A Brutally Honest Review of The Sims 4 Horse Ranch

The Sims 4 Horse Ranch Gameplay Review! I reviewed The Sims 4 Horse Ranch.

The Sims 4 Horse Ranch is the latest Sims 4 horses expansion pack. This new official Sims 4 pack in 2023 is about living on a ranch and raising horses. I reviewed the gameplay of Sims 4 Horse Ranch in 2023.

Should you buy The Sims 4 Horse Ranch? What do you think?

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00:00 Pack Overview
00:19 CAS
02:56 Build Mode
04:53 World
07:19 Gameplay (Horses)
10:01 Gameplay (the rest)
17:01 Cross-Pack Features
18:12 Performance
19:32 Conclusion

[Lexduchess]

Can you imagine if you actually had to interact for the competitions though, like knowing Sims 4 it would take you six hours to walk up to a vault and then your sim would randomly dismount mid competition and start doing push-ups 💀

[MeryKeit]

This is exactly why people can spend literally hours in CAS and build mode in Sims 4, but struggle to enjoy the gameplay.

[schnitzelschnitzel]

GET READY for the next expansion pack: the Sims4 - PIG LIFE - ! Raise your own pigs, feed them, hug them, play in the mud. Build your own pig farm and collect shit for your own eco-friendly bio-gas plant 🐷

[PrimmsHoodCinema]

"Instead of making it gameplay, they made it a fake experience you have to imagine is happening" 😭😭😭😭 That's Sims 4 as a whole!! I gotta use my damn imagination for literally everything

[leasaraiva]

In the sims 3 pets there were so many obstacles with different difficulty levels and salt for the horses to lick. It’s ridiculous how little content there is in this pack

[SAKURAA]

Let’s be real EA would have the nerve to make a “My first Unicorn” pack

[heathersaintclaire]

It’s really refreshing to have an HONEST sims review from a YouTuber. Most of the time they pretend issues don’t exist until months after a pack is released.

[zoyarh]

I honestly feel an overall of 6.5 out of 10 is very generous. We can't hate you Satch.
Personally would have deducted another point or two from cas and build-buy.

[eugeniabarsukova]

In Sims 3 horse competitions, while it's also a rabbit hole, you are shown a live scoreboard, where you can see how you're doing and change your technique accordingly. I think there are three options, something like "ride carefully", "take risks" and "go all out". I don't know why they didn't do the same thing in Sims 4, especially since they did replicate everything else.

[syrasha_]

It feels like it should have been part of cottage living! Cottage Living: my first ranch.

[cerulean_city_misty]

I didn't even realize that there were no horse themed kids toys! O_O how did they make an entire horse expansion pack without a rocking horse! Or one of those stick horses?! That would have been perfect for kids too young to ride horses, or as a way for kids to practice, or even as a part of a child's aspiration be a horse rider! Oh man they really let kids down in this. I'm officially expecting a My First Horse pack geared towards children :/

[Dimitri_Novi]

We watch Lilsimsie to get overexited, we watch Satch to get back to reality😌

[rodriguez]

They also lost the opportunity of making an override of the forgotten woodworking table. They could have made woodworking a skill itself. Sims being able to make their own stable, fix it, to make new objects decorative or functional to sell. Even to make their own houses, with exclusive swatches. We already have even the animation (from build treehouses and the rocket ship) for it, and we all know Maxis doesn't have any shame for recycling. But hey, even more simple than recycling, it is doing nothing at all

[PotentialPirate]

Without open worlds, horses are no different from bikes and the household limit inhabits you from making a proper ranch. You can't have a big family\workers or a bunch of horses. They could've at least added a few minor features, like rabbit hole horse riding classes and a ranch lot trait to give you special features and maybe money based on how much you're producing.

For unicorns, it would've been so cool for secret locations to make a return. Even just a tiny hidden lot where you meet a unicorn and learn how to craft some kind of potion to turn your horses into unicorns. I don't even want many features, just have them give you rainbow poop (special fertilizer) and one or two things they can do. Maybe they can heal you if you have a curse or disease from other packs.

Definitely skipping this one.

[Skooskah]

I was waiting for your take! You and Plumbella are the only honest and balanced reviewers I see these days

[evilcookie]

I'm very happy to see someone not straight up accept the " horses were hard to animate " excuse 😭

[Pink_Sugar]

No matter what anyone likes to say about you, this was a truly fair review! You gave credit where credit was due with CAS and BB, understanding not everyone has every pack so for them there is no repeat items as well as how good they executed the theme. I appreciate you going in hard with gameplay thought because people need to take their rose-coloured glasses off and realise this is supposed to be an EXPANSION pack so there should be so much more gameplay that EXPANDS the entire game.

You’re right, as an end-consumer, it is not on us to “think about how hard this was to animate”….. well guess what, I don’t. This is a multibillion dollar company and a basic economics class will educate you that if a company wants my money, they need to provide what I’m willing to pay for. Unfortunately, too many people either have their parent’s pay or just don’t care about their money so EA and Maxis know they can do the bare minimum and get away with it. Too many comments of “I know this is a Game Pack but look at cute horses and sheep”….. ok rant over lol

[weekendposts]

Its sad that there isn't anything for kids and toddlers, they could've made something like ponies for the kids to ride. AND NO WOOHOO LOCATION, I am shocked. Keep up the great work Satch!! ❤

[MischievousMischief]

You are making so many good points about missing gameplay, and I strongly agree with you that EA should've put more effort into the competitions. 
I watched another review by an actual equestrian, and she said it was a shame that we couldn't make a jumping course or lead the horse around like in the Sims 3! Sims 3 also had western AND classic horse riding saddles and reins (and you could ride bare-back haha).
In the Sims 4, EA could've added new things like a round horse pen where you can see your sim train for competitions, or even a round horse bathing pen, adding new horse shoes, ponies. HELLO, WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT PONIES XD. It would've been so cute to have parents teach their kids how to ride on ponies...

[keojiabrown]

Considering the main point of the pack is the horses they lacked in cas and i feel like they should have gotten more toy items because their fun kinda goes away real fast and its annoying to get it back especially when they refuse to play with the ball.

And fyi for the people who choose to still stay delusional about the fact that this pack has bugs while literally watching this video a sim i created in henford appeared in chestnut on her horse and just stood there for a bunch of in game hours. Funny enough when she first appeared a random townie spawned beside her with a bike rode literally like 2 seconds in front of her got off then stood looking at his bike for while. Also during this i just stayed looking at the world just for sims movement and in a full sim day i seen 3 npc horses/riders plus my one sim.