The Sims 4: Businesses & Hobbies
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| Box art for The Sims 4: Businesses & Hobbies | |
| Development | |
| Developer(s) | Maxis, The Sims Studio |
| Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Series | The Sims |
| Release date(s) | March 6th, 2025 |
| Technical information | |
| Platform(s) | Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| System requirements | Minimum system requirements on TheSims.com |
| Game features | |
| Themes | Businesses, Hobbies, Education |
| Worlds | Nordhaven |
The Sims 4: Businesses & Hobbies is the eighteenth expansion pack for The Sims 4. The title was leaked a days beforehand on the EA App but was officially announced via the "Motherlode Season" roadmap on socials[1]. The reveal trailer premiered on February 6, 2025 and the expansion launched March 6, 2025.
This expansion includes being able to create small businesses as a form of custom businesses from previous packs. These small business can allow for many venues such as art centers, tattoo parlors, candy shops, gyms, and pottery shops. Sims can also develop mastery perks from attending lecture classes and even help others by teaching others knowledge of their skills within the Scandinavian-inspired world of Nordhaven. This expansion is a spiritual successor to The Sims 2: Open for Business, The Sims 2: FreeTime, and The Sims 3: Ambitions.
Official Description[]
Pursue new skills and live a life of accomplishment in The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies Expansion Pack*. Create wearable art with the new Tattooing skill or craft functional pieces with the new Pottery skill. Savvy Sims can turn their wildest dreams into profitable businesses. Run your business from your home or purchase a Small Business Venue lot, hire employees, decide how to charge, and make the rules.
Open Your Dream Business
Dream big and create a small business that will leave your Sim feeling fulfilled. Make and sell pottery or other crafts, provide a service like tattoos or classes, or come up with something unique. Use the selection tool to designate space in your home for doing what you love and making a living at it. With the new Ticket Kiosk you can run the business you want, charging customers for entry or for time spent. Run a family business and hire your Sim’s household, or meet the perfect candidate and offer them a job. Explore the possibilities with the new Small Business system.
Make Your Mark
With the new Tattooing skill you can give Sims pre-made, custom, or dedication tattoos. As you level up your skill you’ll unlock more stamps and stencils, and increase the odds of excellent results. Body art is about freedom of expression and to celebrate that you can now freely create your own designs in Tattoo Paint Mode. Tattoos can even be layered. Share your custom Tattoo designs with other Simmers using the Gallery, or browse for Tattoos to use in your game.
Mold Your Future
As you hone your Pottery skill using the Pottery Wheel, more designs – like functional tea sets, planters, incense burners, and more – will become available to you. Finish your pieces in the Pottery Kiln; there are plenty of options for glazes. At higher levels of the Pottery skill, Sims can use the Japanese art of Kintsugi to create beautiful pieces from broken ceramics.
A World of Possibility
Build your future in a town steeped in history. Nordhaven is the perfect place to pursue the things you care most about, like creative and inspiring hobbies. Sims can attend Meetups to mix and mingle with those who are passionate about the same hobbies – they may even find someone to mentor them in their favorite skill. Sims can become mentors at high skill levels, or they can build their legacy by hosting Classes and Lectures. Listening to a Lecture is one of the ways a Sim may earn Mastery Perks. Hobbies are best when shared, so explore the new neighborhoods of Gammelvik and Iverstad to meet like-minded Sims!
EARLY PURCHASE INCENTIVE:
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New Features[]
World and Neighborhood[]
Businesses & Hobbies includes the Scandinavian world of Nordhaven. This world is highly inspired by Sweden and other Nordic countries with its towns around canals and surrounded by mountainous regions. This world also includes hobby meetups which are unique festivals Sims can opt into for meeting up with Sims to socialize and practice their hobbies and skills. This world also includes a shady individual who can be found in an alleyway who has lots of "legitimate" items for sale.
Small Businesses[]
Small businesses are a new type of Business which allows for full customizability of business activities and employee behaviours. This business allows for players to register a unique name, icon, and description for a business and assigning business tasks for customers to fulfil such as buying items, serving drinks, using computers, attending classes, etc. small businesses can also can operate on a home lot or a community lot.
Small businesses also have renown and alignments, renown is the fame of the small business which is dictated by their quality of service and reviews left behind by customers, the higher the renown the more owners of small businesses can earn more money and more customers to also spend perk points on business perks to further add additional ways of earning money and keeping customers happy. Alignment is also something that influences certain events that happen to their small business dependent on if they're a Dreamer, or a Schemer.
