My Brutally Honest Review Of The Sims 4 Tiny Living

[@lovedayayto7652]

They definitely could have added an under the stairs bathroom/wetroom. Just a triangle shape object with the same shower animation just with the clothes on. Would be kind of a rabbit hole experience but would have been an awesome feature

[@RosesTeaAndASD]

Just add a door when sims get trapped under the stairs... and lock it.😈 It's close enough... Seriously though, I agree with you.

[@TanyaOwens]

The all in one bathroom from sims 3 would've worked here

[@joaovictorsantanna2817]

Tiny living is no doubt the most op pack of the sims 4, the way we can raise skills and relationships is astounding

[@vrahnkeneisenbach9148]

Idk lol Realm of Magic is pretty crazy. Copypasto spell allowing you to infinitely duplicate and sell valuable items is insane, and a lot of the potions completely trivialize the game.

[@joaovictorsantanna2817]

@@vrahnkeneisenbach9148 yeah but until you get that It would take a long time

[@Mo0shii]

@@joaovictorsantanna2817 week ingame time tho...

[@plumbobd]

I always see people complaining the Murphy bed is not really saving space because it takes up the same amount of tiles as a normal bed, always forgetting it also doubles as a sofa so you are technically saving three tiles because you don't have to buy a sofa

[@Relevart9169]

Literally what i think of every time someone complains about it, thats literally how murphy beds work irl? How else is it meant to save space?

[@alexbaker3635]

For a pack built around 'tiny' living it offered very little in the way of space-saving items. We could have had new ladders, spiral staircases, mini-fridges, all-in-one bathrooms like in TS3... So many missed opportunities to actually allow for tiny living

[@fleetwoodmak777]

I miss spiral staircases!

[@meganlister3084]

This pack would have been perfect to include an all-in-one bathroom like they have in the Sims 3!

[@augusto7681]

Which expansion include this all-in-one bathroom item in sims 3 ?

[@fp3990]

@@augusto7681 Island Paradise

[@vrahnkeneisenbach9148]

Nah. I love the tiny living furniture. Nice modern look with the bright blue providing nice highlight colors.

[@TashaFierce01]

I never considered that mini fridges and cabinet mounted microwaves would have been perfect for this pack! This is my favorite pack bc the challenge of making a decent looking microhome is my favorite

[@ErieRosewood]

I'm not a builder, but this pack was the first pack that actually got me invested in building a cute house from scratch. I bought it because it was really the only stuff pack I wanted when I was trying to make a bundle and I couldn't be happier. I think I like it more than snowy escape which is probably a bad sign bc the reason I bundled things was just for snowy escape.

[@EmilyBlueJaye]

I love the idea of the cross pack compatibility to make over a house into a tiny home. Definitely adding that to my personal challenges while playing!

[@Dragonmistress83]

Tiny Living is one of my fav packs and have a very Scandinavien vibe to it. Thou murphy beds are not very Scandinavien, well I've never seen any real life. We got pullout couches, yet no murphy beds.

[@shadowphoenix1514]

Murphy beds just have a different name here (in Scandinavia) - they do exist

[@naluzoniro]

I'd say, though, for me, since it's a pack about BUILDING the very limited and meh build/buy items are a big problem... I'd want to have a couple more styles of furniture, bunk beds and mezzanines... Otherwise I'm gonna make one or two tiny houses and forget about it forever because I'd feel like I'm making the same house over and over.

[@MysticEagle4]

Although I never use the murphy beds i do use alot of items all the time, like the paintings, the side candle/plant combo, the toilet, the sink and couple other items. And when I say all the time i mean every build has at least one or more of these items.

[@dawngrrrl]

Same - I use items from this pack in every single save.

[@LilyShimizu]

I really want mounted microwaves honestly. I’ve seen sooooo many homes irl with a mounted microwave above the stove, including my own house.

[@finaathehuman]

the murphy bed gave me no warning and just killed one of my sims moms recently during high school years. low key was traumatized XD

[@Victoria-gs1ve]

"The death rate is not high" 💀💀 my whole family was killed twice by a Murphy bed :( that's why I don't use it anymore

[@complainer406]

4:38 Murphy beds are actually kinda bugged, and their failure rate is way too high! It's because the function for failing objects makes them more likely to fail the longer they're in use, and a bed gets several hours of use a day. (I believe sitting on it as a sofa also counts as use). It doesn't really show up when you're first playing with it, since it builds over time, but they're basically ticking time bombs

[@second_second_]

my sim died on my first try of using murphy bed.

