Hello! I couldn't find a discussion about this so forgive me if I missed it, but I wanted to ask what new gameplay-related objects would you want to see added to the Sims 4? These could be from previous titles or completely new ideas, whatever comes to mind!
I just remembered that the Sims 3 had a tablet that let sims listen to podcasts based on skills and they would automatically boost said skill while they do other things - I think this would be even more relevant now with audiobooks becoming more popular.
Another one is the changing table that we've had in the Sims 2 and 3 - I love family gameplay and would use this so often!
Smaller/normal sized telescopes - I have no clue why that hasn't been added yet...
I miss the telescopes! Some more cars, or maybe base game bikes would be nice. There are so many things missing that we've had in past games I can't even remember everything.
I miss the telescopes! Some more cars, or maybe base game bikes would be nice. There are so many things missing that we've had in past games I can't even remember everything.
yess i agree - i honestly wouldnt use cars very much since its not like we would be able to really drive them But i would like if they add cars that we get the ability to work on a broken down car like in the sims 2
Picnic blanket, so our sims can have an actual picnic on the ground and not on a table, Cottage Living. A picnic basket is just a glorified cooler and our sims don't even need it to eat out
More musical instruments
Board games that can be played on any table, even on the go
Strollers, so we can travel easily with babies and toddlers
Anything that lets us make and store nectar
Zen garden
Sculpting set, so we can make life-sized sculptures of sims
The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
Picnic blanket, so our sims can have an actual picnic on the ground and not on a table, Cottage Living. A picnic basket is just a glorified cooler and our sims don't even need it to eat out
More musical instruments
Board games that can be played on any table, even on the go
Strollers, so we can travel easily with babies and toddlers
Anything that lets us make and store nectar
Zen garden
Sculpting set, so we can make life-sized sculptures of sims
OH I LOVE THESE!! I really wish oujia boards and tarot cards were in paranormal stuff now
im hoping the tea set on a tray in the cottage living trailer is functional bc that would be good off the grid. and yes id really like to have picnics on the ground
Volleyball for 2-8 people, children through elder.
Playing catch with a ball and mitt, children through elder. Also, a clutter mitt and clutter baseball to put on a shelf, dresser, end table of coffee table.
A clutter football, and for children through elder be able to throw it back and forth.
A large ball for toddlers to roll back and forth to each other or to children through elders.
4 square fir children
More park equipment for children.
Handball for ages children through elder.
Skateboards for children and teens
Razors or scooters for children.
Ride on’s and push toys for toddlers.
Bikes for children, trikes for toddlers.
Rags dolls and baby dolls for children and toddlers to play with and also clutter rag dolls and baby dolls for any one to place on shelves, dressers, and any type of table or sideboard.
A Barbie doll box that children can interact with to play Barbies, 2 or 3 children should be able to play together. Or just one child.
Cars, trucks and motorcycles. A Mechanic career and hobby. A gas station/‘minimart/car wash you can own, or just go to and buy stuff at.
A pool table.
Romance interactions, slow dancing, and fast dancing together. Also a romantic bear rug.
More active careers with workplaces.
Also, the things Gordy mentioned, especially the board games that can be played on a table. I think it would be neat if you had different looking game boxes, and could choose from a half dozen games. They could be like books, put in a cube, on a dresser, table, end, table, or in a open slot in a bookcase for storage.
A costume category that you can use for costume parties, halloween parties, trick or treating, and cosplay. I want it to be where you can make up your own costume.
I also want children to be able to play together without toys, things like tag, cops and robbers, London bridge, ring around the rosy. Also, I would like them to be able to play with small things like marbles, jacks, and army men. With little clutter bags of marbles, jacks and army men, to put on shelves, desks, bookcases, dressers, and all kinds of tables.
Strollers, walkers, bouncers, blankets, cribs and play pens for babies when they free them.
I would even take many of these things in kits or stuff packs for toddlers, teens, and children especially if they brought them out.
More instruments would be great! And if we get a music/band based pack then there could be a music club/lessons as an extracurricular for children and teens!
Volleyball for 2-20 people, children through elder.
