Bored With The Sims 4? Here are 15 Storylines to Try in Your Game To Spice Things Up

Every few months The Sims 4 starts feeling stale and the ideas stop flowing, hopefully these 15 storylines for The Sims 4 will help inspire you a bit and help you stop being bored with the game!
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[@Draeyad]

Sometimes I like doing a wheel of fortune that picks my sims dress style, aspiration, traits and starting funds. Also I’m here for enemies to lovers trope.

[@taylorsaurus]

That’s fun!!! Enemies to lovers is the best

[@a.l4242]

wat kind of wheel do u do. do u make one or is there a website or something that u use

[@drjawesome8278]

@@a.l4242 There's an existing feature that lets you randomize your sim's traits and clothes, but I'm pretty sure you can't do that with aspirations.

[@emmaarreman1575]

Some times I do that tho, I’ll make a week with different styles I’ll spin then I dress them up in that style when they done I’ll spin again the holl time 😂😅

[@a.l4242]

@@emmaarreman1575 thank u!!!

[@Avinele]

10:30 i actually had an evil spellcaster Sim who had a roommate she kept on killing and resurrecting over and over just so she can woohoo with the grim reaper 💀

[@baret8349]

😅😅

[@a.l4242]

OMG OMG🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭🤣I cant🤣

[@RosesTeaAndASD]

I can't stop laughing😂

[@Zandalorscat]

Oh, that's such a smart way of solving it without murdering a bunch of people! 😄

[@mxhappypill]

Lmfao this is the type of my gameplays 😂

[@lexisbadatstreams2129]

I used to play this household called "House Sanctuary" which was basically meant to be like, a government thing for teens from troubles backgrounds. It had eight teen sims, each with a negative trait (yknow, trauma) and theyd go to school and also juggle a part time career to pay for the relatively big house (the part time job was like part of their "rehabilitation, it was a lot of make believe) but it was fun and challenging.

[@x_x4269]

ooo that's actually a good idea

[@anicraft001]

I’m gonna try it cool!

[@porkfriedrice1530]

May I ask, did you father all the kids to get that many, or can you foster them all? I'm actually in school for healthcare/rehab and I'm fascinated with this idea. I just got sims 4 for the first time last night.

[@lexisbadatstreams2129]

@@porkfriedrice1530 i just made them in CAS

[@cassninetyfour1238]

@@porkfriedrice1530 i always make all my sims in create a sim (when you first start a family thats where it takes you and people call it CAS I didnt know that until this year and ive been playing since i was 10 😂) i turn off aging because i want to play each life stage longer. I find "legacy" creating a sim and starting a family from the ground up is too quick and i dont want my sims to die 😂 oh and i turned off temperature affecting my sims. Very first day after hours of work one of my sims passed from jogging in the summer 😭

[@christinesiebert8252]

So, I recently wanted to do something different, as I normally play legacy family style, so I made a male YA sim and made him try for a baby with any female sim that he could find in his neighbourhood (decided he wasn't allowed to leave home lot). Once a female sim had a child, he could call them and try again as long as there was room in the female sim's household! With aging set on normal, by the time he died of old age, he had 331 kids! Played as one of his kids for a few more days to allow for any pregnancies to come to fruition, and his total number was 345! It broke the family tree!

[@gramma5519]

Way to go 👏

[@christinesiebert8252]

@@gramma5519 Haha, thanks! 😆

[@Springerror]

I need to do this immediately

[@christinesiebert8252]

@@Springerror Good luck! It was a lot of fun, but also a lot more work than I thought. Since my plan was just to have as many kids as possible, I was constantly keeping track of when the female sims had their babies, so I could invite them over and try to get them pregnant again!

[@jiminnamonroll1014]

What’s legacy family style?? Sounds interesting

[@cortalina8617]

I had a sim fall in love with the grim reaper. But I didn't want her to kill Sims. She had the good trait. So I built a retirement home and had her live there as the carer. So whenever an elder died grim would come. It was almost like they were coworkers.

[@fandomfanatic2001]

wait why is that kinda wholesome

[@dustyspidey3599]

Awww

[@commanderjae9888]

Currently playing a game where my Sim found a baby on her doorstep. She lives in a very, very tiny house with a dog so she decorated the hallway to look like a nursery and she's determined to raise this child (she has a feeling that the kid *might* be her runaway sister's son but she's not sure)

[@catherinehahn6500]

Borrowing this for today's gameplay!

[@geministar2198]

Wow cool story line!

[@imamessbutitsfine2377]

How did you do that? Where did the baby come from?

[@LooeyGooeytheArtist]

I love that storyline! How’d you do it though did you just add a random baby to the household?

[@natncat]

recent storylines ive played that im obsessed with: - ugly duckling to hottie - developing an evil origin backstory starting from a toddler - tragic backstory = jaded and angry, but through the power of friendship, becomes good! (using this for country living and loooooving it)

[@-aaa-9261]

Could you tell me how you play each one? They all sound so fun!!

