The Sims 4: Choosing The Best Expansion, Stuff And Game Packs

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After over six years since release, the selection of DLC for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Sims 4 is incredibly large. This can make just looking at the list of extra content 💟feel both overwhelming and expensive for newcom♑ers to the franchise.

While discounts on eꦗxpansion, game, and stuff packs are frequent, it's still incredibly costly to buy everything, so decisions have to be made. These guides are here to help you make them. We offer some broad advice as well as reviews and articles that outline the specific content of each and every expansion, g꧒ame, and stuff pack.

The Sims 4 Base Game And Guides

These articles are focused on DLC packs available for The Sims 4. If you're looking for more general advice a𓂃bout how to play The Sims 4, you can check out our base game guide hub for guides to everything from building to woohoo.

The main purpose of this guide is to help you find the best DLC for the way you play the game. If you're a builder, stylist or storyteller there will be a pack that suits your style. Once you've got your hands on some extra content there is so much to explore. If you find yourself in need of some extra guidance check out our hub for DLC-specific guid🃏es.

Choosing The Best Packs For The Sims 4

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For many people, searching for "best Sims 4 expansion packs" seems like a great place to start but often 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:these lists are often useless, beyond being fun to read. One person's most loved pack is another's most hated, as it all depends on how you play the game and wha🎀t type of content you enjoy.

While we do have a list of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:best expansion packs, as well as a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:ranked list of game packs, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:another for stuff packs, thes🍨e aren't the most useful ways of determining what content to buy.

To help give a better overview of the packs that are likely to appeal to specific types of players we also produced some lists that span the different types of content with a focus on common gameplay styl💞es. These are a more specific starting point to get an idea of what's likely to appeal to you.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Best Packs For Builders, Ranked

Best Packs For Legacy & 🍬Family Players, Ranked

Best Packs For Unique, Occult &a𒉰mp; Supernatural Gameplay, Ranked

Onc🍒e you've narrowed the choices do꧅wn we also have some articles specifically written to explore each pack's content.

Things You Need To Know About Expansion And Game Packs

The "things you need to know before you buy" series was written in order to explore each expansion and game pack's content in more depth. These guides focus most𓄧ly on the gameplay aspects, with just a small summary of the create a sim and build buy items.

This is because the Origin listings for DLC show you all the clothing ꦺand furniture in each pack as small thu♓mbnails, but the gameplay is incredibly difficult to judge from the few sentences on offer.

If you want an opinion-free overview 🧔of the content you can expect from each pac🐷k check out these guides for every expansion and game pack to date.

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Expansion Packs

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Game Packs

Things You Can Only Get In Stuff Packs

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Stuff packs are very different from expansion and game packs as usually the content is focused on create-a-sim items as well as furniture and decor. Gameplay in stuff packs has, until r🅘ecently, been very limited, meaning the "know before you buy" format didn't fit. The result was the "things you can only get" series.

These guides explore in more detail clothing, furniture, or decor items in every stuff pack. Since these packs are so heavily focused on items the idea is that these articles will showcase different styles and swatches in m🌊ore det💧ail.

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Stuff Packs

Previews And Reviews

We also have good old-fashioned previews and reviews for the more recent packs, from Strangerville onwards. Some of these are s♛cored reviews but many of the game and stuff packs are non-sc☂ored overviews. These add more opinion to the information you can get from the other articles and can be useful to find out more.

There are also some other articles that answer common questions about sp꧒ecific packs. These are also included in thi🤡s list.