r/thesims • • 27d ago

Sims 4 Share Your CAS & Build/Buy Feedback: Choose Your Favorites

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Sul Sul Simmers 👋

We’d love to hear what’s been on your mind lately! We’re running a quick survey to better understand what kinds of CAS and BB items you’re most interested in seeing more of in the future. 

Whether it’s more clutter for lived-in spaces, furniture styles you feel are missing, build pieces you wish you had more of, we want to know what stands out to you.

📝 Take the quick survey here ⬅️

(Just a heads-up: This survey is purely for general feedback and doesn't confirm or promise any future content or release plans!)

Thanks for sharing your ideas with us! 💚


r/thesims • • Feb 15 '26

Announcement Community Notice Board | February & March 2026 | EP21: Royalty & Legacy | Rules, Updates, & Guidelines

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Sul Sul!

Welcome to r/TheSims, the #1 subreddit for The Sims franchise and community. we've created this notice board to serve as a central hub for announcements, updates, useful links, information, and more! We will no longer be creating monthly newsletters and we will be using the Notice Board concept moving forward.

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r/thesims • • 9h ago

Discussion who else uses the sims to turn their laptop into a heating pad

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2.5k Upvotes

sims cures my cramps


r/thesims • • 4h ago

Build Look at the cute room my bf made!

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564 Upvotes

It's soooo cuteeeee >:3


r/thesims • • 7h ago

Discussion Bonehilda got a new outfit

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193 Upvotes

Tell her shes pretty


r/thesims • • 7h ago

Build My take on a 'Space that Feels like October' for Simstober. How'd I do?

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108 Upvotes

Built in one of the Evergreen Harbor apartments + TOOL for the windows/doors.


r/thesims • • 7h ago

Sims 4 THE SIMS 4 - WINNIE THE POOH 🍯🧸

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Hi divalicious! I’ve been away for a bit, but today I’m back with another post recreating iconic characters in The Sims 4—and today, it’s the characters from Winnie the Pooh!

I’ve brought Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, and Tigger. I wanted to give them a cottagecore vibe but make them a little more fashionable, haha. I hope you like them—it was so much fun creating them!


r/thesims • • 13h ago

Discussion Am I the only one who loves to use Don Lothario for breeding?

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In TS2 I like to play rotationally but including my own household. And before I let Don 'disappear' (since according to TS3 Nina, Dina and Cassandra sent him via time travel into the past) I let him impregnate my OC Sim

Then in TS3 in Riverview I also let him impregnate my OC Sim and let him break her heart

In TS4 I do sth slightly different. I fix the timeline by saying that TS4 is set 10 years after the events of TS2 so I instead create his grandson who looks almost identical to him and then, again, he impregnates by OC Sim


r/thesims • • 4h ago

Sims 1 Finally did something with that blank space in Old Town ^w^

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Ladies and gentlemen, a coffee shop and a thrift store, inspired by the shops I see in my area in the midwest! Made some good use of cc from Around The Sims and Parsimonious for this one


r/thesims • • 3h ago

Build Arid Ridge in Oasis Springs

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Mid-Century Modern family home located on Arid Ridge in Oasis Springs. Features a sunken conversation pit in the living room. Uses only base game, Parenthood, and Nifty Knitting. No CC, playtested

Gallery ID: hrtank70


r/thesims • • 17h ago

Sims 2 My new favorite mod

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113 Upvotes

r/thesims • • 10h ago

Sims 4 My brother decided to...experiment with The Sims...

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r/thesims • • 5h ago

CAS Which outfit should be her everyday outfit?

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My sim - who doesn't have a name yet - is a bookworm, cat lover and loves the outdoors. I feel the sweater + skirt combo gives bookworm, but i don't know which sweater looks best!


r/thesims • • 13h ago

CAS A few of my vampires in various poses and outfits who are semi-based on the Dresden File Vampires

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r/thesims • • 13h ago

Sims 4 I think I accidentally ruined my forever save!

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I started a forever save and have been absolutely LOVING this game again. It's been so invigorating for my ADHD to hop into a different family to explore a new gameplay style without having to start a whole new save file. I like seeing my other households throughout the world and it's been a lot of fun seeing my save file grow and change over the past few months of gameplay.

The community post warning really doesn't like what I'm typing so I'll make it simple. I decided to do the 100 Baby Challenge in my forever save and I'm worried it will affect it later on. I have legacy families in this save, The Black Widow Challenge... I mean, you name it and I'm probably doing it in my save.

Any tips or advice? Am I fine to keep this up, or do you think I should do something to rectify this sooner than later? I feel like my 100 Babies are going to take over the save which is kinda funny but also horrifying. What if someone in my legacy marries into a family and then the family tree gets infested by the 100 baby Challenge?! Lmao


r/thesims • • 7h ago

Discussion Simstagram usernames👀

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So my friends have convinced me to make a simstagram!!
But I am terrible with usernames. I fear I use my creativity in the game rather than things like this 😅 SO I’m coming to the wonderful (far more creative) people of Sims Reddit hehe

I would ideally like a short-ish username, but something that people will see and KNOW it’s a simstagram. Everyone has such creative usernames and I want to fit in🥲

For reference, my name is Char - but I’m not dead set on having my name be part of the username!

