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May 25, 2018
Finally!
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ans of The Sims will be pleased to hear that EA Games have finally announced the release of a long-awaited The Sims 4 Seasons expansion pack. Fittingly, the expansion pack (that will be released for PC and Mac on June 22nd), will be entitled The Sims 4 Seasons.
Features of the new expansion include
- Four different seasons. Prepare to wrap-up for winter, or swelter in the summer sun.
- Seasonal Activities. From summer pool parties, to winter ice-skating.
- Calendar and Holiday Celebrations. Celebrate traditional holidays as well as creating your own. Exchange gifts with friends and family, maintain traditions, and even entertain special guests.
- Gardening Career. Green-fingered Simmers will even be able to start a career in gardening, as either a botanist or a flower arranger.
The new addition to the beloved series is described in more depth here, in a light-hearted manner which the kooky series is notorious for.
EA games have already made the game available for pre-order. The game can be pre-purchased here for £34.99.
Fans have impatiently waited since 2014 for a season-themed expansion, and have only recently been graced with the pet-themed expansion pack, The Sims 4 Cats+Dogs.
Pets and Seasons aren’t the only things we’ve had to wait for. Upon it’s release in 2014, there was an outcry over the game’s lack of pools and toddlers. This lead to a hasty patch from developers, in order to appease the aquaphiles and broody hens.
The Sims 4 may be lacking in certain elements, but snow makes everything better right? ❄
- Aug 21, 2017
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ince the Sims 4 released in September of 2014, people have been clamoring for pets. While Maxix and Ea have created and improved upon many features in the previous Sims games (Vampires anyone?), they have been quiet on when we would see pets in the game.
The announcement about the pets expansion came today at Gamecon from Publisher EA. The new expansion will be appropriately named Cats and Dogs and is due to be released November 10th. The expansion will add a robust tool in “create a pet” that will add tons of customization to your furry friend. The customization includes detailing the age, breed (you can mix breeds!), and personality traits. You can also, for the first time, add clothing to your pet as well.
The expansion will include a new profession in the Veterinarian and players will be able to create their own Vet Clinic from the ground up.
Like previous expansions, a new locale will be added called Brindleton Bay. Brindleton Bay is a coastal locale and is centered around pets. Some of the activities that involve Pets includes playing fetch, obstacle courses, and picking up the occasional stray cat or dog.
According to a listing on Origin, the new expansion will cost $39.99.
Here is the adorable trailer that was released:
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- Sep 20, 2023
Veil of Dust: A Homestead Game is a farming simulator seeking to turn the genre on its head. Inspired by the likes of Stardew Valley and Don’t Starve, this game is a historically-grounded fantasy homesteading and survival game with a more adult-oriented gameplay. You’ll play as the Callahan siblings, Shane and Áine, as they learn to cope with loss and learn how to survive life in the desert of eastern Oregon.
With a more task-centric focus, and less grinding, Veil of Dust sets you on an adventure to explore magic, intrigue, small town politics, and more. You’ll farm, forage, and hunt to scrape together the resources and food necessary to survive. Overcome challenges with tools you craft, and fill bellies with different recipes you’ve scraped together, as well as forge relationships. Survival isn’t just about finding food and shelter, after all. Life needs to be worth living, too! Experience deep characterizations and explore realistic, relatable scenarios that touch on heavier topics.
Veil of Dust isn’t devoid of humor and fun, though! Guide Shane and Áine as they search for answers as to why mysterious monsters attack their town and livelihoods. While defense wasn’t always a priority, you might need to protect your homestead from them. The homestead you’ve carefully made your very own by lovingly choosing the perfect colors, turning your inhospitable dirt patch into a comfortable home.
Where will your adventure lead you?
Available Now
You can find Veil of Dust on Steam now!
Want more farm sims that are just a little bit different? Checkout Moondrop.
- May 10, 2023
Learn Magic, Farm, and So Much More
Welcome to Brookhaven, a curious little town on a beautiful island full of friendly villagers and dangerous creatures. However, Brookhaven only exists inside a dark storybook, and a wizard has trapped you inside. Within the pages of this book you’ll encounter a cast of unique people with magical powers. Settle down and forge friendships, fall in love and start a family, explore, farm, and so much more in Brookhaven Grimoire!
The community of Brookhaven includes those who use magic. It is the backbone of this society, after all, and you’ll be able to join in by learning how to perform magic. You’ll also get to engage in a wide variety of activities. Fish for a variety of fish species in different areas of the world. Forage for mushrooms, flowers, and herbs. Grow vegetables, herbs, flowers, nuts, and fruit trees, then cook up a storm with your ingredients. You’ll also use these items in alchemy recipes, quests, or give them as gifts to villagers of Brookhaven Grimoire. You’ll also get to tend to a wide variety of animals on your farm who’ll provide you with animal products you can use, gift, or sell. There are 21 different creatures for you to raise, so no shortage of variety.
There are also over 100 mythical creatures for you to encounter on your adventures through Brookhaven Grimoire. Perhaps you’ll get to see some mermaids and werewolves in your search for dungeons to complete. Summon minions to help you in battle. Acquire supernatural abilities from one of five different supernatural creatures you can run into. And don’t forget your magic! Perhaps with all of these abilities, you’ll be able to uncover the mysteries of this storybook world and find a way back home.
Available Now!
This dark-style fantasy sim game is available now on Steam!
For more dark farm sim fun, checkout Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire and Critter Crops: Mystery of Mullery Mansion!
- Nov 14, 2022
The Sims 5 or better known as project Renee is giving us the first look at the new city area.
The Sims 5 is currently developed under the code name “Project Rene”. many rumors over the past years have pointed at a new Sims game featuring multiplayer, many new innovative features as well as as cross platform gameplay – that’s right The Sims 5 might be playable on mobile phones as well as console and PC.
