More than any of the other Sims games, it's entirely what you make of it. Some might get bored and quit right away. Some people might like it right out of the box and be able to keep playing it the same way, but I find I have to keep being original and use what's there to play a different way again and again. Part of it is due to parts of the game always bugging out (like to be an actor right now, for instance, but part of it is bugged and makes it hard to do). Or you can add mods to change it even more. You can have fun with it short term pretty easily, but to KEEP having fun with it can be a challenge, depending on what you look for in a game.