Hopefully, The Sims 4: Businesses & Hobbies will not try too hard to be like The Sims 4: Get to Work as it provides new opportunities for your sims, yet we can wish the first expansion pack for The Sims 4 a happy 10th anniversary
Sul sul! That is how to say “Hello!” in Simlish, the language spoken by sims in The Sims. 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of the series. It began with the Casanova Cove, Comfy Gamer and Secret Sanctuary Kits for The Sims 4 followed by an early 2000s-themed event in The Sims FreePlay, a museum of the mobile game’s history throughout over a dozen years of its run and the two Creator Kits created by Madlen and Pierism. But understandably, many simmers would be more satisfied with the outcome of an expansion pack in terms of additional content. The spooky and spiritual previous expansion pack known as “The Sims 4: Life & Death” rose from the depths of development on Halloween, but let us save the spooks for another cold-blooded collaboration between Resident Evil and Dead By Daylight. During the Motherlode season, let us discuss the potential of the Businesses & Hobbies pack that will be launched this March shortly after we witness the return of Carmen Sandiego based on the Netflix series she starred in and near the time when the twelfth season of Disney Speedstorm begins with the highlight of its premiere being based on Tron.
Doesn’t Bella Goth look amazing in this red dress?
Shortly after a free update for The Sims 4 consisting of quite of lot of new customisation options in Create A Sim and Build Mode, the reveal trailer for The Sims 4: Businesses & Hobbies premiered on YouTube. Without further ado, let us discuss the potential of the upcoming eighteenth expansion pack for the fourth base game.
According to what has been shown in the reveal trailer, the forthcoming expansion pack appears to be inspired by The Sims 2: Open For Business, The Sims 2: FreeTime and The Sims 3: Ambitions, much like the first expansion pack for The Sims 4 known as “The Sims 4: Get to Work” that was released for the PC and Mac ports back in Spring 2015. The major difference is that the forthcoming pack will provide new hobbies, such as tattoo artistry as hinted in a brief teaser, pottery and following recipes for candy, such as lollipops. Rooms in homes can be made public instead of residential for the sake of business growth and access to some can only be for employees for the sake of confidentiality. And yes, a business to be run can also be named with a list of target customers and activities, as well as a few options for entrance fees and prices. More about the gameplay in the expansion will be revealed within a gameplay trailer four days after Valentine’s Day. Every expansion pack is cherished for providing some additional gameplay features and new aspects of the game’s lore, but chances are that a simmer could consider an expansion pack their least favourite one for fair reasons.
OMG! It looks like the hobby in tattoo artistry will result in so many more tattoo designs for your sim! Moreover, there will be a new customisation option to design a tattoo in Create A Sim with a colour wheel that reminds me of the one for colouring clothes, hair, eyes and eyebrows in The Sims 3.
It also looks like the owner or manager of a business can train their employees, levelling up their skills in a certain hobby during work hours and times of training.
Hopefully, The Sims 4: Businesses & Hobbies will not try too hard to be like The Sims 4: Get to Work as it provides new opportunities for your sims, yet we can wish the first expansion pack for The Sims 4 a happy 10th anniversary. Aside from a promising reveal trailer, there are new apparel designs and collectables, including enamel pins to order from the official merchandise website in honour of the series’ 25th anniversary. In terms of blasts from the past, it is vital that the technical problems with The Sims: Legacy Collection and The Sims 2: Legacy Collection will be solved in response to simmers’ reports to ensure that they can swallow an even sweeter dose of nostalgia. On a lighter note, there will be three more Kits referred to as the “Restoration Workshop”, “Golden Years” and “Kitchen Clutter” Kits for The Sims 4 this May. In the meantime, if you have a significant other who is fond of gaming, be sure to spend this Valentine’s Day with them in the virtual worlds the two of you adore the most. Oh! And be sure to wish Lara Croft, a gamer’s favourite tomb raider a happy and empowering birthday on the same day! Dag dag, which is Simlish for “Goodbye!”!
And let us not forget about the realistic lighting effects that will be added to homes in The Sims FreePlay in March after we finally see a supposedly big surprise on the 25th of February. Just look at the comparison!
Too bad The Sims 2: IKEA Home Stuff is not included in The Sims 2: Legacy Collection possibly due to a licensing issue or a technical issue during the compiling. On a lighter note, I am delighted to celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Sims with my fellow simmers.
