HOW TO MAKE THE SIMS 4 MORE FUN *WITHOUT* MODS | The Sims 4 Gameplay Ideas

There's one use of cheats I think is quite fair. If a Sim was created as a Young Adult or older, they missed out on childhood Traits they would have otherwise gotten had you had the chance to raise them yourself. Cheating to give them the Traits and Satisfaction Points they would have gotten, if they had the opportunity to be children, is something I do pretty regularly when I create adult Sims from scratch.

Can you get save flies on consoles?

Don't use cheats? Girl you Dreaming 🙄

What pose did you use in your thumbnail? I love it!

I usually pay attention to my Sims' aspiration tasks, career tasks, club tasks, whims, event goals, holiday goals, scenario goals and playable career goals. I may customise the Sims' cell phones and calendars and wardrobes. So, my Sims will always have things to do in the world.

I made a Little Rich Family with 2 parents and a teenage daughter. I got the teenager to fall in love with a guy in her class but the mother feels her husband isn’t giving her attention so she gets drunk while her daughter’s boy is staying over and when the daughter goes out for a jog she sleeps with her boyfriend and gets pregnant.

That park in Oasis Springs, who built that and is it uploaded on the gallery?

my favoriet sims 4 challenge is the runaway teen.

I love doing mundane things in my game. It does make the game more fun and realistic. Also creating groups and clubs is such a nice feature that cohesively goes with other packs.

Sorry to bother, but do you know of any Base Game save files? I don't have all the packs I think I have like 4 expansions 3 game packs a few kits and 5 stuff packs, and I haven't found any save files that work with just base game

I like to give my Sims a wide field of interest. I dont give the guitarist the creative trait + music lover trait + the music aspiration. Instead the guitarist might be a cook that plays the guitar in the park for tips on the weekend and goes to the geek-con, because they love to play video games :)

There is one cheat i will never not use and that is move objects

How to do so many characteristic fields? I only have three und i want to make a sim..

I started rags to riches with nothing but an emty lot in brindleton bay, a werewolf with some abilites to help them survive and a ghost dog

An idea i have is make your sims dress for their culture for example if your sim lives in sulani make them dress like the other people in sulani

I dont know what to do cause my sims is breaking cause at first i just could feed my todlers through the high chair but now tall my sims needs dont go up no matter what i do so i cant lay the game cause if i do they’ll die soon do you know whats going on????

Something that I saw someone comment on another video is if you have a child check when their birthday is and if they’re near there change up their style! Kids go through changes once they’re preteens so it’s more real.



Edit: I wanted to not use cheats but- I started a new house and used some gallery sims and I had 705 simolens- HOW I’m I supposed to work with this

what is a save file

when starting a game: build or find a starter house that you like, but don't add too much detail. later in the game when you have more money, go back and add a little at a time!! it's a lot of fun<3

I don’t recommend the gallery sims the pots are awesome but when you create and spend time making your sims it makes it easier to get attached. You don’t know anything about those fakery sims except their traits and whatever other info was given to you in the description.

How do you get 28 day seasons?! I keep seeing people talk about them and I’m sitting over In the corner like “wha- HoW”

if anyone loves all forms of gameplay in ts4 i recommend making your own save file. so you get to build lots, make characters, make houses for those sims, give those sims some lore and backstory. and there ya go now you have a save file you can use anytime you want to make a new save with all those neighbors and families

Adding you own unique holidays is fun too so your sims are not just doing the boring old holidays

Do you know to get the wall to be able to become clear and the roof on xbox one

Yes

Do you need any packs to open up your own store and sell things?

After cottage living came out, I use the simple living lot trait on every household I make! I don’t always get ingredients from a farm/ garden but i get grocery deliveries every ingame week! It just adds a little more realism to the game, and I think it’s fun. :)

thank you!

The last idea is amazing and i want to try IT out but what's the name of the house there?

since when r there cows in the Sims 4 and with what pack

Thank you so much for all those ideas! ^-^ I definitely found some things I will use in my next playthrough.

What I like to do in my game is using a dice. When I am met with a more challenging question, I roll the dice. 1-3: no 4-6: yes.
Thats how my artsy pet loving sim ended up in a huge family! She dated her best friend who left her husband for her and brought three kids into the new relationship. This forced me to completely rethink my plans for this household :D
I also dice for multiple options.

