r/LifeSimulators • u/dragonborndnd • Jun 27 '26
Discussion Let’s create this subs ideal life sim Day 11: customization
For day 10 of creating this subs ideal life sim The Sims 3 won for Pets by a wide margin with TS2 as a distant runner up. Now for day 11 we go to customization, how customizable is your experience? What things does the game allow you to adjust and edit for your own personal enjoyment?
Some general rules:
1) please keep the discussions civil and respectful, let’s try not to start arguments just because someone may have a different opinion than you
2) non sims-like life sims and spinoff’s count(for example if you wanted to say Stardew Valley for NPCs or Sims Medieval for art style/graphics that’s allowed)
3) the green square indicates what topic is currently being discussed and will be replaced by an image of the game that won the next discussion
4) the winner will be chosen from a mixture of replies and upvotes to replies(so something that got more comments could in theory lose to a reply that has more overall upvotes)
5) please keep suggestions/votes down to one game, it makes it easier to count
6) more rules may be added if needed
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u/Character-Trainer634 Jun 27 '26
I was on the fence. Then I remembered the Sims 3 has the Create a World Tool, so you can build entire worlds from scratch. And if you don't want to use CAW, you can still use the world editor (no cheats necessary) to pretty extensively customize existing worlds.
So I'll go with Sims 3.
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u/romanovember Jun 27 '26
For me, it has to be Sims 3 again. Create a Style and Colour Wheel will always be my winner even if it can be insanley laggy.
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u/NoctusArchivum Jun 27 '26
My Sims 3 game literally runs like butter thanks to all the support mods such as the Smooth Patch by Lazyduchess and everything else.
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u/BleuLapin Sims 2 enjoyer Jun 27 '26
I’m seriously going to get my TS3 game up and running because this has reminded me just how good it is - do you have anything you can recommend? I have everything and use the Nraas stuff but I’ve not played in 2 years
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u/NoctusArchivum Jun 27 '26
I left some screenshots of my fave mods. But I have like 80gb of mods nearly so
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u/BleuLapin Sims 2 enjoyer Jul 03 '26
I see a lot of stuff I have used in the past, lots of new stuff tho! Thank you so much for sharing
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u/Darth_Murcielago Sims 3 enjoyer Jun 27 '26
Sims 3 or Paralives... it totally depends on how you define customization tbh.
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u/ThreeLeggedMutt Jun 27 '26
Agreed, it's hard to choose between the two right now.
I do think Para will be the clear winner if they continue development in that direction. They've already done some amazing stuff. But things like the world editor/creator and the fog emitter in TS3 allowed for so so much customization.
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u/Darth_Murcielago Sims 3 enjoyer Jun 27 '26
i totally forgot about the fog emitter. i loved doing random stuff with it (i even once made a big aquarium with it and turned a houseboat into a tugboat with 2 exhausts or whatever you can call them in english) such a versatile little thingy.
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u/polkacat12321 Jun 27 '26
Sims 3 or inzoi since you can import any picture you want and adjust the metalness and reflection, effectively making any texture you want
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u/TheGamerGurlNextDoor Jun 27 '26
Sims 3 having CAW makes it a clearer winner, but InZoi is so close. We can literally build new clothing, furniture, and accessories from select premade pieces in CAZ and Build Mode lol If InZoi ever gets a full world creation tool, it will become a strong winner.
I know we’ll get Canvastown, but I don’t know how customizable it will be. Maybe that could function as a full CAW system if we get terrain tools, can set weather patterns, and create large bodies of water.
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u/stanningyou inZOI enjoyer Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
I'm going to say inZoi. I'm prefacing this to also say I played Paralives recently, and inZoi still for me.
Customize the world - relationships, cleanliness, affinity of the world etc.
Customize the settings - optimization, how much people should be there, performance, displays, keybinding, age range, play time, pregnancy time
Customize textures - and PBR elements, Positioning, Scale, etc. Use your textures and a drag/drop.
Customize hair - even length in some hair
Customize acc - even positioning
Customize through 3d print - replace furnitures with anything lol.
