Help for a young simmer

I think they're all generally okay. Could you read the descriptions together and let her pick what she wants?

It's depend on what she like. I like having a lot of choices for playing, so I would recommend :

For family gameplay : High School Years (go well with Discover University and Parenthood) / Cats & Dogs (animals + vet clinic) / Cottage living (animals + gardening + canning + cross-stitch).

For fantasy stuff : Vampires (skills tree + aspirations + gothic BB) / Realms of Magic (skill tree + aspirations + art nouveau/art & craft BB + spellcasters world and ''magic school'') / Paranormal (go well with RoM / spirits and paranormal investigator career)/ Werewolfs (skill tree + aspirations + grungy BB) / Island living (mermaids + summer vibes + polynesian BB) / Get to Work (aliens + 3 active careers + retails (Can do a lot like bookstore, gallery (painting/photography), clothing, furnitures, electronics, bakery, flower shop (the flower arranging that come with Seasons), crafts shop (knitting, cross-stitch), selling collectibles like grocery/fish market), paranormal/witchy shop, etc.).

Others : Tiny living (It's fun to find creative way to build tiny.)

Assuming your daughter isn't like 4 or something, if she's at least 8 or so. There's nothing actually scary about the vampire pack and ut offers a lot of fantasy gameplay bang for the buck. Lilith and Caleb Catore are a brother and sister who are kind of set up as the "nice" vampires of the game, with a light Victorian Gothic color scheme house, and all they seem to do is sit and play chess together. They are super friendly. The other vampire is Vlad who lives alone in a suitably dark and Gothic manor house and he's a loner who love playing his pipe organ and greets every new Sim with some welcome message and a "nice neck you have there" message.

Mileage appears to vary a lot for whether you get any nightly visits after the first one and for my games, most of the time, instead of feeding on a sleeping Sim, Vlad (or more rarely Caleb or Lilith) would sit there watching TV or playing on the computer or reading books, or cleaning the house, then leave...or worse, stand outside all night, waiting yo be let in, then keave.

Suffice it to say, the vampire pack offers cool Victorian decorating and building options and some fun fantasy, but has been so de-fanged that it's almost a joke. It's cutesy, not creepy.so if she likes magic type stuff or Halloween aesthetics or the storyline of the apologetic Vegetarian vampire who would rather drink plasma fruit (Caleb) it's harmless fun.

I haven't tried the werewolf pack myself but from reviews it appears as silly and free of anything remotely scary. Not a selling point for me, personally, but pretty much everything in sims4 is geared to be child-level amusement.

So nice that you can enjoy this with her! ?

Jungle Adventures is one of my favourite packs - I enjoy playing the tombs & finding the artefacts.

They are ALL GOOD so it's hard to say. I won't say much because a lot of people went into really good detailed suggestions.
But I think she would have a lot of fun with Island Living and Cottage living. Cottage living will keep you busy for hours farming ?. Goes nicely with laundry day.
And Island living is still one of the most beautiful packs out there.
If she wants something fantasy you can't go wrong with any of the occult packs.

I like all sims and if she just likes new and you're fine in reality anything she is missing could be good. I have seen some bugs others have mentioned but generally looking critically many "bugs" end up being very minor inconveniences. Highschool is enjoyable, oddly enough, and realm of magic is still worth a look maybe look at a trailer to decide for her to be sure though.

Like others I’d rank as follows for young players:

1. Cats and Dogs
2. Cottage Living
3. High School
4. Get Famous
5. Get to Work (great immersive gameplay)

Island Living is pretty and fun for vacation but the gameplay is shallow.

For great value Paranormal stuff pack is amazing gameplay for the cost.

Stay away from Dine Out and My Wedding Stories because they are forever broken.

My daughter is my Simming buddy. I asked her what she would recommend, and she picked Cats and Dogs (she loves the pets, and we both like Brindleton Bay) and/or Cottage Living (she also loves Henford-on-Bagley and its atmosphere).

She also said "It's really hard to go wrong, though." I would agree.

"MoonlightGraham;c-18206009" wrote:
My daughter is my Simming buddy. I asked her what she would recommend, and she picked Cats and Dogs (she loves the pets, and we both like Brindleton Bay) and/or Cottage Living (she also loves Henford-on-Bagley and its atmosphere).

She also said "It's really hard to go wrong, though." I would agree.

Those are the ones I would have chosen, along with Snowy Escape cos the sledding, skiing and snowboarding etc are good fun.

Thank you everyone for all of your suggestions! Settled on Cats & Dogs, Cottage Living and Island Living. That should keep her entertained for a while :D