I wanted to create this discussion to show how many creepy or scary things there are in The Sims series. Whether it's an intended gameplay feature or a bug, there are things that leave some players unsettled, creeped out, or even scared, especially when caught off guard.I'm interested in seeing what other players are scared or creeped out by. Share your thoughts and, if you want, illustrate them with pictures, descriptions, your experiences, videos etc. I'd really love to see what we collect here eventually.Every The Sims game is welcome! Even the console versions, MySims, The Sims Stories, The Sims Medieval, mobile versions etc.Let me start this off. I'll put videos under spoilers so it won't take much room.The Sims 1Those scary soundtracks that play during death, danger, fire, and ghosts. Imagine having sims sleep peacefully at night when suddenly a burglar or a raccoon comes accompanied by that danger theme. Definately jumpscarish. I'll put a video showcasing those sounds under this spoilers.Spoiler (Highlight to read)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Il5aZhYy8Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Il5aZhYy8EThe fact that Grim Reaper acutally has a skull that can be seen. The next games remove it, leaving the hood empty. But still, it has creeped me out. You can find many images and videos of it on internet.The Sims 2Ghosts haven't scared me. However, those noises that can be heard near gravestones at the time ghosts can roam around (midnight to 6:00 AM), those are different things. The video I put under the spoilers has caught part of it unintentionally. If you listen closely before the scene ends, you may hear strange sounds. Those are part of the gravestone sounds. I remember hearing someone also saying they heard howling, but I can't find it right now, so it might be a false memory...Spoiler (Highlight to read)https://youtu.be/ycm7lpp_cSk?t=530https://youtu.be/ycm7lpp_cSk?t=530The fact that it's easy to corrupt your neighborhood or even the whole game. While most of the time it can be easily avoided (don't delete sims and gravestones), at other times it's just a unfortunate occuring (grand vampire bites Mrs. Crumplebottom, turning her into a vampire and corrupting your entire game). One of the sympoms of a corrupted game/neighborhood is the squggly lines that can appear in bubbles, memories etc. Fortunately, it's stretched out X with numbers, so the corruption squggly lines are horizontal and only has black, red, and white colors. However, knowing this, sometimes vertical sqiggly lines (of compressed need bubbles) that pop up showing a sim noticing a hidden object can easily scare us (fortunately, they are not a sign of corruption).More about corruption here: https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Game_guide:Avoiding_corruption#Known_symptoms_of_corruptionThe Sims 3Meteors! Yikes! First it is really really rare (0.01% randomly, 0.1% with telescope). So it will definately catch you off guard. And to add insult to injury, it plays a jumpscarish music when the shadow appears, and you have limited time to get your sim away from the shadow or otherwise they'll die. That really sends heart racing. I'll put one of my tutorials as a video under the spoilers showing the meteor part. Imagine that happening when you least expect it.Spoiler (Highlight to read)https://youtu.be/AANxfjz5bX8?t=1575https://youtu.be/AANxfjz5bX8?t=1575Yet another rare event, this time it's 1% chance and it can be increased by another 1% by heavy rain or being near a hidden island. Kraken is a sea creature that can swim by boats and houseboats. Really unfortunate sims on small boats (not houseboats) find themselves being dragged underwater with their boat, destroying in process and making sims resurfacing panic (fortunately, it can't kill them). It will also catch you off-guard. At least you'll get reimbursed by mail the next day. Thank you for thalassophobia! I'll include another tutorial under spoilers.Spoiler (Highlight to read)https://youtu.be/SAJ-hPoeOkI?t=318https://youtu.be/SAJ-hPoeOkI?t=318The Sims 4The ocean threat in Island Living. While it may seem lazy: a dark cloud pulling sims underwater, for me, it makes it scarier. What is it? Sims' bubbles may show that it might be a kraken, a shark, a sea monster, whatever. If it happens randomly (usually in Mua Pel'am some hours after a shark encounter), it can drown the sim. This has caused me thalassophobia and I started to have dreams of sending my sims swimming only to immediately be pulled underwater and drowned. I'll include another tutorial under here, only I'll correct that encountering a shark and surviving the ocean threat will now make sims scared.Spoiler (Highlight to read)https://youtu.be/q7v58hOCGyI?t=720https://youtu.be/q7v58hOCGyI?t=720I don't know what else to put here. So relating to the previous point, the fact that it's possible to encounter sharks in Britechester. It is also possible to be pulled underwater in Foxbury Institute neighborhood. Is it a failed student experiment that accidentally let a sea monster get away or is it a bug. It's up to you.Sorry if I took some points you might want to share, but if you wish, you may add to that, add a story etc. Feel free to do the same to the other peoples' comments.PS: Sorry about my little professionalism. I really felt like a journalist writing this. But still, I'd love to see what you bring to this disucssion.