[@natncat]

@@-aaa-9261 1. ugly duckling: I start by making a cute sim in CAS at first, but then changing a few details here and there to make them "less desireable" (???) I also give them 1-2 "bad" traits and kick off the world. I slowly do things to combat the bad physical and character traits. If my sim has acne, they have to eat right, exercise, hydrate, and now with Spa Day, do face masks to get rid of it. If my sim has the jealous trait, they have to ruin a few relationships due to jealousy, only to enter into more casual romantic relationships that make them see the error in their ways (I use the retraiting potion to swap traits for the added challenge, but you can do it in CAS when you feel like it's time). I basically make a sim with the intent that they will change over time and set goals/make up storylines to have those things change. the sim i did this with is one of my most memorable households honestly. 2. Evil Origin Story: starting off in the toddler stage means I also need to establish a backstory for their parents, who for various reasons aren't really the best parents. This is good because it sows the seeds of conflict early. And then it's basically just an exploration into all the "bad" stuff you can do in the sims, like making messes as toddlers, cheating in college, etc. I had the parent in mine be a cop to further add to the drama as my then teenager broke curfew (parenthood) and stuff. 3. Tragic Backstory + Jaded: this is the storyline I'm playing right now. I started off with the sim having a few bad/conflicting traits (mean but outgoing) and gave them a tragic backstory in that their parent died while they were fighting, moved in with grandparents who they didn't like until grandparent dies too. Now they're all alone and they have a lot of hurt, but they don't really have any healthy outlets for their feelings. They have a cousin in henford, so they go there and being from the city, they hate it. I have them fight and get into arguments with all of the townies, be part of a club that meets at the bar that likes pranks, mischief, fighting, etc. get into fights with the cousin so they have to sleep in the barn. but they have a few redeeming qualities; because they're a loner, they prefer doing the gardening and animal chores because they're solitary work. because they're outgoing, they crave friendship, but they're just not all that good at being friendly. Slowly but surely, some of the townsfolk wear her down. I started first with Agnes because I thought it would be funny, but then it spread to the Creature Keeper, Grocery Deliverer, Simon Scott, etc. Basically, anyone whose own backstory shared similar qualities to my sim's. (sorry for how long this comment is, hope it helps!) a few pieces of advice: - come up with storylines on paper first. Then try to translate it into the sims. You'll get more realistic stuff that way. - give backstory, motivations, justifications. the sims just creates these people out of thin air and plops them into a world with no skills, no job, nothing. work this into your story. why is your sim all by themselves? were they just craving a change? did they just break off an engagement and looking for something new? did they just drop out of college? what were they studying? did the whole family move here to escape something? or for new opportunities? - create a few characters from their old life; parents, best friends, rival family, childhood bully, etc. the trick here is to not overdo it though. - use mods to cheat skills, jobs, promotions, relationships, etc. whatever you need to flesh out your background characters, etc. I was really into creative writing when i was younger, so i do this stuff reflexively as a way to work those creative muscles that i developed when i was younger but that my real life doesn't really demand anymore. if you want more inspo or context, id recommend looking into those kinds of resources.

[@blackxkatt2008]

@@natncat This is a year later, but I wanted to let you know how much I admire this- as someone with ADHD, I get bored so fast with the sims and end up leaving for months only to come back to it a day later and get bored again. I'll try to write some things down and make a story. again, thank you so much, kind stranger!

[@natncat]

@@blackxkatt2008 happy to help! recently ive been using ChatGPT to help me come up with storylines and little challenges to try. It's been really fun--highly recommend!

[@blackxkatt2008]

@@natncat ill check it out! thank you for the suggestion! :D

[@eme8793]

For the runaway teen thing, what I did that was really fun was move into an apartment, get rid of everything but the counters and basic items that would come with an apartment. Then give them like 100 bucks and have them work for household items without having to worry about showers or toilets but still having challenges

[@janiceblaring3062]

I need extra explanation lol, sounds interesting!! Lol

[@rubyy7013]

i had one of my sims marry a "prince" and they had a royal daughter, belle, belle was rebellious and didnt want to follow the rules so when she came of age she took 50k from the 9M funds and went to windenburg, hiding her parents from her daughter ameila, once they passed and belle became old, ameila growing to a young adult. Amelia found out and inherited the funds, she left, with a good realtionship with her mother and plans to have a family of 8 living under 1 roof

[@sabrinaloizides-merideth9874]

I created a challenge based on one of my favorite classic films, "Sunset Blvd." It basically entails taking a Sim who is an adult who was once a famous actress, but is now older, and very few people remember her and trying to get her to the top of the fame ladder by the time she dies. It's difficult because you start in the adult life stage. There are some bonuses, though. You start as a one-star celebrity and you have some acting and charisma to start out with but you can only make money through the career and through tips (if you have your sim play an instrument on the side). If they get married, the spouse cannot work. It was so hard but so rewarding. I wrote rules and everything.

