Sims 4's Biggest Unsolved Problem Is Getting Harder To Ignore With Every New Expansion

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Sims 4 Worlds Are Still Lacking, Even After So Many Expansion Packs A Key Aspect Has Been Criminally Neglected “Congrats Fellow Builders, We Made It”: Sims 4 Free Game Update Branded “Best Thing That’s Happened To Me” By Players As Gameplay Improves, We Need More Focus On Fleshed-Out Worlds Worlds Are Essential To The Sims 4 Experience 10 Biggest New Features In The Sims 4’s Enchanted By Nature Expansion

The Sims 4 has enjoyed consistent success for over a decade now, but the lingering issues in its approach are becoming more frustrating with every expansion. Although the years of support have brought it ahead of past Sims releases in some regards, it can still be underwhelming compared to what The Sims 3 offered. The more time passes, the harder it becomes to excuse the areas where it falls behind, and failing to ever address one problem could hold the game back forever.

At this point, Sims 4 expansions are primarily sold on the merit of their core gameplay features, which usually manage to hit on things that players feel the base experience is missing. Recent expansions like Lovestruck and Businesses and Hobbies have fleshed out core aspects of daily life, and even the more whimsical promise of living life as a fairy in Enchanted by Nature is similarly built on mechanical additions. Worlds, on the other hand, haven’t been getting as much love, and their underwhelming nature is one of the game’s biggest caveats.

Sims 4 Worlds Are Still Lacking, Even After So Many Expansion Packs

A Key Aspect Has Been Criminally Neglected

While The Sims 4 has plenty of worlds after the release of so many expansion packs, it doesn’t have plenty that are as good as they could be. A proper world in the Sims isn’t just window-dressing, but a place that offers interesting and diverse opportunities. Heading to a coastal town should offer a radically different experience from a city full of skyscrapers, and making them as distinct and robust as possible is one of the best ways to enhance the eternal playability of The Sims 4.

A construction worker from the Sims 4 with a building

“Congrats Fellow Builders, We Made It”: Sims 4 Free Game Update Branded “Best Thing That’s Happened To Me” By Players

Sims 4 players are calling the latest free update “the best thing that’s happened” due to the plethora of new features it introduces to the game.

Unfortunately, worlds often feel like an obligatory afterthought. It only makes sense for appropriately-themed new worlds to arrive in expansions, but I’d be surprised if many people were investing in expansions because of the worlds themselves at this point. Businesses and Hobbies‘ addition of Nordhaven is charming, but it’s a small world with few lots and limited interactivity. At this point, it’s standard for a Sims 4 world to feel stunted in scope and opportunities.

As Gameplay Improves, We Need More Focus On Fleshed-Out Worlds

Worlds Are Essential To The Sims 4 Experience

With expansions fleshing out so many of The Sims 4‘s core mechanics, it’s past time to start bringing the worlds up to speed. More interesting building opportunities, a wider variety of unique rabbit holes, and simply larger maps could all greatly enhance the experience. While new worlds to explore arrive with reasonable frequency, it would be nice to be able to spend months or years in one place without getting tired of it.

3 Sims from The Sims 4 Enchanted By Nature Pack. One Fairy wearing a green dress and smiling, one man in the middle sprinkling something onto a plant, and one girl on the left looking at a small floating fairy.

10 Biggest New Features In The Sims 4’s Enchanted By Nature Expansion

The Sims 4’s Enchanted By Nature expansion pack is finally bringing fairies to the game, but there are some other mysterious things to uncover, too.

Worlds aren’t the only area where The Sims 4 could still use some improvements, but they might be the aspect capable of making the biggest difference. I’m not holding out too much hope that EA and Maxis will start bringing worlds up to speed in the new future, but I’d certainly be happy if they did.