least favorite of the sims franchise. missing a lot of features on launch, weird building system, overpriced expansion packs with little to no features, etc. it’s advisable not to pay full price for this garbage.

childhood favorite but deeply flawed.

• impossible to have a good experience without nraas mods and some kind of frame rate limiter as it runs at 1000+ fps and crashes frequently if unmodified.
• create-a-sim runs like absolute shit and lags between category changes but its quite expansive with many customization features that don’t appear in the other game
• build/buy mode lags if you’re in it for more than 10 minutes. pricing system sucks. somehow no search feature with such a large catalog of items.
• some expansions like island paradise are unplayable without mods due to lag
• sometimes a save decides to shit itself and corrupt for no reason so you can easily lose hours of playtime in minutes. not good for players that like playing for a few generations.

short game with a weird combat system but fun nonetheless

has its quirks, great soundtrack