Ranking every house in The Sims 1 from best to worst

[@TubeCody]

How many times did I say "boink" in this video? See if you can find them all!

[@TerryGamekeeper]

The main purpose of The Sims is to get rich. It is also shown in the trailer for the game, where the Sim's house keeps getting better and bigger, and the interior contains more expensive and better objects. Basically, you go to work, improve your skills and find friends to advance your career, get money, buy new furniture and other things that will help you fulfill your Sim's needs. The entire first The Sims game is based on this principle. Why am I writing this? Because even the neighborhood map reflects this principle. You start in the bottom left corner of the map in a cheap house, which of course you can upgrade or move towards the top right corner where the huge villa is located, which can be end game for a lot of players. I just wanted to point this out because you used location as a category. Great video by the way.

[@TubeCody]

I love this. Thanks for watching :)

[@erinunderwood3103]

It was burned down because if you play the Goths untouched mortimer goes straight to the kitchen to cook and the stove catches on fire

[@TubeCody]

oh snappppppp

[@runicdiva]

I love this idea of ranking the premade houses, I can’t wait to see the whole neighborhood video and neighborhood #2.

[@TubeCody]

Me too!! I wasn't aware I was making that video hahahah

[@VampireSexGoddess]

​@@TubeCodyYou are now.

[@Midnight99]

Neighborhood 2 has my favorite

[@VampireSexGoddess]

@@Midnight99 I always loved the design of that Frankie house and the white one with the pool but I couldn't never rebuild them in Neighborhood 1 (not for the lack of trying). I don't know how but those two houses cloned themselves into my N1 some years back. I have got my own families in there and I'm as happy as can be.

[@Kivamusicchannel]

When I was a child and played Sims 1, I still didn’t know much about how the game worked, but I always saw the big mansion and dreamed about moving inside it. I never was able to, but I do remember that I had dreams (literal dreams when I sleep) about seeing the inside of that mansion. Even though I eventually built more bigger and beautiful homes that house will always be the one that got away. I could potentially build a replica on Sims 3 or 4 but it will never be the same.

[@worawatli8952]

21:15 The quirk of this house is you can't water the flowers in the middle of the pool, and it always withered and died, rofl

[@TubeCody]

Hahahaha

[@bonecanoe86]

As a person looking to move to SimVille early next year, this is super helpfull, thanks!

[@TubeCody]

Hahaha

[@worawatli8952]

The nostalgia hit hard, I love the grey house for starting out a one sim family, it has all the bare minimum for a single sim.

[@TubeCody]

yeah!! the grey house is fantastic for a single sim lol

[@MexicanForLife220]

That was actually the very first house I ever chose, though it was a bit small for my family of 4. 😂

[@j_c_93]

Obviously, you can to do whatever you want with them, but the developers intended the Grey House to be for the Bachelor family. and the Middle Bathroom house to be for the Roomies family. And then the large kitchen and mansion houses are just meant to give you a goal to works towards with your families.

[@TubeCody]

interesting! ive heard that before

[@estreetangel]

The Huge Kitchen House doesn't have any bedrooms, unless that whole open upstairs is supposed to be the bedroom.

[@TubeCody]

yeah thats so strange hahah

[@kgxart]

I used it as a bedroom, but usually just build a wall and make two separate rooms :D

[@estreetangel]

Yes, that is the logical thing to do, but I think it's strange they made it the way they did. @@kgxart

[@NenadlPopovic]

It has the same upstairs as Cassandra Goth attic bedroom lol

[@joycepacheco2973]

In the mansion, I always would swap the kitchen and the dining room

[@gabrielmedina66]

I love all the houses, but the little newbie house is special for me, it was the one I learned about the game with and I love it 😊

[@TubeCody]

Nice!!

[@stefaniratu6439]

And it is so simple too. I just don't like Bob Newbie 😂

[@Grasyl]

Awesome Video! Can you do a "what is the best job"? I remember arguing as kids what the best job was, not by the amount of money on the highest rank but also work time and events.

[@TubeCody]

that could be fun!!