[@Biscuitee]

This was the first pack i ever bought, and i just remember the amount of fun i had while playing it! Definitely my favourite pack 🎉

[@HonestInsightsTarot]

Tiny Living is one of my favorite stuff packs (I alternate between Tiny Living and Paranormal as my favorite stuff packs), and I agree with your criticisms about the build/buy. Even though I personally get a lot of use out of it, I do really only use the light wood tones, the blacks, and the whites in this set. I don't really like the mismatched wooden set or the reddish woods, just not my cup o tea. So, if anyone has University, I almost exclusively make my sims complete their degrees from home in a micro home. They get their skills up super fast, and they can cook. And also, they're never late for class when they live off campus (with the exception of when I'm not paying attention and lose track of the time in my game). 😂

[@pathogenofdecay]

What I heard when Satch mentioned the murphy bed wasn't "murphy bed", but *"murder bed"...* because as soon as I used one, my sim got locked into a scripted death and I couldn't use the bed without dying. lol I then got an Icemunmun mod that removes the death. lol

[@athannyx6815]

My major complaint with tiny living is actually not the options they gave. It's the fact I have to go and download a mod for a combination bathroom, sink/toilet + small shower or use an outhouse rather than the return of the All in One bathroom from sims 3 to help with space. If I didn't have the woohoo bush I would not have a lot of the freedom I would want with it. Particularly since the best benefits are with the micro home. Also what's with no attempts to make tiny homes work with family gameplay? I find it an added level of fun challenge and could you imagine if they had actually gone with "How to fit a toy box, a small toddler bed and a toddler toilet in a tiny house." I like giving my sims hell yes by giving them toddlers in tiny homes. One of those poor unfortunate souls had twins. I mean I can increase it to the max tiny house size... But they didn't even try any other combination objects for you doing stupid tetris crap with your sims? Edit: I do really really enjoy this pack gameplay wise as you can tell though.

[@letsdrumguys]

I love your Peanut butter hoodie! I've been having a lot of depressive episodes lately and your videos always perk me up. Thanks :)

[@littlebirdy5962]

What’s funny is it’s one of my favorite stuff packs but I have never, not even once, actually built or lived in a tiny home. I just love the mid century modern themed furniture and compact size of things. 😂😂

[@thisismyopinion]

Great review Satch, the pack should have come with bunk beds tho

[@lovelybones8071]

I like the clothes and the furniture items.This pack is when I would say CAS started to look nicer to me. I wish the furniture was cheaper.

[@bread.06]

This was the first pack i ever bought and i really love it. I always use things from the pack in CAS

[@VioletKitty411]

This pack bundled with get together and either dream home decorator or Parenthood is my ride or die. I have begun building Grand tiny homes which qualify as micro homes but are fully appointed three four and even five bedroom houses. You have to dink around with it a bit but this way you get the benefits of the micro home and still get to enjoy a well appointed ranch home. My 100 baby challenge on my channel is in a hacked micro home.

[@polip3688]

I newer thought I would spend more time playing stuff pack than a propper extension. I had so much fun building tiny homes. The best way to create base house.

[@taynahibanez9952]

I do love this pack! Especially since I dream about owning a small house. Not a micro house, those are hell and suffocating, but small house. So I get a lot of fun biulding my dream house there. The only thing that is a shame is that the kit "Bust the dust" is turned off in these houses. But aside from that, I really think is one of the best packs of the game.

[@second_second_]

It's more like Modern Cozy Living instead of Tiny Living.. yeah, although the bb and cas are pretty, i was disappointed because the bb is not tiny enough, and no extra storage. i imagine we would get storage like in japan, for example in kitchen, they only need very small kitchen, and the cabinet contains dish rack etc. and yes, where's the mini fridge? also like you, i imagined we would get extra storage somewhere in the house. i was disappointed that it's not tiny, and was shocked when i found out that other bb in base game and other packs are humongous. ok i still like the concept and since the items bb and CAS in this pack are pretty. maybe i'll try the lot challenge in the future.

[@tokidokisimmer1750]

Weirdly for me the death rate of the Murphy bed is like 90%. Whenever I start a new game with a new sim, first time opening the Murphy bed and bamm - dead… I installed a mod so there is no death from the Murphy bed.

