Ranking every expansion pack for The Sims 4!
NEW MERCH OUT NOW! lilsimsieshop.com/
Daily Twitch streams! / lilsimsie
Find me elsewhere!
★ Twitter: / lilsimsie
★ Instagram: / lilsimsie
★ Twitch Streams: / lilsimsie
★ Stream Reuploads: / moresimsie
★ Sims Gallery: lilsimsie
This video is family friendly, but The Sims 4 is rated T for Teen and this video is intended for an audience aged 13 and up.
Business Inquiries: teamlilsimsie@unitedtalent.com
Seasons is for sure a necessity, but I still can’t stop thinking about the fact that EA charged us for weather 💀
nah literally sims is a life simulation game and the main part of daily life is the weather how did they not think to jus add that smh
It def should have been base game 😂
@@alyssabeth6177 FR THO
it beter be in sims 5 and no dlc again lols
Freaking factsssssssss
Still cant get over the fact that seasons pack should be in base game instead
Honestly I’ve gotta disagree. Rain maybe yea, but the rest is sometimes so inconvenient and not normal for everyone.
The thing about this argument is be careful what you wish for. Yeah I get having weather in a life simulator but that’s literally what you would get, occasional rain, occasional thunder, occasional snow maybe. And it would be rubbish. The pack allows them to go much more in depth than just weather - the gardening elements, the calendar it introduced, the holidays etc. Base game weather wouldn’t be nearly as detailed.
@@jaybee4288 Trueee! It's such an important part of the game to me that I couldn't imagine playing without it, but if they had just included it in the base game they wouldn't have put in nearly as much effort because they aren't getting any extra money for it😂😂
But it wouldn’t have been as detailed and with all the content it offers it doesn’t feel base gamey gotta disagree here
I guess it also depends on the amount of immersion you want in your game. If it's a pack, you choose whether or not you want it, and also if you want the game play involved with it. If it were base game, I don't think it would come with as many game play options as we have rn with the DLC. It also depends if you want to immerse yourself with the idea the base game lots are someplace else in the world, like Oasis Springs can be a desert world in... the middle east somewhere and redecorate the world the way you see fit. It can really break the immersion when suddenly it starts raining (albeit it does rain sometimes in the desert) and you didn't want it to... dunno, it's still a pretty controversial topic!! I think it makes sense to get it, but I typically buy the DLC when it goes on sale so... yep!
Answering your question in 1:09 They have different colors by categories: deep blue is career and lifestyle, green is outdoor and adventure, magenta is family and friends, light blue is everyday activities, purple is supernatural and fantasy, red-orange is architecture and decorative, yellow-orange is fashion and style. I think I cover them all. PS: edited to add time stamp.
I need help it says that legacy edition is free but I don’t know if it really is
@@Sarav282 yes, the base game is free
@@Sarav282legacy edition is really old and is being delated I’m pretty sure so you don”t need to have it. It just not updated at all for the newer packs from like eco lifer style or something
@@PandaPerson-nd2rj isn't legacy edition the one that works on older computers?
@@rainbcwdream yes, sadly they're getting rid of it soon :/
One of my biggest issues with "High School Years" is that I have a save that's set to Long Lifespan, but prom is EVERY. SINGLE. SATURDAY. and unlike the regular High School day, there is no "Send Alone" option. If I want my teenage daughter to go to prom, I can't take care of my other 4 kids.
What I do is I just don’t have them go to prom unless it’s the last one before they graduate
I do the very first one, and the last one before graduation. Junior and senior prom 😊
I get you, I have their lives scaled to “28 days=4 seasons=1 year” and it’s so annoying doing the “spring formal” and the “winter ball” and the “Halloween dance” just to diversify the IDENTICAL GAMEPLAY that takes place EVERY Saturday
THATS your biggest issue? literally EVERY- SINGLE- FEAUTRE in the pack is FULLY bugged. i payed for that with my money i got for my birthday. that money was WASTED. i am so dissapointed in the pack, everything that came with it, and plus the high school was empty and dark, theres like 5 sims in the class, not nearly as fun and exciting as in the ad, i just send my sim teens alone every time because its SO boring.
@@coolpumpkins453 I get you, that really sucks that you wasted your money like that. The only thing I can think of to help with your gameplay is downloading another better high school from the gallery. Lilsimsie has a great one, and so does James Turner. My personal favorite one is James’. Hopefully you can find some more enjoyment out of it that way
Seasons and City Living are in my necessary ones as well, they make it such a different game. Parenthood, dream home decorator and tiny living are up there for me as well.
Dream Home decorator is a great idea it's just.kind of buggy so it's hard to recommend
for me it has to be Seasons, Cats and Dogs, and City Living. Those three overall make it seem more realistic
Seasons, cats and dogs, city living, get to work (for the additional active careers), get together and some stuff packs, for the rest of the game, I have to thank modders for giving us the best stuff
@lilymwa1225 idk how yall handle pets, I was so excited for them but the pets are 3x more annoying than they ever were in sims 3 😭
I got dem both
I personally love Snowy Escape as an Asian, it makes me so happy to see non European or American things in the sims
Yes!! And It's such a beautiful world, I just make my sims go hiking and follow them around the bamboo trail!! I feel like is THE coolest world in the sims bc it allows your sims to be of an entire different culture
same!! im mixed and ethnically japanese and i love snowy escape so much
I'm not Asian, but I just got the pack and I love it, it's just a beautiful world. I'm impressed by the attention to detail too - you can now put up a sign that makes your Sims take off their shoes inside, you can choose whether your family uses chopsticks or forks, and if you go in the Onsen without showering people notice and you get embarrassed. I don't own the Island Living expansion, but I hope it was just as respectful and attentive to detail towards the Pacific Island cultures.
