| The Sims 4: Seasons | |
|---|---|
| Experience impactful weather, revel in seasonal activities, celebrate the holidays, and grow your gardening career. | |
| Development | |
| Developer(s) | Maxis, The Sims Studio |
| Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Series | The Sims |
| Release date(s) | June 22, 2018 (Worldwide) November 13, 2018 (console) |
| Technical information | |
| Platform(s) | Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Media | DVD or Digital (PC), Digital-only (Mac) |
| Game features | |
| Genres | Life simulation |
| Themes | Weather, Holidays |
The Sims 4: Seasons is the fifth expansion pack for The Sims 4. It was announced on May 24, 2018 and released on June 22, 2018 for Windows and Mac,[1] with the console version being released on November 13, 2018. It is a spiritual successor to The Sims 2: Seasons and The Sims 3: Seasons.
The expansion pack reintroduces weather and seasons, along with other new features such as holidays, temperatures, a gardener career and a flower arranging skill.
Official Description[]
Add weather to your Sims’ lives to tell new stories, enjoy seasonal activities and celebrate heartfelt holidays with The Sims™ 4 Seasons. Make the most out of the weather all year round, from crisp snowfalls to sweltering heat – every world is affected by seasons in unique ways. Create a winter story with ice skating, befriend a magical scarecrow at the fall harvest, share a spring fling during a downpour or host a summer pool party. Gather friends and family to celebrate holidays complete with traditions, gifts and special guests. Stay warm or keep cool with all-new outfits to brave the elements. Even begin a blossoming gardening career as a botanist or by crafting floral arrangements!
Experience Impactful Weather
From hot and sunny to blustery and snowy, every world's climate is unique and impacts your Sims' choices, relationships, and daily activities.
Revel in Seasonal Activities
Bundle up to build a snowpal with friends, toss on a raincoat to splash in a spring shower. Dress Sims in new swimwear to cool off in the sprinkler, harvest honey in the fall, play in leaves, or have child Sims make homemade holiday crafts.
Celebrate the Holidays
Decorate your home and bring Sims together to celebrate heartfelt holiday traditions. Watch as your Sims countdown the calendar days for the next holiday. You can even create custom holidays and choose how your Sims celebrate.
Grow Your Gardening Career
Create beautiful bouquets and unearth new discoveries in the gardening career. Advance your Sim's budding talents to unlock fresh skills, new outfits, and handy objects.
New Features[]
Seasons and Weather[]
Sims experiencing the rain.
The Sims 4: Seasons introduces weather and seasons as its primary core mechanics. The various new forms of weather allow Sims to live their everyday lives in brand new ways. The four seasons of spring, summer, fall and winter also shape the entire lives of Sims, allowing for new activities, festivities and more. During summer, heatwaves and hot temperatures are prominent, while in winter snowfalls are an everyday occurrence alongside freezing temperatures. Spring and fall are the seasons with heavy rainfalls and either cold or warm temperatures, depending on the season.
All worlds have their own unique climates with different weather patterns, including rainy, cloudy, sunny and snowy. During rainfalls Sims are able to jump on water puddles created by the rain, or save money by taking showers in them outside. Rainy weather mostly happens during spring and fall, but is also probable during summer. Thunderstorms may appear as well, giving Sims scared emotions and lightning all over the neighborhood. Snow is the equivalent of rain during winter and usually happens when the temperature reaches cold. Snow will land on the ground, roofs and outdoor furniture and Sims can create snow angels and snowpals. Cloudy and sunny weather appear on all four seasons and usually only have environmental changes. Worlds also have different weather for their current season. For example, in Oasis Springs there might be no snow in winter, while Willow Creek would be covered in snow.
Temperatures are another big mechanic introduced in The Sims 4: Seasons. Temperature adapts to the current weather and season, and have various effects on the environment and Sims themselves. When temperatures become too hot, Sims will start wearing their hot weather clothing, or else they will die from overheating. Heatwaves are also prominent during summer, that are deadly to Sims who are not prepared. During winter, cold temperatures tend to happen, with the opposite effects of hot temperatures. Sims will start wearing their winter clothing and fishing, for example, becomes unavailable.
