My Brutally Honest Review Of The Sims 4 Cottage Living

The Sims 4 Cottage Living Gameplay Review! I reviewed The Sims 4Cottage Living

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00:00 Pack Overview
00:18 CAS
02:16 Build Mode
03:24 World
05:58 Gameplay
12:41 Cross-Pack Features
13:36 Performance
15:37 Conclusion

[nedrane]

This was my absolute favorite expansion. I loved it. But I have to say, I never once saw dogs scare off foxes. EVER. And I'm a huge pet player.

[Qtopian]

I love that cottage living has actual gameplay, plus an amazing world, build buy and good cas. The gameplay has the errands, fairs, taking care of cows chickens llamas, foxes birds rabbits, conserving jam, gardening ad on, crossstiching, making treats for the animals etc. i just think they did a really good job and seems to have more gameplay than any other recent pack or maybe any other pack in general!

[reynavaldez]

I have two problems with this pack. First - almost all female clothes are "country queen" but male clothes are "country peasant" and i don't like it. Second - it doesn't matter that you put in Finchwick contest your best chicken, excellent pie or golden perfect egg and beside you there was only one (poor quality) entry. Still you can "win" third place or none, its completly random if you win or lose! I hate that! But still it's my favourite pack ever🙃 and am i only one who is absolutely pissed when i see toddler with long long hair? Its riddiculous, toddler don't have so much hair!

[brittneyd]

I'm very disappointed that there was not one iconic Satch laugh in this video. 😂 That's my favorite part.

[theamydim]

it's kinda (probably unintentionally) realistic that sims just STILL eat dairy like there would be no consequences at all lmao i too think i'll be all good after a bowl of ice cream and then wonder why im having such bad migraines and feeling bloated as if it weren't my fault

[ellaamariee]

Not having horses I get because players would want to ride them, but the fact that they didn't make pigs makes me so sad.They could've done it so easily. Otherwise I love the pack but I want piggies 🐷

[piperbird]

This is by far my favorite pack, and the only back apart from the base game I paid full price for the day it became available.
Birds and rabbits will help you in your garden if you befriend them and ask them to help.
If you change a chicken to an evil chicken, it will chase away Death
If you eat food that uses a golden chicken egg, it gives you the power to evolve all your plants to the highest level while the moodlet is active.
The home delivery people do tend to stay in the house until you tip them. I think they aren't coded to end their delivery interaction until that point.
The shops do sell special items during the fairs, it's a great way to get hard to find items. But they still do close at (I think?) 7pm just like a normal day. You just have to be sure to get there early enough.

I very much agree the fair could use some work, there's no reason my cow should come in 3rd in a competition with 2 cows, and my excellent pie shouldn't lose to normal ones. You don't even get the results until around 11pm when the fair is supposed to be over at 9:30, so I do spend a large amount of time ready to go home, simply waiting on the results.

I also wish they had added a better way to buy and sell. I tend to grow my crops through out the week and can them, and then sell them during the fair for a higher price. I hate having to click the button literally hundreds of times to sell everything I have at the stall.

[bookcat]

I love this pack. But some notes:

1. Foxes are extremely glitchy. That extreme lag you saw develops in any save where you play for a while on a lot with the fox challenge on.

2. I love the Simple Living lot challenge and play with it frequently, but they have a tendency to forget to add new foods to it. Plus cooking on campfires doesn’t work. And there’s no way to get orange juice if your Sim gets sick.

3. Werewolves introduced a bug where you can’t hatch chicks anymore (at least not without a bunch of work-arounds) because hatchable eggs spoil and your Sim will throw them out.

4. Cross stitch was released to console in black and white, and not only has this still not been fixed, now Growing Together’s puzzles are also black & white on console.

5. The birds can also help in the garden like the rabbits - I believe the rabbits eat weeds and the birds (and chickens) eat bugs. The birds might also improve plant quality by singing or something?

6. There actually is more of a point to the town errands - you can get special fertilizers as rewards that I’m not sure if you can get elsewhere.

7. Don’t turn the pub into a restaurant; doing so breaks the festivals.

[Lovlyb]

Cottage Living my favorite pack and the only pack I play through and continue using it. I waited so long to get farms and I was so excited to have this pack, love it. I agree the world could have been much better but as we know they always miss an opportunity for more game play.

[vxws]

i really wish the rabbits in the pack could be owned lol

[Miluielle]

Great review - I love cottage living. To get rid of the delivery person I discovered you have to tip them. Also sadly animals are still dying with aging off - EA keeps denying this is a thing but many keep reporting it. The Henford world bugs me too in the country areas mostly because there isn't enough foraging plants. You have an entire country side that is easy to get disorientated in and so very few mushrooms or brambleberries. I have downloaded mods to get the sugar and flour from wheat and sugarcane and I would have loved a butter churn but I don't think the recipes use butter. Missed opportunities for sure but still this pack is one I've never regretted and the only one I bought at full price (because of the bike and cute tree) Also this was back before kits and MWS when we thought maybe EA/Maxis had turned a corner - lol.

[zissid]

As someone who loves Cottage Life I kinda hoped you rant about this pack 😅. Why can I not make grow herbs & make tinctures out of them? Why would a Britain inspired cottage life have a Alpaca instead of horses, sheep or donkey? I want a whole barn and bigger property for having a real ranch. I want sooo much more 😢

[Loerli]

I love this pack. Can't play without it, I think it's the best expansion pack they've ever made. I wish we had more packs like cottage living.

[suan]

You can tell the asked simmers to build in this pack and since they've been doing it, builds that came with the packs are sooo cool and good
I guess it's what happens when people who care about the game works in it

[BlahBlahBlahBlah]

Cottage living is my favorite expansion pack i do enjoy the growing together also. If not for Cottage living i probably wouldn't have gotten back into the sims 4 i had a hard time playing for a good while

[thexshattered]

Cottage Living is by far my favorite expansion. It's so tempting to turn all of my Sims into cross-stitchers and farmers, especially since Plopsy accepts cross-stitch projects and buyers pay so much more for them than they're worth. It is annoying that Sims can't "reach" the cross stitch kit when it's on a coffee table, but I did discover that placing them on accent tables, like those that look like a nightstand, seems OK. Not sure if it'll glitch out with the long accent tables.

[krisbradbury]

I wish the sims would add in dual use lots with shops, café, computer repair shops your sims could open and live above them.

In the style of village up to the city worlds with big restaurants or food shops.
I wish like the sims 2 you needed to visit cloths shops, maybe again introduce the need for shops and furniture shops not available in build mode, hell even kitchen and bathroom shops, Internet cafes and arcades your teens could hang out at. And imagine car repair shops where your sims can run it or go get cars. If only they had imagination over at EA!

[Aussiegirl]

One of my favourite series. Love the brutal honesty. Solid pack reviews. ❤

[socavendi]

I don’t know why, but Henford-upon-Shagley caught me so off guard that I actually burst out laughing 😂 thanks for that, I was having a really rough day and that absurdly made me snap out of it 😂

[AdamManeYT]

I think one of the cross-pack feature basically allows you to run a market stall. With City Living, you can use the table to sell items. I always sell them on the square for a bit of realism.