The best mods for The Sims 4 on PC (2021) – Essentials!

From neighborhoods that modify the ones that the game brings to new ways of expressing the mood for the characters. We review the best mods that you can download for free for The Sims 4 on PC.

The Sims 4 is such a complete game and with so many possibilities that the base game is almost a platform on which a thousand stories can be built , through the different content and expansion packs that Maxis launches every year, but also with the content created (CC by the English expression “created content”) by other users outside the studio, whether it is CC of dresses, objects, hairstyles or mods that add functions to the game or modify an existing one.

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Maxis is aware of the important role played by the creativity of its players and allows mods in its computer version, whether it is Mac or PC ( mods cannot be installed on PS4 and Xbox One consoles ), although the study allows Of course, it neither recommends mods nor does it give specific support for any one in particular, and even indicates that they should be used “with caution and understanding that there may be risks.” Hence, Maxis has decided that after installing an update all mods are deactivated , which then must be reactivated following the instructions of Electronic Arts.As this is content external to the creators of the game, the sole responsibility for the installation and what happens afterwards rests with the player.

In the multiple communities that have material related to the game, you can find numerous mods , most of them free (all the ones that we have selected in this article are) although there are also those that are paid and in others their creator has a patreon and you offer the content first to your employers to release it for free after a while.

How to activate the mods option in The Sims 4

To use mods in the game, you first need to activate them within The Sims 4 . In the same home screen of the game, in the upper right, in Menu, which is in the ellipsis. There you have to choose “Game Options”

And then you have to choose “Other” and check the box “Enable custom content and mods ” and ” script mods allowed”

You have to be careful where the mod is downloaded from , that it is a reliable and community-supported page ( Simlish 4 , Maxis Match CC World or Around the Sims 4 have a lot of content) and read well the correct way to download it, as well as if any additional content to the base game is needed for the mod to work. It is also important to check that the version of the mod is compatible or is updatedwith the version we have of the game (which is usually the latest since Origin always asks to update it). To know which version is installed on your computer, you have to look before starting to play, on the home screen where all the expansion of the collection that we have installed appear. Something similar to this will appear at the bottom of that screen, and that is where you can check the version of The Sims 4 that we have installed on the computer:

After unzipping the mod with Winrar, Winzip or a similar program, take the generated file to Documents / electronicarts / The Sims 4 / mods.

If you plan to download several mods, it is advisable to arrange them in folders within that Mods folder so as not to get involved, but it is an option that does not come by default, so to do so you have to alter the content of the Resource.cfg file that is inside Mods in simple operation. After saving a backup copy of the file in another place on the computer, just in case, you just have to open that file with the notepad and add these two lines at the end:

PackedFile * / * / * / * / * / * / *. Package

PackedFile * / * / * / * / * / * / * / *. Package

So that the file looks like this:

Next, we save and exit and we can already place the mods in folders.

The best mods of The Sims 4

New neighborhood mods

• Asian Adventures World : User Nando has created some impressive variations on existing worlds from The Sims . Some are in early access through your Patreon, but others are already available, such as Asian Adventures . This mod turns the Forgotten Hollows neighborhood from The Sims 4 Vampires content pack into Sakura Hills, a Japanese neighborhood with streets full of cherry blossomsand where the dark night of the vampires gives way to brilliant illumination; it even changes the map view and the neighborhood icon. The player can fill the lots with the buildings they want and populate them with samurais and geishas according to the setting, although they must choose in the download if they want it as a residential neighborhood or as a tourist destination. It specifies the base game, the Let’s Meet? And the Vampires content pack .
• Romance in France : This mod, also created by Nando, turns the Magnolia Promenade neighborhood into a recreation of Paris , the capital of France. Thanks to this reconstruction we will be able to carry out a romantic evening in the city of light, even being able to move to one of its bohemian attics with views of the Eiffel Tower , which is also present in this neighborhood and is even illuminated at night with this Lovely touch that the royal monument has.
• Trip To Egypt World : Another of Nando’s popular mods is this one that turns the StangerVille neighborhood into a recreation of the city of Egypt . Be careful, we are not talking about the old empire, but about the current city: we will find both pyramids and modern buildings in which to stay if we choose it as a tourist destination or in which to live if we prefer it as a residential neighborhood. It includes spectacular Arabic-style hotel rooms and cozy, modern houses to settle in beyond the journey.
• Brookheights : This Arnie mod is one of the most ambitious user creations of The Sims 4. Its main functionality is to add a 360 x 360 open world inspired by New York where there is not a single screen of loading times. There is a story mode where players control Amos, who must discover where his missing parents ended up. Players can also bring their own sims, yes, they must pay the rent, find a job, get a visa to be able to have a job … Life in Brookheights is varied: from driving cars to going to the gym, visiting the open-air cinemaor go shopping at the mall, among other things. Of course, it is necessary to have at least the expansion packs Get to Work and Urbanitas .

