

In addition, there's a vast online content-creation community, dedicated to getting even more out of the games.Ĭustom content can make The Sims far more interesting, but just how do you find it and once you have downloaded custom content, how do you add it into the game? We're going to take a look at what you need to do to add third-party content to The Sims, specifically The Sims 3 and The Sims 4, the two most recent releases in the series.

It was like someone had handed me the blue pill suddenly, my world was infinitely larger, and the possibilities for design were endless.Following its launch in 2000, The Sims' "virtual dolls house" has gone through four versions so far, and countless expansion packs that add new scenarios, characters and objects. When what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a huge long list of links to all those housing items I’d been scouring the game packs for. I didn’t know what those letters meant, but I very quickly figured out that they were my two new favourite letters in the world. I was curious, so I clicked on “Show more” in the description. It wasn’t until I was watching a YouTube video of a speed build around Christmas that I noticed a peculiar term I’d never seen before: CC. I even started following a bunch of different Instagram accounts dedicated to design for the Sims 4, watching what they created and then driving myself crazy trying to find those items in official packs. It didn’t take me long to run out of ideas with the base-game items, and eventually, I started getting the expansion and stuff packs just so I could build with their items. I think one of my biggest frustrations with the Sims is how limited it can be in terms of home design.
