The 20 best The Sims 4 mods

What are one of the best Sims 4 mods? The Sims grew to become vital simulation recreation on the PC when it was first launched in 2000, and over 20 years later, the sequence remains to be going sturdy with a brand new Sims recreation on the horizon. You solely want to have a look at the sport’s sturdy library of user-generated content material to see the place all this success coming from.

The Sims 4 modding scene is prospering, with loads of strange additions to probably the greatest PC video games for residing your alternate digital life. When you’re wanting to shake issues up earlier than the Sims 5 launch date, the mods under all supply various levels of change. We’ve compiled a listing of simply a few of the greatest Sims 4 mods, accompanied with hyperlinks to all of the obtain pages. Be sure you learn the set up directions for every mod.

The 20 greatest Sims 4 mods in 2024 are:

Ultrasound Scan

The Ultrasound Scan mod provides your pregnant Sim an opportunity to go to the physician throughout being pregnant to get a – you guessed it – a scan. The ultrasound is not going to solely decide the intercourse and quantity of infants your Sim may have, however you’ll be able to take the scan image dwelling with you and grasp it up on the wall for just a little enhance of happiness.

Match it!

This construct mode mod provides a ton of colour choices to your furnishings selections, offer you extra coordinating choices than ever earlier than. In Match It!, you’ll be able to match window frames, trims, and even your roof to your inside furnishings. With two elements to this pack, be sure you obtain each – right here’s the opposite bit – to make sure you have full entry to each merchandise. Some gadgets require paid-for The Sims 4 packs, such because the Vampire pack, however for those who don’t have these, then you’ll be able to simply delete the next gadgets from the sport information:

• Styled parquet
• Bewitching wooden
• Dramatic parquet
• Fence for window purchasing

The One with All of the Romance

As you would possibly count on from the title, this Sims 4 mod provides a whole lot of additional choices for love – and everyone knows that’s one of many principal causes we play The Sims 4. On high of the same old romance interactions, with The One with All of the Romance your Sim can praise their associate, get to know them higher, and discuss and reminisce about your relationship milestones. What’s extra, these Sims appear to be higher than most people at having grown up conversations, as you too can supply totally different causes for breaking apart, ask for area, or talk about belief points or having your emotions damage. Really, I don’t suppose I’ll trouble with actual people any extra.

Goals and Nightmares

On this insanely cool mod, creator alainbm has carried out goals and nightmares on your Sims, outdated or younger, to expertise. Following a relaxation interval of a minimum of half-hour, a buff or moodlet seems, exhibiting telling you what your Sim skilled of their dream, be it optimistic or unfavorable. This naturally adjustments your Sims emotions from after they get up, delivering extra emotional depth to your Sims. What’s extra, no relaxation will ever be the identical (properly, there’s minimal likelihood), as every grownup Sim has over 180 totally different dream prospects, and over 30 for youths.

Following the interval of relaxation, your Sim and different Sims round them may have extra dialogue and motion choices based mostly on that dream and their new emotions, together with asking questions on their dream and researching what they could imply.

Woohoo Wellness

This intimate assortment of Sims 4 mods provides a contact of realism to ‘woohoo’ and its penalties. From transmissible illnesses to custody battles, Woohoo Wellness digs into the true fears, anxieties, and hurdles that may come up throughout intercourse, conception, surrogacy, and adoption. It even digs into the social parts of household relations. How would a devoted child-free Sim react after they uncover their life associate considers the proper nuclear household to be their fortunately ever after? With this Sims 4 mod, you will discover out. There are even some extra built-in interactions surrounding relationship and dishonest, if you wish to actually flip the neighborhood right into a suburban drama.

Zombie Apocalypse Mod

Made by Sacrificial mods, the zombie apocalypse mod is closely impressed by Resident Evil, and may see your Sims grow to be terrified or zombified. Set off a zombie apocalypse with an extremely cool story mechanic, then determine whether or not you wish to survive or infect.