Playing catch with a ball and mitt, children through elder. Also, a clutter mitt and clutter baseball to put on a shelf, dresser, end table of coffee table.
Skateboards for children and teens
Ride on’s and push toys for toddlers.
Bikes for children, trikes for toddlers.
Cars, trucks and motorcycles. A Mechanic career and hobby. A gas station/‘minimart/car wash you can own, or just go to.
Romance interactions, slow dancing, and fast dancing together. Also a romantic bear rug.
More active careers with workplaces.
I love all of these! I want more family-based gameplay in the Sims 4 - Im happy we're getting group cooking and gardening in the new pack but brand new activities that are made to be for groups is something I hope for!
Volleyball for 2-20 people, children through elder.
Playing catch with a ball and mitt, children through elder. Also, a clutter mitt and clutter baseball to put on a shelf, dresser, end table of coffee table.
Skateboards for children and teens
Ride on’s and push toys for toddlers.
Bikes for children, trikes for toddlers.
Cars, trucks and motorcycles. A Mechanic career and hobby. A gas station/‘minimart/car wash you can own, or just go to.
Romance interactions, slow dancing, and fast dancing together. Also a romantic bear rug.
More active careers with workplaces.
I love all of these! I want more family-based gameplay in the Sims 4 - Im happy we're getting group cooking and gardening in the new pack but brand new activities that are made to be for groups is something I hope for!
Yes, I love it when they add things for children, toddlers, and teens. Like you, I like them being able to cook together and garden too.
Functional tea set
Small telescopes
small microscopes
small dollhouse (1 tile)
A type machine or pile of paper to write book off the grid
pool slide
Bikes for children and toddlers
More instruments like harp, cello, upright piano
Functional tea set
Small telescopes
small microscopes
small dollhouse (1 tile)
A type machine or pile of paper to write book off the grid
pool slide
Bikes for children and toddlers
More instruments like harp, cello, upright piano
I really like your idea of a typewriter, or note pad and pen for people writing off the grid! And pool slide, diving board and games for the pool.
definitely more instruments! or any objects related to music/ bands. i miss when you could create a band with your teens, i think that would be a really cool feature if they added a drum set or something. also i want more plants lol, i know there's already heaps but i overload my houses with plants so some new ones would be lovely :)
Art stuff- A simple drawing pad or sketch book. Not everyone is a digital artist so I think having the traditionally pen and paper stuff would be cool. Also clutter like paints, pencils, makers and stacks of papers or drawing books.
Kitchen appliances-Blender and an easy bake oven for kids. I'm glad kids can finally cook and it's been long over do. I want a blender so we make smoothies and milkshakes.
Miscellaneous things that sims can do together- Build train set, legos, play on hand held consoles
I would like some live pink flamingoes. They could add them like the pond animals effects.
A picnic blanket sims could sit, sleep, and eat on
A deodorant bottle that would make sims hygiene decay more slowly
Jewelry making table
So many good ideas here. I'LL add teddy bears that children that carry and hug as well as sleep with.
A bed that let's up to 3 sims sleep in it.
Hoolahoop!
Picnic but for the floor 😭
Drawing chalk for the ground
Hopscotch
Kids treehouse
Blender
I really wanted a toddler walker before they learn how to walk.
Someone mentioned it but I REALLY want strollers. Hard to keep up with toddlers when I go out and I hate when they wander.
Forts that kids can actually build out of boxes or one made of like a blanket thrown over chairs for them to play in.
Skates that allows sims to skate anywhere not stuck in a rink
Ball to throw back and forth. The football and regular ball
Seesaw
Spring horse
Paintball guns
Board games for the floor
Paint brushes and buckets of paint for sims to paint their house
Vollyball
I would love to have functional little hygiene objects like hair brush, shaving razor etc with actual animations
Bike for two sims. Where they can either ride on those two seater bikes or one sim can sit on the front of the bike
Boats for more than 1 sim
Bathtubs for 2 sims
Weight lifting objects
Pacifiers for toddlers that actually keeps them quiet and happy.
One thing I always wanted were baby carriers😭😭 so sims can cook or do whatever with the bab or toddler on them.
