The Sims and The Sims 2 are getting digital PC variations with all their unique growth packs included, and ought to be launched by the tip of the week, say Kotaku. The report follows teases made by the official Sims account on X as a part of a twenty fifth anniversary celebrations roadmap, in addition to just a few different scattered hints in numerous bits of promo as collated by Redditor skyline7284. “Based on a supply acquainted with the plans, each video games might be launched digitally on PC later this week,” write Kotaku.
The primary two Sims video games launched in 2000 and 2004 respectively, however neither home simulation game has been straightforward to play on PC for years. Rebecca Jones (RPS in peace) needed to install The Sims on a Windows Vista machine from 2008 to revisit it in 2023, and the Sims 2 has lengthy been offline, with the final digital copies faraway from sale in 2014 across the time that The Sims 3 launched.
The following Sims factor, Project Rene, continues to be in growth, though EA have stated that it won’t be Sims 5, technically. “The Sims will transfer past linear, sequential Sims releases and provide extra choices for gamers than ever earlier than,” they blogged last September. “We’re centered on creating quite a lot of video games and experiences that may contact completely different classes throughout the simulated life style together with cozy video games, social and collaborative primarily based gameplay, cellular narrative video games and continued depth, enhancements, and modernization of The Sims 4, which can proceed to be a foundational Sims expertise.”
Paradox cancelled their very own Sims competitor Life By You final 12 months, and laid off workers following what one developer referred to as “a month in purgatory”. They’ve since stated they’d wish to take one other crack at a similar game.