There's an unsettling part in Sims Medieval: In one quest the monarch goofs up, I do not remember the exact way how (setting a forest on fire?), but in any case two npcs have witnessed the goof up and need to get silenced. With the strict task-based system the only way to do this is to duel them. From the way this is presented I must assume the innocent npcs get killed. The only way to circumvent this is to fail the quest.Sims 4 the pet death animation hits a little too hard home. Same for the dead parrots in Sims 2 and the dead lizards in Sims 1 that players have to actively clean out and then dispose of in a trash bag. I don't know what I did wrong, but I could never keep the lizards alive and eventually stopped having them because of the disposal method.

"EnkiSchmidt;c-17787005" wrote:There's an unsettling part in Sims Medieval: In one quest the monarch goofs up, I do not remember the exact way how (setting a forest on fire?), but in any case two npcs have witnessed the goof up and need to get silenced. With the strict task-based system the only way to do this is to duel them. From the way this is presented I must assume the innocent npcs get killed. The only way to circumvent this is to fail the quest.Sims 4 the pet death animation hits a little too hard home. Same for the dead parrots in Sims 2 and the dead lizards in Sims 1 that players have to actively clean out and then dispose of in a trash bag. I don't know what I did wrong, but I could never keep the lizards alive and eventually stopped having them because of the disposal method.Ah, Squirrel Infestation quest with Burn approach.I agree with The Sims 4's pet death. It seems like pets are made equal to sims (if sim die with old-age effect, so will pets) instead of The Sims 3's sims becoming ghosts and pets getting sent into portals. Well, when Cats & Dogs first came out, the animation was absent. Pet just lied down, just patiently waiting to be reaped by Grim Reaper. Then suddenly (I don't know when) it was added.I've read that even in The Sims 1, small pets will eventually die even when you take good care of them. Thus it seems like they're dying by old age. Fortunately The Sims 4 introduced a way to stop rodent's aging, but you still have to feed it...

There's a video I've found on YouTube that shows some creepy things by @MakoSim to whom I've subscribed to.https://youtu.be/xL0T3t4TDisIf you find any other YouTube videos telling about scary things in The Sims series, feel free to share them.

the creepiest thing about this franchise is how ea managed to ruin it

"bella_goth;c-17792404" wrote:the creepiest thing about this franchise is how ea managed to ruin itHmm... That is a hot take. I can't say I disagree. I usually take The Sims 4 as an experiment.Anyway, from the comments I've looked under the video, one thing was brought up.In The Sims 1, you sometimes get prank calls, which are harmless but can be scary if you don't know it.Here's the list of prank calls: https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Prank_call#List_of_prank_callsSome are tame, for example "Wrong number. Sorry." or "Do you canoe?", but there are a lot of unnerving ones, like "You have been chosen. They will come soon." or "The drop off has been made. You've been warned.". Honestly, The Sims 1 is the creepiest...Oh, and I've looked up some The Sims iceberg pictures. These are things I've found on them:The haunted doll of The Sims 3: There was (or even still is, I don't know) a danger in The Exchange. Some lots had a doll which corrupted players' games.The link: https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Corrupt_file_on_The_ExchangeThe Sims 2 on PSP: Like most of The Sims 2 for consoles, it takes place in Strangetown. Unlike other console ports, it continues the story of the neighborhood. Some noteable things are that Nervous Subject has died in an experiments, forcing Loki and Circe Beaker to kidnap a random garbage man to perform experiments on. Not only that, but the main villain of the game, Doctor Dominic Newlow, is aware that the player exists and controls the sim you're playing with. He plans to control other sims himself and has even developed a cult around cows.The Sims 2 on DS: This is a console port to Nintendo DS which also takes place in Strangetown, this time with a different cast (though with Tank Grunt and Johnny Smith are also there). This game sees you run a hotel. I've played it, and from my experience, it is really lonely there sometimes. Plus there's also a cult around cows. Fun fact is that The Sims 2 on GBA has the same cast of chatacters (plus some more) that are part of a reality show series (them being unaware of it).Murder in Pleasantview by Alexander Goth: There's a book in The Sims 3 written by Alexander Goth. The problem is that this game takes place before the events of The Sims 1 and 2 (Bella and Mortimer Goth are still children), so he shouldn't have been born yet. Time travelling?Murder in Chic Street Apartment 1313 21: In The Sims 4, there's an apartment in San Myshuno Fashion District where you can find an unremovable chalk outline. Once I sent a sim to see a musical, a notification says that there is a musical made about the murders there. Wether you have to move the rug to see it or it is seen on the rug, depends on the version.The Sims 2 sims break the fourth wall: Sims have almost always broken the fourth wall at some point, especially when they are complaining about their low needs. However, in The Sims 2, if you zoom camera close enough to a sim, they'll look at you. Which may scare you if you are unaware (or not, depends on you).Here's some more I've found. Some may not be scary to you, but if it's scary to some, it deserves a spot.

