The Sims™ 4
Worth it · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 202,010
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Strategy
Holding it back: DRM, Reviews
Time and effort
- Main story
- 22.5h
- To 100%
- 278.9h 12.4x the story
Players and genre
- Online
- 14,137 now
- Recent reviews
- 83% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 91% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 5 percent. It is better reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Littlewood ($14.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats The Sims™ 3 ($19.99, scores 67).
It is still busy. 14.1K players were online when we last checked, on Nov 5, 05:45 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.
More about The Sims™ 4
Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 2,712 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 22.5 hours; clearing it takes 279, which is 12 times the campaign.
202,010 reviews stand behind that percentage.
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What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
They now give you ads that completely stop your gameplay like a f*cking mobile game. This new update has to be the dumbest b*llshit I've ever seen in my entire life. Whoever thought of this was a good idea and then all the people who agreed genuinely have to be eating paint, and that's insult to people who eat paint.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Waste of time. completely boring, you have to buy packs (which the cost of each one is a joke) to make it entertaining in the slightest, and even then they're boring. Don't bother just cuz it's free, save your time and energy and don't put it into this crappy game.
its sad that sims 5 is not coming. i guess its easier to make money with tones of dlcs
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About the game
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 26 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Sims™ 4 scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1222670/the-sims-4Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.