This Sims 4 world can be pretty boring and monotonous. Luckily, introducing fun and complex challenges like Black Widow can make the game more exciting and thrilling. So, instead of living a traditional life where you go to school, start a career, get married, and have kids, you can explore your dark side.
The Sims 4 Black Widow Challenge is a sinister mission where your Sim dates multiple Sims, marries them, and kills them to steal their Simoleons. Many people regard the widow challenge as one of the most difficult to accomplish in the game. We’ve created this detailed guide to help you succeed and kill as many spouses as you want.
What is the Black Widow Challenge?
The Black Widow Challenge tasks your Sim with seducing, marrying, and killing spouses to inherit their Simoleons. The challenge requires you to balance your gameplay between killing your husbands/wives and developing your skills.
The challenge objectives are to marry 10 times and kill all 10 spouses, with different difficulty levels offering varying levels of challenge. You must also get caught cheating before killing your current partner.
While the black widow challenge seems pretty straightforward, there are many rules and objectives you have to accomplish to succeed.
NOTE: You can play the challenge as any gender you choose and marry a spouse from any gender.
Black Widow Challenge Rules and Guidelines
Before getting started with the challenge, familiarise yourself with these rules and guidelines:
You must set your life-span to normal
You must stop aging in all households except yours.
You cannot use any cheats or mods. No money cheats allowed as well.
You can use the resetSim cheat if your Sim gets “stuck” somewhere around town or in an interaction.
Your Sim must possess traits like Romantic, Snob, and Materialistic. These personality traits make it easier to seduce rich spouses and engage in romantic interactions.
You can have as many love interests as you wish simultaneously.
You don’t have to have kids, but there are extra points for doing so.
As a black widow, you can’t get a job. All money you earn must be from your dead spouse. However, there’s an exception. You can earn money by selling collectables you find, but only before you get married.
You must only marry single spouses. If you want to marry a married man, you must delete all household members except him. If you get married to a married man, you won’t be able to transfer their Simoleons once they die.
When it’s time to kill, don’t leave the lot until the task is complete. If you confine them to a room to starve them to death, they can escape.
You cannot repair items. You must replace all broken items.
You must max out the Cooking and Charisma skill
How to Complete the Black Widow Challenge
Start by creating a new game with a Young Adult Sim, who will be your Black Widow. Remember, the black widow Sim can be any gender. In the CAS section, choose your personality traits, preferably Romantic, Snob, and Materialistic and set the Serial romantic aspiration.
Next, set the lifespan for Sims to normal and turn off aging for all Sims but your own. Choose a Sim world to live in and move into a starter home to start the challenge.
Since your aging is turned on, it’s wise to start dating and find a romantic interest immediately. Ensure they’re rich spouses, as you’ll need to steal their Simoleons to survive. Once you find a potential candidate, seduce them until they agree to enter a romantic relationship.
This will be your first spouse, and it’s your duty to propose and marry them in a huge extravagant wedding. After the marriage, your Sim can move into their husband’s house or stay in their Black Widow lot.
You must show your first husband that you’re the perfect wife. To do this, host a dinner party and achieve a silver rating. It’s wise to level up your cooking and charisma skills early on as they play a crucial role in achieving a silver dinner party. You’ll earn 400 satisfaction points for every party you throw and get a silver metal.
During your marriage, you must find a single sim of your own choice to get romantically involved with. Ensure you get caught cheating with the new guy so your husband has a reason to kill them. You can invite them over to your husband’s house and romance them to guarantee your husband walks in on you.
After the cheating, it’s time to kill your husband. The easiest way is to build a room in the house and lock them in. They will starve to death and die, leaving you a distraught but rich black widow. Use the build mode to place a graveyard on your lot and bury the body there. You can label each grave as “Killed by the Black Widow.”
If your Sim spouse dies naturally, you lose 300 satisfaction points. So, never let this happen. Always kill them and find creative ways like electrocution and drowning to take them out.
After the burial, it’s time to start killing again. Find a new romantic interest and repeat the steps above. The challenge will successfully end if you marry and kill 10 spouses before your Black Widow Sim dies.
Black Widow Challenge Difficulty Levels
Note that the black widow sim challenge has various difficult levels, including Novice, Normal, Specialist, or Legendary. Each of these levels has various challenge objectives your Sim must complete.
Normal Difficulty Level: Your Black Widow dies and you max out the charisma skill and cooking skill.
Novice Difficulty level: Complete the challenge and max out either the Cooking skill or Charisma skill. Both aren’t required.
Specialist Difficulty level: Finish the challenge and get the Serial Romantic aspiration before your black widow Sim becomes an elder. You have 70 Sim days to do this.
Legendary Difficulty Level: Complete the challenge and Serial Romantic aspiration by the time your black widow is an adult.
Completing legendary difficulty level can be quite hard since your Sim only has 28 sim days before it dies. It’s nearly impossible to marry and kill 10 spouses as a Young Adult, all while pursuing multiple romantic relationships in this short amount of time. However, it’s designed this way to make the challenge more intriguing and fun.
Tips and Strategies for Success
Here are some helpful tips and strategies that can help you succeed:
Build up your Black Widow’s Cooking and Charisma skills during their lifetime.
Romance as many Sims as possible to help complete the Serial Romantic Aspiration.
Complete the challenge on Legendary difficulty level for the most rewarding experience. Completing this level means your Sim can live out the rest of their retirement without having to seduce another Sim.
Achieve a silver rating on any dinner party you throw to be a perfect wife
Seduce wealthy spouses so you can earn simoleons.
Use creative ways to get the reaper to take your spouse’s life, such as drowning or electrocution.
Try to end every affair in death.
Black Widow Challenge Mods
You’re not allowed to use any mods, including money cheats, to complete the black widow challenge. This ensures the game is difficult for your Sim, even on the novice and normal levels.
Some players have reported using the violence mod to complete the challenge objectives. However, this will not successfully end the challenge, and you will not receive any satisfaction points. So be aware of this if you’re considering it.
Conclusion
The Black Widow Challenge is a fun and exciting way to play the Sims 4. With the right strategies and skills, you can complete the challenge and earn a sense of accomplishment. Remember to follow the Black Widow Challenge rules and use common sense to guide your gameplay.