[@notwithoutpizza4702]

Would love to play this! What packs are necessary and could you possibly share the rules?

[@melissadelva5383]

Are there more rules

[@wh0s.gabby17]

Are there any other rules

[@xangelikax1259]

I honestly really love the single mom/dad/parent vibe, or the older sibling raising their younger sibling. I even experimented with an aunt raising her sisters daughter with the new interior decorator career. Having them struggle raising a child alone is weirdly fun🤣

[@katiebugg311]

I am currently playing an older sister raising her younger one and now she's helping raise her neice and nephew. Lol

[@CeaseEcho]

I had a paranoid genius guy in the get-to-work science career. Aside from him being a stereotypical mad scientist at the top of his field, my other goal was to get him preggers. It took one potion of youth and thirty-two abductions before he got his bundle of joy. The next goal is to find the child's mother.

[@doinkadoink6311]

I had two male married sims that I purposely wanted to not have kids. One got abducted ONCE and got pregnant, the other got abducted 2-3 times (all without me doing anything, by the way) and they got pregnant too. I was so mad lmao

[@Hello_Honey_Sweetie]

OMG!

[@Scatterbrained_Watching]

I played with a father and his kid. The mother and kid had died in a fire, but the kid came back as a ghost. The father decided to move to Glimmerbroke become a spell-caster to try and revive his kid. So he’s gotta level up in the spell caster system while also taking care of his kid and getting them enough money to afford everything. The child wants to get friends and live as a normal kid as much as they can, but it’s pretty hard since they’d transparent and spooky. I had a lot of fun with it, and maybe some of you guys will too!

[@gramma5519]

I'm a senior simmer as in over 60 and pretty new to the game. I have played 2 of the scenarios from your list. Black widow and multiple children but I have to try all around the world not just in my town. The most I've had is 22 children. Everyone thinks I'm crazy for playing this way but I love it. Oh yeah and my Black widow only marries elder sims. Easer to kill off.

[@RosesTeaAndASD]

Good for you and welcome to the fam - I'm new too.🙂❤

[@sonyaailynn9095]

i love the idea of being a senior simmer.

[@uncommonusername]

I think ive had over like 50 kids before in the sims

[@-LydiaXedits]

Mine is def 'meet them, kiss them, propose, elope immediately'

[@OrlandoBrony]

Something I've been doing is a childhood friends to lovers trope. Basically I'm making two Sims become best friends at childhood, and then when they age up into teens or young adults, that's when they start flirting. It's a nice way to slowly develop a Sims 4 couple.

[@WhatevsRiles]

For the first idea: SEVEN kids is a lot! I played as a single young adult dad with triplets, no cheats, having to build a house on a budget and it was a very fun challenge!

[@natoniahall9426]

I did the same but with a single mom with sextuplets!

[@ev_r]

Thank you Taylor! I've been quite bored with the sims recently so this is perfect!

[@taylorsaurus]

Awesome!!

[@jadamaexd5007]

I actually did the first one, i had a sim who had 7 toddlers, she raised them all and they all got level 3+ in their toddler skills, A’s in elementary, A’s in high school and A’s in university and each completed an aspiration while maintaining a social life. Was so stressful but fun.

[@UnboxingForYou]

i'm not bored with the sims 4, i'm just bored because the sims team haven't fix the simulation lag and the slow loading screen issue for ps4 yet but these suggestion u made in the video are really good to do in the sims.

[@HughsBabe]

Ikr!Like im an xbox player and this lag is ridiculous

[@lainamarshall]

I agree!! This is totally unrelated but to make the screenplay more like a computer you can plug in a keyboard and mouse!! It works so well!!

[@an_avidpanda_lover8349]

Ikr, the lag is AWFUL. Why do I have to sit there staring at my screen for 4-5 minutes just to go to the Romance Festival?

[@izakomandaz2895]

I found when the simulation is lagging after leaving/entering build mode etc just open the main menu and exit again it stops lagging.

[@EllieValentineWong]

I’m currently doing one where I make generations and generations of sims starting from the Victorian era

[@fatheremma]

wtf I LOVE THAT THANK YOU SM !!!!!

[@carlahenderson8954]

thats so cool

[@chriscalvert5887]

Doing this now. The decades challenge. I started in 1890 and now I'm in the 1950s

[@oceanasheppard8378]

@@chriscalvert5887 how do you do this??

[@chriscalvert5887]

@@oceanasheppard8378 look up The Sims4 Decades Challenge

[@melanie_luv2_sew]

I can see why this type of video is your most popular. You have a very story-creative mind. Going into my Sims 4 premium vidz folder. THX Taylosaurus

[@taylorsaurus]

❤️❤️🥺❤️

[@kymellin]

Always fun to play a story line in the Sims! When I'm bored, I find a build challenge then create a family to test the build. One family I've been testing so long with, the kids are growing up to move into other builds to start new stories.

