The Sims 4 encourages players to personalize their world with new and intuitive tools while offering them the ability to effortlessly share their creativity with friends and fans.

The Sims 4 brings all new ways to play with life; powerful new creative tools, all-new Sims with enhanced emotion and intelligence, and a gaming experience where players control the mind, body and heart of their Sims to bring their stories to life

Electronic Arts and Maxis announced new content for The Sims 4, including the upcoming Blooming Rooms Kit, and a free base game update introducing new gameplay features called Scenarios.

As part of the Season of Selves, these content updates encourage creativity and exploration, and facilitates play in entirely new ways to celebrate all sides of their Sims’ selves.

The Sims 4 Blooming Rooms Kit

The Sims 4 Blooming Rooms Kit is the latest kit curated for Simmers looking to fill their spaces with lush greenery and create a modern sanctuary in their homes. The kit will launch on November 9 for PC and Mac via Origin and Steam, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One.  

A green thumb is not required in this newest kit, as Sims are inspired to bring the outdoors inside with vibrant plants that breathe new life into any space. Players can delight in a soothing atmosphere of growth all around with unexpected leafy details and natural beauty, livening up their spaces by transforming regular household items into living decor with the addition of enchanting foliage. Potted and hanging plants transform any room into a small slice of paradise, and with a plethora of verdant colors, it will feel like living in a literal greenhouse. 

A New Way To Play: The sims 4 Adds Scenarios

In addition, Scenarios are now available to players as a free base game update for The Sims 4 across all platforms, offering a new way for Simmers to play and explore. 

Scenarios are situations that will be available in-game where Simmers can choose to participate and work toward an outcome for their Sims. Now the fun part is that there are different outcomes per Scenario and that there are many ways to achieve those outcomes. This means that there is more than one way to complete one Scenario so you as Simmers have multiple options toward the outcome that you want.

Each Scenario has a theme but what happens in said Scenario is up to you as you work toward your desired outcome; you never know how the story will go but only your actions and time will tell. <evil laugh>

In Today’s update we have two Scenarios:

• Making Money: Money, money, money, money, MOOONNEEEY! <ahem> This Scenario places your Sim in quite the predicament by having their bank account reset after they have moved in a Lot - yup zero Simoleons, nada - the difficulty could increase if your Sim chooses between Unfurnished and Furnished Lots, or if they bulldoze their space. To complete the Scenario you’ll have to earn your way to one million Simoleons. How you get to one million - it can be however you wish, just don’t do anything I wouldn’t do. <wink>
• Finding Love after a Break Up: Love hurts… love scars. This Scenario places your Sim right after they have broken up with their significant other. Your Sim’s task is to find love either by salvaging that relationship that broke apart, or finding new love with someone else. Which will your Sim choose? It's your Sim’s time to dream; which Sim will win their heart?

If you choose to partake in either one - or both - remember that in this initial list of Scenarios you will do so with a new Household. And don’t worry! These Households will stay with you after they complete each Scenario.

sometimes some Scenarios will be there for a limited time, and some will be updated and tweaked - some will be like a challenge, some may not - but in all we will add more over time and you can expect improvements and/or additions to this system over time as well! Today’s update introduces a limited edition Scenario, Too Many Toddlers, which will be available beginning tomorrow through November 6. 

A Sims Delivery is coming your way in an update near you

The Sims 4 will continue to release new Scenarios over time, with different themes and styles.

The party is just getting started!

With this update we are preparing our game to welcome a new system that will allow us to deliver content to the Base Game for all of you as a complementary, more spontaneous little sibling of our regular game updates. Join us in welcoming Sims Delivery Express!

Sims Delivery Express, or SDX for short, will be able to make Sims Deliveries without needing a full game update. But what does this mean? What kind of things are a Sims Delivery? What do you eat with it? Well, let me tell you:

• A Sims Delivery can be a Create A Sim or a Build Mode asset.
• A Sims Delivery can be small pockets of gameplay that don’t require a Base Game update to be accessible by you all.
• A Sims Delivery can also be tiny, little fixes that don’t need a Base Game update to release.
• A Sims Delivery is always Free.

All this to say that even though some of you - I see you super tech savvy Simmers - will see through today’s update files that Sims Delivery is in existence, this feature will be available for you at a later date. A note for Console players, make sure you have linked your account to EA through the game so that you can be ready to receive Sims Deliveries when they are available; for more information on how to do so, I’ve got you - you can read about it here.

Stay tuned for a future update where I can share more details and facts about Sims Delivery Express.

Do you like Plants?

I like plants, and we like plants. Are you a proud Plant Parent? So are we! Well... some of us are anyway <looks at her dead plants a bit embarrassed>. In this update we’ve made some adjustments on the backend for decorative plants across the Base Game and Packs adding an environment score and a more appropriate price in Build Mode to match their fictional rareness or worth. This change goes hand in hand with a small change to the text related to Environment Gain/Loss in Build Mode assets that display it to be more appropriate with the true intent of that score. Instead of Minor Environment Gain/Loss, it is now called Lot Environment Gain/Loss.

We are hoping this change makes a difference for all of you!

The Sims 4 is available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam and Origin).