I'm not Asian but It's so nice to be able to live somewhere not American or European based and Snowy Escape is one of my favorites for that I wish we could've gotten that with Selvadorada too but I guess no one lives in South America, right?
I’m not Asian but I really love it. The world, the skills, all of it is so pretty and it’s honestly refreshing to have a cute little Asian mountain town instead of something western.
You should do a tier list video for every death in the game
This ^
Yessss 🙌
She did Or was that vixxela
such a good idea
@@diamondstar23 Yeah it was Wasn't her
I’d love to see and African or Middle Eastern styled world. The sims is basically European and American and it’s cool and all but as a life simulator you’d think there would be more cultures that are a part of life. Snowy escape introduced a new culture and I’d love to see more of it.
Not only Snowy escape. While Island Living could still be considered American (since it's based off of Hawaii) I'd say it strongly focuses on local native culture. Also Selvadorada from Jungle Adventure is definitely South American although it's just a vacation destination unfortunately
I’m p sure there’s a stuff pack that has Indian style fashion in it and another one w south Asian inspired furniture and architecture features! I know it’s not a world, but it’s smth
For Rent I think u might want
I'd LOVE a Middle East and North Eastern Africa themed pack! Maybe we could get more hijab customization, and maybe some Ancient Egyption inspired clothes?
I also want to see a Scotland world. Maybe Bulgaria. I think Jamaica and Egypt would be super cool
If u only have money to buy one expansion pack out of all those packs, I would personally recommend City living over Season. 1. You got a complete new zone compare to no new zone for season 2. There are tons of events plus food stalls 3. You get to experience apartment style living in 3 very different areas 4. Loft style apartment for builders
I don't get what people like seasons. I play with it off the majority of the time. Otherwise my sims keep getting scared from thunderstorms to the point all the kids had to move to the basement to sleep
I actually find seasons annoying, I understand why people love it but it’s not necessary for everyone
Dang it’s honestly my fav
I only own those two packs, but as much as I love Seasons for the weather and holidays, City Living is my favorite for those reasons.
theres also new traits, new careers and new lot traits (highly recommend for those who cant have mods)
I know people say Snowy Escape is lacking gameplay and stuff, and I do agree, but the world itself and the Build & Buy items in this pack are my all time favorite. As an Asian who grows up in Eastern Asia, this pack is a must have for me. Also, I don't think they've ever given us other sims4 pack with similar theme afterwards.
I'm not East Asian, but I spent a long time studying the languages and cultures of Eastern Asia in general and I cried seeing how on point the cultural aspects of Mt. Komorebi came into being. Removing shoes before continuing to walk into the house, the chopsticks being a potential utensil preference, the yukata and kimono, the kites, the onsen even, all of it nearly made me start sobbing. The world itself is absolutely gorgeous. I don't even mind the lack of gameplay simply because of the fidelity to the real world Japanese culture that Snowy Escape as a whole has. Would I like to see more gameplay-affective things with this pack? Yes, I would. Would I like to see more of an in-depth exploration to the culture this pack is showing everyone? Absolutely. But I don't mind if it never comes, since it's already really in depth as it is. (Would recommend doubling up Snowy Escape with Incheon Arrivals Kit, though!)
I don’t get people who say Snowy Escape lacks gameplay but City Living is one of their favorites. I think Snowy Escape is way better… there’s stuff for kids at the festivals, and you can go hiking/skiing/boarding/mountain climbing. Plus there’s snow to play in (I don’t have Seasons), and I love the CAS & Build/Buy while a lot of City Living CAS is just weird. Plus lifestyles are just a standard part of any game now. And taking your shoes off indoors is a small but really nice touch that I love.
I AGREE!
@@bookcat123 For me I prefer city living because theres more cultures represented! I rarely see representation in media for places other than North/South America(South America being mostly just Mexico), Western Europe and East Asia. City living added so much cultural food, clothes, and build/buy that are a complete necessity, it makes the world feel more real to me. Lifestyles confused me, and the game never labels my sims correctly! And the stuff for kids at the festivals just felt like something I could build at any park tbh, like just add some science tables and id be set 😅
@@bookcat123 City living definetly has a lot more gameplay, theres a lot of little details that city living has that implies city life, like lot traits, fetivals, karaoke, small but varied cultural add ons and without mentioning the playability around apartements, the thing with snowy escape is that it does not add a whole new level of gamepay other than a beautiful and well made cultural side, the snow activities and cas just seems like a season rip-off and compared to city living is not unique at all and does not add a new and unique gameplay, city living has a whole unique and new city life inspired gameplay while snowy escape's main gameplay, other than the cultural side is not only already quite implied in Seasons but aso very very shallow. Thats why even if Snoy Escape DOES have more gameplay than city living it still has a lot less impact...
I'm holding out hope for a 'Be our Guest' gamepack where you can run a bnb or hotel. Just imagine.
so did you see for rent?
@@jaideypie.exexoxo so for rent came out about 10.5 months after this comment was posed and for rent isnt rly like hotels it's apartments so when someone rents an apartment they live there not just staying there forna vacation
I love these types of “what packs should you buy” videos, I wish someone made these when I first started getting into the sims.
YES omg, and like actual detailed overviews of the packs would help soooo much
FOR REAL. My first expansion pack was Island Living, and in retrospect I think that was a bad choice.
@@SageArdor I almost got my first pet stuff when I first got sims
@@SageArdor Yeah, I love the aesthetic and world for Island Living but it's definitely a better option once you have a few other packs of any type which impacts the game a bit more. Same for Snowy Escape. There are exceptions of course; if you're always playing in Sulani or Mt. Komorebi and it's a really important culture for you, then it's better but for others either one will be a touch too empty (although at least Snowy Escape does have more lifestyle options.) 😅
There’s literally 800 “ranking Sims packs” videos on KZhead
I think a fun "spin off" of this series of videos would be "which sims game has the best X" where X is a certain genre like "University" "Seasons" or "Supernatural"
probably makes more sense to change the genres to best cas, build-buy; or even best teens or kids gameplay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Plumbella has an entire history of series where she kind of does this!