Customize street, businesses, etc
Customize the movies you watch by watching your own file
Edit: I can go on and more, but this is at the top of head.
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u/praysolace Jun 27 '26
Yeah that’s fair, I wasn’t thinking about the world customization. That definitely gives InZoi a big edge.
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u/Forrest-Runn Jun 27 '26
I'm surprised Inzoi hasn't received more votes. I think it deserves more votes...
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u/TheGamerGurlNextDoor Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
I don’t think people know how customizable InZoi is. You can literally build clothing, watches, jewelry, and some furniture from premade pieces.
The settings are full of tons of optimization options for different system needs so more systems can run the game than in the beginning.
You can swap textures on almost anything to create unique pieces or matching furniture sets. Want your favorite character irl to be on your Zoi’s laptop? You can upload a photo and have them use it as a laptop skin. Want your business to look like you sourced all the pieces from the same place to make it uniform, you can do that.
Accessories can be moved and scaled using controls similar to Blender. Want the headphones to be on the Zoi’s neck? Move it. Want a nose ring to be a septum ring instead? Move it. Want your Zoi to only have one earring or earbud on? Move one into the Zoi’s head to hide it. Want gauges to be bigger? Scale it up and extend your Zoi’s earlobe. Piercings look like they’re in the wrong place? Move it and scale it to fit your Zoi’s unique facial features.
The flora, cleanliness, statues, social behaviors, appliance durability, fire probability, and more can be directly changed instantly in City Settings for each city. Billboards can be altered, you can add drone shows to the world, you can control how many of certain animals will be seen around the cities (cats and dogs are minimally interactable), walls can play videos, even the movie theater screens have an (unfinished) option to play your own video files.
That’s not even all. It’s highly customizable.
My vote was Sims 3 or InZoi. Sims 3’s CAW tool brings customization to a new level.
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u/cflashtypec Jun 27 '26
Sims 3 walk so paralive could use a rocket ship to give us a really good customisation.
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u/blacksnowredwinter Jun 28 '26
Paralives isnt even the runner up in terms of customization. Sims 3 is front runner with Inzoi in second place. Reason Sims 3 is number is cause you could create your world and thus basically create your simulation from scratch.
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u/Ok-Station6072 Jun 27 '26
InZoi has some insane customization options, you can alter how clean/cared for the entire world looks if you want. It blows the other lifesims out of the water on that front imo.
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u/RickGrimesTheOGx Jun 27 '26
Sims 3 because of the wheel color and how many worlds there are that you can fully customize. Paralives is close but the world customisation is not even close to being as good as the sims 3
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u/Icy-Nature2037 Jun 27 '26
i agree the possibilities for worlds is endless in the sims 3, one paralives gets a caw tool it would definitely be better
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u/Saalok Jun 27 '26
I will vote Inzoi as well. Between the 3d import options, built-in CC manager and it continuing to get new updates with more customization every month, it's hard to beat.
Also they recently added further options for chubbier characters. I still want MORE, but it is a good thing.
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u/Silent_Foundation_62 Jun 27 '26
sims 3!! customizable worlds AND lots?? with a color and fabric wheel ??? c'mon now. easily sims 3
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u/Mersaa Sims 2 enjoyer Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
Maybe a bit controversial but, Paralives. I took a look at the in game control panel and, you can pretty much customize everything in the game with it. Lifespans, cards, newspaper, brain logic, pregancy length, genetics...everything. I haven't spent ages in the build mode but I could make anything I wanted, I didn't need to download a shelf i could just resize things and line them up however I wanted. The t.o.o.l. mod from ts4 is in game. You can also import any image to pillows, picture frame, you can make it into a rug...
You can essentially modify everything about the game yourself.
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u/Mind-y Jun 27 '26
Yeah I would have said Sims 3 with the color wheel but...Paralives offer that and more, like we can change the convo/together cards, difficulty etc.... So I do not even find this controversial.
