Each extension for SIMS, evaluated

The Sims is a 2000 PC game that has all started for this massively beloved series and celebrated its 25th birthday by released The Sims Legacy Edition to return the original title back to modern computers. When you arrive with every expansion package released for the game, it's a real treasure!

But with so many different things you could play with first, where is the best place to start? Which expansion package has added the most new content to SIMS? Bonus points go to any package, whose added content has been in the game for so long to its life!

Updated 8 February 2025: We are back with the release of The Legacy Edition for the original SIMS to eliminate our rating of the best expansion for the original game. We have links to new content we have published to help you get the most out of each package, as well as many other information and photos at each expansion.

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Unleashed

A hairy friend of your dreams

The fifth expansion released, Unleashed was the first time in a series that we had to play with pets. Cats, dogs, birds, fish, turtles and iguanas debuted in this package, and although it was not possible each An animal, Maxis left us control of cats and dogs. The pets took the place of a family member within the eight-SIM in the game, but the compromise was that you could control them just like the real SIMS.

This package not only brought animals (and all their specialized care and maintaining objects), but also introduced gardening. In addition, the package has expanded the standard neighborhood of ten games to 40 to get our families to choose places where they settled with their new fluffy friends.

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Party

Tear it with your friends

The House Party was the second expansion of the game and delivered exactly what the name promises – all goods, services and accessories that could need to throw a ragera. Are you trying to feed all your friends? Take a look at the diet and drink of the fountain, or even hire a chef if you just want to focus on fun. Are you trying to get your guests on your feet? Hold the DJ cabin in front of a clearly lit rainbow dance floor. Don't you feel like hosting? Instead, go to any of several new bars and clubs.

This package was mainly about how we left our hair down, and we were supposed to do it great. Except that someone remembers, Drew Carey has just appeared from the blue in your Sims house when they threw a really good party, while Mime would turn out if it was sucked? Because it definitely feels like a fever for us…

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Magic

Charmed, I'm sure

Although it was the last expansion for the original Sims, Makin 'Magic certainly cannot be overlooked, because it was our first real time to play with a supernatural, a trend that continued every main game of the series. Jump into the portal to the magical city and prepare to turn your world upside down.

This package started by visiting your home land from a mysterious man who would provide all the things you needed to start on your magic journey. Going to a specialized magical world would allow you to meet other magic users, buy ingredients for witchcraft exercises and even name the dragon as a friend.

Learning magic and spells would allow your wizard to do things like being in love with other Sims, turning home pets on a person if you also had unleashed packages, or even clone and send one to work for you when You will stay when you stay home. And if the occasional taste of magic is not enough, your Sims could also move to the Magic Town residential land to be closer to the action.

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Superstar

Hey, look, ma, i did it

Lights, camera, action! Prepare for your SIM to run fame to the studio city on their way to become a celebrity of Bonafide. And not only that, but also a career based on the fame that the game had, was also active, so it was the first time we could actually watch our SIMs to work and control them at work.

But you had to have almost perfect skills in charism, creativity and body to work successfully on a celebrity career and be a bit difficult to maintain them as soon as it was reached. But with the network of famous friends (representing a handful of real celebrities – all from Avril Lavigne to Andy Warhol) and a little luck on your side, SuperStar was the first real shot of your Simus and lived luxury.

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Holiday

Take a break from everything

Do you feel burned from the stress of the everyday life of SIM (because the first game Sims was infamously chaotic)? Do you need a moment from all this? Call your holiday and head to Vacation Island, where you choose from three different travel packages that offer fun for the whole family. The package represented a number of trips: the beach that offered to swim and the construction of Sandcastle, a camp for fishing and archery, or a mountain on a snow mountain for winter activities such as snowboarding and ice images.

Each place went through a thematic mascot to boot. Decided to go to any of these land that booked your space until 11:00 pm the next morning (with the possibility of just left and be recharged if you would like to stay longer), for the first time in the series could actively spend your Sims actively spend the night away from home .

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Hot date

Verify your love life

The burning of desire and branching was two topics of the expansion of the hot date and Maxis both captured them really well. For the first time in the series, your Sims managed to leave their home to go to the center and experience the breadth of new public places such as shops, recreation centers, restaurants and clubs. You could go for a special night with your important other, if they are already talking or hit the city as the only one ready for mixing and seeing who you might come across.

Fortunately, the game was more difficult to control at that time, fortunately, time stiffened in the domestic world when your Sims went to the center. Their needs would still disintegrate as normal and need to tend to be in the city center, but time will stop, which means you somehow arrive home exactly when you left. With Livin 'Large and House Party considered simple (but welcome) accessories to the basic game, hot date, although the third expansion package is considered the first to actually have enlarged Game.

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Large

Double the content, double the fun

The first was something other than the worst when Sims's expansion occurred, because Livin 'Large released only the shy seven months after the basic game and added the real wealth of new things. And even though it did not have a topic like other packages, it still has a strong place in our hearts for virtually double the size of the game.

Bored from the career of the basic game? Become a journalist, a paranormal investigator, hacker or musician. In your free time, cook the potions at the scientific table when obtaining logic, look at the sky with a telescope, or even have a genie in the lamp. Servo robot can take over the work of servants, corner and gardeners, while the tragic clown would tend to the emotional needs of your Sims if they felt down.

Barter for Sims' lives when he ends up with Grim Reaper, who could only turn dearly left into a controlable zombie SIM. And at the end of the day you could relax your head on the pillows of the infamous and very discovered vibrating heart beds. This package gave us much more than anyone negotiated, and we loved it for doing it.