Agree. That would be great, being TS3 at least in the best University pack.
I absolutely love seasons BUT I think weather should be in the base game and that the pack should have just focused on the holidays and events surrounding seasons as well as adding festivals - like a Christmas festival, a big easter egg hunt in a part etc. Also just adding more non-western holidays or at least adding things in the make-your-own-holiday section so that people could do it themselves
Seasons is the most overrated expansion pack. It’s trash. It didnt even come with a new world, and weather is just annoying, especially when you’re trying to build and its raining. Also all of the buy objects have the worst swatches. Only thing i like about the seasons are the windows and doors. Imo it should have been a free update or a game pack.
@@jelenav5390 i don't understand why ppl want a new world for seasons. The other sims games didn't have a world for seasons so why should the sims 4 have it? That makes no sense
I personally love get famous, I love the actors career, the fans, the gifts they send you and letters... And I also like you can be famous in any career, like a famous baker, a author or football player or whatever... I like the video station to play like a youtuber... there's a lot of opportunities to having fun with this pack, but I do agree the world is terrible haha
I never knew so many people disliked the world! the cul-de-sac neighborhood is so north american suburban that I cant help but love it! it feels like every cartoon/disney movie 😂
This was literaly the first pack I was thinking about to buy! Just recently installed the free base version and downloaded BTS (K-Pop music group) household and it'd be epic to actually live their life hahaha.
i wanna see some turkish/arabic/balkan packs in Sims. like turkish coffee, kebabs, sims that are addicted to soap operas, more traditional rugs, going to each others home to meet parents, strict dads etc
omg yees I would love to see such a world as a person from the balkan myself!!
And wife beaters
@@ht8038 LOL get out 😭😭
I would die for soap operas in the sims!!!
yes! I would love to see a balkan world, with a mediterranean feeling… tartosa is very italian and I would love to see a Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian (basically Yugoslavian) world!
For me I loved snow escape. When you actually take the time to play in the world instead of the typically popular ones is quite amazing. Compared to the higher ranked packs, when I play them I always feel rushed in a way and can’t seem to do everything and just ugh. But for some reason it’s just so relaxing for me when I play in snowy escape and it’s just very fun and absolutely gorgeous there. It’s personally my favorite world to play in.
I love both island living and snowy escape. both top tier for me! it almost doesn't feel like the sims
I was looking for this video a few days ago since there’s currently a 50 % off of a lot of the expansion pack ( until the 28th! ) and ended up watching her older ranking videos. From those videos, I decided to get seasons, cats and dogs + pets stuff ( bundle! ). As for outside of the sale, I got pastel pop kit and tiny living stuff pack. So far I'm absolutely loving it! I'm glad I got them but I'm not sure if I would pay the full price for the expansion pack. but the stuff packs and kits are worth it!
I buy my expansion packs on eBay for like $15 and less and it works perfectly 💖
phenomenal choices!!! specially the tiny living; that stuff pack changes the ENTIRE gameplay of TS4, just like seasons and pets. I see so many simmers ranking it lower far too often, just because it's like a furniture pack. but the tiny house perks???? how can one ignore that!!! it changes everything!! 10/10 choices👏
@@ghostedflakes1619 wait really??? is it for pc or console?
@@sirgaykrovos righttt i agree! tiny house perks adds so much to the gameplay!
@@soiayam PC just read the reviews first and try it from a seller to see if it works. I've gotten 3 and they're all brand new :) much better to save money when you can lol
I was really quite disappointed with the university pack, the world looks nice but it’s annoying that you can’t control whole university households like you could in TS2, the classes are all just rabbitholes, it just felt like a letdown. Most of my sims do go to university, but I’ve only had one actually live on campus.
Right! For this exact reason, I wish I never purchased university.
I’m kinda shocked she put the university pack so high while the high school one got to the bottom just because of the couple bugs she had. I mean, the university pack is so freaking annoying, it takes FOREVER to graduate, your sim will probably age up already, and you kinda just can’t have them to do anything out of the school stuff (like go dating, getting married, starting a career) or they’d be kicked out of uni. And everything is a rabbit hole, ugh, Sims 3 University was so much more fun.
@@chyrchhella7804 I never played Sims 3 University, but I loved Sims 2 University! I loved the fact that I could build my own dorms (same with apartments in Apartment Life, so much better than what we have now!), I’d send Sims to university with their friends and have them live in the same dorm or in a house together, it was so much more fun. Britechester is a pretty world, but the actual university gameplay just feels so lacking.
@@nicolagilroy2972 you also could build the dorms in the sims 3, I also loved that sims visited the rabbit hole classes only twice a week, other days they had lectures which you could follow (kinda like classes in the sims 4 high school pack), and they also had practice classes depending on their major. Ah, good times 🥲 I also really loved the fact that your sims could get extra credits for having high level of skills required for the major, so they could finish university way faster.
@@chyrchhella7804 to be fair though, it’s like that in real life too. At least in the U.S. College takes a long time, is really difficult, and takes up most of your time between classes, homework, and clubs. Maybe it’s just me, but I find that I have little time to hang out with friends unless I have it scheduled or in a club setting and dating is the last thing on my mind because I simply don’t have the time. Plus, depending on your major and future job, college can take a huge chunk of your young adult life (undergrad, masters, phd). My sister is currently going for her phd and she just turned 25. The rabbit hole classes are a bummer, but judging from the active high school classes, I prefer the rabbit holes over buggy classes!
