The Sims 3 Pets transforms your virtual world into a living, breathing menagerie where animals aren't just decorative companions—they're fully realized family members with their own dreams, personalities, and mischievous agendas.
Revolutionary Pet Creation and Control
For the first time in the series, you can create majestic horses alongside beloved cats and dogs, each with extensive customization options that rival human Sims. The Create-a-Pet tool allows you to sculpt everything from breed characteristics to distinctive markings, which can be layered and positioned anywhere on your pet's body. More importantly, you gain direct control over these creatures, experiencing the world from a completely different perspective as you chase butterflies, dig holes, or gallop across open fields.
Complex Personalities and Meaningful Relationships
Each pet can possess up to three traits from a selection of thirty unique characteristics, creating genuinely distinct personalities. Your pets develop their own:
- Individual Wishes and Lifetime Rewards
- Just like human Sims, pets accumulate lifetime happiness points and pursue personal goals, from mastering new skills to finding the perfect napping spot. They can spend these points on exclusive rewards that enhance their abilities and happiness.
- Family Dynamics and Romantic Relationships
- Pets form deep bonds with each other and their human families. They can fall in love, reproduce, and maintain complex family trees that span generations. Watch as a shy kitten grows into a confident hunter, or witness the touching loyalty between an aging horse and its lifelong companion.
- Skill Development and Career Paths
- Dogs can learn to hunt and locate collectibles, while also developing the social skills to help their owners find romantic partners. Cats master the art of hunting, becoming efficient providers for their households. Horses can be trained in racing and jumping, potentially becoming champions at the new Equestrian Center.
Expanded World Integration
The new town of Appaloosa Plains provides the perfect backdrop for pet ownership, featuring wide open spaces and specialized venues. Your pets aren't confined to the home lot—take your dog to the park for socialization, bring your cat to the library for quiet contemplation, or ride your horse through scenic trails. This integration makes pets feel like genuine participants in community life rather than house-bound accessories.
Small Animal Companions and Collecting
Beyond the main trio, you can build collections of smaller creatures including birds, turtles, snakes, lizards, and various rodents. Each species brings its own care requirements and behavioral quirks, allowing you to create anything from a simple household with one loyal dog to a bustling menagerie that rivals a small zoo.
Step into a world where the boundary between human and animal dissolves, where every pawprint tells a story, and where your pets become the most memorable characters in your Sims' ongoing saga.
Available now for Windows and Mac on EA app.
