{"id":1012208,"date":"2026-01-11T14:09:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/YMz9TVRK98PCqqhBE2VheQ"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:09:29","slug":"the-sims-4-life-and-death-may-actually-be-the-expansion-to-get-the-game-back-in-my-good-graces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-sims-4-life-and-death-may-actually-be-the-expansion-to-get-the-game-back-in-my-good-graces\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sims 4: Life and Death may actually be the expansion to get the game back in my good graces"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Maybe it&apos;s because I recently rewatched Monsters, Inc., but I couldn&apos;t help but be reminded of the very beginning of that movie as I started my first day on the job as a trainee reaper in the latest <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-sims-4-life-and-death-release-date-features\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sims 4 expansion, Life and Death<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&apos;s an active job\u2014one that you can participate in rather than being sent to a rabbit hole like some traditional Sims careers\u2014so I&apos;m whisked to a small house where a crash dummy lies in the recovery position waiting for me to figure out how the heck it died. I&apos;ve already done all of my prep in the office beforehand. Standard stuff, y&apos;know, like sharpening my scythe, practising my reaping swing and ordering office supplies. Can&apos;t be running out of those whetstones.<\/p>\n<p>Grim, the big bad death guy that&apos;s been around in the series since forever, lingers in the house&apos;s entrance to watch as I inspect things like the dummy&apos;s temperature, pulse, and pockets to see if I can come closer to the truth. After poking at the &#8220;body&#8221; for a bit, I determined the poor thing died due to killer bunnies. Neato. I get top marks for the day.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"y8hDu5NeRiTU457Z7HqyLi\" name=\"The Sims 4 Life and Death 2.jpg\" alt=\"The Sims 4 Life and Death preview\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/the-sims-4-life-and-death-may-actually-be-the-expansion-to-get-the-game-back-in-my-good-graces.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: EA)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The career is just one of the <em>many <\/em>death-related ongoings in the new expansion, if the name wasn&apos;t already a big enough giveaway. There are playable ghosts, &#8220;<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/sim\/the-sims-4-is-adding-no-im-not-kidding-customizable-grieving-styles-the-ability-to-finally-bone-the-grim-reaper-and-changes-ghost-needs-to-important-things-like-goo-waste\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">customisable grieving rituals,<\/a>&#8221; bucket lists, and uh, romances with Death himself. Not gonna lie, I didn&apos;t think I&apos;d ever live in a timeline where you could bone the one and only Grim Reaper sans mods, but here we are. It&apos;s an expansion that&apos;s ultra-spooky and also, more importantly, pretty dang good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am, admittedly, someone who&apos;s been notoriously tough on EA and The Sims 4 as a whole over the last couple of years\u2014I recently <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/life-sim\/the-sims-4-is-now-a-decade-old-the-longest-running-game-in-the-series-and-its-age-is-seriously-showing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lamented how buggy and crusty<\/a> the whole thing feels, and fellow Sims freak Lauren Morton <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/the-sims\/the-sims-4-needs-to-get-stripped-to-the-studs-if-its-going-to-be-the-foundation-for-another-decade-of-dlcs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">echoed a lot of my feelings<\/a> when we found out that it wasn&apos;t going away any time soon, and we are both potentially very responsible for the game&apos;s total absence on <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/the-top-100-pc-games-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our Top 100 list this year<\/a>. Oops.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"o-death-6\">O, death.<\/h2>\n<p>I&apos;ve been placing a lot of hope in Life and Death being good, which makes me all the more relieved that I&apos;ve been having a cracking time with it. As a certified Spooky Gal, the new Create-A-Sim items are <em>to die for <\/em>(that&apos;s the only one, I promise), with some lovely ornate gothic blouses and colour-blocked hair that makes my own bleach-breakage &apos;do green with envy\u2014and those vibes extend out to the expansion&apos;s Build\/Buy offerings.<\/p>\n<p>I&apos;ve also become rather smitten with Ravenwood, the expansion&apos;s new neighbourhood. It&apos;s all stone pavings and iron railings, adding to that extra dark and spooky ambiance. It&apos;s got some cracking events too. There&apos;s the weekly Thinned Festiveil with tarot readings, giftings to the guardian tree and a goofy gambling game that might see the Grim Reaper summoned. Moon Revelry is all about getting naked, lying under the full moon and surrounding the bonfire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"NNZ38ifdPS2XpdCtrMs2Ei\" name=\"the sims 4 life and death create a sim.jpg\" alt=\"The Sims 4 Life and Death preview\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/the-sims-4-life-and-death-may-actually-be-the-expansion-to-get-the-game-back-in-my-good-graces-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: EA)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My favourite is perhaps Afterlife Anonymous, which happens every weekday and is nothing more than a bunch of ghosts gathering, eating lobster thermidor and chatting at a podium occasionally. It&apos;s that classic Sims humour that I&apos;ve really come to appreciate over the years, even if its execution is relatively simple.<\/p>\n<p>I made sure to give my reaper-to-be and her ghostly husband\u2014who died by electrocution, naturally\u2014a handful of bucket list items to complete. In a ghost&apos;s case, they&apos;re called &#8220;unfinished business&#8221;, and completing them can help spirits pass on, or even be reborn in the next life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&apos;s a fun new set of goals that I didn&apos;t feel were too imposing on my day-to-day gameplay\u2014I went for a completely random spread and was given things like going on a date, renewing vows, having a bunch of skills levelled up, and even getting down and dirty in a bush. I didn&apos;t get too far into my bucket list endeavours, but it feels like a lot of &apos;em will come naturally as my Sims live their lives anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I was worried that the whole death theme would feel kinda gimmicky, but I feel like Life and Death is one of those expansions that does a really good job of taking a relatively basic aspect of the game and expanding on it in a meaningful way. It&apos;s the polar opposite of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/i-hoped-the-new-sims-4-wedding-pack-would-fix-marriages-but-theyre-still-broken-as-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the experience I had during My Wedding Stories<\/a>, which somehow made one of the messier events in The Sims 4 even moreso.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"uqhSbMp8ZF7avxWbNx7VUi\" name=\"life and death.jpg\" alt=\"The Sims 4 Life and Death preview\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/the-sims-4-life-and-death-may-actually-be-the-expansion-to-get-the-game-back-in-my-good-graces-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: EA)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As someone who has traditionally been kinda hesitant to let my Sims age and die, this pack makes it all feel a little more worthwhile. They don&apos;t just poof out of existence anymore, their only memory a gravestone I could pop in my inventory. They can live on in memorial photos, as a corporeal spirit, and eventually as entirely new Sims who can still recall aspects of their previous life if they managed to square away enough of their bucket list.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, I can WooHoo the Grim Reaper in a crypt. If that isn&apos;t peak Sims gaming, I dunno what is.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/sim\/the-sims-4-life-and-death-may-actually-be-the-expansion-to-get-the-game-back-in-my-good-graces\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&apos;s because I recently rewatched Monsters, Inc., but I couldn&apos;t help but be reminded of the very beginning of that movie as I started my first day on the job as a trainee reaper in the latest Sims 4 expansion, Life and Death.\u00a0 It&apos;s an active job\u2014one that you can participate in rather than being sent to a rabbit hole like some traditional Sims careers\u2014so I&apos;m whisked to a small house where a crash dummy lies in the recovery position waiting for me to figure out how the heck it died. I&apos;ve already done all of my prep in the office beforehand. Standard stuff, y&apos;know, like sharpening my scythe, practising my reaping swing and ordering office supplies. 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