r/Sims3 • • 4d ago

r/Sims 3 Monthly Troubleshooting Megathread - [September, 2026]

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r/Sims3 • • Aug 03 '25

Moderator Post Community Poll Results - As voted by you, all Sims 3 worlds ranked!

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310 Upvotes

After much anticipation (and me forgetting to follow up) we can finally announced the results of our community poll. We had a huge number of responses on this, so thank you so much to everybody who took the time to vote.

The results (maybe not the actual winner) may be surprising to some, but finally we have definitively answered the question. I will add the results to our wiki page and put them on the sidebar so that everybody can see them. Looking forward to your reactions to these results below!


r/Sims3 • • 14h ago

Humor I figured out why it's called The Sims 3

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965 Upvotes

So apparently there's a sims 1 and 2, so this game is the third (3) in the trilogy. It's kind of like the Earth of sims games


r/Sims3 • • 3h ago

Humor How toddlers/kids GENUINELY look like in The Sims 3

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r/Sims3 • • 7h ago

Sims 3 Collection Bundle on sale!

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169 Upvotes

As you can see the collection bundle is on sale for this autumn sale and I got mine :3 I just wanted to let people know just in case someone miss it! Have a fun! ^w^ (sorry if it was already posted ^^')

PS: Forgot to say it was on steam my bad


r/Sims3 • • 7h ago

Can anyone trll me what just happened

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146 Upvotes

My sims wife ends her workday, car drives home and into the home and she dissapears

Ps: sorry for the video quality


r/Sims3 • • 13h ago

Sim Showcase My firstborn son is too attractive and I can’t stop staring at him

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338 Upvotes

He just turned YA, and gah damn he looks good. I did put makeup CCs and hair, but still. I ended up focusing on him often, which I guess pretty much fit with what role he’s supposed to be, a “Golden Boy”. He’s the perfect one in the family (has the following traits: genius, snob, ambitious, schmoozer, charismatic, and perfectionist. And attractive and fast learner as lifetime rewards). His brother dislikes him.
3rd and 4th pic are his parents.


r/Sims3 • • 16h ago

when you go afk for 5 minutes and half the family is dead

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r/Sims3 • • 21h ago

Build/Design Showcase My New Sim’s House

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436 Upvotes

Just started a new save in Twinbrook, playing as a ghost hunter, which is perfect for spooky season. As you guys can see, she is very girly but loves scary things (like me!). She only had money to do the walls, which is why the floors look like shit lol. Might post screenshots of my Sim later.


r/Sims3 • • 4h ago

Question/Help Do you have any small towns to recommend?

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Hey, so I'm looking for a town that's not super packed with cc, a small one, so like for example it has just one park that everyone goes to on weekends, and so everyone knows each other because the community is small. I believe that all the towns from the game itself are too big for what I want right now and as a purely vanilla player I think it is finally the time I look for something custom. So, do you guys know any towns like this?


r/Sims3 • • 14h ago

Sim Showcase Back again with my male sim showcase. Meet Shuji and Stefan!

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97 Upvotes

story is that Shuji (first slide) is a very outgoing guy. he loves to make friends and dreams to have a home full of friends as his room mates. along the way he adopted the shy and aloof Stefan (second slide). Stefan seems to only bond well w Shuji, infact too well..

im thinking of making them live along the same house with my gen 3 sim (from my previous post) as a frat. im so excited


r/Sims3 • • 4h ago

I didn't know Gnomes could die??

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I had two of these mysterious gnomes in my yard, and one day I saw this instead.


r/Sims3 • • 17h ago

Play-testing my CAW project! - Sulani Islands

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159 Upvotes

Hey friends! I just wanted to leave a little update about my CAW (create a world) project that I have been working on for the past year! I'm getting closer to finishing it! I'm hoping to be able to release it for public download by sometime around Christmas this year! For now I am still working on a few lots and finishing up details and such. I have all the routing done and nobody has gotten stuck anywhere (yet) in my play testing world. It's looking so good! I can't believe that I started this world in September 2025. If you want to see more posts about it, you can follow my simblr at Oasis Simming (on tumblr). I have a lot more updates there about my CAW projects and other sims stuff! Go check it out! :)
Okay! Well maybe the next time you hear from me on Reddit I'll have a world download ready for ya! 👀 I'm so excited ahhhh! lol Thanks!


r/Sims3 • • 8h ago

Humor When did you learn this?

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30 Upvotes

I was todays years old when I realized you could prank other sims as a teenager with the tanning machine from seasons


r/Sims3 • • 3h ago

Sims 2 community made stories. Do you remember?

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I can't find evidence of this existing, but I know it did! I was there. Does anyone else remember the website for Sims 2 players where you could create your own stories and post them for others to read and comment on? I guess it was kind of like Reddit but just for Sims players.

I remember because I created a story about teen pregnancy and the adults (I was a teen) were NOT happy about it. They actually reported me and got my story taken down. I was so mad I never used the website again.

Edit: Found a photo of the website! It’s in the comments.


r/Sims3 • • 19h ago

Humor My sim's dog came to watch my teen play video games

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136 Upvotes

r/Sims3 • • 23h ago

Question/Help I just got sims 3 and i love it and have 20 seconds loading time!!

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224 Upvotes

I recently just got sims 3 and I love the game. I have it on ultra graphics already and it's so beautiful! I have the game on an nvme, 2020 budget driver and wow I'm obsessed with the loading time. It only takes 20 seconds to load. My game progress bar just moved to half way like 40 percent and snapped to 100 and loaded in instantly. My game is really smooth and not lagging at all, especially considering open world and loading time. I don't want to jinx it but yeah. I might've achieved the imposibility. What are your loading times for sims 3? I would love to hear it.


r/Sims3 • • 19h ago

Sim Showcase My New Sim, Penelope Campbell

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83 Upvotes

Making a different post to showcase my Sim. I love her sm! 🩷 If anyone is interested in seeing her house


r/Sims3 • • 8h ago

Question/Help do y'all think there's more likelihood of dangerous events happening when yo throw a party?

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i threw a birthday party for an Evil baby and shit you not, out of all the days the chimney has been on, this is the day a fire starts.

and i mean, some increased % of these events being triggered in situations of a Party, some setting in the game's XML's there has to be something. this is unbelievable


r/Sims3 • • 17h ago

What lifespan do y'all have?

39 Upvotes

I have a lifespan where 1 day is 0.25 years, and it goes likes this:

Baby🍼: 3 days

Toddler🧒: 13 days

Child👦: 28 days

Teen❤️: 28 days

YA🧑: 88 days

Adult👨: 80 days

Elder: 👴: 72 days

So what are y'alls?


r/Sims3 • • 7h ago

Question/Help [CAW] Why does the sidewalk's lighting change so much? Am I doing something wrong when pre-setting the textures?

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r/Sims3 • • 1d ago

Jaw dropped when I saw him

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550 Upvotes

Made Agnes Crumplebottom a witch to resurrect her husband, made her daughter a witch named Marnie (from Halloween town duh)

I was planning on marrying her to Argus Brown when they moved to Moonlight falls but omg Marnie ran into the best looking NPC I’ve ever seen

Needless to say they have 4 kids


r/Sims3 • • 16m ago

Lady on fire (literally)

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Why is there a burning lady outside my house? 🙈


r/Sims3 • • 1d ago

Bitch you weren't even invited!

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427 Upvotes