Often I just take a look on the thought bubbles and figure out what they might say or think and implement it into the gameplay.
I once matched two sims together and thought they were so perfect... but the thought bubbles seemed to tell another story. He was just not so much into her. So I diced what he would do. Dice said: cheat, fight, breakup.

love this

How does your sim has 5 traits?

I play a long life span reality TS4 gameplay, it’ so fun! I get attached at my sims and what’ fun is that I’m waiting for the generations of the family.

If you ask me how I do this you need the packs (University and City Living) It’s fun if you have those because you can start with one sim and make them study first then live in an apartment. Then I will build a house and use my sims degrees as the money maker. (I’m currently at my relaxed state because my toddlers are fine now and about to go to kid form)

I already don't use cheats cause I'm a sucker for PS4 achievements and when I finally got stuck into a family to use for the alphabet legacy achievement my Sims won the lottery after about a month😂

Luckily it still isn't boring for me, just don't need to worry about career income now

Yes I was going to the gallery to get a family and I saw this cute bass family and when I got it and I put it in a house I got like $300,000 I do not know how that happened

You could use a notebook and write about your characters backstories and their lives! That’s something I personally do and I really enjoy it!:)

love these tips thank youu!! 😊💗✨

I really like legacy challenges and stories, but I got bored really easily so I really recommend rotational gameplay, like another person suggested. if your family is all in one house, every sim week focus on a different sim. if they're all in different ones, just rotate between households! I also love using events and pretending it's for a holiday since I don't actually have seasons yet.
I also recommend that if you really like the cas or building aspects, spend time on that! remake an entire town, make your own townies with their own stories! it's super fun

Make a single mum/dad that hates children but has like seven or so children (toddler, child and teen)

Here are some ideas for storylines about families (no mods required since I myself am I console player):

-The neglected toddler
Make a family that consists of two parents with bad traits (such as evil, lazy, hates children ect.) and then give them a toddler. The parents both have part time or full time jobs and when they go to work the kid goes to daycare, no babysitters. When they are at home the toddler has to look after themselves - keep themselves busy playing with toys, put themselves to bed, eat food that’s sitting out instead of in a highchair ect. If they need a bath they have to ask their parents but sometimes, the parents say no and the toddler just has to be dirty. When they age up do the same - they have to do their homework alone and if the bed monster comes, they can’t ask their parents to make it go away since the parents don’t care. Try to make the child become a good person with many skills even though they were neglected in their younger years.

-The hated child
Make a “hated child” kind of family, where there are two kids, but one has high relationship with their parents and always gets gifts from them, while the other kid is always shouted at. You could start from the kids being toddlers and live through their whole lives to see how they turn out.

-The perfect sim
Make a perfect child. What I mean is, live through their life trying to make them have high skills and live a pretty perfect life. Their parents could shout at them a lot and have high expectations, but could also just be kind and caring. Some examples of making the child perfect would be:
(As a toddler): Having all the skills up to level 3 or higher, making 2/3 friends, not falling into tantrums
(As a kid): Having an A at school, knowing how to play an instrument, spending their time doing things like reading
(As a teen): Not playing video games but studying instead, having quite a few friends but not doing crazy stuff with them like going to parties, not having a boyfriend or girlfriend
(Young adult+): Marrying before having kids then having at least two of them, having a well paid job and a rather big house, completing your aspiration

-Best friends to lovers
It’s quite a typical plot for teen sims to meet someone, become friends, start dating them and then getting married, BUT to make it more interesting you could do two toddler sims that become friends from the youngest years. They go to school together, meet up every day, attend each others birthdays ect. all through their childhood, then as they get older they start to see each other in a romantic way. However, you could also spice this up by eg. adding that one of the sims is cheating on the other, or what if one dies and the other has to cope with the loss.

Which packs would you recommend buying? I've got University and Parenting, but I've noticed I get bored easily when I play with sims who don't go to college or have no kids

i think all of the fun things come with extention packs

I cant play with save files because it always gets so lagging.
Does anyone knows how to solve this?

Omg your videos are amazing 🤩

Some of these are interesting. Others are like “use the game to play the game!”

Thanks.