A Brutally Honest Review of The Sims 4 City Living

The biggest letdown is the main parts of cities, stores, restaurants and clubs are locked behind other packs. And not being able to build your own apartments

City living is just THAT girl for me. I had two of my female sims move in together in an apartment and it’s been so fun. One of them even adopted a toddler and now the two friends are basically parenting him. I’m planning on having them live together for a while

I got this whole pack just for Akira Kibo and have no regrets

Honestly City Living is such a cool pack! The world feels alive there are many cultures and new things to explore

I'll always recommend this as a first pack. I've gotten the most gameplay out of it and I feel like if you only get one of each pack this is the best bang for your buck when it comes to an ep.

I feel like if you are an "asthetic" type of player Sims 4 is decent for you. Players who engage in alot of build buy, alot of CAS, a lot of decoration. Basically anything that falls into the category of visual spectacle, you get yours. If you are a gameplay sort of simmer, Sims4 just doesnt have much for you.

I think playing city living for the first time is the most fun I’ve ever had in the sims tbh

i think it would be cool if we could turn on/off the festival notifications after interacting with the information stands in san myshuno, like a sim stumbling upon it and learning the event schedule

I had to chuckle a bit when you said nothing for toddlers or infants. The Sims 4 was already 2 years old when City Living came out and toddlers were still whole year away, it's ridiculous that it took another 6 years after that for them to put in babies you actually had to care about.

The raccoon and panda costume will haunt me in my dreams.

I've been waiting on your review of my favorite pack! Love it; i just knew it would be rated highly. I play in apartments 90% of the time because I'm from NYC, I was raised in an apartment from birth-adulthood for the most part (couple houses in between), and for me, nothing beats city life! For building and living, I just live the simplicity of a smaller, single level space! Especially if i want to do rotational style gameplay like back in sims 2.... I have a "culpepper house rotational" save . City living is just the best pack to me!

city living has the best festivals where you really have what to do

Interesting hearing your takes on city living being about young adults in the city. Which I agree with as far as design, but as far as types of people some people just vibe with the city and I love playing toward that kid who always grew up in and around the city with his city friends falling for a country girl really cute. And I like the challenge of raising kids in apartments with less options to expand.

I always thought that City Living was overrated. ...until i got that pack (for half price, obviously not the full price). And it's actually quite good. And i love the CAS, so versatile with lots of cultural outfits. The festivals are also decorated well and feel alive/busy.

I hate City Living's CAS lol but I love playing in San Myshuno it's the only Sims 4 world that is actually alive

I never notice that the City Living is actually a great pack. I have been playing with it so long and it really change many things

I always appreciate your brutally honest reviews. I really like this pack, probably one of the best. The only thing that bugs me, other than not being able to build apartments, is that doors don't disappear when playing with walls down, or partly down. For some reason they thought it was a good idea to make it that way, when it wasn't like that to begin with. Just like "fixing" the photography glitch. Why? No one asked you to "fix" it.

I love the karaoke machine but it has always bothered me with how obnoxiously loud it is and I can't hear anything else but that LOL. I would say this pack is definitely one of my favorites though mainly because of the apartments but also the cas/build buy. They even added a few decent careers.

This was one of my first ever packs and I'm so glad I got it! Whenever I play the sims 4 this is a pack I'll always return to as I feel it has the most content for me and is a joy to play. I only wish apartments were an actual lot type for the gallery as I'm not very creative and tend to use other players builds !

I got all the expansion packs in about a 1 year time span, so I didn’t really get an in-depth look at each one as I got it. I love these reviews as I find things I’ve missed or didn’t realize came with that particular pack. I didn’t think I used City Living much, but most of my sims get married at the big park, I buy ingredients from the stalls, take my sims to festivals for dates, and the real reason I bought this pack earlier than some others, all the lot traits and challenges. On the other hand, I hardly ever have my sims live in this world, and I was devastated to find out you couldn’t build your own apartment buildings. That was something I absolutely loved to do in Sims 2.