11:42 they defo could've done like a small cozy island town neighboorhood on one side of the world, and have the other side be like a 'tourist' vacation district with added lore abt the tourists destroying their town and slowly taking more space
that would require ea to think
@@lIainey 😭😭
I hear you. But I like the idea that it didn’t include tourism. Islanders are more than their tourist-driven economies and I’m glad it focused on the lifestyle. That being said, I’d love to have another tropical beach world that had some tourism elements.
@@leahbelieva mhm i defo agree tho. i just think the gameplay is kinda bland you know. if they had added *more* gameplay it could have worked but right now its a very bland ep.
@@leahbelieva im dying for Dominican Republic rep so if they do that for a resort expansion I would actually cry!!
I’ve been going full on strategic with my purchases in the sims lol. I bought it a few months ago when it was 5 dollars, bought Seasons and Pets during a 50% sale, bought HSYs while I could get the extra stuff, waited some more, and bought Snowy Escape and Cottage live during another sale, and then after Christmas, I’m gonna wait for a sale and buy Eco lifestyle and get together.
I just picked up a couple with the sale, but I used Kayla's older videos, so getting Cats and Dogs plus Get Together yesterday are still the same choices that I would have made if I would have waited for this video. I can't imagine ever paying full price!
The colored background on the packs on the sims websites is a new way they are categorizing them. For example royal blue backgrounds like on high-school years is Career&Lifetsyle, but then Green backgrounds like on island living are Outdoor Activities. It's their way of letting you know what kind of game play and stuff is in the pack
wait, really?
What’s the pink mean?
@@adoptmephase pink is friends and family
Wow, that is groundbreaking 😮
whats the light blue then?
Other than the necessities like pets and seasons, Snowy Escape and (unexpectedly) Cottage Living are my favorite.
might be a controversial opinion, but I think packs like Get Together and Get To Work actually hold really well, ik simsie says about them having less content which is true but in terms of actual gameplay I still always use them to this day. I pretty much always use something from Get Together in like every build too, its crazy how old these packs are yet are still better than some of the ones after them. Like the scientist career imo is also one of the best in the whole game, and I think LOT of ppl forget about the re-playability of things like clubs and stores, which you can use in any way you want, compared to re-playability of things like snowy escape (which I really wish was better than it is currently).
Seasons is a must have pack! I don't think I could go back to playing without it now. I think it's the only pack worth the $40 price because it really does offer so much to your gameplay.
that and cottage living are the only ones I've ever payed full price for! i actually dont enjoy cottage living as much as i thought i would but definitely love the animals so far
I never understand the dislike among simmers for get famous, it was the first ep i bought and i to this day believe it is the most fully fleshed out pack. it gives you loads of build items, tons of cool cas items and 2 new careers that are not only playable but are super detailed, and a big (yet i’ll admit odd) world. to this day four years later i am STILL discovering new things in Get famous.
Yes! I love get famous!
Yes, I feel the exact same way. The EP is one of the top one's due to it being fully fleshed out.
Dude thank you so much for saying this😭😭I've been wanting to get 'Get Famous' for a while now but every sims video I watch has had a relatively bad review for it. which sucks since the gameplay seems right up my alley, glad to see alteast one person say it's not as bad as people say it is lol.
@@xxalxysiaxx i really like it personally it's my favourite
@@xxalxysiaxx I think City Living, Seasons, Get Famous, Get Together, and Eco Lifestyle are really the only expansion packs I’d recommend. Most of the other packs are more specific to one aspect of gameplay, but the others change quite a bit within the game itself. All of them add aspects to the game that still are pretty interesting in all worlds
I have City Living and Pets and I'm kinda making sure my choice for next pack is the right one, and this video helped me :) I'm getting Snowy escape and Seasons next. And then, after that if I haven't tired of sims yet, Cottage Living.
Same! I have city living and cats and dogs
Eco Lifestyle is a REALLY good pack! it impacts every neighborhood and adds so much gameplay! Definitely great for people who usually play in live mode! :D Oh! and it is hilarious lol.
my problem with eco lifestyle is no matter what you do the worlds turn green without your impact, really hard to trash the eco footprint, the neighborhood plans just annoy me personally i always forget to vote and i find all the outcomes annoying after 2 days lol. i really wish i could like it cause it runs with the same idea as seasons but it just missed the mark so hard for me.
@@lIainey They have since fixed that problem. When it first came out there was a bug that would make every neighborhood neutral regardless of what you did. Now it functions like it is supposed to. If you are still having this problem now, report the bug! They should fix it in your game :3
@@TheOG-GG omg thank you for letting me know!! I haven’t touched the pack since I first got it but I’ll give it another try :)
Tbh, I don't really use that pack often. The only stuff I use are those really cheap windows and that one plant you get. The rest of it is kinda annoying I think. If I live in a bad air neighborhood my sims are always unwell and I can't do anything about it. And the neighborhood vote thing is also so weird. Like, I'll build a nice house, go into gameplay and in the next voting people decide you can only use green energy. I never ever have the space nor the money to get green energy. So whenever that one sim comes around checking if I'm doing the neighborhood thing, I need to pay them. It's really, really annoying
Does it only effect the eco lifestyle world? Because I’ve lived in San Myshuno and the realm of magic world and never noticed pollution. I get the NAP guy come around and cut off my water and power, but I never notice any pollution.
As a build-ish player I love new and diverse worlds. Snowy Escape and Island Living are my two favorites, and now Tartosa has joined them.
I love to build too (I once spent 3 hours going thru a book to get all the references to a specific house I wanted to recreate) and for me I really love the style of get together and strangerville
@@TVDAnnu totally agree! The Get Together world is amazing. I love building on the island. :)
Island Living is a bit underrated, like who would not want to become a mermaid!!
