Please help me decide

Hands down my favorite of the two is the Paranormal SP. I genuinely have played in a haunted house every time since it dropped. I don't know if it will really improve your ghost play since it is aimed towards the pack's specters, but even kids can be a medium and Bonehilda is great where other maids are impractical. Great combination for any other occult packs.

DHD... I wasn't impressed with it when it was announced, dropped, or now. I did buy it, though. I do like the decor preferences even if they don't do much, but I have next to no interest in the career as it is and so many bugs have thus far not been fixed. (Not that there isn't occasional stupidity with specters, but I can troubleshoot visitors being set on fire a lot better than being told to do a second floor where I can't.) It feels a lot like an SP for a GP price to me, the furniture is definitely nice, but if it sounds like a lot of fun you might love it.

If your main thought is improving the already in game ghosts, I'm not sure Paranormal Stuff will do it for you. It's more of its own separate thing in that regard. I voted for Dream Home cause it's the one I've had more fun with, but I think it really depends.

Basically, I think they're both about on par--they each have some extra gameplay, and their own playable "mini-games" in the form of a new career (home decorator and paranormal investigator) so I would say the main deciding factor would be which of those careers sounds more fun to you, and is more likely something you'd actually spend time playing. Personally, I enjoy the home decorator career more, but then I like decorating in the sims and found the paranormal interactions in the paranormal investigator a little repetitive. On the other hand, if you want to commit to living in a haunted house, that CAN be really fun. Both have some good CAS and build items, depending on your taste of course. But neither of them are going to hugely impact your wider game, since they really only contain content that's there if you make an active effort to involve the sim your playing in that content. So, it really comes down to which one has content you're more likely to WANT to seek out and have fun playing. If decorating in sims is something you generally enjoy, and the challenge of working within random parameters appeal to you, Home Decorator is the clear choice. BUT if that's not so much your thing and instead you're more interested in playing through a haunted house scenario or role playing as a paranormal investigator, then obviously Paranormal is gonna be more your speed. Just comes down to what you're likely to actually DO in game, and what kind of game play is more likely to hold your attention.

Both are really good, Paranormal adds challenge that is fun to play and you can make it easier or more difficult depending on your household. You actually had to pay attention otherwise the game punished you and I liked that.

But I played Dream Home Decorator for longer, mostly because the career generates gigs from all your households that you have in your world. So you have loads of gigs to choose from.

The pack has some bugs, room gig additions work pretty badly and the likes/dislikes can sometimes make a gig interesting and sometimes it can be completely nonsensical but I had a lot of fun renovating houses. It's fun to follow a specific theme, working with a limited budget and trying to appeal to all your clients.

I also liked to take screenshots of the finished gigs too.

Why not both? o:)

Went with minority here, as I really have enjoyed the gigs :)

But for the ghosts and so lovely cas, Paranormal.

The paranormal pack has nothing to do with your existing Sim-ghosts, but little spirits. I'd choose it for the building/stuff alone.

Thanks everyone for replying. I didn't realize the Paranormal stuff pack had gameplay and haunted lots and a new career, that's pretty good for the lower price and those spectres look so cute. I do really love redecorating though. Still not sure.

"Colton147147;c-18005569" wrote:
Why not both? o:)

The reason I can't buy both is because I spent way too much money on uber eats take-out food this month and I just ordered Thai green curry and lemongrass soup and it cost more than the packs and it was wrong I know it. :disappointed:

Whatever you do, don't get Paranormal. The career has been broken for months now, so pretty much an unusable pack. :'(

I love Paranormal it's so the best of stuff packs. I love Bonehilda & Guidry. And I so love playing with the Medium Table, way too cool. B)

I suggest the Home Decoration pack. In my opinion, it contains more reusable items from game to game, than the Paranormal one. In the latter, it mostly affects game saves that specifically use it.