[@LookingForFrogs]

I really liked that one time i challenged myself to play as a single mom to 2 toddlers and my goal was to make her get to the top of politics career and parenting skill while maxing out all the kids skills and get one of them through scout club ranks and another through theather club, i believe. I think to do something similar one day again.

[@freyjathehealer5559]

I’ve been wanting to try divorced Sims where you have the kids split from household and move into a different household having them switch houses every week until they go to university (or just until they move out)

[@kirasmith7738]

I like the decades legacy challenge you start in the 1890 or you can start earlier and make up your own rules for the decade. As the challenge progresses through the different decades it feels like time is progressing and its pretty fun

[@marinabrandao1998]

My current saving started with 5 families of 5 couples of sims with kids in 5 different houses and ended up as 15 differents families all mixed up together as a one gigant family with 68 sims that are relatives with each other. They all have grandparents, grand aunts, uncles who are married to their mother's best friend, who is their half sister's cousins and all that sort of small city thing. I'm obsessed with it and my gameplay is based on making this one big family the most complex way that I can, while I get to decorate their houses the most especific way that I can too. They all have their small groups of favourite cousins or relatives who they meet to gossip about the other relatives. Of course there are the ones they hate, and sometimes they fight and Christmas dinner is so tense yall.

[@vanessadalpiaz6423]

One fun thing to play is a foster family where you have to find a forever home for the kids. You can gave requirements like they need an A in school or something like that and find a family where one of the parents has the same trait as them

[@smilealwaysnatasha3423]

I use the foster family mod

[@nedrane297]

You want to try something different? I go "sim shopping" in the in the sim manager through the townies, the unplayed sims which were generated by the game. There are some crazy combinations in there. One has love dogs trait but owns a cat. There have been ones who are in the dastardly aspiration but have the good trait. Lots of weird fun combinations, rule being you can't "fix" them by cheating in CAS, to change their traits have to earn the aspiration points and use the potion to change them. Usually by the time they have the points to buy the potion you're used to the traits and have learned to live with them, which expands your mind for gameplay.

[@PoseurGoth]

I like doing rotational 7 deadly sins plays. Using the character values system with cheats can give you certain negative traits to emphasize the sins (for example, giving sloth/acedia and envy the irresponsible trait). Also having teen focused games with an emphasis on social groups, cliques, and subcultures is fun.

[@isabelafreitas6188]

you had me at "it is how some people live: rich sad and lonely" lol

[@awsomeepicninja]

Im doing a legacy challenge with a friend where we are allowed to take any small "liberties" we want for the sake of plot. My current gen is one child in and the second child is going to be heir. But eventually she will be the middle child after her mom has triplets! So she dosnt get much attention anymore and goes from sweet girly girl to full out goth rebel!

[@Ollie_nel]

I also had a story where the girl was super girly, straight A student, then things just changed and she started failing school, doing drugs, dyed her hair, and just in general changed her style. She has since calmed down and is in university.

[@hangingxstars]

one thing i do is have two friends in one house, they get married, and basically have their dream life. then one of them starts bad habits so they get a divorce. this ends up being really hard on the kiddos then the one with thr bad habits dies in a car crash. Parent 2 is feeling sad, but kiddo is devastated. soon they cant afford theyre mansion and have to move into an apartment (i use the ones from eco lifestyle because they are a lot smaller!) and then you can play around with it

[@OwenNBohn]

These videos are so helpful! I am now going to play sims for an ungodly amount of time :)

[@taylorsaurus]

Enjoy! Hehe

[@jeanettejost7148]

I played a modified asylum challenge where my main sim “groomed” the teen and when he finished his aspiration he “murdered” one of the other inmates and kidnapped the teen and locked her in an attic prison room.

[@livingdeadgirl2k]

Life hack if you want to woo the reaper: have your sim take selfies with him. Surprisingly, when your sims take pictures together, it considerably increases their relationship. That way, you don't have to waste time chattering to become friends.

[@padawanofconfusion5954]

Oh I do have two different twins I'm playing with, building their house was the best! One twin is a loner writer who's into victorian fashion and interior design and she got married to a fisherman and has a toddler, while her sister is a badass fit actress who's more modern citycore and just recently got a girlfriend who's a photographer! This is so fun because you have two totally different playstyles in one household

[@sixnigthmare3608]

i once played a game where 2 sims would open an orphanage but sell the childrens to human traffickers AKA vampires the goals of the childrens was to stay alive find a way to escape and live on thier own it's really fun actually but in the end everyone died exept one who became a vampire and ate the caregivers

[@loptseldr]

the stalker one is jsut every sim ever. you go to one palce then go somewhere else and its the same bunch of sims lol

[@ceceb.3921]

i recently did a summer camp for my children/teen sims where i moved them to a new household on a camp lot with camp counselors and other kids and then added in a holiday each day of summer so they didn’t have to go to school and it was so much fun! i never liked how kids in the sims had school in the summer so this was really fun to do!