[@Grasyl]

@@TubeCody I did some deeper calculation on The Sims 1 Jobs, I'll send you my results on Twitter, if this is ok.

[@stefaniratu6439]

My sister prefer to work in military because of the wages. I prefer more subtle job like typesetter or teacher

[@kleptrep94]

Honestly I just dig the idea of ranking something based on the vibes of it all because it doesn't matter how fancy it is, if it ain't vibing then it ain't worth it.

[@TubeCody]

So true dude…. So so true

[@NenadlPopovic]

Huge Kitchen house was always my fave, its sooo visually pleasant & elegant... but yeah I would remove wodden fence & do adjusments to upstairs 😂 My sisters fave was always the Middle Bathroom one, whenever we install the game again, that house had to be hers 😅 Goth house does look creepy, but its meant to be that way. They are based on Addams family And for the mansion... I agree its overpriced, price of 50 000 was just to put there to force you to play more & more... I don't think its worth more than 35 - 40, as such large rooms were difficult to furnish, they end up looking repetetive Even bigger failure was Maxis medieval castle from Hood 2 - for price of 117 000 - you get bassicly nothing. I remember I evicted my Sims once out of it, and new price was 40 000 lol

[@TubeCody]

Nice!!! Thanks for watching and commenting :)

[@ThickType]

I really like this longer form of video. Very nostalgic to see those old houses. I always liked the weird pink octagonal house.

[@TubeCody]

Thank you :)

[@valeriaswanne]

I was looking for that one on the map! It was indeed very cool.

[@hooverkinz]

So weird to think about how the sims 1 didn’t have foundations so everything even the porches are flat to the ground lol. I love these videos as this game is so nostalgic but I can’t get it to turn so seeing all the houses up close again in a video unlocks so many happy memories!

[@TubeCody]

Thank you for watching!! I appreciate you and hope you watch some of my other vids :)

[@cerulee]

I'm kinda sweaty with the house layout. I usually judge it on how quickly they can go from the bed to the fridge to the cooking appliances to the table to the toilet to the shower. If they can do all that from 6am to the moment the carpool arrives it's good.

[@TubeCody]

Sweaty??? What the heck lol

[@cerulee]

@@TubeCody oh it's a term we mmo players use to describe people who go over every fine detail in a game to figure out how to play it with absolute efficiency and success

[@majesticmythology]

These videos make me think I’m still a kid and not face up to my adult problems 😂

[@TubeCody]

oh nooooo haha

[@stefaniratu6439]

Life is so simple in sims 1 😢 You don't need interview to get a job, you'll get right away. You can have a boy/girlfriend by talking with them days by days, date is not necessary. Woohoo (lol 😂) is not necessary to get a child. Sims1 literally my euthopia 😢

[@pansieisawesome]

Great video!! Now all I need is a ranking video for all the lots in the expanded neighborhood !!! ❤❤ btw living in EITHEr of the first two houses you rated would drive me absolutely insane! if you had a partner/roommate live with you in those places you wouldn't be able to walk three steps without seeing them! having to combine the kitchen with a dining room and living room i mean come onnnnn

[@TubeCody]

Thanks for watching :) and yes my goodness those first two houses be tiny

[@llSuperSnivyll]

About the Newbie House's kitchen/dining room merge, another point against it is that, in the base game, there were no dining tables that were smaller than 2x2.

[@Aceofdusk]

Keep up this series! I love Sims 1, so many strong memories

[@TubeCody]

Thanks!! Maybe I’ll compare some more things :)

[@gonzalochervet8127]

new to the channel, loving the content and commentary, pure nostalgia analysed! cheers from Argentina mate! subscribed right away!