Social Actions

If you would like your Sims to have the ability to do extra with their free time, then Little Ms Sam’s Social Actions mod does simply that. Your Sim desires to go to a gig? You bought it. Need a time without work from the baby? Put them in daycare. Wish to take the one that you love on a date? Go for it. Naturally, these items value cash, however they’ll preserve your Sim distracted for some time, even filling up stats like starvation, romance, and extra whereas they’re at it.

Meals Supply Service

Look, we love pizza as a lot as the following individual, however you typically simply need one thing else. That’s the place The Sims 4 Meals Supply Service mod is available in. Little Ms Sam but once more is available in clutch with this mod, bringing extra choices to meals ordering, together with extra meals choices and selections to order for extra individuals. 

My Favourite Raincoat

We’ve included some extra delicate mods alongside full game-changers, and this is among the former. An lovely mod, My Favourite Raincoat merely provides your Sim a cute, waterproof raincoat, which they don mechanically every time it rains. The in-game good thing about that is that your Sim will not get moist, even when not carrying an umbrella. To put in My Favourite Raincoat, you additionally want the XML Injector mod.

Higher Infants & Toddlers

Let’s be sincere, infants are a bit garbage. Toddlers are even worse as a result of they will discuss again at you. It seems these tiny titans might be higher in The Sims 4 as properly by way of performance and parenting options. It’s a little bit of a boo-boo, however fortunately, Caradriel is right here to make issues all higher with this glorious Sims 4 mod.

They wished to enhance the mechanics round sims and their sim youngsters, and Higher Infants & Toddlers is the consequence. It comes with a variety of options, from new interactions to new moodlets that may be gained by speaking about infants. Your sim may even learn a parenting journal to enhance their parenting ability. Actually, a mod for folks, probably developed by a father or mother. You will have one other mod – Lumpinou’s Temper Pack – for this to work correctly, and it’s additionally not suitable with another mods that use Child Bassinet interactions.

Sims 4 profession mods

Among the finest elements of the Sims sequence is selecting a profession path and assembly all the necessities to get your sim to the highest of the ladder – which is surprisingly tough with all of the profession selections accessible in The Sims 4. That selection will get even greater when you think about the large variety of jobs listed on the Sims 4 mods careers web page so that you can attempt.

To select a pair out for you, there’s Sims_Lover’s Hacker profession path mod, or you’ll be able to grow to be a member of the Ministry of Magic with Caelinaarria’s mod. When you’ve ever fancied a life in marine biology, get aware of fish with xTheLittleCreator’s Oceanography profession mod and – a private favourite – Simscovery’s Postal Service mod, a humble profession that lets your sim make a residing by delivering letters and parcels.

Emotional Inertia

Play The Sims 4 sufficient, and also you’ll be taught to handle sims and their feelings fairly simply. Any sim feeling upset is simply a few clicks away from returning to being positive.

However with the Emotional Inertia mod by roBurky, your sims will behave and act in a extra lifelike approach. Which means that sims’ moods might be extended, so that you’ll have to put in a bit extra effort to alter their way of thinking. This mod could be difficult, however roBurky explains that “the intention is to make feelings really feel just a little extra significant, to make your sims just a little extra human.” You’ll have to put extra thought into the small issues in life that might make your sim comfortable, like speaking to buddies, doing a pastime they love, or consuming a extremely tasty grilled cheese.

Have some character, please!

Created by PolarBearSims, this mod adjustments how sims act to replicate their character higher. The Have Some Character Please! mod permits you to select actions which are extra correct to every sim’s traits, moods, conversations, and relationships.

By eradicating a sim’s potential to interact in idle chit-chat they will keep true to their nature. “If they’re romantic they like to decide on romance over imply interactions. If they’re extraordinarily mad they’re sure to yell at anybody and whoever is close by,” PolarBearSims explains. The mod additionally contains extra interplay with aliens, cats, and canines, plus toddlers may even act extra according to their traits.