Today a Sims 5 Twitter insider account shared some exciting new images with us that directly show off the new city and even some apartment buildings currently in the alpha build of The Sims 5 / Project Rene.
The somewhat small city might not reveal much at this point but it does give a another look at the art style EA and Maxis are going for. In addition we can also see apartments where a play has decorated a few rooms. This specific area feels a lot like apartment buildings in The Sims 3.
Something that especially The Sims 5 community might be excited about is the presence of vehicles, we may be able to to own and drive cars again to get around town!
Take a look at some of the screenshots below. While looking at these images please do keep in mind these are screenshots from a very early alpha build of The Sims 5 / Project Rene. EA and Maxis decided to let us be part of the development process therefore visuals may not be final.
The Sims 5 Graphics
The Sims 5 graphics may indeed be a little bit more simple compared to previous installments in the franchise. This could be done in favor of cross-platform gameplay. EA and Maxis aim to deliver the same gameplay experience for The Sims 5 / Project Rene no matter what device you play on, including mobile phones.
To achieve a seamless experience the game would need to be designed for less powerful devices from the ground up. Keep in mind that at this point anything other than what EA officially shared is speculation.
Paralives first real The Sims competitor
Paralives aims to capture the heart of The Sims community with amazing customization tools and even ”parapeople”, sim like characters that you will control. Find out more about this upcoming life sim game right here.
- Oct 20, 2022
Following many rumors The Sims 5 is finally confirmed to be in development featuring the most innovative customization tools of any Sims game so far.
The Sims 5 is currently developed under the code name “Project Rene”. many rumors over the past years have pointed at a new Sims game featuring multiplayer, many new innovative features as well as as cross platform gameplay – that’s right The Sims 5 might be playable on mobile phones as well as console and PC.
EA and Maxis were proud to let us have a look at the very early build of The Sims 5. The developers made very clear that development is at a very early stage and the release of the game may still be year away.
However, the first look at customizing furniture is incredible although it is showing a lot of similarities to Animal Crossing inspired game Hokko Life where you can make your own furniture from the ground up.
Maxis showed how you can customize beds and couches to a detail not seen in previous Sims games. Change the pillow size, color, rotation and more. In addition to being able to let your creativity free roam, you can also invite friends to you join you build your home or even play with with them comparatively together. The Sims with multiplayer is something that had been rumored for a while and many players have been wishing for it for years. For the players who enjoy playing alone this is of course still an option as well.
take a look at Project Rene – The Sims 5 below.
Paralives the first real The Sims competitor
The Sims will finally also get some competition from indie game developer Paralives take a look at this stunning game featuring similar customizations as The Sims 5.
- May 5, 2022
Build Your Own Town and Garden with WALL-E, Cook with Remy, Fish with Goofy, and so Much More!
Disney Dreamlight Valley is an upcoming free-to-play multi-platform life-simulation adventure game. Although the words “free-to-play” may have given you pause, the Gameloft assures players that there will be no main-campaign “pay-walls”. However, players will have the option to buy expansions to enhance their gameplay. With that out of the way, what is Disney Dreamlight Valley all about?
Play as your own unique, customizable character in a place called Dreamlight Valley where Disney and Pixar characters lived in harmony, that is, until the Forgetting. Night Thorns have grown everywhere now, destroying wonderful magical memories and displacing its inhabitants. In every realm, there’s a Disney or Pixar character that needs your help to go back home. The realms all have their own challenges, puzzles to solve, and villains to encounter.
How is the game compared to Animal Crossing and The Sims? Well in Dreamlight Valley, you can build your own fully customizable neighbourhood with creative landscaping and thousands of decorative items (all Disney/Pixar-themed, of course). Once you bring new characters to town, have them settle down, become their friends, and restore the valley to its former glory. This means you can do things like garden with WALL-E, cook with Remy, and fish with Goofy. The game has a real-time day and night cycle, but the shops will remain open 24/7!
Early Access Launch this Summer, Full Release in 2023 on All Platforms
Disney Dreamlight Valley will launch as a free-to-play game in 2023 on all available platforms. This includes PC and Mac on Steam and the Epic Games Store, mobile (iOS and Android), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, and the Nintendo Switch.
Later this year (Summer 2022), fans who purchase the Founder’s Pack or have an Xbox Game Pass subscription will get Early Access to the game, along with exclusive rewards and limited-edition items that can be carried over to the full version (exclusive goodies such as in-game currency, cosmetic items, etc). For now, you can click on the links provided above to Wishlist the game on your platform of choice.
- Oct 27, 2021
The Sims 5 is confirmed and will bring people together.
The Sims 5 has been confirmed by EA and no other than the director of Studios at Electronic Arts has confirmed some early details about the next generation of the popular life simulation game.
According to Laura Miele The Sims 5 will bring franchise to the next level by adding a prominent social component to the game. In an interview with VentureBeat Laura talked about the future of The Sims “I think that’s one of our biggest opportunities with The Sims is the social connection component that we need to bring to this brand and this franchise. The team is hard at work on the next generation of that experience.”
The Sims 5 has long been rumored to be a cooperative experience where players can either be playing together and/or share their creativity in a marketplace.
EA and Maxis have already tried to bring The Sims Online with its infamous launch of the TSO ( The Sims Online ). It was considered to be ahead of its time and was later on shut down although it started gaining popularity after it was rebranded into EA Land.
The Sims Online came back to life as a fan project and has since then attracted thousands of Sims fans. You can check it out right here.
The Sims 4 was meant to be online
The Sims 4 was intended to be an online game but EA scraped that idea in favor of making it the fourth single player installment in the series. For more information and even some gameplay footage head over here.
