Why do you play Sims?

I love the creativity aspect of the game. It's your little world that you can do whatever you want in it.

I like to create unique sims and tell stories with them, experiment with different kinds of lifestyles from hobo to extreme luxury and anything in between, and last but not least, building houses.

For fun. Just that ;)

I’ve played it since the sims 1. It’s more like a hobby now.

I play because I love to build and create... I can build in Build mode for hours designing the perfect house for whatever Sim I am playing... I will create a Family Sim and try to make rooms for 3 kids and have each room feel different.

I also love trying to get the skills up for each Sim so they all have more personality in their autonomy so the kids all feel different.

I also love with Seasons how I can recreate the holidays that I sometimes want to have more then once a year like Christmas in July...so I might not be able to sit in the middle of winter next to a warm fire but my sim can and that helps for some reason.

Part of my own enjoyment of the Sims is to experience life that I can't in real life due to serious illness. I live vicariously through my Sims - because real life made it impossible for me, especially for the last 10 years.

In the early days before the Sims came out and I first learned Will Wright talking about them - it reminded me of my beloved childhood bookseries called The Borrowers. Then when I first saw the Sims as a tester for his new game - that's all I could think of was a more modern day version of the Borrowers. Instead of little people living under the floor board of human houses - they now got to have their own houses. I never was a big player of dolls and dollhouses even though I had collections of dolls and several Doll Houses - I never played with them - I would decorate the doll houses and make things for it - maybe even make my dolls new clothes - but playing with them like most girls did was never my interest. But I did love to create things for them - and just admire them on shelves - then I'd go read books and tried hard to picture my dolls as Borrowers and it just never worked. Then the Sims became a reality and I got to test it in 1999 - they were my Borrowers come to life.

So I was busy living life, doing everything everyone else did, and in between enjoying playing life with my Borrower Sims when I had the time - lol and then life itself took an abrupt turn - like a real life Series of unfortunate events - no sense rehashing it all - but through out it all - Sims seemed to make it bearable and has kept making it bearable...

I play it so I can date all the members of BTS and see what my simself and Namjoon's babies look like XD

This is Necro'd from 5 years ago.

For me, I’ve grown up with extremely bad anxiety and ALWAYS worry about things out of my control. I also have really bad self esteem so don’t really get out much. The Sims gives me complete control over every aspect of their little lives and it calms me down especially in times where I’m highly stressed out. It has also given me the opportunity to create whoever I want and express myself through my sims. I guess you could say I live through them because I am unable to in the real world.

I like games like RPGs like Skyrim where I level up, kill all the things, gather materials, craft armor and potions, but also have a home and mingle with the NPCs.

Sims is like that for me but minus killing all the things. I like to level all the skills, collect all the stuff, complete every aspiration, mingle with NPCs... but I can have a WAY cooler and more customizable home.

Also, in Skyrim, the world and NPCs are already made. You have to play with what you are given. But in sims I get to create the NPCs and the world. I like that.

It’s also kind of like Minecraft for me. In Minecraft I gather every plant and animal and bring them to my home lot to start a farm. Similar to how I garden in TS4.

I also create a treasure room in every one of my houses where I display every collectible as I get them. With the ultimate goal of getting everything single one.