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THE SIMS EXPANSIONS THAT NEVER WERE,
AND PROBABLY NEVER WILL BE

By Ryan Davies
The Sims, as a series, boasts the biggest collection of expansion packs in
the history of gaming. While only three core games have ever been created
for PC, those games have been host to a grand total of 45 addons!

T

hat’s including 26 standard

subject. It’s a shame really, because

plenty of fictional elements in the

expansions like Hot Date,

religion is undeniably an important

game already, so we’re surprised

Supernatural and Pets, as well as 16

part of life both historically and

that this idea hasn’t been taken

Stuff packs. So it seems a little crazy

contemporarily. It’s something

up. Who knows, maybe we’ll get a

to propose yet more expansions,

that could be implemented very

Religion expansion for The Sims 4.

but crazy is just how we like it. So

easily and would undoubtedly

it’s all aboard the crazy train then,

be an interesting trait to observe

for a tour of our favorite ideas for

and manage as a player. There’s

The Sims content packs that never

also a lot of scope there for

were and may well never be:

items and building options.

RELIGION:

To get around the issues

VICTORIAN
LONDON:
The Sims: Medieval is the only
real example of the series travelling

surrounding real-life religious

back in time, and that was a bit of

belief, it would be easy enough to

a disaster, really. Who’s to say it

create fictional religions that work

can’t work though, and we think

that this expansion has never

in different ways, having different

we’ve got the perfect time period

existed, it is afterall quite a touchy

effects on the Sims. There are

for a Sims game. Victorian England,

It’s somewhat understandable

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