
These career paths allow players to follow their Sims to work and do their daily tasks, greatly expanding gameplay from the typical “rabbit hole” careers. The most prominent added feature is the three new active careers: doctor, detective, or scientist. The very first expansion pack for The Sims 4 released in January of 2015 and came with a variety of exciting additions to the game! Expansions are the largest DLC packs for The Sims and retail for $39.99 USD. If you love the idea of having your sims live like transcendentalist writers, Outdoor Retreat might just be the pack for you. The new world in the pack was Granite Falls, a woodsy area where Sims can travel but not permanently reside. The biggest new feature was the ability for Sims to go on vacation. It came with a variety of new features, like the herbalism skill and a new aspiration, “Outdoor Enthusiast”. As a game pack, it was an all-new type of pack for the Sims franchise, and came with a larger array of gameplay items than a stuff pack, but less than an expansion, for an in-between price of $19.99 USD. Outdoor Retreat was released in January of 2015 and is the very first DLC that was released for The Sims 4. Not to worry, though! Toddlers, pools, and more were later added to the game as free updates, fleshing out the base game even more.

It did lack many of the features players had come to expect from the series’ mainline games, however–swimming pools and the toddler lifestate were both missing from the game at launch, among other things.

It had a lot of new and improved features from past installments, including a completely revamped create-a-sim and build/buy modes. The Sims 4 came out at midnight at the beginning of September in 2014. September 2, 2014: The Base Game Releases

Reading up on the game for fun? Get a snack or drink (you’re in for a long one!) and keep scrolling. Interested in learning more about a specific pack? Just click on it on the table below and you’ll be taken to that pack’s information. But since the game came out, it’s been through a lot of iterations and changes, so I’m going to explore the entire history of The Sims 4 here today. The Sims 4! If you’re anything like me, you’ve clocked a few thousand hours on it since it released and probably won’t stop anytime soon.