[@TubeCody]

Omg!! This is such a kind comment. Thank you man!! You rock, I’m so glad you found my channel :)

[@beatricroft]

Will you also rate the other houses ? (the ones in the 2nd neighbourhood) 😁 love this concept ! 🤩 you're now the official sims real estate agency 😂

[@victorpaesplinio2865]

I like to place Michael Bachelor on the Grey House since it is the simplest one. The Roomies goes to the Bathroom House, I think it suits them. The Pleasant Family gets some rosebuds and move into the Kitchen House. Then the neighborhood is filled with all the Sims and I can play with them or create a new family

[@levapb]

I don't care what you say. Middle bathroom house always #1

[@TubeCody]

I think you just might be right ;)

[@kgxart]

Middle Bathroom House is my favourite, I used to build it even newer Sims games ;D btw one house on Old Town is practically the same but has doors in other places and first floor. My second best is Large Kitchen one :')

[@TubeCody]

That is so awesome!!

[@snowbird1381]

I so badly missed this game. And it sucks that I can’t play it because I used to suck at building houses. I want to go back and rebuild.

[@TubeCody]

Yeah!!

[@bigbleeg]

dang that jump scare nearly made me pass away! thanks for the warning

[@TubeCody]

I’m so sorry 😭😭

[@user-sf4fy8bq1h]

I would always cannibalize some of the ginormous bathroom in the Middle Bathroom House to make a bigger living room in the front. I mean the bathroom is almost as big as the bedroom! And I'd remove one of the bathroom doors, we don't need 3 bathroom doors lol. And then set up a paint easel on the little terrace overlooking the river! Perfect house then.

[@fvchs]

Found your channel yesterday through your OpenRCT2 tutorial video and saw you also have Sims 1 videos! Guess we played the same games as kids! :)

[@TubeCody]

Yes!! I think you might be right :) two best games ever!

[@kennymichaelalanya7134]

I don't remember the weather feature and I played the first 3 Sims. I loved the video by the way.

[@TubeCody]

Me either! And thank you for watching! Sub pls?

[@kennymichaelalanya7134]

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[@pinklion2237]

Thanks for the video! I needed the floor plans but got very into this! I loved playing the Middle-Bathroom-House and I think you rated the lot wrong. It clearly has the best lot as it is good access by the road and it’s right by the river with amazing river views!

[@dummyan]

If I remember correctly my first Sim house to be played in ever is the one from Sim Lane 10. I was getting familiar with the game there.

[@TubeCody]

Hahahaha

[@joycepacheco2973]

10 sim lane (middle bathroom house) is what I always picked 😊

[@joycepacheco2973]

In the mansion, I always would swap the kitchen and dining room

[@valeriaswanne]

Looking back like this, they all seem so much smaller. I guess that's true for a lot of things in life.

[@bibbaaah]

I'm surprised you like the newbie house as much as you do. I personally hate it lol. It's overpriced and too small. The "grey" house is one of my favorites because it's affordable and the floorplan makes sense. I don't like the "large kitchen" house and actually never played in it, because it bugs me that you move Sims in and immediately have to go to build mode because there's no premade bedroom. I love the "weird bathroom" house. I think it's a good price and liveable and nice looking. You can delete one of the 3 bathroom doors to make money back. I use that house so much tbh. But I enjoyed your video! I love Sims 1 content 😁

[@otazzubm]

You're the best economist on KZbin, I swear 😭😭😭

[@TubeCody]

Haha what??

[@heyimchilllin]

OMG I LOVEEEED THIS VIDEO please keep doing this

[@TubeCody]

Thanks :)

[@stefaniratu6439]

I am not a good builder or architect, I love original houses no matter what because I can't build my own house since I'll just make boring rectangle then I'll divide it to 4-5 rooms

[@TubeCody]

I’m the same way hahah

[@jennybrown7834]

Could you do the packs and console version houses too?

[@TubeCody]

Council version?

[@jennybrown7834]

@TubeCody the console game for Xbox GameCube and ps2 the game they made right before bustin out the goths are in it in freeplay mode but there house is totally different and if you want any of the good furniture in freeplay mode you have to unlock it in story mode ,story mode also has a player vs player function you can unlock all you have to have is a second controller but you can play storymode and freeplay mode with just one controller plus there are all sorts of fun furniture options in game that in pc version you just don't see or have to get packs in order to have

[@tj8816]

@@jennybrown7834 I think you mean "console".