[@Maiyinlikesmusic]

I live for Rags to Riches playthroughs, honestly! I once did a teen runaway couple, having to balance grades and part time jobs for two teens was so stressful, but also really fun!

[@stephaniegutierrez8884]

I LOVE THE T-SHIRT🤣🤣🤣 We LOVE Megan Thee Stallion🤪😜 Have a nice day everybody!

[@taylorsaurus]

It’s the best! Hope you had a great day too!

[@Ollie_nel]

I currently have a few households I rotate through. One is a man trying to get every premade female sim pregnant, another is a group of 8 all with very different traits and aspirations, and they must finish their aspiration before they're allowed to move out. I also just have an entire save where every household was made by me and has a story that I plan to play through.

[@midnightcas9995]

I had one sim I made into this ‘Ancient High Elf’ Spellcaster type. She was like 300 years old, and was also a medium. I made up this whole story about how she was originally a part of the Elven people, but was banished because she assisted in giving Sims magic. She had to start all over! She made her money by gardening, potion brewing and doing psychic medium stuff (paranormal just came out.) It was honestly so much fun.

[@catsolotal9904]

I made an orphanage in the Sims 4, they all are separated into rooms depending on the gender. They all wear uniforms, and have a 'caregiver' who also has to follow a strict set of rules.

[@bfever46]

Lol, the occult house idea is a good one. I play occult’s very rarely (with the exception of the one mermaid that came with Island Living), but I would do this!!

[@arianahankey4494]

Thanks for this u gave me such a great idea, a detective sim “hunting” on out break of vampires, little do they know their roommate is a vampire that’s been hiding their identity as they’re ashamed. It will make me play with the detective career and with vampires which I don’t usually do. This is gonna have a much deeper storyline but I need to think of it all!😂

[@peruvianace7008]

I’m so glad you’re back! I definitely needed storyline ideas since i just completed the 100 baby challenge. 😁 thank you

[@smokerbuddy4204]

Not related… but can I just say your voice is so soothing.

[@ChibiRandom13]

My most recent sims are actually twins who are opposites haha one is a "mean girl" who married rich and had three kids (one of whom murdered their dad) while the other is a guitar playing journalist who lives in a starter home with her wife and adopted kids living very wholesomely

[@momewrath3839]

1. I love the t-shirt and I need it. 2. Thank you so much for the ideas and inspiration! I was trying to figure out what kind of story to play through so I could play Cottage Living and I really needed some ideas.

[@ladylush7931]

I'm currently playing a storyline with two latina sisters one a young adult and one a teenager who both live in the hood (I recreated willow creek in a blank save file with all types of lots you might find in the hood, trap houses, run down houses, macdonald's, beauty salon, strip club, motel, church (religion mod) with a good neighbourhood on the opposite side of town), the older sister receives weekly government cheques to help support them (snb bills) and she works part-time in customer service (midnite tech career). Both she and her sister are more like friends than typical parent/child, they share the same room different beds and sleep/cook half naked whenever tf they want cos it's just the two of them (wicked whims) - pure sisterly vibes only! Anyway being pretty young and irresponsible herself the older sister struggles to stay on top of their finances and frequently gets sad and cries about being poor (not sure which mod it is that gives this moodlet) and she often asks a friend in the neighbourhood for cash when she's struggling. She's gorgeous though and recently tried going on a date with a sugar daddy who she genuinely hates (sentiments are a wonderful thing) so she forced herself to flirt with him the whole time and got some money at the end, he has since called once and she ignored the phone lol. Her little sister snuck out with her best friend one night when her sister was sick in bed (health redux) and went to meet her crush in the park. They have since woohooed even though he threw a cup of water in her face the first time they met at her house alone and it annoyed the crap out of her. Guess he was super nervous and didn't know what to do or say. All in all, mods make the Sims SO MUCH MORE REALISTIC AND FUN! Custom tv channels and custom music change the vibe a lot too. Thank you to the Sims community for allowing me to play the game like this 😭 Not to mention the drug dealing brothers and their beloved dog bullet, and the housing project apartment block that houses in separate apartments a crack head, a waste of space, and a nice young man that actually wants to do better, avoid drugs and gangs get out the hood that I play on rotation from time to time but that's a different story for a different day!

[@SUM41Y4]

I tried a ‘legacy’ challenge (idk if this’ll class as a legacy challenge lol) and the rules were: • Short life span- (NO delaying age by sleeping etc. When the sim has to age then up, you MUST age them up). • Must finish their aspiration- (They must finish their aspiration by the time they age up. So if you have a sim child, you need to finish their aspiration. When you reach teenhood, you’ve got enough time to finish their chosen aspiration.) • At least have 1 child- (Keep the legacy going!)