[@taynahibanez9952]

I were thinking the same. I have the sane problem and is why I rarelly use murphy beds in the game

[@redmarion3tt377]

honestly one of my favorite packs- i use it and eco lifestyle to abuse for 100 baby challenge- use roofing for the kids to live in and set the roofing tiles so that you can save money on water and electricity - also use the group pack if I want woohoo partners to paint granted this was all before infants came out - haven't really touched the sims 4 since

[@FerrariCarr]

TBH, I hate tiny builds. Love the pack, but hate the concept of “tiny living”. I’m used to my Sims 1-2 days where I made spacious rooms to accommodate all my items with no routing issues. 😅 And I *HATE* the unfairly random risk of death from the Murphy bed. You can literally die from using it only once.

[@RustyCadet]

I think that the cas items from tiny living is really cute

[@mumplaysthesims8396]

I absolutely agree I absolutely expected more tiny home features

[@alliebrown2944]

I use to build almost all my houses as a tiny home. Now I have a mod installed (little miss sam I think) that makes the buffs lot traits for residential lots. the tiny living buffs are so OP 😅

[@pathogenofdecay]

Cross compatibility. That reminds me that Tiny Living is quite incompatible with the Bust the Dust Kit because if you try to vacuum a room that's too small, your sim will probably just walk out and cancel the interaction, forcing themselves to either be miserable in a horribly dusty home (and I think evil dust bunnies can kill your sim with fire?), or you will be forced to turn off the pack in the gameplay settings. There also aren't many objects that can be vacuumed with a dust vac, so a dust vac may not be able to fix the problem.

[@CreatEr1n]

One of the few packs that is 100% worth the price.

[@oliviaoverboard]

one thing i will never understand is why the toilet from tiny living is not functional off the grid!!!!! (unless you decide to upgrade it to a composting one) I do love this pack and prefer playing smaller homes in the sims. but I do think that the build buy is kinda lacking... like the table top oven from dream home decorater makes sense here... along with ladders (at the time we didn't have them) also more loft bed options would have made sense

[@greyscaleanon7551]

I think the Murphy bed is actually way more useful now that Growing Together is out. It becomes a guest bed while people are staying over and is a couch for video games when there aren't guests.

[@jahanshadi1934]

The thing i would like to have is another sort of Murphy bed, i don’t know the Name in english but in France we call it : canapé-lit (sofa-bed ?) or canapé clic-clac (sofa-clic-clac ? ) It’s a sofa wich your can « fold » so it’s a sofa or « unfold » and it’s a bed for 2.

[@second_second_]

oh yes, where is the sofa bed. the murphy bed is not tiny at all..

[@TiaKatt]

A pull-out sofa would be so nice to have.

[@tiagreen6848]

Seems like the only pros of the stuff pack is the Murphy bed 😭😂

[@LilGooberS2]

In my opinion the stuff is just really pretty

[@trustno1mel]

I know this is an old video now but I just wanted to say that in my experience the murphy bed auto closes like that any time the sim by the wall wants to get up but another sim is on the accessible side of the bed. It got really annoying when my sim's husband moved in and woke up earlier than my sim to go to work. She worked late and he worked really early lol. Still I love this pack

[@sophiepomerleau708]

That’s in my top 3 !!! It’s so simple and get sooooo nice !

[@RosesTeaAndASD]

10/10 for the killer Murphy bed - the only reason I bought the pack lol

[@rajath-videos5663]

Love The Videos

[@boston_octopus]

2:54 I just noticed that the fold-down bed can be placed against a wall. Normally, you have to leave spaces on either side of the bed so the sims can get in. Now I see there's a new animation where the sim can scoot across the bed to get to the side against the wall and then back out. I wonder if this enables all beds to work in a corner, or just the fold-down bed. (Ahh, I see you covered this later in the video 😔)

[@melvinthebravefish9788]

I was killed the first time opening a Murphy bed twice.....

[@iot2319]

When I first got the tiny living pack I placed the Murphy bed and my sim died immediately when I tried to use the bed it was the first time I used the pack

[@T.K.T]

I'm surprised you don't like the furniture, since TL has some of my fav BB items in the game, and other simmers use them constantly in their games, too

[@Starwolfs]

One of my fave packs!