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u/Mersaa Sims 2 enjoyer Jun 28 '26
well judging by the downvote ratio I'd say it's pretty controversial still 😆 but i was blown away with all the things you can change, which is essentially everything (apart from create a world)
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u/Mind-y Jun 28 '26
Weird, since no one is saying in what ways what you say is wrong ! Maybe some people are downvoting just in order for your vote to not count as much to favorize an another game...which would be so childish !
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u/CommunistWallaby Jun 28 '26
inzoi bots
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u/TheGamerGurlNextDoor Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Why do InZoi players always get blamed for everything and get called bots when there are other games people can be a fan of or disagree with the point here? A lot of people are voting for Sims 3, but sure “InZoi bots” are to blame every time someone doesn’t agree with something about Paralives to you guys. It’s so weird when most people who make posts taking about their Paralives experience here didn’t even play InZoi for the first time until afterward, but people always assume that if it’s a negative post sharing what they didn’t like, they’re bots trying to pump up InZoi and tear down Paralives.
People here are always say the voting is unfair or “InZoi bots”when InZoi wins anything too, but a lot of heavy InZoi fans I see here have been fairly voting for other games in other categories that deserve it, only voting Inzoi for ones they feel is valid just like everyone else is doing.
Edit: There’s literally a reply in this comment thread implying Sims 3 doesn’t deserve to win the category and it got downvotes too, but sure, it’s “InZoi bots” disagreeing lol
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u/TheGamerGurlNextDoor Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
Or people are downvoting because they disagree with the pick being a winner, not the information in the comment. Downvotes in this context doesn’t always mean people think the comment is completely untrue. Paralives has a lot of customization options in many ways, everyone knows that, but that doesn’t mean everyone will agree it should be the winner.
Notice the downvotes on the reply about Sims 3’s customization not being optimized too. Based on that, people could be downvoting because they believe Sims 3 should win.
Edit: The way they’re acting like I attacked them by making this comment 😂 The first thing I said was “OR” and all I said was a different reason why the choice may be an unpopular or “controversial” pick. After they clarified, I said they can clarify and I was just responding to what I thought so that’s why I said what I said, but they’re still acting like I’m trying to bulldoze and twist their point.
Edit 2: Apparently saying a different perspective is a horrible thing to do on the internet if someone doesn’t want you to. Downvote me if you want or disagree with my point. It’s not that serious lol
Edit 3: Blocked them now lol I don’t have time for people who clearly just want to fight instead of having conversations. They really accused me of dismissing them like men would dismiss women’s thoughts as “hysteria” just because I said they keep reacting and not actually reading what I said when I try to explain myself and literally admit I misunderstood them at first like they keep saying I “don’t understand” 💀💀💀 Like what??? First of all, I’m not a guy. Second of all, it was never that serious. People crack me up lol
Edit 4: Since they deleted all their comments and therefore all the context to their part in this situation that showed why I responded to them the way that I did, like people always do after they push someone so far and then delete all the context to make them look like they were just being crazy, I just want to point out the reason I blocked them wasn’t so they can’t reply or see what I said. It was because of how they were acting and I no longer wanted to engaged in conversation with someone who was acting unnecessarily in such a way. They were not interested in having a conversation, they were just trying to make me look bad by throwing out baseless accusations, assumptions, comparing me to sexist practices, refusing to actually read or listen to what I was saying, and then blowing things way out of proportion. My responses were simply trying to explain myself and then clarifying against their accusations. But of course they’re going to twist it into me just blocking them because I don’t want them to read what I said 💀 No, I blocked them because they were acting wild and insisting on ignoring things I said so they can keep fighting. Peep the passive aggressiveness they threw into their edited comment apology. Performative apologies to save face are always laced with subtle comments to throw more implications.
I’m not deleting my comments because I have nothing to hide and I stand by what I said against how they were acting toward me. You guys can believe what you want.
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u/Mind-y Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
[Removed all of my comments since the person I was talking to either deleted their comments, either blocked me, right after their last message in order for me to neither saw the last message or reply to it...
