Scared

Scared

Scared is an emotion available in The Sims 4, which was added in patch 107.. It occurs when Sims are frightened by creepy situations or Sims, such as ghosts or vampires. Over 60 tense moodlets across the base game and various content packs have been converted to scared moodlets, where appropriate. This emotion can evolve into terrified.

Interactions and activities

Sims will only have a chance to use these interactions and do these activities while scared.

Interactions

• Ask for Encouragement
• Scream Incoherently

Activities

• Go... Here? (walking)
• Hide Under The Covers (bed)
• Nap? (bed)
• Sleep? (bed)
• Take a Panicked Poop (toilet)
• Take a Cautious Shower (shower)

Interactions with scared Sims

Sims will only have a chance to use these interactions with a scared Sim.

• Try to Console

Supportive Traits and Events

These traits affect how often a Sim is scared:

• Brave (Satisfaction reward trait): Sims with this trait almost never become scared. Scared moodlets will not appear, or they will have their duration decreased significantly.
• Macabre (Lifestyle trait): Sims with this trait will never become terrified, and their scared moodlets are easily subdued.
• Paranoid (Emotional trait): Sims with this trait will become scared when other Sims are whispering.

These events may lead to a scared moodlet regardless of a Sim's traits:

• Developing a new fear (Looming Dread moodlet)
• Being startled by ghost-possessed objects
• Be screamed at incoherently by other scared Sims
• Swimming in the pool (Hydro... NO! moodlet)
• Incoming meteorite after using a telescope (will result in death if a Sim doesn't go indoors in time)
• Monsters under bed (children only)
• Quake Zone lot challenge
• Spooky lot challenge
• Slept in the coffin (except vampires)
• Being trapped in the money vault
• Scared of thunderstorms
• Being nearby a lightning strike
• Startled at the scarecrow
• Vines appearing from plumbing objects
• Thalassophobia (being within the deepest part of the ocean)
• Encountering sharks
• Being caught in an ocean current
• Volcanic Activity lot challenge
• Potential wildlife encounters
• Being nearby a rampaging werewolf
• First time transformation after being turned into a werewolf (Werewolves only)
• Future uncertainty during Career Day at school, resulting in indistinguishable careers
• Summon Urban Myth failure (using the same interaction while the scared moodlet is active will result in death)
• Being nearby at Steed's Rest, where the ghost horse can be seen in distance near the unknown horse's gravestone in the Galloping Gulch neighborhood at night (Hooves in the Distance? moodlet)
• Viewing the Portrait of Lady Mimsy Alcorn Shallot in the Garden being changed into its haunted portrait (Did That Just Move? moodlet)

Notes

Trivia

• This is the first and thus far only emotion to be added to the base game via a patch.
  • As this emotion was added through a patch, alongside possessed it doesn't have the number of times a Sim became scared in their statistics like all the other emotions.
• When trying to sleep while scared, Sims can wake up having nightmares.
• Scared Sims will always run around in a panic instead of walking or jogging. This causes them to sometimes move through walls or objects, if there is limited space. They may also get stuck on open air, if they are on an above-ground floor.
• Sims cannot do most activities when scared.
• When a Sim in this emotion gets eaten by the Cowplant and is then thrown up, instead of getting an essence of fear from milking the Cowplant, it is the essence of daze.
• The bladder need drops faster with this emotion, and even faster in the terrified emotion.
• Non-werewolves become scared in the presence of a rampaging werewolf.
• If a sim gets trapped in the Duck Security© SCR009E Super XL Smart Vault, they will immediately become terrified and receive the "Moneypot Trapped!" moodlet, which adds +4 to the scared emotion until they are either let out or break out themselves.
  • A similar thing happens with the use of the telescope — added with patch 131 — as there is a very small chance a Sim receives the "IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR ME!" moodlet (also +4) when they see a meteorite heading right for them. Unlike "Moneypot Trapped!" however, this one is timed as the Sim will die if they are not moved inside in time.
• Scared moodlets cannot be removed after drinking the Moodlet Solver.

Gallery

A scared child Sim.

A scared Bella Goth.

A sim made terrified via cheats.

A scared Sim hiding under their covers.

Audio

The sound that plays upon a Sim entering the Scared emotion.

The sound that plays upon a Sim entering the Terrified emotion.