Which adventure is the most stressful for your sims?

Jungle temple
This one takes the cake for me. I won’t forget the day when my fully prepared team of five played the guitar around the campfire in the temple and suddenly everyone was on fire AND a skeleton attacked them. Just last week I sent two rival groups of sims into the jungle and it was even better. Afterwards everyone was limping on their last leg and a long-standing relationship was destroyed (no deaths, though).

Bringing more than one sim is helpful for extinguishing fires or taking turns hacking away the vines at the portals (one sleeps, one hacks).

Mt. Komorebi
My close second. Unlike in the jungle, I had deaths here occasionally and reaching the summit is not a given. A team consisting of beginner climbers (skill level 6) can fail even if everyone is focused and using climbing gear – just last week I had a six hours uncomfortable moodlet from an injury and only four hours left at the very first steep wall. The sims all were beginners and didn’t have enough satisfaction points to buy the moodlet solver, so they had to abort the expedition. Still, even with the risk of failure objectively being greater than in the jungle, Mt. Komorebi drains my sims’ needs less.

Bringing more than one sim is recommended to plead with the Grim Reaper in case of accidents.

Batuu questline
Technically the worst that can happen here are timeouts (getting arrested or getting escorted out of the area) and Dazed moodlets. Getting electroshocked by a droid isn’t even dazed, but uncomfortable, so even eight shocks in a row cannot kill a sim (I gave up after eight, maybe some more would have done the trick by draining hunger too much).
As for the needs, motive drain would probably be the worst of all adventure packs if we didn't take freebuild into account.

Bringing more than one sim is recommended so that one can “call over” enemies to give the questing sim breathing space. Droids in my experience are too unreliable.

Werewolf tunnels
My sims suffered a bladder accident from staying too long in the tunnels, and, yes, they can get turned into werewolves. But overall the tunnels are more boring than draining, especially for non-werewolves. I never had luck with mundane sims, they only ever found frogs or food and never even a different exit than the one they went in through.

Strangerville mystery
From a storyteller perspective this can be an intense experience, but gamemechanically there being no timer, a sim could take it easy here and attempt every step with full needs and plenty of moodlets. I only included this pack in the poll, because I’ve read a lot that players speedrun the mystery in a matter of two or three days and I expect especially with starting sims this would drain their motives quite a lot.

getting an expedition with a dog and a horse to the temple unmodded is no cakewalk.

"Caerfinon;c-18350263" wrote:
getting an expedition with a dog and a horse to the temple unmodded is no cakewalk.

Definitely! I once had a family stay in a vacation home and their cat escaped to hunt a squirrel in a bush close to the temple entrance.

Jungle temple - I think this takes the first place, because I prepare for jungle adventures the most and still my sims suffer a lot when they go there. It is also so tempting to try to continue a bit further even though my sim is already ready to go back home.

Strangerville mystery - This was very draining to do with two run away teens who had to go to high school and solve the mystery at the same time, but I also enjoyed it a lot. The other time I did it with a spellcaster and it was easier.

Mt. Komorebi summit - I have experienced zero deaths and have reached the summit at least 7 times. The only times I have had to turn back has been when some of my sims haven't been skilled enough in rock climbing. I'm honestly a bit dissapointed that there have been no deaths, but I'm also happy that I have been lucky enough to avoid them :sweat_smile: :joy:

Werewolf tunnels - I have explored these to some extent. I think it's quite easy and a bit boring after a while.

Battle for Batuu - I don't have this pack.

I usually do these adventures with one or two sims. I think it might be harder with more sims.

Probably Jungle one since it has more random outcomes including death

with Mt.Komorebi and Strangerville you do it once and you can speed run it just vibing so eh I think of those more as fun outing less so great adventure

Batuu was most stressful for me rather than my sims cause I was so confused what I was supposed to do where and just ran all around the place confused and then I went home and realized it was in work tab like ?? what

doesn't help I never watched star wars so I still don't know what they want me to do :lol: maybe I'll watch star wars one day and understand

as for werewolf tunnels being entirely rabbithole I think of those as more of a side activity than adventure

I think jungle adventure offers most adventure. My first sim went into the jungle with nothing: rags to riches with no money for equipment or camping gear and no skills. It was very challenging to keep up her needs in the jungle. I enjoyed it very much but nowadays my sims usually bring along a tent, a campfire/cooler for food and the portable outdoor retreat shower.

Mt Komorebi is also a lot of fun but I find building up the climbing skill to reach the top a bit grinding.

Batuu was mainly stressful because I had to figure out how to complete some tasks but it was fun. Just like strangerville my sims don't do this often.

Werewolf tunnels are just text adventures. The least interesting for me personally. The only thing I still want to do is find the werewolf wand without cheating.

If the werewolf tunnels are a candidate for this list, then the chestnut ridge caves should as well. They seem to be more in depth than many other rabbit holes.

Jungle Adventure is gloriously stressful! The insect and bat attacks, the fires, the poisons, the scary skeletons, the booby traps... Man, I wish more packs had content like this. It's one of my favorites. ?

I haven't experienced Mt. Komorebi summit or Batuu (yet).

Temple runs are always tough on sims. I break everytime and end up cheating needs.? Even more difficult in TS3 but some of my favorite memories playing sims is exploring temples.

Jungle is winning by a landslide and no surprise :) If they ever make a heists GP, they could just reskin the temple traps to look like laser barriers and stay as close as possible to that recipe.

I wish they would do an "Adventure" series of GPs. "Ocean Adventure", "Mountain Adventure", "Desert Adventure", "Lost Island Adventure", "Cavern Adventure", etc, etc. And have them all have lots of danger, risk, and excitement with special "ancient" rewards and curses. Make Archaeology a base game skill and expand on it, even make it a career. It would be like an Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider adventure collection and each location could be a Sim version of a new culture that hasn't been represented yet, with new things to learn like dances, greetings, foods, skills, stories and customs. Zombies, Mummies and Genies could return to the game as new Occult "antagonists" like the skeletons.

It would be magnificent.