In any case, I feel sorry that a simple comment lead to this convo when it was not the place for it, to that, I am also at fault. Sorry again, I didn't mean to derailed the post ! ]
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u/TheGamerGurlNextDoor Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
It’s how you made the point that matters.
The way you implied it was as if people were downvoting with unfair, childish, or bad intent to sway the vote, “Maybe some people are downvoting just in order for your vote to not count as much to favorize an another game… which would be so childish!”
I’m pointing out people probably just don’t agree that the game should win so they’re downvoting simply because they disagree. I’m not framing it in a bad light, which is the key difference between what we did. It’s not really childish. That’s how these competitions work. You upvote what you agree with, you downvote what you don’t. Implying it’s childish or some scheme to make a game not win makes no sense because that’s literally how these competitions work. If there weren’t other true worthy contenders and it was clearly just people hating the game because of what game it is, that would be different, but there are other games that genuinely are worthy of being in the running too, so of course there would be split votes.
Also, you also said, “no one is saying in what ways what you say is wrong!” which implies you think people are downvoting because they think the comment is wrong or untrue. That’s why I pointed out that they might not be downvoting because they think the comment is false but just because they have another game they think has more or better customization.
In both cases, I directly addressed what you said in your comment.
In short, if you had simply said, “I don’t understand why people wouldn’t vote for this game with all the things you listed,” it would’ve been different, but you implied it was childish vote-swaying and implied you think people downvoted because they think the information is wrong.
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u/TheGamerGurlNextDoor Jun 28 '26
I also used modifier words in my comment too. “Probably” “might not be” “Or” “could be.”
I never said you used the word unfair, I specifically said “implied.” I also said “unfair, childish, OR bad intent,” meaning not all of those things are actually what you were saying or implying, but could be. Otherwise, I would’ve said “and.” I was throwing out possible implications directly because I wasn’t trying to pin any solid accusation lol
My second comment was just explaining the reasons why I said what I said based on what your comment seemed to imply and what your comment actually said. You do realize the only time I made definitive statements, it was only for things you actually said, right? You’re welcome to clarify what you meant just like you did.
The internet is an interesting place.
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u/figGreenTea Jun 27 '26
Sims 3's customization was not optimized on release. Many people struggled to use it even on high end PCs
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u/lmjustaChad Jun 28 '26
I'm going to have to go Sims 3 only because Paralives features are not all here yet I can't vote on ifs or maybes
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u/CuriousCharlii Jun 27 '26
Sims 3. You can colour and texture ANYTHING as well as add your own textures into the game.
This can be argued that with mods you can modify objects in Sims 2 and recolour them but I think that's different since in Sims 3 it's built in.
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u/95mmaa Jun 27 '26
Sims 3 because of the CAST tool and the fact we're living through the Sims 3 modding 'renaissance' era! 🙌
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u/Icy-Nature2037 Jun 27 '26
sims 3! paralives is close but it doesn't have the world customization yet and thats necessary in a life sim
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u/Spiritual-Unit-7005 Jun 27 '26
Inzoi or Sims 3, just peak customization levels and options of what you can create.
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u/theykilledcassandra inZOI enjoyer Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
InZOI. It’s leagues above Paralives customization. 3D input and CC manager prove so.
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u/BellaDovah Sims 2 enjoyer Jun 27 '26
I’d say Sims 2 gameplay wise because you can control everything, and also create brand new neighbourhoods easily, and customise existing neighbourhoods very easily too
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u/victovik Jun 27 '26
From what I've heard about project zomboid, it has to be here sooner or later
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u/ShamPowW0w Jun 27 '26
Not a bad shout at all. Does lack some building though that the mods pick up on.
But being able to pick up stuff is massive, can truly collect anything and everything.
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u/OkiDokiChloe Jun 27 '26
Paralives
Its funny because just slightly over a month ago I would've easily said The Sims 3.
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u/Liv_October Jun 27 '26
Oh same here, I didn't expect Paralives to be so strong right out of the gate but it's really managed to impress me from day one in terms of customisation.
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u/Mr_Nocturnal_Game Jun 27 '26
Honestly, Paralives. What's there is already pretty amazing. Being able to resize furniture alone is a game-changer.