Holidays[]
Sims celebrating Winterfest.
Holidays in The Sims 4: Seasons are very customizable. They are worldwide events that repeat each year, and each come with their own set of traditions which define the way the Sims celebrate the holiday. There are multiple pre-made holidays, and players are able to create their own or edit/delete the pre-made ones. Holidays begin at 6:00 am and end at 2:00 am of the next day. When the holiday ends, Sims will get a happy or sad moodlet, depending on how many traditions they completed. Surprise holidays will occasionally pop up in Sims' calendars a few days before they occur, such as "Talk Like a Pirate Day".
Traditions are the main core feature of holidays and they come in various forms. Each holiday can have up to 5 different traditions and they determine how a holiday is celebrated. The traditions vary from eating a grand meal to partying, appreciating things and singing together. Each holiday can be assigned a decoration theme, which will allow the current household to choose from appropriate decorations to place on the outside of their house, via the "Attic Shack Decoration Box" (which can be bought in build mode). Neighboring houses will automatically be decorated when a holiday starts, unless the theme is set to "None".
Calendar[]
The complete calendar UI.
The calendar is also featured in The Sims 4: Seasons and instead of being an object, it is an embedded feature located next to the phone icon on the live mode user interface. The calendar includes the upcoming weather forecasts, days, birthdays and the four pre-made seasonal holidays alongside the ones created by the player. Players can add custom holidays, delete or edit pre-loaded ones, or manually replicate them so that they occur on a different date.
Players can also use the calendar to schedule various social events and invite other Sims to such. Players can specify both the date and time of the event. To aid players with scheduling events, the calendar will show when the household Sims will be at work and school.
The calendar was later added to the base game with patch 115 along with some improvements, such as the ability to favorite and sort events, festivals and holidays.
New Additions[]
- New Objects
- Beekeeper box
- Christmas tree
- Flower arranging table
- Food stalls
- Holiday decorations box
- Kiddie pool
- Money tree
- Patchy the Straw Man
- Presents
- Scouting board
- Skating rinks
- Snowpals
- Sprinklers
- Swings
- Thermostat
- Umbrella racks
- Water balloon bucket
- Weather-controlling machine
- New WooHoo Spots
- Leaf piles
- Summer Strut
- Weather Forecast
- Countdown to Midnight[2]
- Flower arranging
- Skating (secret skill)
- Heat Acclimation
- Cold Acclimation
- Iceproof
- Waterproof
- Storm Chaser
- New Careers
- New Collectibles
- Plants
- Begonia
- Christmas Rose
- Crocus
- Dahlia
- Holly
- Snowdrop
- Green Bean
- Bell Pepper
- Green Peas
- New Deaths
- Death by Flowers
- Death by Freezing
- Death by Lightning
- Death by Overheating
- Other New Features
- Outerwear clothing
- Mud/Snowball/Water balloon fights
- Holiday crafts
- Grand meals
- Gift giving
- Singing holiday songs
- Making snow angels
- Taking showers in the rain
- Playing in the rain
- Lightning bending
- Father Winter and Flower Bunny NPCs
Price[]
Seasons was priced at $39.99 USD, £29.99 GBP and $51.99 CAD at launch, the same as the original pricing of an expansion pack for The Sims 3. Expansion pack prices for The Sims 4 are intended to be similar to prices for The Sims 3 expansion packs in most locations.
