Ranking every Sims 4 pack

high school years was my first expantion pack. i liked it at first but there isnt a lot of students that come with it. you need a couple teen mods to make it more fun. same thing with realm of magic. its fun at first but you get board of it

I agree with get together I don’t think I could play the game without making clubs of friends for events and stuff, I feel like nifty knitting was a great stuff pack for what it was. you can unlock a bunch of clothes, sell it on plopsy, gives a new hobby, makes new items . I want more crafting stuff like that

Although you put the Cats and Dogs in Meh, and a few diferent stuff packs in Hate Me (toddler, laundry, kid, knitting), they are good if the person is interested in a more complete family/home style game (which you admit to in Growing Together and other packs). Personally I would rather put Get Famous in Meh than Cats and Dogs, and moved some of those packs you put in Hate me in the Meh category. But definitely buy them on discount! I miss when EA did 50% off on stuff packs.

Growing together is so much better than parenthood, it adds much more gameplay especially for infants but also for other lifestages! Parenthood gives you these textboxes which don't influence the game that much at all😐

Not me being the only one who likes bust the dust

Great review😊Personally the cats and dogs pack is worth it for owning a vet clinic, I like the gameplay. But owning the actual pet for sure feels meaningless in the game!

i am a nifty knitting apologist- all of my sims knit and the collab with all the other packs makes me so happy but for non fiber art people i understand

merry christmas satch, I hope you're crying because its snowing. :-)

The only one I ever bought was cottage living, the rest I'd never have if not for anadius. And I STILL need many mods to improve.

I relate so much AHAHA

I think most packs are worth... Pirating. With the exception of packs so broken that legit make the game worse (ahem My Wedding Stories)

And remember guys, pirating EA is the morally correct thing to do

I currently own all expansions and most game packs so this is my justification to see if I want anything I don’t own yet 😅

I agree with Growing Together 100%. I got it for my birthday and it is so shallow! I really think that was meant to be a base game (infant stuff, and milestones) update and a Parenthood refresh. I also think Horse Ranch and For Rent were meant to be refreshes too. How else would there be 3 EP in one year!

I regret paying growing together on full price so much. I got bored after playing it for 3 days.

Get to work is also required for Zerbu's Turbo careers mod to work, which makes all base game careers active!

It really goes down to storyline you have in mind for a sim, this game is just a dollhouse symulator after all.

I agree with you when you say that the packs are only worthwhile when there's a sale on. I'm still missing the last 3 large packs. They are also currently on offer. But I still can't motivate myself to buy them because even combined they hardly offer enough gameplay to keep me entertained over the holidays.

I have every ep. Gp and sp. I have a few kits ..

Merry Christmas Satch! I love your videos but particularly your tier lists! Cannot wait for you to update the sims worlds tier list with Chestnut Ridge and Tomarang!!

You are incredible and so genuine, honest, and I appreciate you Satch

this christmas i said f the sims and got alice madness returns it’s a much better game on ea app highly recommend to everyone

I know you have to think about console players but I love all the occult systems because they seem to have really creative mods around them. RoM felt kind of meh after a while until I started using mods and now I love playing as a Spellcaster. Same with Mermaids and Vampires (I don't have Werewolves).

I agree with this list 100%. My biggest gripe with Growing Together was that it felt necessary to buy. I truly think milestones should have come with the infant update as a huge base game update. Milestones aren’t big enough of a feature to be bought. Infants without Growing Together are no better than newborns locked to their cradle imo, especially with how long of a life stage it is. It’s also absolutely appalling that things like the playmat were locked behind an expansion paywall.

Everytime there's a problem/bug with my game, I assume it's because of my mods/cc since I have A LOT. But almost every time, it turns out it's just The Sims 4 :)))

Right now Dream Home Decorator is a Delete It for me cause it's broken, you can't end the gigs once you've completed all of the objectives. It's so freaking annoying.

The holidays are also broken in Seasons. Only three sims will get the holiday traditions in your household. I always play with the holiday traditions so it's very infuriating for me. I'm shocked that they haven't fixed it yet.

Also right now the lifetime rewards are bugged and you can re-purchase them even if you already got them. It's really annoying to try and figure out which ones you already have so you don't buy them again.

I wish they would add pinky rings to the game. Like why is there no pinky ring option?

I've watched almost all of Satch's vids. He's spot on with most advice. Admit his game play style's different so he can be a bit more crit than I am. But I bought everything in the order Satch recommends I've no regrets.

Everyone always hates on Get to Work but it adds so much gameplay. I just got University and it just has the University rabbit holes to attend and is so buggy. Get to Work has multiple interactive jobs and the ability to build and own shops. 😊

I have similar opinion with you because I'm life mode player. I hate packs that come with repetitive gameplay like you said about ecolife style.

Growing Together is ok but for me only for first part of sim life I mean for teens and elders you need another packs...

I agree 100% with this tier list no bullshitting

Watching this video with 4 dollars in my bank account

I just bought Seasons this week

Uncommon Opinion: No more DLC for 2024! They just need to fix all these bugs!