I know toddlers are little big for carriers but babies are objects so I use my toddler as a baby lol
Arcade stuff. Especially those arcade motorcycles for sims to compete against eachother
Face masks for polluted world that actually stops sims from coughing (i wrote coffing before google corrected me😅) or being negativity affected by the pollution. But an added uncomfortable mask boost after extended wear would be nice
From Sims 2:
Drum set
Bass guitar
Sewing machine
Ballet bar
Ball you can play catch with
Restorable car
Makeover chair you can use as a business
Toy making bench
I also want a way to run your own bar or club as a business but not air I want the Sims 2 system for that back.
Pool Table
Drums Cars
Tea Set (served on coffee table) TS1 !!
Chemistry set for adults, mad scientists need one.
Crafting tables...more than what's in game.
Sewing machine...sew clothes not in CAS..special.
Play Catch
Toss the football
Horse Shoes..do we have any?
Tether Ball
Tennis or Volley Ball
Bass Guitar to complete drum set for bands
Harp, stringed instruments for an orchestra
Back Packs for camping anywhere...contains fold up tent, food, camp stove, matches, water, first aid kits, ropes, etc.
More group activity items for four Sims to use together.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
More diverse community lots. I get a little tired of which bar/lounge, which museum, which fitness center etc. More family friendly lots like a water park or petting zoo or orchards or ranches. I literally never go to a park to play chess irl. My sims don't stay home a lot and the community lots being more diverse and family friendly would be amazing. Maybe sports teams you can watch (create sim rivalry) for the athletic career track perhaps. So yeah, better community lots would be great
Now that it’s been mentioned, a regular old backyard telescope would be fun to have back. Things I’d also like are:
- A game table based on tabletop RPGs would be cool, maybe with the players getting a different moodlet depending on the outcome of the game. Maybe they could all get a Confident one from beating a boss or something. Maybe a GM with the Evil or Mean trait might get a Confident moodlet from a total party kill. : p
- I know I’ve said this a lot in other threads but the baby play mat, swing and stroller from TS3 I would like to have back
- Someone mentioned tarot, I feel like that would have been cool in the Paranormal pack
- More instruments as well, maybe something different than the usual sims guitars and piano- possibly brass or woodwind would be fun.
I'll list my top choices that I can think of right now:
- Functional group tea set; I see a lot of requests and I am one of these
- Horses; counting these as objects
- Safari gameplay; not an object but it is gameplay with objects that would go along with it
- Smaller telescope
- New community lots; since I see these requested, yes, I would also like more of these
- More hobby objects in general
- Art gallery events in the museum and possibly events in the library and gym; give us reasons to go there; If they come up with an art thief mystery or similar, I would be interested; new forms of art would also interest me
- Magician set; that would be family friendly
- Slot machine and new card games at which sims can make or lose money; I want some of my wealthy sims to go broke and some sims to get a nice surprise. Maybe they could add prizes to the lottery. Roulette, etc.
- Drum set with bands; yes, I am in the bands crowd.
- Italian pizza oven and Italian themed world with more recipes; I know we have a lot of recipes but Italian hasn't been fully done.
- Kites? These could be used anywhere and be family-friendly. Maybe you could get kits to make your own. As I think about it, activity kits may be a good way to go.
- Tennis racquet and gameplay.
- More elaborate hot cocoa set. I am surprised that this wasn't with Snowy Escape.
- Wedding veils, more wedding objects for customized weddings
- Shaving and shaving kits for any sims who need that; body hair could come with this
- Boats; I know TS3 did that well
- More experiences; I know those aren't objects but go along with gameplay
- If they want to do a barbecue kit with more features or something, I would be interested. This could be a global theme with different styles from around the world.
- If they want to give us more objects related to some of the themes we have such as more blankets to knit, I would be interested.
- I'd be interested in more fortune teller-related stuff that I see requested.
- If they want to come out with more children's playground equipment, parties and social events, I would use those with the kids in my game. They could also add more active school gameplay.
