How do expansion packs work

The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle adds the choice to go eco-friendly or not. Your decisions will help clean up the neighborhood — or add to the pollution. The Sims 4: Snowy Escape is all about a weekend vacation to an Asian-inspired mountain. Your Sims can participate in winter sports or take a relaxing dip in hot springs. This expansion also adds Lifestyles and Sentiments , traits that show up as your Sim does various actions, changing their behaviors and relationships.

It also adds the Cross-stitch skill, for those looking to decorate their home in a comfy way. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.

By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Gaming PlayStation Xbox Nintendo. Movies TV Comics. Star Wars Marvel. The Sims 4 Expansion Packs guide. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Get the expansion pack with the upgraded career system. Add apartments and festivals to your game with The Sims 4: City Living. Add holidays and seasonal fun to your game with The Sims 4: Seasons. Make your sims a star with the reputation system in The Sims 4: Get Famous.

See, The Sims 4 is awesome, but there's a catch. That's as much as a brand-new iPhone, a laptop, or the beginnings of a great savings account. Below, I will go through every piece of DLC in the game. I've tried them all! If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. They change how you play. Each expansion adds a new world where your Sims can live, at least one new activity, new objects and venues, new items for your Sims, new household items, and things like new traits, careers, or skills.

Game Packs can add a lot to your Sims experience but not as much as an Expansion Pack. Sometimes they even include a new world, though they might be worlds only made for visiting, not permanent living. Game Packs also add skills or mechanics, though they're less game-changing. All of The Sims games include expansion packs.

I own several from when I bought the original game years ago. While this makes the game incredibly customisable, it also makes it incredibly expensive. That being said, it is possible to play The Sims without it. A worse way to do DLC is to keep a crucial piece of the story back even though players have already bought the base game.

When done right, they add great new features to their base game. But the base game must be a complete experience by itself. The base game is a huge RPG role-playing game out of which players will get tens if not hundreds of hours. The DLC add more rich side missions without affecting the main storyline and received praise in their own right.

Some DLC add something different to their base game, rewarding players with non-canon what-if scenarios. One notable example for me is the DLC for Dragon Age: Inquisition, which add new missions that give an insight into more of the game world, but without which the base game is still a rewarding experience of over a hundred hours.