It’s stylized realism. Even the magical and occult stuff is stylized and not as specific in fantasy genres like Harry Potter, etc. If they went all world of warcraft on the magical aspects of The Sims we’d be just as overwhelmed by the overcomplexity as we would if they added politics to the game including president sims, senators, judges, state reps, assistants, secretaries and all of it. A life simulator shouldn’t have to go into every single detail possible to be fun, if there was way too much real life boring stuff it would never even be released and we all might as well live our own lives if were gonna play a Real-Life Sims game?