- Croquet and working pool table; Croquet would go well in the new world; alternatively bocce
- More games and gameplay for the swimming pool
- Casket; I nearly forgot this but yes, I do want a casket and funeral-related gameplay. I'd be willing to take this in a haunted pack. Improved funeral events would be basic for me.
I might be able to think of more but all of this is among my interests for this game.
I'll list my top choices that I can think of right now:
- Functional group tea set; I see a lot of requests and I am one of these
- Horses; counting these as objects
- Safari gameplay; not an object but it is gameplay with objects that would go along with it
- Smaller telescope
- New community lots; since I see these requested, yes, I would also like more of these
- More hobby objects in general
- Art gallery events in the museum and possibly events in the library and gym; give us reasons to go there; If they come up with an art thief mystery or similar, I would be interested; new forms of art would also interest me
- Magician set; that would be family friendly
- Slot machine and new card games at which sims can make or lose money; I want some of my wealthy sims to go broke and some sims to get a nice surprise. Maybe they could add prizes to the lottery. Roulette, etc.
- Drum set with bands; yes, I am in the bands crowd.
- Italian pizza oven and Italian themed world with more recipes; I know we have a lot of recipes but Italian hasn't been fully done.
- Kites? These could be used anywhere and be family-friendly. Maybe you could get kits to make your own. As I think about it, activity kits may be a good way to go.
- Tennis racquet and gameplay.
- More elaborate hot cocoa set. I am surprised that this wasn't with Snowy Escape.
- Wedding veils, more wedding objects for customized weddings
- Shaving and shaving kits for any sims who need that; body hair could come with this
- Boats; I know TS3 did that well
- More experiences; I know those aren't objects but go along with gameplay
- If they want to do a barbecue kit with more features or something, I would be interested. This could be a global theme with different styles from around the world.
- If they want to give us more objects related to some of the themes we have such as more blankets to knit, I would be interested.
- I'd be interested in more fortune teller-related stuff that I see requested.
- If they want to come out with more children's playground equipment, parties and social events, I would use those with the kids in my game. They could also add more active school gameplay.
- Croquet and working pool table; Croquet would go well in the new world; alternatively bocce
- More games and gameplay for the swimming pool
- Casket; I nearly forgot this but yes, I do want a casket and funeral-related gameplay. I'd be willing to take this in a haunted pack. Improved funeral events would be basic for me.
I might be able to think of more but all of this is among my interests for this game.
These are all so great!! And I love the idea of being able to hold an art gala of some kind at the museum/gallery - thatd be great for celebrity sims. And I really would want to make hot chocolate. Hopefully with chocoberries and the ability to make chocolate milk is a sign of us being able to make that in game! And I really like all the outdoor activities you listed as well!
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yess i agree - i honestly wouldnt use cars very much since its not like we would be able to really drive them But i would like if they add cars that we get the ability to work on a broken down car like in the sims 2
The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
OH I LOVE THESE!! I really wish oujia boards and tarot cards were in paranormal stuff now
im hoping the tea set on a tray in the cottage living trailer is functional bc that would be good off the grid. and yes id really like to have picnics on the ground
All of these are definitely things I want!
I’d like to see:
Volleyball for 2-8 people, children through elder.
Playing catch with a ball and mitt, children through elder. Also, a clutter mitt and clutter baseball to put on a shelf, dresser, end table of coffee table.
A clutter football, and for children through elder be able to throw it back and forth.
A large ball for toddlers to roll back and forth to each other or to children through elders.
4 square fir children
More park equipment for children.
Handball for ages children through elder.
Skateboards for children and teens
Razors or scooters for children.
Ride on’s and push toys for toddlers.
Bikes for children, trikes for toddlers.
Rags dolls and baby dolls for children and toddlers to play with and also clutter rag dolls and baby dolls for any one to place on shelves, dressers, and any type of table or sideboard.
A Barbie doll box that children can interact with to play Barbies, 2 or 3 children should be able to play together. Or just one child.
Cars, trucks and motorcycles. A Mechanic career and hobby. A gas station/‘minimart/car wash you can own, or just go to and buy stuff at.
A pool table.
Romance interactions, slow dancing, and fast dancing together. Also a romantic bear rug.
