Is The Sims 4 Base Game Worth Playing In 2025?

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More than ten years after base game was released, is it still worth playing? In that ten years, the number of DLC packs, including Expansion Packs, Game Packs, Stuff Packs, and Kits, has grown exponentially. As of writing, there are at least 76 packs in existence, all of which add something to the base game. However, many game services let players into the base pack for free, so is it worth playing without all the extras?

The best games on Game Pass or PlayStation Plus are often those that are an entire game and that don’t depend on players buying a bunch of add-ons. Even if players don’t have a subscription to one of these, the base game is also free to play on Steam. Sometimes these can include a few of the DLC, but nowhere near the full game as it exists now. The real question is whether or not the game being free makes it worth it.

While it has been ten years, it doesn’t mean that the game has continued to exist in the same state that it did at the beginning. Instead, the game has continued to receive free updates alongside the paid DLC, and that continues to improve the game. Some of these updates are just bug fixes, but that is not all.

The 25th anniversary of The Sims should be celebrated by bringing some of the best items and features from the first game to The Sims 4.

For instance, when the last DLC released, thepack, a free update was also released that changed how Sims react to death in the base game. It also allowed players to create Sims that were Ghosts, and Sims will now continue on as Ghosts in the world when they die. It also added a few changes to how households are managed, a few new objects, and different shoes.

This is just one update that has happened since the game first released, and this is fairly typical with each new big release. This means that even though is not the same game without the DLC,it is still changing and evolving and growing bigger on its own. For players who just have the base game, they will get to explore three full