Other Languages[]
| Title | Translation | Translated Etymology |
|---|---|---|
| English | The Sims 4: Seasons | |
| Polish | The Sims 4: Cztery pory roku | Four seasons (of the year) |
| French | Les Sims 4: Saisons | Seasons |
| German | Die Sims 4: Jahreszeiten | Seasons |
| Italian | The Sims 4: Stagioni | Seasons |
| Japanese | The Sims 4: Seasons | |
| Brazilian Portugese | The Sims 4: Estações | Seasons |
| Russian | The Sims 4: Времена года (Vremena goda) | Seasons |
| Spanish | Los Sims 4: Y Las Cuatro Estaciones | And The Four Seasons |
| Chinese (simplified) | 模拟人生4: 春夏秋冬 (Chūn xià qiūdōng) | Spring, summer, autumn and winter |
| Chinese (traditional) | 模擬市民4: 春夏秋冬 (Chūn xià qiūdōng) | Spring, summer, autumn and winter |
| Korean | The Sims 4: 사계절 이야기 (sagyejeol iyagi) | Story of four seasons |
| Mexican Spanish | Los Sims 4: Y Las Cuatro Estaciones | And The Four Seasons |
| Danish | The Sims 4: Årstider |
Trivia[]
- SimsAM (Len cover) - "Steal My Sunshine" is featured in the official reveal trailer video. The song appears on the summer strut radio station in the game.
- Seasons shares the same name across three generations of The Sims (The Sims 2: Seasons, The Sims 3: Seasons, and The Sims 4: Seasons).
- Unlike the previous weather-themed expansion packs, Seasons does not feature variable snow accumulation, hail or sunburns. Moreover, The Sims 4: Seasons does not feature any new life states. Sunburns later returned in The Sims 4: Island Living, and snow depth later returns in The Sims 4: Snowy Escape.
- This expansion pack includes some recolors of objects from The Sims 4: Spooky Stuff and The Sims 4: Holiday Celebration Pack.
- Seasons did not include a new world. The developers have stated that instead of adding another world they wanted to "focus entirely on making the existing worlds (and all their neighborhoods), as gorgeous as possible for all four seasons."[3]
- This is the last pack to be sold in the Australian retail department store Big W in Australia due to the retail chain discontinuing the sales of PC games. The Sims 4 and The Sims 4: Cats & Dogs bundled together for PS4 and Xbox One were still sold in Big W until mid 2022.
- As of September 2024, it is also the only expansion pack that can still be purchased not second hand or preowned from a retail chain both online and in-store in Australia that sells newly released video games, that being EB Games.
Gallery[]
![A teaser from before The Sims 4: Seasons was officially announced.[4]](/wiki/File:PatchyTheStrawMan.gif "PatchyTheStrawMan.gif (4.1 MB)")
Music[]
Pop[]
- 5 Seconds of Summer - "Want You Back"
- Reigning Shock - "Take Take Take"
Summer Strut[]
- SimsAM (Bananarama cover) - "Cruel Summer"
- SimsAM (Nelly cover) - "Hot In Herre"
- SimsAM (Alice Cooper cover) - "School's Out"
- SimsAM (Len cover) - "Steal My Sunshine" - featured in the official reveal trailer
- SimsAM (Katrina & The Waves cover) - "Walking On Sunshine"
Winter Holiday[]
- Alexander L'Estrange - "Elfin Magic"
- Andy Huckvale - "Winter Is Here"
- Gledden Lacy - "Flurries"
- Ilan Eshkeri - "The Holly and The Ivy"
- Patrick Hawes - "Circle Of Light"
- Paul Mottram - "Ghostly visits"
- Paul Mottram - "Magical Moments"
- Stobbie Choral Experience - "Winter Festival"
- The Young Punx! Vs The Camden Choral Collective - "In The Bleak Midwinter"
- Tobin Meegan - "Al Mundo Paz"
References and Notes[]
- ↑ https://simsvip.com/2018/05/24/official-leak-the-sims-4-seasons-is-the-next-expansion-pack/
- ↑ Only available after 11:00 PM on holidays with the "Countdown To Midnight" tradition.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/SimGuruKate/status/999732859031056384
- ↑ https://twitter.com/TheSims/status/999334376247717888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fsimscommunity.info%2F2018%2F05%2F23%2Fthe-sims-4-teasing-new-content%2F
Dates featured: April 2019.
| "The Sims" Chronology | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by The Sims 4: My First Pet Stuff March 18, 2018 |
The Sims series PC games | Followed by The Sims 4: Get Famous November 16, 2018 |
| Preceded by The Sims 4: Cats & Dogs November 10, 2017 |
The Sims 4 expansion packs | |
| The Sims series expansion packs | ||
