I have a love hate relationship with this game. I love building and decorating houses and designing and playing with sims, but I don't know if it's my pc being unable to handle the packs I have (16) or EA's incompetence, but each time there's an update (which is very common), my pc has a stroke (freezing, stuttering, windows sometimes not loading) and I have to uninstall the game to make things normal again. After the third time I gave up. Maybe when I get a computer from NASA I will play it again. Also the packs are expensive. Great game, awful developers.

$700 is how much money you'll need to pay EA to play TS4 in its entirety. Mind you, many packs are still BROKEN. Most of the time, your Sims will be stuck in simulation lag, just standing around staring at nothing. Mods will make this game a fun ride, until the bugs and glitches suck the life out of that too.

Given how EA treats the Madden series, the Sims series, and the Alice games, I'd never put any money towards the Sims 4. But if you do try it, try it with mods. Wicked Whims is a 10/10 and so are LittleMsSam mods.

I love this game so much but it's becoming more and more clear that it was never designed to have all of the content it does now. The Sims 4 is full of bugs and glitches, some of which lead to your game being unplayable. I have to play with the MCCC mod or my sims autonomously queue "What's Happening?" six times in a row or pick fights with their neighbors. And good luck getting your teens to attend prom! I really wish EA prioritized the game actually working over adding mountains of more (paid) DLC.

There is a lot that I can say about this game. I'm a fan of OG Sims, been playing the Sims franchise since I was 5 years old. It holds a special nostalgic place in my heart. There's a lot of things right with this game, as is wrong. But at the end of the day, I have a game that I will pick up, play religiously for about two weeks, and then drop for months. I love adding mods and custom content to my game, I own almost all of the additional packs. I can create whatever kind of world/life that I want, make whoever I want, and do whatever I want. I enjoy the intricate building options, and all of the items you can use to fill/decorate your homes. Being able to do things like go to school/university/work with your sims is an interesting take on the game that may or may not be enjoyable for you, I enjoy it sometimes, I also like that it's optional. Over the years EA has made updates to add things in that make the game more inclusive (pronouns/ability to be trans, medical devices for some disabilities, things like vitiligo, and even partnering with black content creators to make things more racially inclusive) and good on them for that, but I certainly feel they could do better. Fortunately that is where some really good CC comes in. You might argue that if you need to mod a game then it isn't good, but I disagree, it just gives you the option to customize the game to YOUR liking. At the end of the day that's what playing the Sims is about. Playing your story, your way. That's exactly what this game does.