Playing Sims 4 is all about creativity and freedom. You can play as a teen, young adult, or elder and develop any storyline that piques your interest or showcases your personality. Whether you prefer dramatic tales, romantic love stories, or whimsical adventures, the possibilities are endless.
If you’re having a hard time deciding what storyline to play, we’ve compiled the best gameplay ideas for an immersive and fun gaming experience. You can choose one story from this list or combine multiple to make gameplay more challenging. Here are the best Sims 4 storyline ideas you’ll never get bored with.
The Single Mom
Wonder what it feels like to be a single mum? Sims 4 allows you to create a female Sim who falls pregnant during a one-night stand and has to raise the kid by themselves. Ensure the female Sim has no romantic partner or connection and loves to party.
This way, they can woohoo with other sims and possibly get pregnant. Your Sim can then either settle down and decide to focus on raising the baby or continue partying and neglect them entirely. It’s really up to you to decide your fate. Your Sim can go on further and have two or three kids as a single parent to make the story more challenging.
Less is More
If you’ve ever tried living a minimalistic lifestyle, you know how hard it is. Now, try this with your partner and a few children in Sims 4. Start with two sims who move into a small lot and own a few items. Ensure they value family more than possessions and materialistic things.
After settling in, the two Sims will have kids but continue to live off the bare minimum. Any extra money they make will be donated to other Sims or given to their neighbors.
The GlowUp
You can do a makeover in the Sims 4 world with the GlowUp challenge. Start off with a teen or young adult Sim with an unconventional appearance. They can be unfit, unattractive, and have low self-esteem. After they graduate high school or college, transform the Sim to become more stylish and fit.
You can do this by improving their fitness skills, making them popular, or changing their styles using custom CCs for hair, makeup, and clothing. We recommend using this idea with a university or high school expansion pack.
Forbidden Love
For more dramatic gameplay, craft a forbidden love story with two sims. They can be Sims from different social classes, cultures, or families, but they strive to stay together and start a family against all odds.
When developing this storyline, create detailed backgrounds for both characters, ensuring they’re as different as possible. Introduce obstacles to the story, like disapproving family members, such as the father and mother. The more obstacles you face, the deeper you fall in love. Or, you may not overcome the odds and end up breaking up! The character development is really up to you.
Raising a Star
Create a Sim with big dreams and follow their story as they try to become a star or celebrity. Your Sim can aspire to be a famous athlete, singer, musician, or writer. It’s important to start with a young sim, especially a toddler with no connections or handouts.
Age them up as they explore their passion and highlight the challenges and triumphs they face. Include personal struggles and drama in their celebrity life, such as balancing a romantic relationship with fame or fending for their parents.
Runaway Teen
We all know there’s no perfect family in the real world, and some members can be rebellious. Here’s where the Runaway Teen idea comes into play. Create a teen Sim who runs away from home and starts living alone in the streets. Have them dig through trash for food or work odd jobs to earn money.
Be sure to create a compelling reason for the teen to run away so it makes sense. Highlight the struggles they face to find shelter, food, and clothing. You can plan a potential reconnection with the family or not.
Environmental Activist
Create a Sim who is passionate about the environment and leads an eco-lifestyle. They should participate in eco-friendly careers like botany and start grassroots movements and protests aimed at making the world a better place.
You can use various expansion packs to make the gameplay more immersive. A great choice is the Eco Lifestyle pack, where your Sim lives in an eco-friendly community that recycles and uses solar energy.
The Black Widow
If you want a darker storyline, you should consider completing the black widow challenge. This requires your Sim to marry and end the life of at least 10 partners before inheriting their wealth. The main character can be a husband or wife, and you can marry any gender.
After the marriage, move into the household of the other Sim and cheat on them in the house. Once you cheat on your husband or wife, you can proceed to end their life and inherit their wealth.
One thing to remember is that your black widow sim cannot have a career or part-time job. All the money they earn should be from your deceased husband or wife.
The Homeless Sim
Take things up a notch with the homeless Sim storyline. Here, your Sim won’t have a house or an empty lot to call home. They will live on the street or in a tent and struggle to find food and clothing.
Start by creating a Sim and use the money cheats to set your household funds to zero. This way, you have no means to purchase a house or food. You can crash at a friend’s place, but not for long, and you must eat from the trash or cook in the park.
Alternatively, you can turn this story into the Rags to Riches challenge. Note that this challenge has numerous rules and guidelines you must follow to succeed. The goal of the challenge is to make your Sim rich, starting with zero funds.
The Influencer
You can become famous in the Sims 4 world with the influencer storyline. Simply create a Young Adult with a social media career and begin the journey to fame. A good expansion pack for this story is Get Famous. It has everything you need to become a celebrity or influencer and gain a following on social media.
To make the gameplay fun, have mean2 interactions with your fans and build a bad reputation on social media. Or, you can play nice and create a likable personality.
The Baby Daddy
Everyone is familiar with the 100 Baby Challenge, where a female Sim becomes a matriarch and gives birth to babies from different donors. Now, you can play as the donor! Create a male Sim who likes to party and WooHoo with multiple women, impregnating them.
Attempt to contribute to your children’s upbringing by visiting their moms’ households and being active in their lives. The goal is to play a bachelor who attempts to become a family man and possibly a loving husband.
They can decide to choose a baby momma as the main wife or continue visiting the multiple families to raise their children.
Family Farm
If you prefer a more chill and relaxing life, you can start a farming household in the countryside. The Cottage Living expansion pack is a great choice for this. It allows you to farm animals, plant and harvest crops, milk cows, and breed chickens.