EachThe Simsgame offers something new that makes it different from its predecessor. The game had changed a lot betweenThe Sims 3andThe Sims 4, despite the relatively short time span between the two games.
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Not only doesThe Sims 4have a different visual feel but it changed a lot of things about the gameplay. Some of them sat well with the fans but there are also some areas in whichThe Sims 4would do well to draw inspiration fromThe Sims 3. Bringing in some new features would makeThe Sims 4even more fun to play.
8More Supernatural Creatures
Supernatural creatures and the extensions with them are often among the most popular parts ofThe Simsgame. If the player comparesThe Sims 3andThe Sims 4, the older game comes out victorious. Simply because it offers a larger number of supernatural creatures the player can use in their gameplay.
The Sims 3includes ghosts, faeries, werewolves, witches, vampires, and genies.The Sims 4, on the other hand, has only four supernatural creatures: witches, mermaids, vampires, and aliens. Especially the absence of werewolves seems like something that would deserve fixing, asthey could fight the vampires, for example.
7More Pets
The Sims 3not only features a larger number of supernatural creatures but also gives the players more pets. Other than the usual cats and dogsThe Sims 4also feature, the player has the option to add even horses into the households. That makes for some challenging but fun gameplay since horses require a very different type of care than dogs or cats.
While there have beenmods that add farm animalsand theCottage Livingexpansion to top it off, the gameplay for these new pets and the variety of them have been somewhat unsatisfactory as well.
6Playable Pets
Other than a larger selection of pets,The Sims 3has an even bigger advantage when it comes to everyone’s favorite furry friends. Unlike inThe Sims 4, the pets in the older game are playable. That makes it easier to guess what they need, whether they’re happy, and it also makes it easier to teach them new skills.
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InThe Sims 4, it’s difficult to guess how the pets are doing, whether their needs are full. At least not if the player doesn’t use a specific mod that makes the pets playable as well.Not all players enjoy using mods, unfortunately, so the best course of action would be to make pets playable in both games.
5More Character Traits
With such a large number of possible character traits inThe Sims 4, it can be frustrating the player can only choose three traits from the listwhen creating a new Sim. Not to mention that three traits just don’t seem like enough to create a truly complex personality for the new Sim.
The Sims 3gives the player a better chance to customize their Sim’s personality since each Sim can have five unique character traits in total, two more thanThe Sims 4.
4More Potential Careers
One way how to liven up the gameplay, make the game more interesting, isto try a career the player hasn’t played before.The Sims 3offers a better possibility to do just that since it features more potential careers thanThe Sims 4.
For example, some of the careers that were available inThe Sims 3but not its successor include acrobat, alchemist, firefighter, horseman, magician, and others. With more careers inThe Sims 4, it would make it possible to build a more varied world filled with Sims each of whom has a different profession.
3A Larger World Full Of Lots
Any player who likes to spend a lot of time building their own worlds might be disappointed with the lack of free spaceThe Sims 4offers. Each world only has a limited number of free places. On the other hand, the worlds inThe Sims 3are more vast and as such, allow to place a larger number of new lots in each world.
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The players have the option to customize each world to their liking and if they think not enough people live in the world, they can simply place few extra lots and fix that.The Sims 4doesn’t allow for this option since there simply isn’t enough spacein each world.
2Riding A Car
It’s only a small detail but one that makes the game more immersive. InThe Sims 3, Sims can buy cars and drive them around the neighborhood. They can even build a special relationship with their car or go for driving lessons.
That made the cars feel like real cars, more so thaninThe Sims 4, where Sims buy cars only for them to stand in front of the housesand serve as a decoration, nothing more.
1Color Wheel
The Sims 4offers plenty of hairstyles as well as clothes and colors to choose from but not as much variability asThe Sims 3. What’s missing is the color wheel that allows the player to use many colors for their Sims' clothes and looks.
The only instance in which the color wheel appears inThe Sims 4is when creating a pet in Create-a-Sim but using it for humans (or supernatural creatures) would be even more fun than using the wheel to customize a pet’s fur.
The Sims 4was released on Jun 16, 2025, and is available on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