[@ruveydadx]

i got bored of playing Sims 4 but this video made it so much more fun! thank you so much. now i can finally play Sims 4 without getting bored after a few minutes

[@Artemisa97]

I'm playing with an astronaut and a scientist by pretending they work in the same facility... which is a bit hard because her carreer is an active one and I can see he's never around, xDD It's easier now because they just had a baby and he took his parental leave, but still!

[@artinightmare405]

My main save has been going on for years with aging on, and I turned it off for townies around Eco Lifestyle's release. What I really enjoy is to hop in random households filled with all kinds of random sims, with different relationships (such as old couples, random babies and pets, etc) and going with the flow. It really enhances the experience, and helps me avoid playing the same story line over and over.

[@blaze0431]

I started a legacy challenge with a new sim, she married Don Lothario (who had a ton of affairs) and had four kids. Now all of her kids live in the house and they're getting married to new sims and its so cute and also drama packed. The youngest daughter dropped out of college, got pregnant and eloped and moved in with Caleb Vatore.

[@zuzuzuzuzuz]

MY HERO HAS ARRIVED!!!! Thank you, very needed

[@taylorsaurus]

yay! glad it could help

[@SILVER_SHADOW_GYT]

My story is with Johnny Zest, he got to be the top comedian. Had 5 kids with random females. Then he got abducted and has a toddler alien girl. I called her Lemon lol. Then he met his brother Malcomb. Who I played too. He is BFF with Johnny. Malcomb hates his parents. Johnny and Malcomb both have wives and each have 1 toddler. I love playing with them.

[@x_x4269]

i feel like the enemies to lovers one is sort of hard bc sims are very...forgiving? like you can have 2 sims absolutely despise eachother and within 2 days they'll be married with kids and a dog. idk i wish there were a mod to make that kind of storyline work better

[@luv2349]

for reallll sims are too nice to each other

[@faithleeper3609]

I used to have a slower romance mod for a while that basically made it harder for romance to progress at the breakneck speed it usually does in sims 4. I don’t know how to slow down the enemy transition part but you could do a enemies to friends to lovers thing

[@LoveeeJonesss]

I love that you do these because I get bored a lot with the sims 4. I just started a new save last night with a wellness sim and a musician and I'm already bored... Again!!!!

[@KC1792]

Love seeing content creators from my neck of the woods, especially for the Sims! I live about 90ish mins from Toronto in the Niagara region. If you ever feel like chatting with a semi-local Sims nerd, I'm your gal! 😊

[@emerson3669]

hey Taylor ! Just gotta say glad ur back! :)

[@taylorsaurus]

Thank you!

[@klotzchen1224]

My sim just adopted her three cousins since the mother died! At first I didn't want to because I had other plans, but now it's really fun! One of the three is already a young adult and had a miscarriage, the other is a teenager and is fully focused on school and the child has also recently become a teenager. Let's see where the path leads us. love ur video btw

[@thefluffykirbyprincess6307]

"Have an adult with 7 children" Me with 19 grandchildren from two sisters...

[@lainamarshall]

I recently did that guy that has a lot of kids and it was so fun!! I did it more realistically because normally if a girl gets pregnant she would try and get the baby daddy involved for a happy family. So he was very involved in the kids lives and they all came over from Friday - Monday and it’s so chaos omfg

[@Eliany1999]

1:37 Me : *Having four kids in the household and screaming into the void every once and then already*

[@felicfelicis]

hi! been searching for a video about storylines for sims 4 to listen to while i'm working (so i can play sims later lol) and i just wanted to say that your voice is so pretty and i'm having the time of my life listening to you explaining stuff cause ur voice scratches my brain in the most nice way

[@tobiasthedoggo710]

I love taking a save and add to it until it breaks, wich means multiple households cuz i struggle to fucos for long periods of time, i have multiple storys and i love starting new ones so this is helpful

[@kayleegleeson427]

I'm actually doing an enemies to lovers kind of thing where my sims (F) met this kid (M) and they were childhood best friends, but just before they became teenagers my sim’s best friend moved away and they didn’t see or speak to each other as teenagers. During my teenage time, my sims got into gardening and had enough to start her own business by young adulthood. During her young adulthood, she has this rival guy and he’s trying to one-up her, unaware that they were childhood best friends they become enemies. Slowly over time in their young adulthood they start to realise how much they had in common and eventually remember that they were their childhood best friends. They also seemed to have a but of feelings for each other and end up falling in love, combining their company’s and living happily for the rest of their lives

[@kayleegleeson427]

@Yana Plays Your welcome ☺️

[@ilikerosesandchocolate6877]

Some more good story lines can be based off movies/books but making your own characters (similar to the original ones)and maybe changing the story a little bit based on what you think your own characters would do

[@tiffanygilbert8188]

I unintentionally played the “dead sim/grieving spouse and children” story. My sim (made her as teen and her sister for paranormal stuff) died on vacation in Sulani and she was married to Johnny Zest. They were there with their two children and her niece who had already lost both her parents to old age (old parents is kind of interesting game play too) It was quite traumatic 😅 I’ve never had a sim die unexpectedly from anything other than old age. Perhaps I need more death traps in my game? 🤔

[@taylorsaurus]

There are so many ways to die I’m so surprised that you haven’t encountered many

[@tiffanygilbert8188]

@@taylorsaurus I know!!!

