What kind of storylines do you play in Sims 4?

I play on Xbox Series S and have a few different ways that I play my Sims that might give you some ideas depending on which packs you have.

One thing I like to do is create a max household of different generations and relatives and create several different homes for them. I then split the family over a few different households into the houses I've designed. Sometimes there is a big family homestead (that meets the Mansion Baron Aspiration to give them all reward points at the start) with teens that I will later return to and age up. I gather them all for festival trips, holidays and family events. One of my favourites is headed by a Screenwriter who writes Spanish language films about his childhood, his adult kids are travel writers and I added extended in-laws households too and gave them all the Friendly Introduction reward trait so they all made friends easily. His sister is a celebrity chef and his youngest is at Uni. I play all of the households and add new in-laws when I want to return to them as they are my very favourite family. I've lost them due to bugs more than once but always enjoy recreating them.

Another thing I like to do is make some of the scenarios tougher. So I do the Millions scenario by shipwrecking a Sim in ragged clothes in Sulani on a deserted island and I don't let them buy a thing, they have to work for it. One used it for a social media career and became a global superstar documenting her journey and the other became an explorer who took his tent to every single world and lived out of it before he took everything he'd discovered and displayed it in the mansion I had built waiting for him, along with the jungle dogs he'd rescued.

I also love the retail aspect, I like my Sims to make everything from scratch and I avoid adding mannequins as they cause my game to crash (reported on relevant thread). I love craft shops and craft fayres IRL so I make a lot of those and scatter them all over. One of my favourites is an underground cavern style store in Sulani selling collectables gathered from Sulani to Sixam. I also like to use the knitting and painting skills to fill stores. I've recently finished a garden centre with every plant in my game on display to be harvested for free with some sheltered to still bloom out of season. It also has homemade herbal remedies, shelves of rare harvestables and vegetarian preserves and a little trailer where my Sim stays when he's working late. I usually always add an apartment or bungalow to a retail lot, one Sim and her family use theirs as a weekend place with a private beach house next to the store and fenced off. I also made a store based on the old Athena poster shops I loved IRL years ago. It sells all the space/microscope prints and city living posters. I made a furniture department store with all the Eco Living furniture handmade from dumpster diving, etc just to make it challenging. Poor Keiko, she spent a long time in those dumpsters!

I've mentioned this on other feeds but I love to make families who are of a different culture and ethnicity, I do a bit of research about each culture rather than just making it up just because it fascinates me to learn about these things. I love a vibrant and diverse world.

Another thing I really love to do is adopt children. I like to create a fabulous life for them with all the clothes and toys they could want plus a happy family life of course. I also rescue stray pets and do the same.

Unfortunately my way of playing is hampered by bugs right now which I've reported and I was hoping for a big summer fix to sort them all out. This is my second forced break of the year! So I'm on a different game and console I just got for my birthday. But I miss my Sims and plan to return to them soon as I'd only just added Wedding Stories, I just hope someone is working on these bugs.

Hope you find some ideas on here for your next household! Have fun!