EgonVM

Seasoned Ace

4 years ago

Collection of Creepy Things in The Sims Series

I wanted to create this discussion to show how many creepy or scary things there are in The Sims series. Whether it's an intended gameplay feature or a bug, there are things that leave some players unsettled, creeped out, or even scared, especially when caught off guard.

I'm interested in seeing what other players are scared or creeped out by. Share your thoughts and, if you want, illustrate them with pictures, descriptions, your experiences, videos etc. I'd really love to see what we collect here eventually.

Every The Sims game is welcome! Even the console versions, MySims, The Sims Stories, The Sims Medieval, mobile versions etc.

Let me start this off. I'll put videos under spoilers so it won't take much room.
The Sims 1

Those scary soundtracks that play during death, danger, fire, and ghosts. Imagine having sims sleep peacefully at night when suddenly a burglar or a raccoon comes accompanied by that danger theme. Definately jumpscarish. I'll put a video showcasing those sounds under this spoilers.
Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Il5aZhYy8E
The fact that Grim Reaper acutally has a skull that can be seen. The next games remove it, leaving the hood empty. But still, it has creeped me out. You can find many images and videos of it on internet.

The Sims 2

Ghosts haven't scared me. However, those noises that can be heard near gravestones at the time ghosts can roam around (midnight to 6:00 AM), those are different things. The video I put under the spoilers has caught part of it unintentionally. If you listen closely before the scene ends, you may hear strange sounds. Those are part of the gravestone sounds. I remember hearing someone also saying they heard howling, but I can't find it right now, so it might be a false memory...
Spoiler
https://youtu.be/ycm7lpp_cSk?t=530
The fact that it's easy to corrupt your neighborhood or even the whole game. While most of the time it can be easily avoided (don't delete sims and gravestones), at other times it's just a unfortunate occuring (grand vampire bites Mrs. Crumplebottom, turning her into a vampire and corrupting your entire game). One of the sympoms of a corrupted game/neighborhood is the squggly lines that can appear in bubbles, memories etc. Fortunately, it's stretched out X with numbers, so the corruption squggly lines are horizontal and only has black, red, and white colors. However, knowing this, sometimes vertical sqiggly lines (of compressed need bubbles) that pop up showing a sim noticing a hidden object can easily scare us (fortunately, they are not a sign of corruption).
More about corruption here: https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Game_guide:Avoiding_corruption#Known_symptoms_of_corruption

The Sims 3

Meteors! Yikes! First it is really really rare (0.01% randomly, 0.1% with telescope). So it will definately catch you off guard. And to add insult to injury, it plays a jumpscarish music when the shadow appears, and you have limited time to get your sim away from the shadow or otherwise they'll die. That really sends heart racing. I'll put one of my tutorials as a video under the spoilers showing the meteor part. Imagine that happening when you least expect it.
Spoiler
https://youtu.be/AANxfjz5bX8?t=1575
Yet another rare event, this time it's 1% chance and it can be increased by another 1% by heavy rain or being near a hidden island. Kraken is a sea creature that can swim by boats and houseboats. Really unfortunate sims on small boats (not houseboats) find themselves being dragged underwater with their boat, destroying in process and making sims resurfacing panic (fortunately, it can't kill them). It will also catch you off-guard. At least you'll get reimbursed by mail the next day. Thank you for thalassophobia! I'll include another tutorial under spoilers.
Spoiler
https://youtu.be/SAJ-hPoeOkI?t=318