Wow you are same as me, I also like Mt. Komorebi, Sulani and Tartosa😅
personally i think island living is also essential. it's a very unique pack and a wonderful new world, there's nothing even slightly similar in the whole game. i love sending my sims to sulani for the weekends whenever i feel like they need a holiday. where else would i send them? over the weekend they can swim around a little, play on the beach, cruise around on ships or jetskis, sunbathe, see some mermaids, collect shells, dive, etc. the way i see it island living and city living are very similar packs, in a way that they both offer a unique world and a different way of life for your sims, and then it's just preference which one people like. i don't have city living because to me there's nothing appealing about city life, and the festivals are repetitive and boring and lifeless, not to mention how restricted the apartments are with the walls and windows. and yet when people talk about island living it's always what it "could have been". and then when it comes to other packs people rate it for what it is, not what it could have been. yes mermaids could have been better, so could apartments. yeah maybe island living could have given us hotels but then city living could have gives us a landlord carreer or retail system thing. anyway, i personally love recommending island living to new/casual players because it will certainly give them and new and fresh experience. and it can very well be integrated in your everyday gameplay, by going there on short holidays and weekends. my sims need a little break from work or family or anything? to sulani we go! and i'm surprised to see snowy escape so low too because the build/buy and cas are so good, the world and builds are gorgeous, and you absolutely dont have to go out of your way to use the 2 districts that arent up on the mountain. ur sims can live there without caring about winter sports, you dont even have to go up there if you dont want to.
What I like most about island living is that it’s one of the easiest packs to get outdoors with. I have a tendency to just have my sims live in their house/apartment. But with island living I spend most of the time wandering around the world or going to lots. Because it feels like that’s what you’re supposed to do. It’s very relaxing gameplay :)
I agree Island Living is the pack i play most with bc the world is so beautiful and tbh, i'm very glad there is no resort or big hotel complex 😶
I agree. I felt like city living, island living and snowy escape all should have been game packs. There all pretty much just strangervill in terms of them really only adding a town
who else NEEDS either a futuristic sims pack. i know it wouldn't fit in but the idea of into the future in the sims sounds kind of exciting.
i would love that oml
they had one with sims three it's not like it "wouldn't fit" they literally have vampires and werewolves lol the game isn't strictly realistic
As a South African, I would love to see an African inspired world 🥺
Hey! I’m from South Africa too!!! Lol moved to Canada though 🇿🇦 🇨🇦
@robynsmith7314 that's awesome, would love to see Canada someday 😁
I don’t have any packs in the Sims yet, but I am thinking about getting the Cats and Dogs EP. The world looks absolutely beautiful and really cozy. And the best part is that cats and dogs are added. I lost my German Shepard around 5 years ago, so re-creating him in my world would be really heart warming. It also comes with the vet career, which I am in love with. I feel like expansion packs deal with your life experiences. For example on how Snowy Escape relates to lots of asian people, and Get Famous being for people who want to be influencers irl.
I agree. It's 100% what you're personally into and playing style. - I personally HATE seasons and turn it off.
@@Loralanthalasjust curious, what makes you not like seasons?
The pets are, at least to me, amazing. The cats are quirky and have so much personality (I don't play the dogs as much). So I'd say, go for it.
City Living + Get Together + Cats and Dogs and Seasons Top Tier packs
It would‘ve been nice if they added some kind of „traditional“ festival things like in the City Pack to Island Living, would suit that pack a lot
There’s at least one festival in that pack where they do fire dancing and cook together but for some reason it’s not on the calendar so you have to either see it or already know it’s going to happen :(
- Timestamps - Get to work - 1:45 Get together - 3:06 City Living - 4:18 Cats and Dogs - 5:36 Seasons - 6:50 Get Famous - 8:07 Island Living - 9:58 Discover University - 12:01 Eco Lifstyle - 13:53 Snowy Escape - 16:35 Cottage Living - 18:43 High School Years - 20:09
You are a lifesaver for this 😅
@@edge-of-nowhere4224 lol np!
To me personally, Eco Lifestyle is the best pack out there. I love the build and buy, CAS is good and the gameplay is SO good. I love the neighborhood action plans and I love petitioning to take bad neighborhood action plans down. The careers are not that good but to me, the core gameplay that involves dealing with the community appeals so damn much for me
i'm sorry, but since when the infamous piranha pond turned into the shark pond??? i know you can have different fish in there but as far as I remember, simsie always talked about her piranhas...right? RIGHT? it feels like we somehow shifted to another universe lmao even in the bell family, there are sharks now and I didn't notice when the change happened
Same!!!
I thought I was the only one
you can pick different kinds of fish!
@@moobie_ i know i know but i didn't see when kayla changed hers to sharks and that's why I'm a little bit confused
@@antyss it's only been in the last month or two, her sims could just afford sharks now so she gets those ones
the thing you said about snowy escape makes so much sense, i'm the opposite! i really love it because i live close to the mountains and go skiing/snowboarding frequently(ish)
I haven't played Sims for years and recently downloaded the newly free Sims 4 base game. I remember I could not focus on more than one sim when having multiple packs game olin Sims 4 before. There were so many options. Meanwhile in Sims 3 I could take care of a family of 10 and achieve all their goals, have multiple pets and open a store 😂 miss that.
I super love Island Living, Cottage Living, Snowy Escape, and somehow City Living because they are rich in cultures, they give us so much taste. They also are very unique with their houses and style. Snowy Escape is still kinda too tourist centric but still pretty inclusive. Seasons, is basic needs.
I agree! I wish we had a Caribbean inspired world, bc I feel so bad when I kinda head canon sulani as Dominican Republic bc I wanna live in my country so bad!! 😭I hope they make one in the future, it would be an easy way to add resorts!
