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AdventureCasualSimulationFree To PlayLife SimCharacter CustomizationBuildingRomanceSingleplayer

The Sims™ 4

Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.

Developer
Maxis
Publisher
Electronic Arts
Franchise
The Sims™, EA Play
Release date
Jun 18, 2020
Store page updated
Aug 27, 2026
Price
Free · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

49.3/ 100

Based on 389 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 82% of 1,613
All time 😄 Very Positive 86% of 200,386
“game helped escape into affirming world despite base game limitations”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-0.92
Freedom +2.68
“Build Mode is engaging and creative” (54)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
-0.31

Not enough data — only 8% of reviews mention this.

World -0.88

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
-1.01
Volume -1.86
“sparse content and limited building options without expensive expansions” (4)

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+0.14

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Visuals +0.28
“building tools are great and CAS is the best ever” (7)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
-1.13

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Community -0.67

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-3.54
Monetization -4.23
“sarcastic complaint about predatory pricing model” (223)

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-3.32
Developer support -3.46
“same bugs promised to fix for ten years, never-ending neglect” (18)

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
60%70%80%90%100%
Jun 2020Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 1,579 reviews, peak 74/day
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Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 387 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English44%
  • Spanish12%
  • Portuguese11%
  • Chinese10%
  • Russian6%
  • French3%
  • Other14%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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