Behavior and relationship mods

• WonderfulWhims : Many of you will know the WickedWhims mod , a pack that, in addition to making the relationships between sims more realistic, also eliminates the censorship of the nudity of the characters, expanding the models with a 100% realistic anatomy. This version of the mod brings all the characteristics of the original but without the explicit aspect , making it suitable for children under 18 years of age.
• Slice of Life : Created by KawaiiStacie with the aim of giving sims more realism and new possibilities for expression. It affects all aspects of the game, from the blush that appears on the cheeks of the sims when they get flirtatious to feeling insecure about their physical appearance, the phases of a drunkenness -experience included- or bad breath to different diseases, acne or the menstruation. It also expands the options that appear when you click on the sim’s smartphone so that you can buy online or use social media apps or instant messaging. You only need the base game.
• The Relationship Decay Mod : Tired of sims losing too much friendship with other characters when they haven’t spoken for a long time? This mod allows you to set a minimum friendship percentage so you don’t have to worry about losing your relationship with other sims.
• Social Life : Created by melunn, who believed that sims’ social interactions were too superficial, so he created a mod to be able to choose specific topics to talk about: religion, scary movies … With more than 20 interactions.
• Talented Kids : Created by Zulf Ferdiana, it allows children to perform activities that the game assigns only to adults, such as cooking, gardening, hand washing, yoga or meditation. Works with the base game.
• Sim Spawn Overhaul : Modify the generation of sims in multiple situations, such as those that pass in front of the lot in which we are playing or those that are in the premises or leisure areas. Created by Lotharihoe, who warns of possible incompatibilities with other mods .
• Meaningful Stories : Humans are complex beings; infinite variables affect our behavior and how we feel at all times. The Sims tries to represent this with an effective, but gridded and unreal, emotion system. If we are depressed we do not go to absolute happiness to see a painting that we like. This roBurky mod adds a more complex emotional system to our sims, with features like more steps between sadness and joy and more realistic effects on how the environment can affect the character’s state . All these emotions are explained in detail in the tutorials of the mod . In addition, they can be activated and deactivated to the taste of the player.
• Have Some Personality Please! : This mod from PolarBearSims does just what its name suggests: it adds more personality to the sims , both adults and children, as well as dogs and cats. Characters will have more autonomy, can learn attributes and careers with deep conversations and more interactions based on attributes, moods, conversations and relationships . In addition, it eliminates banal chatter and restricts romances until the maximum levels of relationships are reached.
• Gender Preference Set : This mod is simple, but very useful. Players can set the sexual preferences of each sim. Thus, you can choose whether you like men, women, neither or be bisexual. The choice is made by percentages , therefore you can indicate, for example, that you like men by 80% and women by 30% (when changing the percentage for one of the genders, the other percentage does not change, you can add more than 100).
• Better Babies & Toddlers : Interactions between adult sims and their babies and children aren’t too deep in The Sims 4, but this Caradriel mod comes in just to fix that. With it, adults can talk to each other about their experience as parents (to express fatigue or to exchange parenting advice, for example), systems such as the possibility of reading magazines on the subject are introduced to improve their parenting skills and even ask the child to say “mama” or “papa” as their first word.
• WooHoo Wellness and Pregnancy Overhaul : This mod from LumpinousMods is made up of a series of modules that make relationships more complex: pregnancy preferences are added, more reactions for couples, risks and protections , fertility operations, sexually transmitted diseases, tests parenting , teen pregnancy reactions, infidelity and many more options.
• LGBT Mod Pack : This mod from PimpMySims4 adds a ton of relationships, festivities and options that reflect sexual and gender diversity better than the Maxis game. Sims can be transgender, drag queen (or king), demisexual , asexual, non-binary, etc; There is even the possibility to choose that they are still questioning their gender or that they are LGBT rights activists . That adds new interactions, events (like drag shows, protests, fundraisers, closet outs), and festivities, like a Pride Day. The package, which is in Spanish, includes homophobia and transphobia files that can be removed without any problem.

Gameplay mods

• MC Command Center : Developed by Deaderpool and known as “The mod of mods “ , since it consists of multiple modules, for a large number of actions of the sims. One of the most popular modules is mc_woohoo, which allows you to choose a teenage pregnancy, that the elderly or couples of the same sex can have a baby, but there are other modules to control the professions, the physical appearance of the sims or the clothes that everyone uses the sims of the neighborhood. The different modules are accessed from a computer within the game.
• Pro Build Mod: This Arnie mod allows you to unlock certain additional functionality in Construction Mode . Among other things, it gives the possibility of making the ceilings higher, putting more elevators for each lot and modifying the inclination of the roof. It also incorporates new types of walls and ceilings. As it is a Patreon mod (although free) its creator will expand it as development progresses and among the things he plans to introduce in future updates are flat glass ceilings and functional spiral staircases.
• Multiplayer Mod : As its name suggests, this mod allows you to play The Sims 4 online games , although to install it and make it work you need to have basic notions of computer science and server management. In addition, it no longer has support from its creators, so it can be somewhat unstable. Still, it’s still the best way to play multiplayer games in The Sims 4 .
• Mortem : If the death of the sims is something that you find not very credible, try installing this mod that makes the characters die in the most realistic way possible . Not only does it include new animations for the act of dying, but also new dynamics of the wake of the corpse are added. It comes with a Spanish translation.
• Organic : From the creators of the previous mod comes this game modification that makes the sims’ hair grow naturally . No more putting a hairstyle on them and leaving them with a perfect style for their whole life: from now on we will have to worry about cutting their hair from time to time. This will also affect the color of the dye that we use. You can customize the growth speed and whether or not we want it to affect the NPCs as well.
• UI Cheats Extension : Created by Weerbesu. It simplifies the use of cheats in The Sims 4 so that you no longer have to write orders but are managed from the user interface. More than 15 tricks of all kinds, from money to a sim’s professional career, their reputation, age, the goals they achieve …
• SBank Bills : This mod that creates bills for all the supply services that exist in a house: electricity, water, garbage, cable, mobile phone and Internet), which must be contracted in advance . Failure to pay these services or not to hire them has consequences and can even lead to the death of the sim. The mod is free although it appears when you download a donation option to authors.

