Sims 4 gameplay ideas for when you're bored!

I love building community pool lots. I grew up in a neighborhood that had a community pool and I spent most of my summers as a child there. The are a lot of different lot traits that you can use if you want more than just a pool. One of mine also takes care of all the stray dogs. I also add playground equipment, a vendor food stall, sometimes a dj and dance floor. Just random stuff. In the off season I will plop a ice or roller rink in where the pool usually is. They will draw a lot of Sims once you go on the lot and are a lot of fun.

I feel like so many people say “you haven’t heard this one” and it’s always something dumb as hell like visit hidden lots, but as I thought you delivered a genuine new approach 🎉

I like finding different legacy challenges and doing those because each generation is different and refreshing and forces me to use things I haven’t used in a long time/forgot about

My idea is to take a townie/sim that you like and age them down and play theough their life up to thst point. Alternwtively if theyre a sim without a family then you can make what you imagine their fsmily to look like

Crafting your entire house from scratch? 😮 That's a new one I'll definitely try out later!

Really liked the idea of using crafting skills to furnish a home and the mod recommendations. I need to try this for my next household.

Literally falling asleep trying to play rn and this video pops up at the perfect time 😅

I will definitely try the child one. I have played as a teenager, but not as a child.

There is a challenge like houseflipper and there are lots of builds on the gallery. I like to play with Ikkinsinister's Black Beauty or Dr Gluon's Rosa's House. It is a Rags toRiches with a twist. Each of the custom builds comes filled with rubbish (absolutely chokka) and you have to clean it up room by room by earning certain amounts of simoleons in order to progress. Off-hand I think it is 10000 per room (they have to be cleaned and renovated) then another 1000 to open the next room. Oh yeah you start with nothing. I try to furnish them with crafted items to make it more interesting. The rules are online. Sometimes I put all the lot traits on too just for laughs and add Haunted House. xxx

I played as a homeless sim for a bit it was actually kinda fun I chose an empty lot filled it with debug items mainly from eco lifestyle and werewolves to make a junk yard, I found it was a good way to utilise the worlds more than I usually do, like going to the discover university kiosk to buy a guitar rather than using build/buy although he ended up fighting gregg and becoming a werewolf which was still fun bc it actually made alot of sense for a werewolf to b homeless but it kinda made his life easier n then his fated mate turned out to be a 5 star celebrity 🤣 I think it's like a cute little love story tho bc he had a want to flirt with her so I pinned it and got him to do it

My fav way to play, is actually much in style with your first suggestion. I play the adult sim from start of cause. When married and have a child, I will then only play the child from infantcy, through toddlerstage, childhood and teen years, have them start a career as a YA and then have them have children when they are either maxed or high in their career. I play on long life, and give them a full life with friends that might stay friends all the way to adulthood. I make them leave the lot, give them hobbies and so on. (granted I tend to skip infant stage at day 3, and toddler when they have at least level 3 in 3 skills). That way, the game never gets boring, because when I start on the next lifestage, it will have been a while and I will be looking forward.

When I’m bored I play Palia instead

One of the funnest things I've found involved that woodworking mod and the real estate mod. My sim went around "flipping" houses by buying empty houses, building furniture to fill them, and selling them off

For a moment before he explained I thought satch meant ME time-travelling back to play the game as a kid 😅

sims 3 and sims 2 are still fun 🤷🏾‍♀️😏

Honestly, I'm not a great builder, but i have been building a lot more. I ended up building community lots and parks simply because the base game ones don't cater to all age groups, and it would frustrate me. I have to say I've gotten so much better at building that i don't even download from the gallery anymore 😊.

I like using eco lifestyle to make furniture. I wish there were more options for making things. I do use knitting for rugs etc.

Love the Decades Challenge, never seen anyone do it on YouTube

I think making the sims have friend groups helps me, I usually have a couple townies then another family I play with in it. I think deligracys tiny town challenge seems like a new way to play.

With freelancer careers you can make your own active career when you don't have a Get to Work EP. You can build a community lot (a library works best) that looks like an office and travel there to do your work and talk to your "co-workers" 😂 It was kinda fun