@@5555.Star. righttt!! I am from South East Asia and I hope Sims would make something based on Asia, other than East Asia. Caribbean sounds fun too!
@@crepecake104 shut upp thats one of my wish list worlds too! it annoys me sometimes when these games that go "around the world" only go to East Asia, like there's so many more beautiful cultures to explore!!
@@5555.Star. rigghhttt😭 let’s wish for more sims 4 expansion, and better, more inclusive sims 5 🫶🏻
Get Together is great for making money. When I did the R2R challenge I started out gardening to make money, which on its own is quite lucrative, but over time the garden grew to an unmanageable size. My sim was working from morning to night just to keep up and had very little time to satisfy their needs. Started a gardening club that met daily and basically got free labor to help tend the fields so all I had to do was harvest the crops. Later on I spent some cash on a few easels and added painting to the club activities(or possibly started a new club - can't remember because it was so long ago). I'd walk around and sell the paintings as they were completed. I think the goal of that challenge was to earn $1M and I hit that mark after only a couple of weeks of playing before maxing out my funds a few weeks later.
City living is my favourite 😍 I really hope it gets a refresh, there's many little things they could implement to make it better. It's a shame the apartments are so huge/tall but hopefully they add more apartments in other packs like in Eco Lifestyle
I like these videos because even though I have most of the packs it's interesting to see how different our opinions are on all the sims packs!
The thing I want the most from Sims now is Apartment! And perhaps Hotel. I really want the concept of landlord and renting and strangers live in the same building so bad. I want to build and operate apartments and hotels. Not just living in one like city living😭
Kayla's rant about the Get Famous world is gold. And Judith Worth is appearing everywhere with her fame glam and paparazzi 😅
I definitely, definitely play with Get To Work *a lot*. Think a lot of people forget about the hospital and police station also being in a separate world, similar to the lab. Completely agree on the fact that this is the one that needs a refresh the most BUT I feel like it is the underdog of all of them, yet a great contestant.
It's kind of random but island living is one of my favourites! The ocean irl is a really special place (Maybe because I'm Australian) so being there in the sims gives me so much actual joy and peace. I also love the beachwear in that pack, cleaning the island, and the conservationist career.
my first pack was get to work as a gift from my parents (and the only pack i still have on disc lmao), and cat's and dogs was my second. but i really can't agree more that seasons is THE best. especially for a first pack, it's really the best example of specific gameplay enhancements (holidays etc.) and absolute game changing experiences like the seasons. also being able to change the length of seasons, as well as toggling on/off things like thunder storms are really cool to me. there's just so many small details that i couldn't live without, like the roller/ice rinks and having snow ball/water balloon fights. WELL worth the money.
City Living will always have a soft spot in my heart. My family used to live in NYC and San Myshuno brings back all the memories ❤
If I had to choose only 3 EP I would totally go for > Seasons - I agree with Kayla, it's an incredible pack, very useful and fun, I just can't imagine my game without it (TS2 and TS3 too!! I love TS3 version of it) > Snowy Escape - I ADORE THIS PACK, I'm very into Japan and Japanese style, so this world and build/buy objects are like a dream come true. If I remember correctly, thanks to Snowy Escape we can travel to every world for vacation now (if there is a rental house) > Discover University - great CAS and really well done gameplay imo. It is hard but not impossible to finish studies with A or 6 (with 3 sims at the same time!!). And if I could take 2 more > Get together - for cafes, world and clubs > City living - for apartments, festivals (they're awesome!), many food options from different cultures and just the vibe
I feel like if I were to complain about a pack not having hotels, it'd probably be Snowy Escape. As you said, the vibe for Island Living is very local community, but the vibe for Mt. Komorebi, I mean it came with the traveler lifestyle! It's where "traveler lifestyle" sims want to go! They could have implemented hotels here so easily, in addition to the vacation rental lots.
i really really wish that high school years would include more gameplay surrounding the career days. if they included a singular day of active career work to give students a taste of work life
The Get Famous pack is one of my favorite because I made a bunch of celebrities in my world and its more fun to see them walking around when they're actually famous
One of my favourite unexpected features of city living is the food festivals and recipe collecting! Before I would often have my sims cook and use their own ingredients they’d grown, but this opened up a whole new world for me! The amount of new and culturally diverse recipes is so fun to explore, and unlock to add to your sim’s own cooking! The food festivals themselves are also such a fun event to take friends, family, and partners to go to together! 😊 now that I have it, I can’t imagine being without it. I really love gardening and creative pursuits so Eco Lifestyle ended up as a must have for me! Initially I didn’t know what I’d think of it, but after watching simmers play it, I went for it and it was so perfect for me! If you like your sim doing creative things, non-traditional careers, and having them make things for themselves, this is probably a great pack for you too. I also really enjoyed the convertible community lots, we’ve never really had anything like that before and it helped my sims make a lot of connections!
I just bought Island Living, and its amazing imo. You get 2 new occults, mermaid and elementals. Volcanic eruption lot challenge, and an amazing island world. I live in florida so this is the closest thing i will get to it lol
def, ive seen that a lot in the comments too. a lot of ppl seem to like snowy escape and island living, they dont really feel like the sims their gameplay is so beautiful yet relaxing.
I really like the fame system from Get Famous. I like it when my Sims are artists, writers or social media influencers and their actions actually make them famous. I think it's really cool and I love how my Sims get recognised as their talents grow.
I think my most nostalgic packs are Get Together and Outdoor Retreat. I love those packs for that alone haha. Also I use clubs all the time to just make my kids have friends!!
simsie’s videos are genuinely so relaxing. i could listen to her talk about this stuff for hourrrrssss
I love the way you rank different kinds of packs in separate videos because this way you can talk more about each pack, and honestly, I would like it if the video was even longer.
