The Sims 4’s subsequent enlargement is about to reach on Halloween and, as is acceptable for such a spooky season, the enlargement is all concerning the specter of loss of life. On Thursday, Digital Arts launched some extra data on what gamers can anticipate from Life and Demise, a brand new enlargement that features the city of Ravenwood, new mortality-related gameplay targets, and an opportunity to change into the Grim Reaper.
Sims have at all times been capable of die — normally in ridiculous methods, like being chewed on by a cowplant, or crushed by a Murphy mattress — however Life and Demise provides much more content material round that tragic occasion. Sims can now write bucket lists and endure a Soul’s Journey, which is a sequence of rewards which might be earned by dwelling essentially the most fulfilling life attainable. The final word reward is rebirth, coming again into the world as a toddler Sim with milestones already unlocked.
Some Sims desire the ghost life, and Life and Demise permits Sims to stay playable publish mortem, as ghosts. A ghost Sim could also be up for some spectral Woohoo with their dwelling partner, whereas a sillier Sim may change into extra of a pranking poltergeist.
There are two new careers that Sims can pursue, as properly. The Undertaker profession entails digging graves, embalming our bodies, and serving to households mourn previous Sims. Undertakers can finally graduate to one in all two branches: Mortician or Funeral Director. The second new profession permits Sims to don the enduring cloak of the Grim Reaper. First, they start as Grimterns (a portmanteau of Grim and intern) on the Netherworld Division of Demise. Lengthy-time Sims gamers have in all probability argued with the Grim Reaper to attempt to save a beloved Sim. As a Grim Reaper, the participant will get to make the selection of who will get to return to life, and who will get whisked off to the afterlife.
The enlargement pack can be filled with smaller little options regarding life and loss of life: horror novels, ghost historians, a thanatology talent, wills, funeral occasions, or loss of life by a homicide of crows. Extra particulars could be present in Digital Arts’ weblog publish, however general, it appears to be like like the following Sims 4 enlargement will fulfill some long-standing participant fantasies surrounding loss of life, rebirth, and reaping souls.