Anyone who owns the base game for The Sims 4 on Origin, the EA app or participating digital storefronts will be given the Desert Luxe kit as a gift between September 14th and October 17th, which you can check out the details for here. If you want to navigate all the extraneous Sims add-ons then you couldn’t go wrong by checking out our resident expert Rebecca’s guide to the best The Sims 4 expansion packs.ĮA and Maxis say they’ll continue to support The Sims 4 with “packs, kits and Sims Delivery Express drops into the foreseeable future”. I’ve got it on good authority that it’s perfectly playable, but there’s so many expansion pack shenanigans for The Sims 4 – ranging from werewolves to high school drama just this year alone – that you could end up down a very deep rabbithole indeed.

Is The Sims 4 still worth playing without expansions?īe aware, though, that this will just be the base game. More information on the future of The Sims will be coming on October 18th too, EA said, at an event dubbed the Behind The Sims Summit.

There had been rumours circulating online earlier today that an announcement was incoming from EA on this, and those were evidently legit. You’ll be able to grab it on Steam, Origin or the EA app. EA and developers Maxis have revealed today that The Sims 4 will be going free to play from October 18th.