An Honest Review of The Sims 4: High School Years

Let's talk about the newest expansion pack for The Sims 4!

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This video is family friendly, but The Sims 4 is rated T for Teen and this video is intended for an audience aged 13 and up.

[captainmittens]

They should implement the teaching career into the “Get To Work” pack now that you can physically go to a school.

[addy]

The socially awkward “interacts great online but falls apart in person” thing is TOO relatable. The situation between Molly and your Sim is exactly the relationship I had with a girl in high school. I’m gonna get a lot of laughs out of this pack.

[sweetoleander]

This pack looks great. i agree that a pack for elders would be fun. Bingo, square dancing night, throwback 59's date night at the elderly home. Pranks for the feisty to do. Like hide their fake teeth! Oh, and golf.

[KatieCarpenter]

"So hopefully that bug is fixed before the game comes out for everybody."

Oh, Kayla. I love your optimism.

[PattyyK]

imagine a retirement pack: retirement homes, a shuttle bus to/from, visiting hours, bingo, canes, elders going on social media, elder dating, shopping discounts, maybe grandma baby sits her grandkids?

i don’t play as elders a lot, but with an elder pack i would 😂

[Augustforever]

I actually really prefer that they focused more on the “living life as a teen” aspect instead of the actual going to school and sitting in class aspect hahah bc realistically playing a week of the active school will be enough for me and having so much to do with friends is WAY cooler

[phantomcakes]

This honestly feels like a mod that everyone uses. It's so fleshed out and realistic, and now sims can just be romantic and friendly without me clicking a million buttons. But what saddens me is all the hate the livestream is getting.

Edit: I take back what I said about the highschool part. Everything else besides the highschool part is chefs kiss, but that's so ironic and sad that everything but the highschool parts are more fun. I'll still enjoy the after school things but as for main class gameplay itself it's pretty boring.

[annevee]

i think this one is a proper expansion pack. like, it actually "expands" an existing base gameplay and that's amazing in my opinion. huge props to the Sims team and the creators who worked with this pack. <3

[joycor]

I’ve had a game going since May of last year that started with one girl going to college. I played at an absolute snail’s pace and very slowly took her through school, graduating, moving, getting a job, dating, getting married, moving again, having kids and raising them. Her three kids have been been children for like five months in REAL life months and I’m holding out just a bit longer for this pack to drop to age them up to teens.

All my patience. It has paid off.

[ButterflyColors]

For those planning on getting the pack and rebuilding the high school, here are some rooms from the top of my head to add if you want ideas: computer lab, theater for drama club, pool, science room, nurses office, art room, library, music room, janitors closet (incase sims want a quiet place to you know), principal office, morning announcement and secretary room, secret club room behind a book shelf where occult sims hang out without disguises like that one Halloween town movie, faculty office, a gym (though you can change the auditorium lot to be the gym so career day, prom, and graduation happens there instead), if you have City Living then add a spray paint wall, and that’s all I can think of for now :)

[mygetawayart]

LILSIMIE went a whole 20 minutes revieweing the high school pack without even mentioning curved walls. That's how you know this pack is insane

[figgy]

I’m genuinely just excited for more content for teens. It feels like the game didn’t focus at all on this stage of life for your sims. Even if the pack wasn’t as engaging as we thought it would be, it would still be nice to know that we had more content for teen sims. So excited to get my hands on it!

[gabrielaolimpiabylica]

This pack has potential. I was always so sad that teens do not have enough things. EA was focusing only on small children and kids so I'm glad they finally did something for out lovely teens ❤️

[dejahturner]

The Sims team needs to stop playing with my emotions and bring back the teen parties from sims 3. I want my sim to be able to throw something crazy while their parents are out and get away with it/get busted/sneak out to teen parties. Its the perfect time and it makes perfect sense.

[ricericericericericericeri]

Now we need an expansion that focuses on children, toddlers, and babies (and get a base game baby update) with CAS and BB only for them, nothing for YA or older, and entirely just be tons of toys and activities and family things to do. Maybe parents could have interactions with the stuff but all of the content should be focused on the children as priority. Since parenthood is mostly about adults interacting with kids and parenting them, we don't have a whole lot except for like 3 new toys that are actually for kids in that game pack. We really need an expansion that's just for kids/toddlers/babies with new aspirations and lots of activities for just them.

[LorettaBelleArt]

I'm so bummed that there's no creative afterschool activities- painting, guitar, theater that could build charisma? Anything! I wouldn't have cared which one it was just to have SOMETHING in that realm of activity because i feel like so many simmers were little creative kids when they were in highschool. But other than that the pack looks really good! Thanks for an awesome review simsie!

[bbear]

so basically, your sim prom-posed so awkwardly that the gf didnt know she was being prom-posed to? idk if that was intentional or if the game was glitchy, but yes.

[Toasteawitch]

I know Lilsimsie said "sims 4 retirement home expansion pack for elders" as a joke but I'm honestly 100% for it. I'd love to dump my sims's grandparents into a retirement home (instead of moving out the kids), and visit grandpa only on Sundays ✨✨✨ So much like (sad) reality of many families ahsjdkskdkdk

[ashleyrebecca]

Seems like such a missed opportunity that we can’t have different functions during class time. Like the option to fall asleep or talk to friends or text friends, and then get in trouble by the teacher and get detention. Would’ve added more drama and excitement to the overall experience of going to school with our sims

[emmawalker]

I’m honestly extremely disappointed that there’s no band. How can they have football and cheer but no band. I’ve always wanted more instruments because I play clarinet in my schools marching band and I have to have my sim self play violin or something.