Game crashed and won't load now

I'm on a PC, no mods or CC, all expansion packs.

I was playing for a few hours today. When my sim was traveling to another spot away from home, the game crashed on me and won't load now. The game itself loads but when I try to resume game, it just crashes again. I've tried repair game and app recovery as well as restarting my computer. Those are the basics I know how to do. I'm not tech savvy and tech forum answers tend to confuse me further, so if anyone can gently guide me through what to try next, I'd appreciate it. I haven't saved my game files to the cloud in awhile (my bad, IK) but they should still be on my laptop wherever those things usually are. If I have to mess with them - I'll need gentle guidance on what to do there, too. I'm so sorry I'm just bad at this and having a panic attack.