For me discover university is actually kinda horrendous. It doesn’t feel like college at all which sims 2 and 3 managed to do perfectly. The sims 4 universities are completely dead and lifeless in contrast. It lowkey feels like remote learning bc everything is rabbit holes 💀 Another pack I’ve spent like maybe 5 hours total playing, wish I never bought it lmao.
Really?? I love University so much, i really struggled with one sim passing (eventually she got expelled) , while the other sim was acing it. For me real student vibes
I never played sims 3 packs. But sims 2s university game play was sooo much fun. I miss playing it so much
Omg university was the last pack I purchased for the sims 4. It was soooo BORING. After playing it I actually uninstalled the sims 4. Haven’t played since.
I would say give it another try. I wasn’t so keen on it at first but now I have played it for about 50-60 hours. I don’t think 5 is really enough - the first time I went all the sims in my dorm were uninteresting and I found it full of rabbit holes and confusing. But when I gave it a second chance and had the dorm filled with better sims, it’s one of my favourites.
@@PatrickAdonisSilva same! I love the pack lol I send all my Sims to uni
I adore the house you built in Snowy Escape! I've used it a lot ☺️💕
One of my issues with HSY is that we can't build a high school in a different world. I get why, but it yoinks emersion from me. In my head, Oasis Springs or Mt. Komerebi are nowhere near Copperdale (like you can't drive there and that's how I play). I know that's nitpicky personal play style, but I like having my gens moving being a big deal.
Oh my gosh this is so helpful! I was struggling to decide what to include in my next pack purchase so I love this!!
I just recently got The Sims 4 when it became free and I’m debating getting a couple packs while they are on sale. Currently I’m thinking just Seasons and City Living but this video is very helpful for looking through all my options!
I think what she forgot to mention about city living is that it also actually ties into regular gameplay very well imo. I love going to the festival's whether I'm living in the city world or not, it's just fun. I also love the community lots, many places for a fun night out, a date or a wedding!
I'd highly recommend tiny living it's such a good, useful pack and paranormal if you like the idea of it, the gameplay is insanely fun
I’d recommend starting with Seasons and Cottage Living OR Seasons and Cats and Dogs.
I love how I watch these recommendation videos knowing that I am not able to buy any of these😂😂 can't imagine how much fun it is to play with these
wow i can’t believe you were 17 when city living came out..i remember watching your videos back then but i didn’t get the sims 4 until yearsss later city living was the first expansion pack i bought because i thought the concept was so cool definitely agree it’s amazing
We're surprising my mom with a setup which can handle Sims again. So this video came in CLUTCH as I choose what expansions to have in her surprise Origin account to go along with the tech. :)
you should get her city living or cats and dogs, the worlds are stunning and the build/buy and the cas is so good!
This video came at the PERFECT TIME, I was literally just googling this the other day!
It seems so strange hearing the village in cottage living being described as “a downtown area” 😅
I like gardening and I like being on an island so my favorite 3 are seasons, island and cottage. I hope they expand on these in 5! ETA: I totally forgot about tiny living and eco!!! I love being able to live off the grid!
I was really sceptical about eco living because its not my thing. But I got the game when it had 50% discount and I love it! I love the gameplay and the things you can make yourself. I feel like there are a lot of things you can do. Just like cottage living.
I always forget werewolves, vampires and tiny living are different tiers of expansion because they impact so much as far as gameplay, worlds, etc
Honestly I bought every one of them this last summer when I got wifi. I'm only missing 3 kits. You inspired me to spend my bonus on something I love.
I love that for you ❤😂 we’ll be broke together
The thing I would change about some of the packs is making more playable lots for as much as the packs cost us. I end up replacing most houses in the game except Snowy Escape and I never play Windenberg. That is awesome that, that mansion in Snowy escape was built by you. It's my favorite house in the pack. City Living and Glimmerbrook. It just has some beautiful graphics and you can do so much with it.
you should do a build using you’re recommended bundle!! perfect for all the new simmers and with the sale :))
One thing I really appreciated about the packs released around 2019-2020, they really expanded the range of styles available for CAS and building, to the point where Eco Lifestyle + Tiny Living meant I could uninstall almost all the custom content I was using for builds, which made my game experience so much better. I'll always rate those packs higher just for that.
First pack I bought was City Living. Maaaany years ago, they didn't even had Seasons , yet. My second pack. So sad I don't play Sims anymore, I don't have the time and the only thing I do when I turn it on, is build something. I build and then leave. I might be too old 4 Sims... I'm almost 40yo. Then I come here see your content from time to time. Love your energy Kayla. Take care.
nobody is ever too old for sims🫶
@@jihue 😊
Im 48... I tend to only play in the Winter though... not sure why but my brain is like... well its cold out... time to play the sims
@@BeardFreak lovely ppl here. Well, it's Kayla s channel, right ? She's the sweetest. I miss The Sims now that you are talking about it... Will have some time to play next weekend. Now I'm showing and teaching my daughter how to play it, too. She's 10.
@@aninhapmr she’s going to love it. I’m an older teen now, but I remember watching videos about the sims when I was a bit younger (where I didn’t know how to download the sims on my computer/wasn’t allowed to and didn’t have a job etc) and I bought the sims like a year ago (before it became free smh) and now I’m experiencing all the stuff I wanted to do as a kid when I couldn’t play it, so I’m glad your teaching your daughter how to play!
My favorite thing in sims 4 is definitely the interior decorator, sure im kinda bias since im literally going to college to be an interior designer but still. I love the jobs that you can actually do instead of just waiting for your sims to come home. The items are also one of my favorite, i wish they had windows in it tho.