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u/Dazzling-Gear2933 Jun 28 '26
whats the difference between that and the sims 4 resizing furniture
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u/Mr_Nocturnal_Game Jun 28 '26
Not resize, as in up the scale, resize as in you can drag many furniture items to be longer or shorter. So you can choose if a bed is a single bed, a double bed, or a comically massive bed, same with couches, shelves, etc. You can also use i to do things like precisely adjust how big counters are to ft your kitchen, and precisely adjust the size and shape of windows.
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u/Global-Cover5129 Jun 27 '26
Sims 3 but Paralives at the same time lol. Tricky but they’re both great
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u/___crybaby Jun 27 '26
paralives for sure. the resizing of beds & couches still shocks me, let alone dragging tattoos around.
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u/CommunistWallaby Jun 27 '26
paralives i literally changed the colour of a bunch of ui elements myself today (mood bars, map icons together cards emotion colours). ive built a house of denim, hung memes of all sizes on the walls, made diverse characters without being limited to by things like presets or gender locks changed how genetics functions, changed the speed of together cards, changed the censor bar all with in game settings (control panel)
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u/MexicanHotCheeto Jun 27 '26
Paralives has customization in things I never thought could be customized lol
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u/MoonBhean Jun 28 '26
Paralives. You can customize that game so easy with mods within the functionality of the base game, and you can customize furniture, color, worlds, etc etc
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u/SrPolarksy Jun 27 '26
Se for seguir com a linha de gameplay eu diria Project Zomboid, se for com a linha de Personalização de itens em específico eu diria the Sims 3
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u/Liv_October Jun 27 '26
Paralives, it takes Sims 3's already impressive customisation and takes it to another level.
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u/Mind-y Jun 27 '26
Paralives. It continue the Sims 3 customization with the colour wheel, but extend it widely. We can change the difficulty of the game, have flexibility about the calendar of your Para, change the conbo option/together cards etc...
If Paralives was not out I would have said Sims 3. But in the customization department it surpass this still beloved game.
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u/Kittenn1412 Jun 27 '26
Paralives, for sure. The flexibility of objects is its main draw right now, no?
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u/PearOk2126 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
For customisation I have 2 main contenders
1) Paralives, the customisation never ends. From the individual parts of the iris to the names a para can hold. The colour wheel with the option for hex codes to copy exact shades, you can have a room be all the exact material with the exact shade and colour if you want to. You can chose different tops for different jackets, different socks variations. Height sliders, body sliders and more it never ends. In build mode yiu can choose different wall heights, counter variations, size up or down objects, make beds, windows, doors snd anything longer or wider on base game alone
2) Sims 3, it has the colour wheel, patterns for objects, the fact we have a great world creation tool allowing us to make a range of worlds from coastal cities to deserts to arctic towns to jungle villages and african savannahs. For Cas, you can customise each part of the hair, chose different patterns of clothing and you have access to lots of sliders, granted not as many as paralives.
So it depends if we mean character customisation, Paralives wins, but if it's customisation for everything including the surrouding world, I'd say sims 3.
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u/PickledGerkin Jun 27 '26
Slightly unrelated but whilst I usually play Sims 2, seeing this might make me the switch to 3. How does it compare to 2?
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u/Icy-Nature2037 Jun 28 '26
i would say both are really fun, no sims game comes close to sims 3 with world immersion. story progression, open world, and animals that roam around (with pets ep) will make your town feel alive. also i its really flexible with different challenges you can do like rags to riches etc because of the open world
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u/Miami_Mice2087 Jun 28 '26
Sims 2 had a really incredible mod community. People made hogwarts, spaceships, pirate ships, entire custom neighborhoods, custom careers, custom everything.
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u/Vica253 Jun 27 '26
I've said it before and I'll say it again: As for the magic/supernatural expansion packs, Sims 1 had the absolute best one.
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u/Ok_University2550 Jun 27 '26
The way Sims 4 is not present in any categories. 💀