23 Must Have Mods for The Sims 4

The best Sims 4 mods in 2024! These are my favourite mods from my Sims 4 mods folder!

Check the timestamps for the names of the mod and creator.

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[anteiii]

The Sims, my favourite game that doesn't work without modders.

[tovedufour]

"My little neighborhood" allows "park/café nextdoors", so that you can build residentials and parks/cafés on the same lot. With auto employees you can have vendors and baristas for free on all kind av lots. These mods are a must for me!

[Luiza_Mo]

Satch talked about the expanded mermaid and Fairies mods, but if you own Horse Ranch expansion pack, the same creator made a mod that adds unicorns to the game

[ClaireyFairySims]

I love the Language Barriers mod by Frankk. It’s so funny when sims from different regions try to speak each others language and fail miserably 😂

[jujujutsuk]

2:17 there's a Flower and Music Festival in Island Living? I own the pack and had different families live in sulani, I never got notified for it, never saw it happen :o

[Lindsey]

Oh thank god you posted. Needed a little bright spot in my day. And you sound like you’re feeling better :)

[Stefani-zxfg]

Not me looking for a Satchonsims video to watch and you posting a video exactly now

[zanadamartin]

Satch thank you so much for posting this, it is incredibly helpful for people like myself who don’t have the time or energy to search through all of the mods that are out there! As usual you are the BEST 💛

[TroySpencer-lb]

Mods are what got me playing the Sim 4 about 5 years now (on/off). There are some awesome ones available.

[hellogoditsmesara]

What I like about the wonderful whims attraction system is that you can set how strong the attraction works, like just because sims have attractions to physical festers doesn’t mean they can’t also build romantic relationships with sims that don’t fit those turn ons
Like people have types but that obviously doesn’t dictate every partner you ever have (hopefully…)

[onidaaitsubasa]

For the XML injector, make sure you have gotten the new version as it was updated to be compatible with one of the recent patches, it could be a reason why some of your new updated mods aren't working if they use the XML injector and you didn't get the new version.

[Dazzle_Novak_]

Occult Hybrid Stabilizer is a must.
Like, a single mod is fixing what maxis team just sees as unworthy fixing, and actively trying to ruin even the possibility of getting a hybrid. Not even saying about being stuck in mermaid form on land, or werewolf transforming into abominable blobs.

[devlishx]

One essential mod that I highly recommend and no one really seems to know about is called “conversation tweaks” by bienchen. There’s different modules, but one that I honestly can’t live without disables the idle chat feature, which is when sims “chat” but it contributes nothing to relationship and they aren’t using any social interactions. It makes it so they only use social interactions and it also helps ALOT with sims intruding in conversations! I switched to TS3 but this was honestly so good

[MarkusHansson]

I personally love a small mod from bienchen called lessfacialoveraction which scales down the constant smiles in the game. I have always thought it weird that sims default expression in the sims4 is a big smile.

[onidaaitsubasa]

Ohh, also don't forget the mods that let children do a variety of things like play guitar, paint on the easel, cook, repair things, and do fitness stuff, also helpful hint, if you make a treadmill smaller by one it's just the right size for the children to use.

[Flutterlike]

adeepindigo also has a bunch of in-depth mods for holistic game play, like preteen, private school, elderly career, and neurodivergent sims.

[mumplaysthesims]

You're definitely tempting me down the modding route

[meganlister]

I grabbed several of these, thanks! :)

[sophiapeters]

Satch you're the best! I've been desperately looking for a mod to remove the festivals from the calendar. Thank you so much!!

[Marziilla]

Sims 4 is literally saved by the modders doing GOD’S WORK. EA COULD NEVER