More active careers with workplaces.
Also, the things Gordy mentioned, especially the board games that can be played on a table. I think it would be neat if you had different looking game boxes, and could choose from a half dozen games. They could be like books, put in a cube, on a dresser, table, end, table, or in a open slot in a bookcase for storage.
A costume category that you can use for costume parties, halloween parties, trick or treating, and cosplay. I want it to be where you can make up your own costume.
I also want children to be able to play together without toys, things like tag, cops and robbers, London bridge, ring around the rosy. Also, I would like them to be able to play with small things like marbles, jacks, and army men. With little clutter bags of marbles, jacks and army men, to put on shelves, desks, bookcases, dressers, and all kinds of tables.
Strollers, walkers, bouncers, blankets, cribs and play pens for babies when they free them.
I would even take many of these things in kits or stuff packs for toddlers, teens, and children especially if they brought them out.
More instruments would be great! And if we get a music/band based pack then there could be a music club/lessons as an extracurricular for children and teens!
I love all of these! I want more family-based gameplay in the Sims 4 - Im happy we're getting group cooking and gardening in the new pack but brand new activities that are made to be for groups is something I hope for!
Yes, I love it when they add things for children, toddlers, and teens. Like you, I like them being able to cook together and garden too.
Small telescopes
small microscopes
small dollhouse (1 tile)
A type machine or pile of paper to write book off the grid
pool slide
Bikes for children and toddlers
More instruments like harp, cello, upright piano
I really like your idea of a typewriter, or note pad and pen for people writing off the grid! And pool slide, diving board and games for the pool.
- regular-sized arcade games
- more musical instruments (full drum kit, sax, cello, flute, trumpet, bodhran drum)
- pool table
- functional teapot set
- off-grid typewriter
- functional off-grid outhouse
- outdoor pizza oven
- pool slide
- pool diving board
- pool stairs
- pool hottub
- pool bar (swim-up bar)
- pool waterfall (that sims can shower in)
- buildable waterpark slides/tubes
- casino slot machines, roulette table, blackjack
- strollers for babies/toddlers
- skateboards, scooterboards for kids
- bicycles for kids/toddlers
- vespa-style scooter
- cars, motorcycles, functional garage doors, hobby/buildable car
- roller coaster, various carnival rides, various carnival games, carnival popcorn machine, carnival cotton candy machine
- ridable horses, horse jumping/obstacle courses
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~ Mark Twain
Kitchen appliances-Blender and an easy bake oven for kids. I'm glad kids can finally cook and it's been long over do. I want a blender so we make smoothies and milkshakes.
Miscellaneous things that sims can do together- Build train set, legos, play on hand held consoles
A picnic blanket sims could sit, sleep, and eat on
A deodorant bottle that would make sims hygiene decay more slowly
Jewelry making table
A bed that let's up to 3 sims sleep in it.
Hoolahoop!
Picnic but for the floor 😭
Drawing chalk for the ground
Hopscotch
Kids treehouse
Blender
I really wanted a toddler walker before they learn how to walk.
Someone mentioned it but I REALLY want strollers. Hard to keep up with toddlers when I go out and I hate when they wander.
Forts that kids can actually build out of boxes or one made of like a blanket thrown over chairs for them to play in.
Skates that allows sims to skate anywhere not stuck in a rink
Ball to throw back and forth. The football and regular ball
Seesaw
Spring horse
Paintball guns
Board games for the floor
Paint brushes and buckets of paint for sims to paint their house
Vollyball
I would love to have functional little hygiene objects like hair brush, shaving razor etc with actual animations
Bike for two sims. Where they can either ride on those two seater bikes or one sim can sit on the front of the bike
Boats for more than 1 sim
Bathtubs for 2 sims
Weight lifting objects
Pacifiers for toddlers that actually keeps them quiet and happy.
One thing I always wanted were baby carriers😭😭 so sims can cook or do whatever with the bab or toddler on them.