Recently decided to get into the game, and while waiting for a sale I did a lot of online research on which dlc to buy or not, on reddit, youtube videos like this, and reviews, and arrived at a tier list pretty much identical to this. It seems the community tends to favor less niche dlc, aka the ones that add features that can benefit the whole game, and not just a single very specific playthrough. Given all the dlc is around 1000usd on steam right now this definitely will save me some money haha. Great video!
I just got island living today but over all I think the best packs are defo cottage living, seasons and cats and dogs
Lilsimsie is actually amazing at these videos!! I don’t have all the packs, but when I’m looking to get one I always turn to Kayla :)
i literally havent played the sims in a little over a year and i am inspired to start again by this video. thank you.
That was so helpful, thank you! Even if my preference was different than yours, you gave your reasoning which helped me choose which ones I would find most fun.
i literally just bought a bunch of packs since they were on sale LAST NIGHT, i wish i’d waited one more day for this video lmaooo
Hey Kayla for the prom thing I’m pretty sure if u travel to the auditorium u can attend prom. I did it once because I wasn’t done getting my sim ready and from what I can remember it worked
Whenever I've travelled to the auditorium when the prom popup didn't work, it was just the default lot. No way to get to prom without the popup. But maybe it's the difference of it glitching vs choosing not to go when the popup comes up and going later. Possible it still works that way, have never tried.
yess, the two packs i have are both necessary [pets n city living] still might get one of the occult-focused ones or eco lifestyle next, i really want the dive for tresure options and reduced power bills
I like island living because I like the idea of being a close community and the sulani is gorgeous
I'm so addicted to this kind of videos that I mentally do them myself, discussing the reasons and all the good stuff🤣
Island Living was the first expansion I bought, I was so excited for mermaids! But I got bored really quickly and kind of regret buying it. I agree the world is beautiful but also Eco Lifestyle is so much more fleshed out and probably my favorite expansion pack.
Great video! I'm overwhelmed with all the DLC so it's nice to see a tier list from someone who knows the game well
I love that you do these videos kinda often because things change lol
I bought Sims 4 a few years ago so many expansions were already out. I got Island Living first, I do like occults, but yeah the mermaids were kinda lacking. When I gifted Sims 4 to my sister, I included Cats and Dogs. I also bought Stranger Ville because I assumed wrongly Alien's came with that one! lol
I thought so too! I learned today where they actually came from xD
I was so mad when I figured out there were no aliens. I’d uninstall it if the build/buy and CAS weren’t so good 😂
Cats and Dogs is literally a MUST have EP… its underrated tbh. Cats and Dogs give you new living beings to play around with and change your lifestyle. It gives you an amazing cozy world that I would live in any day, AND it gives you the new vet career. It gives you lots of stuff, and I think its 100% worth it.
@@hottatgirl Later when I actually made an alien sim, I moved her into Stranger Ville. Her storyline is that she is trying to find info on her heritage and goes to there to investigate!
@@sparkle885I think cats and dogs is only a must have if you want to play with cats and dogs. Like I think before getting the game you know if that's something you want. It's kinda funny like I've been thinking since the sims 2 that I'll find pet gameplay annoying and then I get it anyways and then it turns out I was right lol. The Sims 3 pets was actually the best pets game, but when it came to reinstalling my games on a new laptop, I was perfectly fine just keeping generations and ambitions (or even just generations). I was the same with the sims 2. I had The Sims 2 double deluxe edition, so it came with nightlife. And then I got pets and apartments. People generally liked pets but didn't get the point of apartments. I had the opposite experience. All I wanted was to go to other sims houses and build a tiny trailer park sorta community, and apartments let me do that... It was everything to me. Anyways people also talked about how the sims 3 seasons was essential and for some reason I knew I would find it annoying... And then I finally got it and I did find it annoying. All the autonomous snowmen...
I love Seasons, really, but I think my only beef is that sometimes it seems like it rains so much whenever I play. I tried to use the weather machine only twice if I'm not wrong and it worked only once. I keep making things that should be outdoors into indoor places just so I can do everything I need while it rains.
coming back to playing Sims, I was Sims2 enthusiast though, I bought all the expansion and stuff packs then. Sims 3 just came out when I quit playing. I was so surprise of how many expansion sims 4 have to offer so I had to check youtube for ideas and found your channel, the very 1st I checked out was City Living and oh wow so many stuff in it! I'm surprised. Thanks for the other recommendations.
The Eco Inclined/agaicent and pet packs is like having a quadruple overtime upgrade to Sim Farms in The Sims 4 but not as much a race against the clock type deal but it is still gonna be difficult to try to balance taking care of your animals and taking care of your plants/crops.
I want to be able to build apartment buildings or row houses so bad! I grew up in Brooklyn, and I played and loved the Sims, but the houses were so foreign to me. I didn't know anyone who lived in a building that didn't touch two buildings on either side, or that had a visibly slanted roof. It was just hard of me to understand how those homes are laid out and roofed.
Apartment Living is fun, but it's so glitchy. I will try to build in the apartment, but it will take the wall paint off the exterior of the building. So I go to fix the exterior paint - no, you're not allowed to change the building's exterior. It's frustrating. I also think my laptop struggles a bit more tracking all the Sims on the street and in the other apartments, but that's my fault for using the Sims on a laptop lol. I don't think it explains the building glitches.
I love Island Living, but only because of Nilani. I can't explain why I'm absolutely in love with her, but I am.
Seriously, she's one of the prettiest townies in the whole game!
This really helped me, I was having a hard time deciding what expansion pack I am going to buy next. 😁
I play a LOT in the Island Living world, but I was born in Hawaii and then moved away when I was 6, so pacific island vibes are super super super nostalgic for me. That's definitely one of those very personal effects on the ratings though lol