The Sims 4

The ocean threat in Island Living. While it may seem lazy: a dark cloud pulling sims underwater, for me, it makes it scarier. What is it? Sims' bubbles may show that it might be a kraken, a shark, a sea monster, whatever. If it happens randomly (usually in Mua Pel'am some hours after a shark encounter), it can drown the sim. This has caused me thalassophobia and I started to have dreams of sending my sims swimming only to immediately be pulled underwater and drowned. I'll include another tutorial under here, only I'll correct that encountering a shark and surviving the ocean threat will now make sims scared.
Spoiler
https://youtu.be/q7v58hOCGyI?t=720
I don't know what else to put here. So relating to the previous point, the fact that it's possible to encounter sharks in Britechester. It is also possible to be pulled underwater in Foxbury Institute neighborhood. Is it a failed student experiment that accidentally let a sea monster get away or is it a bug. It's up to you.

Sorry if I took some points you might want to share, but if you wish, you may add to that, add a story etc. Feel free to do the same to the other peoples' comments.

PS: Sorry about my little professionalism. I really felt like a journalist writing this. But still, I'd love to see what you bring to this disucssion.

Gamer_Cat24
New Traveler
2 years ago
One thing that was kinda spooky to me happened in the Sims 2.
I knew about the Sims interacting with the player when you sometimes let them do something, like let them kiss the Sim they wanted, they would cheer. Then make them do something they don't want, or aren't sure about, they make faces to complain or grimace.
One time I paused the game, and was moving the mouse side to side, because I wanted to catch a ghost that was floating around the room. What spooked me was that the active Sim moved their head with my mouse movements, even though the game was paused.
In Sims 3, there was the glitch with the toddlers that had that mutant thing attached. Those with Sims 3 know what I mean.
I actually like the scary things, I made one of my Sims work at the cemetery in the Sims 3.
Edit: To explain why was the Sims 2 thing, I know that in live mode and pause mode, if you click the screen your active Sim's face shows up and follows your mouse to the options. When I was tracking the ghost, I hadn't clicked the screen, and was just moving the mouse and the camera around. The active Sim was tracking the movement due to the camera itself, I didn't know it could do that, so it was really creepy at the time. Now I find things like that amusing.
Babykittyjade
Rising Observer
2 years ago
"EgonVM;c-17809067" wrote:
"izecson;c-17808841" wrote:

Oh, I happen to have mine as well

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/786995737493241868/811813926853148672/Screenshot-601.jpg

That's scary. Being closer to that kraken is a really scary thing for me.

Never got to play this in ts3 or even see it. I WANT THIS SO BAD IN TS4. ???
SEREFRAS
Seasoned Veteran
2 years ago
Yeah, the creepy things in Sims 3 were & still are so fun. :p
Except for the Zombies, they were so bad creepy, not fun at all. :s
EgonVM
Seasoned Ace
10 months ago
"Lenny_Ogg;c-18355601" wrote:

I think the kraken has a higher percentage to show up.
Hm or it depends of what 1% means? 1% of all games? 1% by a certain time spent on the ocean?
My daughter and I got both terrified by him. We still agree that this was the scariest thing ever in Sims ?

I can only agree here. I remember many times when I just got scared by just seeing it. Meteors too, I guess, but these are much much rarer and that jumpscarish music announcing it can simply be not heard if you play without sound.

On chances, The Sims Wiki is the place most of us got the info (i guess). It swimming by is 4% chance, so it is more often.
1% chance is for attacking a small boat. This can increase with heavy rain, being near a hidden island, or when it has swum by recently. So yeah, 1% is just out of the blue of your small boat being pulled underwater and destroyed, leaving sims swimming there, unharmed and panicking.
It cannot destroy house boats, but it doesn't save me from being scared by it, that's for sure!

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