[@fidgetelftree9432]

I ended up marrying Johnny Zest as Nova Curious. When they were dating, he randomly adopted a baby girl(guess it was just story progression luck?). She moved in with him and eventually married him. After they had a boy, so the first kid got a younger brother. Then I decided to have one more, and she had twins. Pretty cute, actually. Lewis is still hanging around asking me about job and relationship advice, constantly jealous of Johnny.

[@mollyerika7350]

I had my sim marry Mortimer Goth , and age him to Elder and have him die from exertion then she had twins with dead mortimer and she raised Cassie and Alex then got with Bella , killed her from overexertion and then had a baby with her , then ended up raising Cassie , Alex , twin girls Addison and Adelaide with Morty and then a girl named Willow with Bella, then renovated the house and made it her style

[@taylorsaurus]

hahah that's amazing

[@RosesTeaAndASD]

Love it!

[@FraiseFruit]

1:10 I tried this and one of the children drowned 😅

[@chaosunicorn82]

Your videos are so creative and give me so many new ideas for gameplay . I love your channel and thanks for making your videos! The Hating Game is being made into a movie FYI.

[@calmclover3797]

Thank you...i seem to always do a "perfect family"

[@penguinz3438]

A storyline I thought of once, similar to your first idea is the orphanage storyline. Basically, there’s this woman who inherited an orphanage from her grandmother. She then has to raise like 6-7 kids. Well, 2 of them are almost adults, one is an early teen, 2 are toddlers and one is a baby. Once the 2 oldest grow up and become legal adults, they choose to stay at the orphanage to help take care of the other kids. By that time, the teen is in their mid-teens, the toddlers are kids now and the baby is a toddler. It’s such a fun story :D

[@d_grace]

Time to spice up my game! TBH i've been getting bored with the live mode lately and so, thanks for this video

[@theminegirl3775]

This is THE ONLY way I play sims. I always come up with story lines. I have so many different saves with different story lines 😂 I play one save, then I get bored and ideas for another story line that I have starts creating in my head. I keep traveling between saves, I'm never bored

[@marinabrandao1998]

One of my favourite savings I made 2 best friends young adults that lived together for a long time, eventually got married and had their babies separated, then one of them died and their child moved to her best friend's house with the urn. So that way they lived all together with the ghost around the house who got to see their grand children grow up as a ghost lol

[@CakeofRage]

there was this challenge i loved to play in sims 3 called the kidnapped challenge, where you're a teen that's been kidnapped. lots of rules and trying not to get caught by your captor, and for this reason i occasionally play this, but instead of a kidnapper, it's an abusive parent

[@sonjar2872]

I like the woo-hoo partners thing because I can play as friends with benefits who slowly start to get deeper feelings

[@Lickiecat]

This video has inspired me to start a "Cheaper by the dozen" playthough.

[@rolandbaldwin]

The Hostel Challenge I made up is so much fun. Set up a house with eight random Sims, the worst bunk beds, the worst of everything. All the bad lot challenges. Grow cowplants and leave them on the lot. I also took from the old Asylum challenge I no longer play they have to work in the criminal career and complete two aspirations to gain their freedom from the hostel. Play as one Sim and leave the others do their own thing. It's super chaotic. Forgotten Hollow or Strangerville is the best neighbourhood to do it in. Another one is to find the person or family who wins the lottery in your game and move in and feed them pufferfish nigiri. I also started a legacy from the lottery winners giving their kids randomly generated amounts of money from the 1m simoleans to start their lives with.

[@buffyglimmers]

things I have added to my game play to have more fun was playing long life span limiting my skipping, and changing their outfits often and the sims i hang around I give make overs. Been learning tips from other simmers as well I feel the one sim rut since i try to do challenges and a lot are one sim starts

[@camieguez7280]

I loved the one of the twin siblings haha i´m gonna do it Thank youu

[@taylorsaurus]

Nice! Have fun

[@lifedesa]

I am currently playing the opposite twins storyline in my legacy save and it's so much fun. They're the second generation, one is a shy nerd that works as a mad scientist and he lives with his other twin who is an outgoing actor. They're best friends and they each have a partner livinh with them as well. It'll get chaotic once they'll get kids tho 😅

[@flawed1]

I got the idea of making a doomsday preper when I saw the new ability to can things from the garden. I started out by building a basement to store all the canned goods, and then I decided to start a club where people could make speeches about the end of the world. It quickly escalated into a full blown cult. The members were cleaning his house and painting paintings for him to sell . After many despicable acts including harsh punishments and impregnating the female members, he locked everyone inside and set off fireworks. Some of the cult members survived, but now I’m playing as one of the children being raised by her surviving family, trying to get out from under the shadow of her very evil father

