The Sims 4

The Sims is a video game series established by Maxis in 2000. It’s name is a metaphor of Simulation and depicts the main focus of it’s game type: a life simulation.

Players choose avatars as family members with whom they interact in a self built home habitat. The family members can be modified in vary ways:

„Natural“ persons: Avatars can be picked as male or female human beings that are drawn together as a family. Their degree of relationship can be chosen depending on their age: housemate, spouse, parents or grandparents, children or grandchildren. Their age is varied from toddler, kid, teenager, young adult, adult to an elderly person. Babies appear after their birth during the game and cannot be chosen from the beginning. The avatars age after certain days which can be varied from one to (…) days. A Sim-day is structured in 24h.

Traits: Every avatar has different traits, which allows their behavior and wishes to change in certain situations.

There are three modes: The Life mode and the custom mode. Players