[@moritzmartini4132]

Should´ve been in included in "Eco Living" (plus laundry day), also why no spiral stairs, or all in one bathrooms

[@catherineroberts5239]

the furniture has more of an IKEA vibe than a tiny home vibe

[@hannahhester8376]

It's literally one of the best packs. Just don't use the bed. Lol

[@starlightrose4087]

If your on console especially xbox those murphy beds will kill your sims a lot more. I ended up just leaving the bed down indefinitely.

[@Relevart9169]

I'll never understand the whole "the murphy bed still takes as much space as a normal bed" thats literally how it is in real life? The point is that its a sofa that turns into a bed when u need it, just like in real life u just move outthe coffee table or whatever is in front of it

[@michala818]

I always want to make a tiny home but then I feel claustrophobic & immediately move my sim somewhere else

[@timmeier]

The "perfect boyfriend" is actually perfect. Is he available on your gallery?

[@JustARandomPerson-dr7uv]

This pack is IMHO the best DLC made for the sims 4. Not because its the biggest, or most complex. Not because its something we desperately wanted. Not because it's got a load of new things in it. Because its the most concise and well implemented pack. Its got a theme and it focuses on perfecting that theme. It implemented a new system perfectly. Gave us a challenge and rewards actually worth having for managing that challenge. They didn't do off in some weird tangent with random rubbish. They made a theme and delivered it perfectly. This is the pack that eventually made me stop boycotting TS4 DLC. I do blame this pack for how many I've bought now though. I was quite happy boycotting the watered down crap they keep selling. This pack genuinely delivered what it promised and was worth buying with actual value for money. It was a turning point in how they make their packs. Don't get me wrong they're still shallow in many ways, but this pack changed how they produced DLC a fair bit. Then horse ranch happened and were back to square one.

[@lasaltycanadian9244]

I’ve used one of the Murphy beds twice, and both times it killed my sims. So it’s now illegal in my gameplays 🙅🏻‍♀️

[@1mooresimmer]

2:40 There are 9 more prebuilt tiny home lots on the Gallery.

[@moritzmartini4132]

I don´t get why I only get the "tiny house" benefits when my home lot is actually set as a tiny home? Like my home still technically has the size of a small/micro/tiny home but I don´t get the benefits of it bc the LOT TYPe is not seperately set as tiny home...

[@MN-rx5ni]

I want to be able to build a tiny haunted house.

[@itscool9960]

I hope they don’t rush sims 5 before dissecting sims 4 of all its issues

[@CrystalClear5617]

Those pyjamas have been bugged for me for months, if a sim gains weight or is pregnant the pyjamas do t reflect this the sim stays thin with a flat belly.

[@simbellaz]

Tiny Living is definately a good pack for challenges😁 and I love a challenge in The Sims

[@katherinestevens2002]

How do you add piers to have them showing up above ground I can’t do it lol

[@katherinestevens2002]

under your foundation

[@elizabethtrudgill3567]

I hate that bed. The one and only time I used it my sim died less than ten minutes in.

[@lieska333]

It really annoys me that you apparentöy can’t woohoo in beds that are placed next to a wall. Also, scooting over works really unreliably

[@maricast9732]

ur so good lol

[@gl_sisters4250]

I think the build items are beautiful but the game play is lazy

[@pastacinni]

Ily

[@ILUVTOLUV]

yikes, the colours are horrible

[@tonyragelly]

it's always the same subjects in your videos, it gets boring after a while.

[@asamabry]

this series is meant for newer players.

[@naluzoniro]

His secondary channel, Satchonstuff, has more diverse videos, or if you want more sims there are dozens of other youtubers you can check out

[@tonyragelly]

@@naluzoniro I really like satchonsims, but for some time, I have the impression of always seeing the same thing, there are however many things to say, and I don't necessarily want to follow other youtubers, I would just like a little more diversity, than the same subjects that come up every 2 days

[@mini_angry_moth2891]

I love the Tiny Living pack, I think it's the best when doing a rags-to-riches play. I get overwhelmed when it comes to decorationg or cluttering a build so the less space there is, the less stress it is for me. Thanks for the honest review Satch, I love watching all your sims content!

[@lovedayayto7652]

Ngl I study uxdesign at uni and I do wonder if the sims team have ux designers…. Like if they just sent out a survey it would be so easy for them to see what we actually want in the game and would improve the game/user relationship drastically 🥲