Significant tales

RoBurky returns with one other mod that adjustments how your sim reacts to life occasions and private experiences within the recreation. The Significant Tales mod ensures that your sim expresses their feelings to the individuals who matter or are vital to them and can have an effect on how these recollections stick with them all through their life.

“Your sim would possibly get right into a depressive rut for days that takes planning and energy and a few assist from their buddies to beat,” roBurky explains. “Or your sim’s artistic nature may be filling them with inspiration after they must be targeted as an alternative, so that you ship them to work on their novel to get the concepts out of their head.”

This mod additionally sits properly with roBurky’s True Happiness mod, because it makes your sim’s expertise with happiness extra significant. Now your sim will solely really feel really comfortable when one thing extraordinary occurs to them.

MC Command Centre

For mod followers who wish to get into the nitty-gritty particulars of enjoying The Sims, then take a look at the MC Command Heart mega-mod by Deaderpool. This mod is a set of smaller mods that provide the energy to make small changes and tweaks to how sims stay their lives.

Don’t like a specific merchandise of clothes? You possibly can blacklist it. Is an NPC interplay annoying you? Take management of that NPC and alter it. This mod additionally comes with story-progression mechanics, which have been dearly missed since The Sims 3.

MorphMaker

MorphMaker by CmarNYC permits you to sculpt and form each inch of your sim precisely the best way you need. You should use this mod to alter the looks of regular sims, vampires, aliens, and even pets to precisely what you had in thoughts or one thing fully random. CmarNYC has kindly linked to tutorials on the mod’s web page, so examine these out too.

UI Cheats

Having to memorize particular person cheats and enter them as a console command is so 2000 and late. Give your mind a relaxation by putting in the UI Cheats mod from weerbesu. UI Cheats provides you the facility to manage each facet of Sims 4 with out navigating via awkward menus. Infinite cash? No drawback. Wish to be taught each ability attainable? Easy. Acquire entry to every thing you’ve ever wished from Sims 4 by putting in UI Cheats.

Extra character traits

The Extra CAS Traits mod, hosted on Modthesims, provides extra character trait prospects on your Sims and their pets. These character traits open up new dialog and interactions between Sims and doesn’t want something however the base recreation to work. When you’re trying to find extra capabilities and deeper relationships, embrace your Sims’ new, deeper, extra real looking personalities.

Top Slider

Have you ever ever seen how all grownup Sims are the identical top? After many sleepless nights tossing and turning, being suffering from the thought {that a} “tall” darkish, and good-looking man simply doesn’t exist on the planet of The Sims, Godjul1 on Modthesims has provide you with the answer. A Top Slider mod! This top slider permits you to set a Sim’s top, however the creator does warn that it ends in “kissing wanting bizarre for Sims with totally different heights”. To make use of in-game, merely drag your Sims’ toes. Larger toes make taller Sims – who knew?!

Life’s Drama

The Life’s Drama mod provides new situations for NPCs in The Sims. You possibly can intervene in some and would possibly catch your Sim peeking out of a window to see an argument between lovers or strolling via city chances are you’ll stumble throughout an try to pickpocket somebody. The mod additionally provides an motion to reveal a beloved one, which works on Sims which are coupled up and can you should definitely trigger some controversy.

Easy methods to set up The Sims 4 mods

Putting in mods is easy sufficient. Merely obtain your chosen mod file from the hyperlinks above, and drag the downloaded information over to the sport’s mod folder.

In a typical setup, this must be Paperwork/Digital Arts/The Sims 4/Mods.

Hopefully, these Sims 4 mods are sufficient to maintain you going and your love of the sequence alive. Sims 5, or Challenge Rene because it’s at the moment being known as, is coming finally, however there’s not been any affirmation about Sims 5 mods or mod assist.

Keep in mind, that is only a small collection of what’s on supply. Do browse the CurseForge Sims 4 mods hub for extra, and for those who’re feeling additional adventurous proper now, then there’s a complete different space of the group devoted to only Sims intercourse mods, and Sims 4 cheats also can assist shake up your gameplay.

Extra contributions by Cheri Faulkner.