Can I have separate games happening?

"Pamtastic72;c-17372524" wrote:

"Anitalifegurl;d-971434" wrote:
Cause I realized when I played Sims 4 latest time so far that "Save as" allows me to name the current game I'm playing as a household. Yet I didn't do that, I just used the "save" option while I kept going before I did the eventually "save & quit" once I was done for that session.

So if I save that game as Stein (which is the family's last name that I made), then could I start another separate game for a new set of Sims to play as that wouldn't effect the Stein family at all?

I know there's many players that can rotate between their many households in one game, but I don't think I can do that. If I can't have full control over the sims I've made, I'm not sure if I could enjoy the game. So that's why I stick with one household. I still love the Stein family I made, but I also wanna start a different family of sims which lives wouldn't effect the Stein's progress at all. But I'm afraid if I save the Stein family, then begin a new game with another family, then the Steins would still make an appearance in the second game!

Please help me. I'm not sure what to do. I have plans for the kids of the Stein family, yet their progress is so cause that's how it is sometimes. And their house is so full there can't be anymore sims added and I don't want to delete any one! But I do really wanna have a separate game with a new family and not bother the Steins at all.

I only have the base game, no mods or expansions. Please be kind to me. I hope I explained myself well.

Yes, you can have as many wholly separate saves as you want. Just select “new game” when you get to the title screen after the game loads. Create your new sims or download sims from the gallery into CAS, and once you’re done designing and dressing them to your liking you can hit the check mark and put them into the new game. Then you can “save as” and name it whatever you want.

This save will be separate from your Stein save. Your Stein family won’t appear in it at all, so they won’t be affected by whatever gameplay you engage in within that save. You can do this pretty much as many times as you want. I saw someone posted the other day they have around 200 individual saves.

To pick the save you want to play select “load game” on the title screen and then select the photo box of the save you want to play. The load game button will show up on the title screen once you have more than one game save file.