Skills & Hobbies[]
Sims can now partake in a few new hobbies; Pottery allows Sims to craft ceramic creations such as vases, pots, tea sets, candle holders, and more, and Tattooing allows for an immersive way for Sims to acquire tattoos, be able to place them in layers, as well as creating custom tattoos. Sims can also utilize a candy machine to make cotton candy, lollipops, and jellybeans. When Sims have maxed their skills and continue using them, they could develop skill mastery perks which grand extra bonuses to activities. Also now with mentoring, Sims can get paid for their service of mentoring other Sims.
Classes & Lectures[]
Using the new Whiteboard, Sims can now do lectures for any skill they are decently levelled in. When starting a lecture it will initiate an event where Sims can appear and join in and develop the skill being lectured. Within small businesses when a whiteboard is available, classes can be taught which are a social event that Sims can start where Sims are required to use objects and other interactions with Sims to help them boost skills, the progress of a class is how well the class teacher gets paid and also how good of a class they believe it was and likeliness to return.
New Additions[]
- New Objects
- New Lot Types
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- Residential Small Business
- Small Business Venue Lot
- New Aspirations
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- Esteemed Entrepreneur
- Master Mentor
- New Fear
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- Fear of Being Cancelled
- Other New Features
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- Small Business perks
- Skill Mastery perks and mentoring Sims
- Skill classes and lectures
- Customer Appreciation Day
- Custom tattoos and layering
- Candy making
- Passing down family recipe
- Hobby Meetups
Integration with Other Packs[]
In an official blog about Businesses & Hobbies, EA wrote about some ways the small business system could be used with other packs[2]:
- Cats & Dogs: Sims can own pet cafés.
- Get Together: Sims can run their own dance clubs and arcades, making use of the DJ booths and arcade machines from this pack.
- City Living: Sims can run their own karaoke bars.
- Get Famous: Sims can run an acting school.
- Spa Day: Sims can operate their own spas, allowing customers to get massages and facials, or do yoga.
- Laundry Day Stuff: Sims can operate their own laundromats, charging customers to use their laundry objects.
- Bowling Night Stuff: Sims can run their own bowling alley without having to integrate it into a bar.
Other languages[]
| Language | Title | Translated Etymology |
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| English | The Sims 4: Businesses and Hobbies | |
| Polish | The Sims 4: Dochodowe Hobby | Profitable Hobby |
| French | Les Sims 4: Business et loisirs | Business and hobbies |
| Czech | The Sims 4: Záliby a živnosti | Hobbies and trades |
| German | Die Sims 4: Vom Hobby zum Business | From Hobby to Business |
| Italian | The Sims 4: Hobby & Attività | Hobbies and Activities |
| Japanese | The Sims 4: Businesses and Hobbies | |
| Brazilian Portuguese | The Sims 4: Ócio e Negócios | Leisure and Business |
| Russian | The Sims 4: Любимое дело (Lyubimoye delo) | Favorite business/thing |
| Spanish | Los Sims 4: Ocio y Negocio | Leisure and Business |
| Chinese (simplified) | The Sims 4: 事业与爱好资料片 (Shìyè yǔ àihào zīliào piàn) | Career and Hobbies |
| Chinese (traditional) | 模擬市民 4: 事業與嗜好 | Career and Hobbies |
| Korean | The Sims 4: 취미와 사업 (chwimiwa sa-eob) | Hobbies and Business |
| Mexican Spanish | Los Sims 4: Ocio y Negocio | Leisure and Business |
| Danish | The Sims 4: Passion og Profit | |
| Dutch | De Sims 4: Zaken en Hobby's |
Gallery[]
Music[]
Alternative[]
- Amyl and The Sniffers - Do It Do It
- Blondshell - What's Fair
- Orphée Noah - Stuff That I Like
- Rhys - Alice
Electronica[]
- Burnett Music, Simple Thieves feat. Nathan Walters - Can You Feel It
- Chrissy Chlapecka - My Only Dream Is To Be Loved
- VoidElex - SHLAY
Hip-Hop[]
- Noga Erez - DUMB
Pop[]
- Angelica Jordan - Our Time
- Diane Emerita - Carry You
- Mergui - Purple Rose
- Pixey - Best Friend
References[]
| "The Sims" Chronology | ||
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| Preceded by The Sims 4: Madlen's Business Chic Creator Kit January 30, 2025 |
The Sims series PC games | Latest release for The Sims 4
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| Preceded by The Sims 4: Life & Death October 31, 2024 |
The Sims 4 expansion packs | Latest expansion pack for The Sims 4
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