — and even gain a best friend, however, they are limited to only sharing the best friend status with one other sim.
Thankfully, the More Best Friends mod created by LittleMsSam can bypass the one-best-friend limit in Sims 4. With the mod, players can have multiple best friends, which can help make the game feel more like real life since it’s normal for people to have multiple best friends.
Realistic Reactions
There are a lot of huge changes that gamers want from the upcoming The Sims 5 — and that includes more realistic responses to specific tragedies. A cheating Sim, for example, warrants a more evocative response than just a slap.
With scaldwellhu’s Realistic Reactions mod, a cheating sim can receive more than just a hit in the face. When a Sim catches their partner cheating on them, they can choose between a variety of colorful reactions such as fighting their partner, implying their partner’s mother is a llama, confronting their partner, and more.
Slice Of Life
One way to make The Sims 4 game look more realistic is by installing a mod that alters the appearance of a Sim depending on the state they’re in or the mood they feel. The Slice of Life mod created by KawaiiStacie is a popular mod that adds variety to the appearance of a Sim.
Through the mod, the way a Sim look changes after experiencing particular events. For example. If they’ve been in a fight, they’ll develop bruises on their face. Another example is rosy cheeks, which can be unlocked after the Sim spends their night partying in a club.
Meaningful Stories
Realistic video games such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and Sleeping Dogs succeed in telling a compelling story thanks to the expressive faces of their characters. The Sims 4 players who are invested in the storytelling aspect of the game can install the mod Meaningful Stories, which can help the Sims feel more human due to calibrated changes in the mood and emotions system of the game.
The mod also adds new moodlets that can impact how a Sim will interact with the world around them. Meaningful Stories make sure that a Sim won’t have instant mood changes, such as flipping from ecstasy to sadness in a snap.
Go To School
Gamers can also send their Sims to a school using the Go to School mod pack. Akin to the Go to Work expansion pack which permits players to get their Sims employed and control them at their workplace, the Go to School mod pack, which was expanded by a user named Zerbu, allows child and teenager Sims to attend school.
Zerbu’s mod pack expands the available Go to School pack by including five subjects, allowing Sims to like and dislike a subject, and apply for special opportunities from the school principal. The mod even allows Sims to pass on what they’ve learned at school to their future offspring.
Wonderful Whims
Scrolling through Tumblr and Patreon, gamers can find a ton of mods and CC packs that can elevate The Sims 4 gameplay — and most likely, they’ll stumble upon the mature-themed Wonderful Whims. The mod pack widens the possibilities of what players can do during WooHoo and bares it all for everyone to see.
For gamers who want something that’s friendly for younger players, they can install the mod pack Wonderful Whims which can beef up the attractiveness and personalities aspect of the game. The mod pack also introduces a ton of content that’s reminiscent of real-life relationships, from getting an STD to transitioning to an open relationship.
Have Some Personality Please!
Without any mods, it’s impossible to create a complex Sim that will remind gamers of real-life humans. That’s because Sims are very simplistic in nature, don’t have multifaceted personalities, and live in the moment.
With the help of the mod Have Some Personality Please!, the promiscuity aspect of a Sim is taken apart and is replaced with a complicated romance-centric aspect that is affected by a Sim’s aspirations, traits, and past experiences. That means in order to participate in WooHoo with another Sim, players will have to put in the work and make sure that their sim is compatible with their desired partner.
Source:gamerant.com