The Sims 4 is Maxis' latest take on the life simulation it invented. You create Sims with real personalities, build and furnish their homes, and guide them through careers, friendships, romances and the occasional cooking disaster. The base game is free to download on Xbox and includes the full set of tools for telling stories that are entirely your own.
Create a Sim, Down to the Details
Create a Sim lets you sculpt faces and bodies directly, pushing and pulling features into shape instead of wrestling with sliders. You then pick hairstyles, outfits for every occasion and even the way a Sim walks. The real depth is underneath. Traits and aspirations decide what each Sim values, what they are good at and what they are working toward, so a Cheerful Bookworm and a Hot-Headed Goofball end up living very different lives under the same roof.
Emotions That Drive Every Choice
Emotions are at the heart of The Sims 4. Depending on what has just happened to them, Sims can feel inspired, confident, flirty, focused, playful or tense, and each mood opens up new interactions and changes how well they work, create and socialize. An inspired Sim writes and paints better, a confident one does well at work, and a tense one needs some care before the day falls apart. Sims can also multitask, chatting over dinner or talking while they relax, so a household feels lively and believable.
Build Mode and the Perfect Home
- Room-based building lets you place whole rooms, stretch them to size and drag them across the lot with their furniture still inside, which makes redesigning a house fast and forgiving.
- A broad catalog of furniture, fixtures and décor, with color swatches for most items, helps you match every room to the family that lives in it, from a cramped starter home to a sprawling family house.
- The Gallery connects you with a community of players. You can browse, download and comment on their Sims, homes and designed rooms, or share your own creations for others to move in.
Life in the Neighborhood
- Careers and Skills
- Send Sims off to work and help them climb the career ladder toward promotions and bigger paychecks. At home they can build skills such as cooking, painting, logic and charisma, and those skills pay off in every part of their lives.
- Relationships
- Friendships, rivalries and romances grow out of everyday conversations. Sims can fall in love, get married and start a family, or hold grudges against the neighbor who insulted them at the park.
- Places to Explore
- Travel between the neighborhoods of Willow Creek and Oasis Springs to meet other Sims and learn about their lives. Parks, gyms, libraries and lounges give your household reasons to get out of the house.
- Life and Legacy
- Sims grow up, grow old and eventually meet the Grim Reaper. You can keep playing with the next generation and see a family legacy develop over the lives of children and grandchildren.
Your Story, Your Way
You can play out scenarios from your own life, or you can run a household where anything goes. Either way, some of the best stories in The Sims 4 are the ones you never planned. Download The Sims 4 on Xbox, create your first Sim and see where life takes them.