I know toddlers are little big for carriers but babies are objects so I use my toddler as a baby lol
Arcade stuff. Especially those arcade motorcycles for sims to compete against eachother
Face masks for polluted world that actually stops sims from coughing (i wrote coffing before google corrected me😅) or being negativity affected by the pollution. But an added uncomfortable mask boost after extended wear would be nice
Jumping rope
Pizza maker
Bigger more complex jungle gym
Drum set
Bass guitar
Sewing machine
Ballet bar
Ball you can play catch with
Restorable car
Makeover chair you can use as a business
Toy making bench
I also want a way to run your own bar or club as a business but not air I want the Sims 2 system for that back.
Drums
Cars
Tea Set (served on coffee table) TS1 !!
Chemistry set for adults, mad scientists need one.
Crafting tables...more than what's in game.
Sewing machine...sew clothes not in CAS..special.
Play Catch
Toss the football
Horse Shoes..do we have any?
Tether Ball
Tennis or Volley Ball
Bass Guitar to complete drum set for bands
Harp, stringed instruments for an orchestra
Back Packs for camping anywhere...contains fold up tent, food, camp stove, matches, water, first aid kits, ropes, etc.
More group activity items for four Sims to use together.
Maybe sports teams you can watch (create sim rivalry) for the athletic career track perhaps. So yeah, better community lots would be great
- A game table based on tabletop RPGs would be cool, maybe with the players getting a different moodlet depending on the outcome of the game. Maybe they could all get a Confident one from beating a boss or something. Maybe a GM with the Evil or Mean trait might get a Confident moodlet from a total party kill. : p
- I know I’ve said this a lot in other threads but the baby play mat, swing and stroller from TS3 I would like to have back
- Someone mentioned tarot, I feel like that would have been cool in the Paranormal pack
- More instruments as well, maybe something different than the usual sims guitars and piano- possibly brass or woodwind would be fun.
- Functional group tea set; I see a lot of requests and I am one of these
- Horses; counting these as objects
- Safari gameplay; not an object but it is gameplay with objects that would go along with it
- Smaller telescope
- New community lots; since I see these requested, yes, I would also like more of these
- More hobby objects in general
- Art gallery events in the museum and possibly events in the library and gym; give us reasons to go there; If they come up with an art thief mystery or similar, I would be interested; new forms of art would also interest me
- Magician set; that would be family friendly
- Slot machine and new card games at which sims can make or lose money; I want some of my wealthy sims to go broke and some sims to get a nice surprise. Maybe they could add prizes to the lottery. Roulette, etc.
- Drum set with bands; yes, I am in the bands crowd.
- Italian pizza oven and Italian themed world with more recipes; I know we have a lot of recipes but Italian hasn't been fully done.
- Kites? These could be used anywhere and be family-friendly. Maybe you could get kits to make your own. As I think about it, activity kits may be a good way to go.
- Tennis racquet and gameplay.
- More elaborate hot cocoa set. I am surprised that this wasn't with Snowy Escape.
- Wedding veils, more wedding objects for customized weddings
- Shaving and shaving kits for any sims who need that; body hair could come with this
- Boats; I know TS3 did that well
- More experiences; I know those aren't objects but go along with gameplay
- If they want to do a barbecue kit with more features or something, I would be interested. This could be a global theme with different styles from around the world.
- If they want to give us more objects related to some of the themes we have such as more blankets to knit, I would be interested.
- I'd be interested in more fortune teller-related stuff that I see requested.
- If they want to come out with more children's playground equipment, parties and social events, I would use those with the kids in my game. They could also add more active school gameplay.
- Croquet and working pool table; Croquet would go well in the new world; alternatively bocce
- More games and gameplay for the swimming pool
- Casket; I nearly forgot this but yes, I do want a casket and funeral-related gameplay. I'd be willing to take this in a haunted pack. Improved funeral events would be basic for me.
I might be able to think of more but all of this is among my interests for this game.
These are all so great!! And I love the idea of being able to hold an art gala of some kind at the museum/gallery - thatd be great for celebrity sims. And I really would want to make hot chocolate. Hopefully with chocoberries and the ability to make chocolate milk is a sign of us being able to make that in game! And I really like all the outdoor activities you listed as well!