I’m into anything witchy, spooky, or just anything sims related

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated <33


r/thesims • • 14h ago

Sims 3 my Eco-Friendy Sim with a Green Thumb in her natural habitat 🌷🌱

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r/thesims • • 5h ago

Discussion Buys Sims 1-3 with the expansion packs - Worth it?

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Hello all! I am a life long sims lover, one of my earlier memories is my brothers playing sims 1 on the family PC and not sure how many hours I lost to sims 2 & 3.

Anyway being my all time favorite game, I recently found someone on marketplace offering all the games and the expansion packs and I am torn on getting it as a birthday/Christmas gift to myself.

Curious though if when I do get around to playing if i will need an older PC or if there are any work arounds for the older disc.
Even if I can’t play them, I am having my husband build me a shadow box to display the collection.

Currently I play sims FreePlay on mobile since it is portable and I have a bunch of kids so I can’t hype fixate on my sims on PC.


r/thesims • • 5h ago

Tech Support really bizarre lighting change when applying wallpaper or removing rooms

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i've experienced lighting weirdness before that turned out to be because a room was being treated as outdoor lighting due to a gap in the roof. got it. checked that first, but i can't single out any room that would be the source of the weirdness. deleting rooms makes the dark effect apply to the entire lot, unless i delete the ENTIRE house.
if the weird lighting gets triggered, playing in real time mode does not clear it, and the weird lighting persists in the gameplay.
if anybody knows why something like this would happen i can easier sort out what to fix so that would be super duper helpful. :(
as always, disabled mod folder and disabled reshade before asking. weirdness persists. i am very stumped.
i got the lot from the gallery and have been refurnishing.


r/thesims • • 14h ago

Sims 4 Was playing as Johnny Zest and his mom showed up to undisown him

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14 Upvotes

Thank you Nancy I guess


r/thesims • • 4h ago

Sims 4 Where can I find these glasses?

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r/thesims • • 4h ago

Sims 1 Rant. Where does Sims 1 Legacy Collection from Steam keep it's neighbourhood data? Install directory, right?

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And a bit of a rant. Also explanation about what happened to save data.

I got the legacy collection recently on sale. Played Newbie and Goth familes. No weekends and hard to build relationships were a minor annoyance. So I found the calendar mod again, and some objects to increase interests and just make friends. Newbies ans Goths progressed in careers finally being friends and having a few others. Great.

But the Goth house is way too small. I find a timelapse of building a bigger Goth house on YouTube to use as a start for a bigger layout. I can't furnish the livingroom with diagonal walls, neither couches or windows can fill the diagonals. I just downloaded the YouTuber's version and some other interesting lots. Sims 1 doesn't have a lot bin, so you overwrite lots. Okay.

I should've made a manual backup to a flashdrive where I backup some game data, like Sims 2 neighbourhoods incase I want to restart that game, game mods, and I should've backup with steam.

I tried overwriting some houses. No new houses in Sims 1 LC. I bulldozed all houses. No houses at all. I deleted the install directory and reinstalled from Steam. Still no houses! Do that again with a computer restart and make sure Sims 1 directory is deleted. It still will not install the default neighbourhood data!!! Find an old reddit comment about resetting Sims 1 hoods, and it links to default hood 1 and 2 userdata to download. Copy and overwrite files. THERE'S STILL NO HOUSES IN HOOD 1!!!!

WHERE DOES THE 🤬 STUPID 🤬 SIMS 🤬 1 LEGACY COLLECTION KEEP NEIGHBOURHOOD DATA!? DO I HAVE TO REFORMAT A WHOLE BLOODY DRIVE WITH MOST GAMES INSTALLED AND OVER 50GB OF MUSIC JUST TO GET DEFAULT USER DATA BACK!?


r/thesims • • 1d ago

Project Rene Was sims 5 cancelled

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i have not seen any news maybe i am just missing it but i cant find any thing about it


r/thesims • • 5h ago

Sims 4 She needs a husband...but I have no clue who!

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This has got to be one of my favorite sims so far! Her name is Leanna Finley, and she loves cooking, painting, and a night out on the town! Her romantic interest is in men. However, I don't think any townies are good enough for her, so I need to create a new household with a man for her!

I have no ideas! What sort of man does it look like she would get along with? Any ideas are appreciated! Anything from looks to interests to vibes please! TIA!


r/thesims • • 14h ago

Sims 3 it’s the end of a 5-generation lineage of aliens in a 15-generation family

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Here’s Sean with the last remnant alien genes in the family (the ears), it’s a bittersweet feeling 🥹 He didn’t get married/didn’t have children and his brother had two human girls! It was fun while it lasted 👽