[@microwavedmetal]

I made my teacher in the sims 4 and I may or may not have drowned him

[@donnazaidarbit6194]

Perfect timing! I was literally struggling what to do for storylines

[@amylouisesimpson4555]

Something I've been doing lately with the Foster Family mod is running a teen mother and baby unit. So it's designed for teens that have either run away from home or been kicked out when their parents learned they were pregnant. I set the Foster family mod up to only offer me teens, then when I have a teen come to stay with me, I'll set them as pregnant with MCCC (also, change their gender to female if the sim turns out to be male!). I have a large house set up with a communal kitchen, separate little units for each teen etc, and I'll lock the main doors so they can't go wandering off all the time (I'll usually give them a few hours a day when they're allowed free time outside the house). When they give birth, they're responsible for caring for their baby, and if the baby ends up being taken by social services, the teen has to move out of the house. I'll play as a 'warden' sim, so I'll try and help the teens with the babies, teach them skills, encourage them to do positive actions etc. If a teen cares for their baby well until it ages up into a child, I'll go to manage households and move the mom and child into their own little starter home. If I feel like giving myself a challenge, I'll give my sim the hates children trait and imagine she's only doing this job for the money she gets from the Foster family network!

[@Zandalorscat]

I like rolling with whatever random things the game throws at me. I was going to have a divorced single mom sim who turns into a vampire - but then I misunderstood the moodlets during the transformation process and she died of hunger. :P Now her ex-husband had to take over her farm and have custody of their daughter. I also really like aging townies up and giving them a makeover based on their randomized traits. Orange Bailey-Moon is now a buff, good-natured bro who wants to be a beekeeper (CC aspiration.)

[@Dinnyeify]

An idea that's also quite twisted: family locked in the basement. You have a regular sim living their best life - nobody knows that there's an adult and their kids locked in the basement. the sim is keeping them there bc they're a sadist. Poor basement ppl live under the worst conditions. Bonus point if the sadist is the father/mother of the basement kids. Alternatively, you could have a sim/family live in a house unknowing that there are people locked in the basement.

[@l0vepinkfa1ry99]

YESSS THANK UUUUU BASED ON THE DOCUMANTY THANKSSS

[@nikkileake9618]

Oh my gosh I just had a great idea for a challenge idea it’s pretty much the first one but maybe you 0 dollars and you have to work so hard for it then

[@Tink13star]

Been working on blackwidow/100 babies...added grim to the house as well. He basically my nanny, and her last lover in the end

[@rubyyy5556]

so odd to say but you're voice is so relaxing!

[@katievivian3941]

I'm currently playing through the Not So Berry challenge and I'm on grey gen, where you have to have three failed relationships before finding a spouse. For the first two failed relationships, they were just teenage relationships that didn't get serious. For the 3rd one, however, my sim had a long term boyfriend and two children with him. Then she got pregnant with a set of twins, and while pregnant, found out her boyfriend was cheating on her. So she dumped him and he moved out. Then she found a new boyfriend, married him, and then had another kid. Even if you're not doing the NSB, this is still a fun storyline to try!!

[@bluesidecollection]

For sims 3 I made a dynasty family of mermaids and vampires. My goals were for them to buy out all the community lots and own resorts (w/o cheats). It was fun because I started with one mermaid sim and she ended up with ten kids and four grandkids. Too bad my computer died on me. I definitely want to try some of your suggestions when I get my new computer.

[@CeaseEcho]

The one I find the most fun challenges to start with a sim, move them on an empty lot, and set the household funds to zero. From there they need to breed frogs, fish, sing for tips, garden ect to survive and build a tiny home. You can also limit the ways they make money too like no 9 to 5 kinda jobs, dumpster diving or painting, and reject all dead relatives leaving you money calls. The first week is brutal but it's satisfying to build them up from nothing.

[@hannahwhite4234]

yasss rags to riches!

[@sea5063]

Recently I’ve moved on from sims 4…. Well, backwards. (I’m playing sims 3) I’m just so bored with sims 4, the paranormal stuff pack didn’t do much for me and I haven’t even bought the country living one yet which says a lot because I was one of those advocating for farming. I just can’t get into it :/ but sims 3 is soooo good there is so much to do!!

[@RosesTeaAndASD]

I bought it two weeks ago and was bored after 2 days.🙁 I just enjoy the items that came with it. Watching my sims jump from that scary pumpkin candy bowl is hilarious.😂

[@sea5063]

@@RosesTeaAndASD definitely not gonna rush to buy it then

[@elvieann4949]

I did the Grim Reaper relationship/ pregnancy by hanging out at the bar in a restaurant that served pufferfish nigiri. I used cheats or a mod to build the relationship past flirting though (can't remember which).