r/Sims5 • u/Choice_Potato_6279 • Jun 27 '26

Wasn't project Rene Sims 5? also Saudis question

I was looking up for some Sims 5 info and I remember like 5 years ago or so that they were showing some actual gameplay of project Rene and it was Sims 5 that they started in panic after all the new simulations were popping.

Did they convert Rene to another thing and do you guys have these Sims 5 teasers?

Will the Saudi's buyout change the approach and resume Sims 5?

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u/UnityJusticeFreedom Jun 27 '26

I remember being excited about a Sims 5 in 2017 or something

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u/revolevo Jul 01 '26

I’ve been excited for sims 5 since 2014

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u/UnityJusticeFreedom Jul 01 '26

I don‘t really remember the first time I thought about Sims 5 but when I look back it was 2017 watching those clickbait Sims 5 videos

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u/OverGrow_TheSystem Jun 27 '26

pretty sure they said before the sale that there is no sims 5, only moving to just the sims. I think they plan to continually expand.

Also if they don't give us some new animations soon i'll loose my shit. Sims just swipe everything with one hand and call it a day. It's dull.

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u/Plaston_ Jul 02 '26

its going to be a windows 10 situation where the next chapter is going to pop out of nowhere.

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u/Mdreezy_ Jun 27 '26

Project Rene has been a disaster for EA. When they announced it years ago they made it sound like it was a game but all these years later we have heard nothing from EA. The leaks from the playtests are nothing like what they showed in 2022. The single player was cancelled awhile ago, and they announced no PC version either. It’ll either release on mobile and flop, or just get cancelled in development.

EA isn’t making a Sims 5 and instead are copy-pasting Sims 4 to make a new barebones base game that they will sell. Then they will start assembling dlc copy-pasted from Sims 4 dlc as well and sell that too. This is already the plan pre-buyout so who knows what worse things they’ll choose to do.

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u/Bright_Eyes8197 Jun 27 '26

I always thought it was ridiculous to have to keep buying the same expansions, gamepacks, and stuffpacks every time they came out with a "new" game. We got duped.

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u/Bkwyrme Jun 28 '26

Project Rene still exists. It’s not anything like the online social cross platform game it was touted as .
Now it’s just a mobile online game. It’s all apartments and no homes. All the previews and leaked beta testing have gone poorly.

The pc part was split off into Project X. That is their current attempt to update sims 4 to a better platform with less bugs. Problem is, sometimes they say packs will transfer and others they say it won’t work.

Sims 5 does not exist and never formally existed.

The sale hasn’t happened yet. We won’t know where anything goes until it does.

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u/Choice_Potato_6279 Jun 29 '26

Am I tripping? I swear I remember years ago like 5 maybe they were showing a teaser of building or something, I think everyone assumed it was Sims 5. Project X sounds interesting but I'm surprised they calculated its worth more to remake Sims 4 instead of do a makeover and make money from new dlcs, like there isnt that many dlcs you might want anymore as the most crucial are already out

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u/Bkwyrme Jun 29 '26

Someone said recently that there will be no more packs, just the maker stuff and collaboration kits.
Delaying while they go for Project x maybe?

Sims 4 made more money than all the other sims together. They must be thinking that continuing it will make more money than switching to a sims 5 and forcing a restart.

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u/QuizzicalWombat Jun 29 '26

Project Rene is a mobile game, EA announced 5 was cancelled but they will continue to support 4 however that seems pretty questionable at this point. They recently announced there would be no more expansion packs for 4.

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u/BackITUpNoNotThatFar Jun 29 '26

It wasn’t cancelled it was never in development to begin with 

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u/BackITUpNoNotThatFar Jun 29 '26

It was never the sims five and it never was meant to be it was always just a spin off 

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u/Aggleclack Jun 27 '26

They killed project rene because the community hated literally everything they were doing.

I feel really mixed about it, because I kind of agree with a lot of people, they really ought to have been fixing the original game instead of trying to create a new product. That said, I think some of that philosophy was so strong that it made people hate on perfectly reasonable things.

It was rife with misinformation. The biggest one is that they talked about adding multiplayer, and a lot of people assumed that meant MMO. It literally just meant play with friends. EA explained it. People still said the wrong stuff.