Graphics enhancement mods

• SweetFX : This mod allows to improve the graphics of the game with several modifications such as an improvement in antialiasing, compatibility with HDR or a small touch of bloom . In the original post of its creator you can see the comparative images of the game with and without mod, and if it convinces you you will also find the instructions to install it.
• Astral Lights : If you are bored with the classic lighting of The Sims 4 with this mod you can change it with up to four new types of lights . The sky will be illuminated in a much more spectacular way, being able to witness impressive sunsets up to even the northern lights in the middle of the city.
• No Glo + No Blu : If the previous mod altered the sky lighting, this one improves the overall lighting of the game . There are two, actually: the first changes the light parameters to prevent the sims from looking dark in the lot and some other annoying details, while the second eliminates that kind of blue filter that the original game has. With both installed we will perceive a strong improvement in the lighting of the characters, buildings and lots.
• EA Teeth Begone : If you are one of those people who hate the default teeth of the sims in The Sims 4 this is your ideal mod, since it allows you to change the teeth of the characters for a more realistic one ; although if you enter the author’s website you will see other published mods that allow you to modify the sims with supernatural accessories such as werewolf dentures or makeup of aliens and ghosts.
• Shiny floors : modder brujah236 has published a multitude of mods that are actually CC (Custom Content) because they do not modify the elements of the base game, but add new materials. But in particular there is one of them that allows you to have shiny floors , something that already existed in previous installments of the saga but has been lost over time. There are several types of shiny platforms made of different materials, such as polished wood or marble.

Pro racing mods

• Optometrist Career : It has ten levels, from an optician’s receptionist to an ophthalmologist , and it even works with theMC Command Center and UI Cheats Extension mods .
• Paranormal Investigator : Has ten levels, from Paranormal Investigator Intern to Paranormal Event Expert.
• K-Pop Singer : You can achieve aspiration or start a career, and it has four phases: auditions, intern, debut, and K-Pop star . It is in Spanish, and requires the expansions ¿Queremos? , Urbanitas and Go to fame! .

Contents Created

In the modder community of The Sims 4 , a separation is made between game modifications that use the original assets and those that introduce objects and elements created by the users themselves. The latter are known as Created Contents, or CC , for short.

Here we collect some of the most recommended to modify the appearance and behavior of our characters in The Sims 4 .

CC of moods and interactions

• Autonomous Proposals : Other Sims can propose marriage.
• Ask Baby’s Due Date Response : Response to the due date of a sim who is pregnant.
• Eat at tables : Sims sit at the table to eat, although if they watch television while eating they sit on chairs or armchairs.

CC looks, outfits and costumes

• AxA 2020 : Sims customization pack with more than 90 objects adapted to the current fashion style.
• Okruee clothing collection : Modern clothing set with current items such as corduroy culottes, wrap tops, denim overalls and more. It also includes new hairstyles.
• Star Wars Themed Tees : Collection of Star Wars T-shirts with a modern finish
• 90s Male Hairstyle : 90s style medium length hairstyles with the classic parting in the middle.
• CC Dump : Pack of afro and dreadlocks hairstyles. They are not compatible with hats.
• Period clothing : Costumes, accessories and hair from different eras of Humanity, from prehistory to the 20s of the last century.
• Scandalace Collection : Gala dresses Scandalace collection.
• Cry About It! Runny Mascara : Mascara smeared from crying.
• Apple shoes : Sneakers with the Apple logo.

CC of kitchen objects

• Urbane Kitchen : Set of objects to decorate a modern contemporary kitchen. Includes furniture and kitchenware.
• Fruit bowls : Fruit baskets with which you interact.
• Japanese food dishes : They require different skill levels in Cooking: 3 for Katsudon, 4 for Sakedon, 5 for Tendon and 4 for Gyudon. If the sim level is lower, the recipe will not appear.
• Breakfast Clutter : Large pack of breakfast objects with cereal boxes, tea and coffee cups, toast, butter …
• Tiny Kitchen : Set of kitchen appliances for a small space with a retro style.
• Kitchen Racks : Wall mounts for kitchen instruments, perfect for decorating tiles with cups, cutlery, mittens …
• Cookbooks : Books with grandmother’s recipes.