The Sims™ 4 Eco Lifestyle: Official Gameplay Trailer

Every choice you make affects your community—and their choices affect you too! From the power sources you rely on to how you design your home to the Neighborhood Action Plans you vote for, even the smallest changes can have a huge impact. Will you go green or embrace the swarms of flies?

Available June 5, 2020, on PC/Mac, Xbox One, and PlayStation®4.

*REQUIRES THE SIMS 4 ON APPLICABLE PLATFORM (SOLD SEPARATELY) AND ALL GAME UPDATES TO PLAY. FOR PC, SEE MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS PACK.

[krysia]

Can we talk about the fact that the narration sounds like a listening excersise on an english exam

[uselessalpaca]

I was so sure I remembered the voice from somewhere and then it came to me....


SHE SOUND LIKE THE TROOM TROOM NARRATOR SIS WHAT 💀

[cosmic]

Finally I will be able to play as myself: *trash*

[madisontaylor]

The Sims Team:
Maggie: Weird Flex but Okay

[callum-]

anyone else think this game has been focusing on a really young audience lately

[Schaemia]

HOW TO MAKE ECO-LIVING BETTER
• Having a trash town affects sims negatively:
o They get sick more often
o They get negative moodlets (unless they have the ‘slob’ or ‘lazy’ trait)
o The weather will be affected because of the pollution (warmer)
• Having a green town affects sims
o Some sims get allergies (because of increased pollination)
• Introduce cars! (To give us a reason to want ‘eco-living’, there needs to be some form of pollution in the game)
o Sims who live a more ‘eco-friendly’ lifestyle will use bikes (you can introduce new bikes or scooters)
• Sims can have recycle bins instead of trash bins (different colours for different things) – as a low effort alternative to doing the things shown in the trailer
• Introduce birds as pets, or birds/bugs that come visit your lot if it is green. E.g. butterflies, moths etc.
o Kids can then have a butterfly catching hobby/animation, and can keep butterflies in a case
o Or even have an ant-colony as a ‘pet’
• Introduce rats, flies and cockroaches when things are not clean
• Boreholes – to reduce your bills you can install a borehole.
• Other craftables besides candles (such as bracelets made from seashells, a mirror with a pebble frame, wax statues that melt in the heat, soap-making etc.)
o That said, the candles look very same-y, maybe the higher your candle-making skill the better candles you can produce (e.g. rainbow candles, geometric candles, scented candles)
• A chamber-pot (a toilet that doesn’t require water, and the stuff it produces can be composted in your gardens)
• A bath-tub that can be emptied into a bucket and the water reused
• A toilet-sink combo where the water from the sink fills the toilet to be flushed.
• A cabinet where non-perishables can be stored (instead of a fridge) or an ‘ice-box’ like they used before fridges.
• Poisonous plants can infect your other plants and causes problems when harvesting or eating these plants (if you don’t care for them correctly)
• Fix ‘Laundry’ so it works off the grid (the tub can be emptied and refilled without a sink or from the pond, for example)
• Planting trees instead of just placing them, and watching them grow.
• Protest groups that can protest against Industrial waste (can trigger a negotiation where your sim would have to do something), or fund-raising parties for conservation (goaled events)
• Using energy efficient lightbulbs that reduce the bills.
o Have the ability to insulate your home (so you don’t need that thermostat thing in winter)
o Have the ability to open windows in summer!!!
o I don’t know if this works since I’ve never tried, but the fireplace should also keep your home warm when lit and needs to be cleaned out afterwards.
• Litter
o Slob sims litter without noticing (like toddlers when they make a mess)
o Sims with allergies can leave tissues on the floor
o Neat and ‘loves the outdoor’ sims will automatically pick up litter, and become tense when there is litter around
• Sims should reduce, reuse and recycle instead of buying new objects (can tie in with a yard sale where your sim can mark objects for sale, like in City Living)
• Sims can make their own cleaning supplies.
• Encourage sims to ‘fix it, don’t throw it’. This will make sims repair an object in the home instead of replacing it automatically.
• An oven fuelled by fire instead of electricity. Reduces bills.

Just a few suggestions. Feel free to add your own :P

[WalnutsWasTaken]

What’s with the voiceover? I feel like I’m watching one of those 5 minute hack videos. “Purple haired girl seems sad because everything is grey, brown haired boy will cheer her up!”

[glamam]

So who else already met Maggie before coming here? 😂

[daberechi]

EA really made a mistake releasing this at the same time at Maggie was released

[kat-tigl]

I just feel like this should have been a gameplay pack

[gianamajorbeats]

Narration was kinda weird. Sounded like a character from a Disney movie.

[zoey]

Paralives: reveals Maggie

EA: *Quick!!! Do anything!*

[renatopereira]

The fact that this is a gameplay trailer and didn't showed much more than the first...
Not to even mention the number of recycled animations...

[vatergalaxis]

Did she just say “this thing is fire”?

[ES-yzwp]

i'm just here to read comments before EA deletes them.

[makenziedawn]

yes I never thought I'd be able to play the Sims 4 without having the ability to woohoo in a dumpster! Screw having meaningful family gameplay with drama, my life is complete.

[LaurenCaver]

I just met Maggie and then watched this... A step down honestly.

[letsnoraebang]

Didn't show me why it should cost me $40 still.

[Negsmie]

Honestly I'm just surprised they didn't throw in "Okay Boomer", but they're probably saving it for Nifty Knitting 😐

[zapphire]

I can’t wait for LGR to tear this apart.