Sims 4 gameplay ideas for when you're bored!

What to do in The Sims 4 if you're bored. These are Sims 4 gameplay ideas for when you don't know what to do.

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01:59 Idea 2
03:52 Idea 3
06:34 Idea 4
08:16 Idea 5
10:51 Idea 6

[Christine-]

I love building community pool lots. I grew up in a neighborhood that had a community pool and I spent most of my summers as a child there. The are a lot of different lot traits that you can use if you want more than just a pool. One of mine also takes care of all the stray dogs. I also add playground equipment, a vendor food stall, sometimes a dj and dance floor. Just random stuff. In the off season I will plop a ice or roller rink in where the pool usually is. They will draw a lot of Sims once you go on the lot and are a lot of fun.

[trinitywaterhouse]

I feel like so many people say “you haven’t heard this one” and it’s always something dumb as hell like visit hidden lots, but as I thought you delivered a genuine new approach 🎉

[Skooskah]

One of the funnest things I've found involved that woodworking mod and the real estate mod. My sim went around "flipping" houses by buying empty houses, building furniture to fill them, and selling them off

[LuxTheDemigirl]

One more idea: make two sims with opposite traits (evil and good, neat and slob, active and lazy, etc) and make them live together (as lovers, siblings, enemies... All works) .

[mewthelegendary]

My idea is to take a townie/sim that you like and age them down and play theough their life up to thst point. Alternwtively if theyre a sim without a family then you can make what you imagine their fsmily to look like

[mcmags]

I like finding different legacy challenges and doing those because each generation is different and refreshing and forces me to use things I haven’t used in a long time/forgot about

[craigvanwiechen]

Really liked the idea of using crafting skills to furnish a home and the mod recommendations. I need to try this for my next household.

[Anyaaaah]

Crafting your entire house from scratch? 😮 That's a new one I'll definitely try out later!

[Miaow]

Literally falling asleep trying to play rn and this video pops up at the perfect time 😅

[patsypookie]

With freelancer careers you can make your own active career when you don't have a Get to Work EP. You can build a community lot (a library works best) that looks like an office and travel there to do your work and talk to your "co-workers" 😂 It was kinda fun

[MattPerk]

The freelancer writing career has become my go-to career because you can make a fairly decent amount of money with it, and it forces you to level up your writing skills so you can write your own books to collect royalties, while it gives you the liberty to spend as much of your Sim's day doing whatever it is that you really want to do instead of having to manage them going off to a career all of the time and then coming home tired or hungry or whatever.

[sharonbunn]

There is a challenge like houseflipper and there are lots of builds on the gallery. I like to play with Ikkinsinister's Black Beauty or Dr Gluon's Rosa's House. It is a Rags toRiches with a twist. Each of the custom builds comes filled with rubbish (absolutely chokka) and you have to clean it up room by room by earning certain amounts of simoleons in order to progress. Off-hand I think it is 10000 per room (they have to be cleaned and renovated) then another 1000 to open the next room. Oh yeah you start with nothing. I try to furnish them with crafted items to make it more interesting. The rules are online. Sometimes I put all the lot traits on too just for laughs and add Haunted House. xxx

[jfcfanfic]

I will definitely try the child one. I have played as a teenager, but not as a child.

[johntheherbalistg]

I actually did the thing of focusing on the kids. I turned my favorite sim into an infant, generated his parents and played by only him being active. The two biggest infant glitches (putting to bed and the highchair) in the base game are somewhat mitigated by clicking from the infant. It is, however, hard to get a diaper changed

[Alexandria.J.Barmer]

I played as a homeless sim for a bit it was actually kinda fun I chose an empty lot filled it with debug items mainly from eco lifestyle and werewolves to make a junk yard, I found it was a good way to utilise the worlds more than I usually do, like going to the discover university kiosk to buy a guitar rather than using build/buy although he ended up fighting gregg and becoming a werewolf which was still fun bc it actually made alot of sense for a werewolf to b homeless but it kinda made his life easier n then his fated mate turned out to be a 5 star celebrity 🤣 I think it's like a cute little love story tho bc he had a want to flirt with her so I pinned it and got him to do it

[BigFanOfManyThings]

For a moment before he explained I thought satch meant ME time-travelling back to play the game as a kid 😅

[TheGoldenAngel]

My fav way to play, is actually much in style with your first suggestion. I play the adult sim from start of cause. When married and have a child, I will then only play the child from infantcy, through toddlerstage, childhood and teen years, have them start a career as a YA and then have them have children when they are either maxed or high in their career. I play on long life, and give them a full life with friends that might stay friends all the way to adulthood. I make them leave the lot, give them hobbies and so on. (granted I tend to skip infant stage at day 3, and toddler when they have at least level 3 in 3 skills). That way, the game never gets boring, because when I start on the next lifestage, it will have been a while and I will be looking forward.

[mykpoplevelusetobeobsessio]

Honestly, I'm not a great builder, but i have been building a lot more. I ended up building community lots and parks simply because the base game ones don't cater to all age groups, and it would frustrate me. I have to say I've gotten so much better at building that i don't even download from the gallery anymore 😊.

[kiarakiddo]

I think the reason I don’t play how I use to, by slowly building a family & slowly upgrading my house etc, is funny enough due to the fact the outside worlds are so dead. I want to be able to go out to the cafe & see people there instead of getting there & it being empty then the most random sims show up & there’s about 3 people in the whole lot, one guy is doing push ups & the other is making a coffee instead of ordering one while the woman is fishing……. Makes it really hard to immerse myself in to the game, made me stop buying packs & now I usually go on for a few hours then not play for a few weeks.

[Yakita]

Great tip about active/other households. I did not know this. Sounds like a good idea for npc grandparents for legacy rp.