Best Sims 4 Mods 2022

Need to liven up your Sims 4 mods? Here's some of our best picks for 2022.

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Looking for the best Sims 4 mods?

The Sims 4 is perhaps one of the most popular games of all time, those of us who’ve played have easily accrued countless hours of playtime and have likely spent more than our fair share on the never-ending expansion packs.

But the Sims 4 can get a little stale when you play it in its vanilla form, even with all the expansions, so it’s no surprise that the game has an active and prominent collection of creators helping expand the game, creating mods to change gameplay, add new traits, enhance the CAS, or simply help reinvigorate the general gameplay.

Seeing as the Sims 4 community is always active and engaging, there are always new mods to improve the game, so that’s what we’ll be looking at in this guide, the best mods to use in 2022.

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How to download mods in The Sims 4

First thing’s first, these are the steps you’ll need to follow to install mods or custom content in The Sims 4 on PC or Mac:

• Download the mod or CC.
• Open the zipped folder.
• Drag the unzipped files into your mods folder.
  • On PC, the mods folder should be in this location: Drive:Users[Your name]DocumentsElectronic ArtsThe Sims 4Mods
  • On Mac, the mods folder should be in this location: Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods
• Now that the files are in the folder, boot up your copy of The Sims 4.
• Go the Options menu, then select ‘Game Options’ and then ‘Other’.
• In the Other tab, check the box that says ‘enable custom content and mods’.
• Close the game, open it again, the mods will now be active.

More Careers

The base game has a number of careers available for selection for both adult and teen sims. But these jobs will always be the same, with little to no addition unless you get a new expansion pack that features on.

However, every other week new creators are creating new jobs that you can download and give your sims. Whether you want to become a tattoo artist , game developer, stock broker or zookeeper, there are always new and interesting careers being added to the community.

Best Sims 4 Mods – Wonderful Whims

WonderfulWhims is a mod that offers plenty of social, relationship, and pregnancy enhancements in forms of Attractiveness, Impressions, Personality Archetypes, Menstrual Cycle, Birth Control, and many more.

With this mod you can feel like your Sims’ relationships are far more meaningful and important. WondefulWhims adds a new form of depth with new custom interactions, custom mechanics, custom skills, custom traits, custom moodlets, custom objects, custom story progression and enhancements to existing gameplay.

Best Sims 4 Mods – Become a Sorcerer

Although the base game features spellcasters, the Sorcerer mods adds even more magic and options to create your magical sims.

Investigate a Suspicious Lump of Clay to get infused with magic, choose a ritual to specialize in, then use Specialization spells, focus on an alignment, and unlock more spells. Become a master of Specializations, along with mastery of the Black Arts or White Arts and specialize further with a ritual of your choice.

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More Game Personality

The More Game Personality mod aims to give the base game a little bit more personality, making things a bit more realistic. In particular, the creator emphasizes that this mod sees:

• Most of the romance is restricted till higher romance levels.
• Sims might learn traits and careers from Deep Conversation
• More alien interactions
• Cats & Dogs with Personality!
• More Autonomy
• No Idle Chat
• Restrictions on romance to help with cheating sims
• More autonomy for toddlers
• Interactions based on Traits, Moods, Conversations & Relationships
• Toddlers acting more like their traits
• Restrictions on woohoo and try for baby

Essentially, this mod hopes to make interactions and relationships feel more meaningful rather than bland and emotionless.

More Personality Traits

Much like careers, there is an abundance of sim traits you can choose from that’ll make the game all the more detailed and bring more character and personality to your individual sims. Whether you’re looking for something more gloomy or if you want some more life and pizazz, there’s something for everyone among the many traits you can download.

Best Sims 4 Mods – Meaningful Stories

Meaningful Stories is a mod that redesigns the mood and emotions system of The Sims 4. This collection of changes big and small aims to make you Sims feel more human, to make the events in their lives feel more meaningful, and to turn managing their lives into a more interesting challenge.

Your Sim might fall into a depressive rut for days that takes planning and effort and some help from their friends to overcome. Or your Sim’s creative nature might be filling them with inspiration when they ought to be focused instead, so you send them to work on their novel to get the ideas out of their head. But then something special happens, like a new friend, a promotion, or a first kiss, and they feel truly happy for once, in a way they never have before.

LGBT Inclusion

There’s quite a lot of mods to enhance each player’s game. But one of the most detailed and dense mods for even more LGBTQ+ inclusion is PimpMySims4’s LGBT Mod. The mod adds a plethora of LGBTQ+ traits and features which can provide new interactions and buffs. All in all, these help create a new experience for both players and Sims alike.