Get together is at least A tier

I missed the part from Sims2 is when a sim’s job progress their carpool car progresses as well. And also the schools bus

I'm personally not interested in Growing Together because the infants are buggy enough in the base game. If you have more than one, any adults in the household will bug out and go from checking one infant to the other, then do any action with them other than tending to their needs. When the infants "try go night-night" (ugh that unnecessary baby talk) constantly, it will wake up their parents, force them to pick up the baby and distract it from actually sleeping, then when I force the parent sims to go back to sleep, the infants repeat the cycle. It took four attempts to bottle feed an infant who was starving to death because any time I tell my parent sims to do anything, that action will be canceled and be replaced by "check infant." I really don't need an expansion pack to further complicate that mess. As much as I love babies in real life, I find the behaviors and noises of the infant sims to be grating and abrasive, and very unnatural. I'm just not overly fond of baby gameplay personally even though I really do enjoy having multiple generations in my saves. If I got Growing Together and wound up with that trait that literally prevents infants from sleeping unless they are being held, I would literally put that child up for adoption because of how severely that would impede gameplay for me.

I think maxis and ea are being lazy

Don't care about seasons, I'm an og sims fan. Sims 1 was great And it had no seasons. I'm not playing the game to get Struck by lightning, having Weather is overrated. If you want snow get snowing Escape, I did. Rain is annoying and doesn't do anything interesting. Sunburn just kills your sim for no good reason. A Sim year goes way too fast anyway and you get that free Christmas pack, so you can decorate in Christmas stuff without seasons, I just play Christmas every human year on the real life December🤷‍♀️
I'm not getting an expansion pack with no world anyway.

Fun fact!
Satch and I are boyfriends (he doesn't know it yet)

I like Get Together a lot. It's got group dancing, dj mixing, and then with the dj's you can create real nightclubs. The club system is one of the very few things the Sims team keeps updated--it has cross-functionality with most other packs' gameplay. The club system helps you make friends, build skills, set up family, party, or other group activities. And then the sims actually mostly do those activities. It makes the whole game feel more alive.

I started buying sims4 content when it came out, which is 10 years ago now. If I bought all the content at full price (which I didn't, I bought a lot of things on sale, etc.) it would be around $1000. So about $100 a year :) That doesn't make me rich (and I'm not) but I do own all the content except a few of the kits.

I agree with a lot, but not all, of your assessments, but ya know, opinion and different playstyles. I personally think you want to play the sims like other kinds of games where they tell you what to do, but this game (in all its iterations) is about you making up the story. But the game is often buggy, occasionally broken, and base game alone (at least when it came out) pretty boring.

I think it's better now, but I would like to say if a new player buys only the things in your "needs" category (only one is a purchase, and that is not much at all on sale right now), I suspect they'll be pretty bored pretty quickly. It takes more than that to be a fun game. If you're a newbie, and can afford a few packs, I strongly suggest getting a couple of others - choose them by playstyle. If you like families, there are ones that clearly fit. If you like exploring worlds with a single sim or couple, others work better for that.

My currently playthrough is in a style kind of like other content creators where I play through each pack in order and try to explore everything that pack has to offer. I'd also suggest doing that if you're new. It's fun. Come up with family (single sim or 8 sims) ideas that fit each pack you own and try to do everything in it.

Several of the packs ARE very buggy (for rent particularly) but not always in ways that take the fun out of it. I'm having a blast with that pack. It's fun anyway, around the bugs. And making some of the other worlds fun again as well as I can add a neat new way to play to them.

At least it isn't Conan Exiles who completely locked a good number of their players all the way out of the game for about a month. EA is bad. I'll never buy another sims game - this is the last. But there are worse things.

Just get the EA unlocker. Buying packs are for nerds (I have bought a bunch of packs. I don’t believe in buying kits or the star wars pack)

Or buy a key from another website and enter the key origins. You save so much more money that way.

I'm starting to think you guys don't know how to have fun! When Outdoor Retreat was one of five packs I had in my jailbroken game, I had my sim go and find all the different growable plants and collect all the bugs without cheating on what time/where they spawned. She ended her collection with the elusive Will-o-the-wisp and found the Hermit's house, ending up falling for hermit Bruce and marrying him. They had 5 kids and Bruce went out the way he wanted, via CowPlant. Get creative y'all.

TBH the whole sims 4 experience feels shallow. Hopefully paralives/life by you are decent alternatives to the sims and I can stop wasting my time/money on the series.

I like seeing more gameplay people. It feels like the EA and Sims team cater to the builders, people who will spend hours in build mode and could care less about gameplay. 😭

Thank you

Everyone seems to love seasons but I just… don’t care about it at all?? Lol the packs I really enjoyed were growing together and cottage living, and high school years has a lot of my favourite furniture.

I only buys packs on sale, usually bigger sales, but honestly, like Satch said… there isn’t much reason to make your sims leave home, and I never do. I enjoy the build mode of get to work, but never do the active careers. It’s a pain in the ass. High school is also another thing I never actively do, because with parenthood, children and teens are a painnnnnn to manage, because you either do active school OR try to max character values. Hate that.
Sims 4’s build mode and relatively better running (compared to sims 3, because my pc doesn’t run sims 3 well anymore) has me hostage, and I am not sure I like that 😂

Merry Christmas Satch 💖 Cottage living is sooo good to me, who made that pack and where did they go??? (not working for sims anymore i feel) Also do u like FPS games like The Finals? I'm rlly enjoying it atm, so fuck EA for now xd Happy Hollidays

Idk why but I’m obsessed with these type of videos 😭 so far I have every expansion pack except for horse ranch and for rent.