[@seanhunkins3508]

The middle bathroom house was my favorite too!

[@TubeCody]

Yay! :)

[@comedyqueenrocks]

I need you to rank more houses from sims 2 and 3

[@TubeCody]

I don’t like sims 2 and 3 tho

[@xxjayxx517]

Best house, Cody house

[@TubeCody]

Thx!

[@HtotheTML]

Thoughts on the wallpaper choices in each house?

[@TubeCody]

I never really knew what they were because I always put the walls down hah

[@adriandavidm.guillen3825]

You should have rated adding half like to me the 3 Sim lane was a 4,5 for the location

[@Featherogue]

Aww I love this video idea! Subscribed

[@TubeCody]

Ty!

[@ShaySaysSo]

A house for less than 12k, and you can make friends just by going out and talking to the first person you encounter... And they wonder why we'd rather live in the sims world than in the real one 😩

[@jtblcksheep3376]

To be fair, the Newbie House is meant for the tutorial; thus the small size and haphazard design.

[@TubeCody]

I guess yeah that’s true

[@nearandfarexplorers5125]

I feel like I have to agree with you otherwise you might use that axe above your head on me

[@TubeCody]

oof

[@Oboendband]

Large kitchen house has no bedrooms. Grey house is my winner!

[@lyssaflynn7598]

Ohhh, you should've calculated the price per square foot!

[@gemfyre855]

Would have been worth having a playability score as well. Sure, the big houses look good, but when it takes a sim an hour to cross a room it's not so useful.

[@cristhianferreyra1563]

You should rank the other houses too.

[@tayntp]

Tbh, I couldn’t start the Sims 1 without remodel or rebuild the house in the game first. Like, Maxis released poorly built houses intentionally, and forced you to build things on your own.

[@TubeCody]

Fair

[@diamondbeats2024]

I want any of these houses tho on the low

[@tricksy8426]

You say early in the video that we will find out which house is objectively the best, but then you say that you don't like a few things about certain houses, making your ranking a bit subjective. Personally though I think the mansion is a bit too big for my preference since it just takes up time for sims to walk between the rooms, the Huge Kitchen one looks awful with the green tiling on grass(in my opinion). The Goth House I like because it is an obvious nod at the Addams family, and the Grey House is a great starting house. The river house has too many flowers I feel (if they wither your room will decline really fast). The Newbie House is also a good starting house.

[@TubeCody]

you caught me ;)

[@adrianblake8876]

1:20 I gusee we're not doing the houses that came with Livin'Large in Neighborhood2, or the Old Town houses that came with Unleashed, then... 😒

[@sgtjohnson]

You gonna rank the houses in neighbourhood 2 from livin’ large?

[@TubeCody]

nah

[@rjformation9038]

I need sims 1 back

[@brandonkellner4053]

I stopped playing this game after I got the mansion because the gardener got stuck and I think the game started glitching out. Looking at it now, I think it's because there are plants in the middle of the pool and the pathing short circuits, but I didn't bother figuring out what the problem was, I just quit playing.

[@TubeCody]

So one little glitch and then you give up?

[@brandonkellner4053]

@@TubeCody Yeah, I think the save file was basically useless, I don't really remember. I just remember it started with the gardener freezing. This was a very long time ago, and it was after I made enough money to move into the big house anyway.

[@George_K.]

I think the best house is the one I made in the Sims2 😄

[@TubeCody]

Nice

[@Jourei_]

I have a peevee with you using $ instead of §

[@TubeCody]

i sorry lol

[@Mag_1418]

The fact that bathrooms in Sims can be accessed from multiple rooms always confused me. Do people actually build houses like that? So you lock 2-3 doors when using the bathroom? I've never seen this in Europe, wonder if it's an American thing.

[@TubeCody]

hahaha, yes this is a very strange thing to me as well

[@ankomuzykant]

I think they're built in such a way as to meet the conditions of "Layout" (it is available in the tab with the house icon in the HUD under the career icon, I don't know what it's called exactly in English because I always played in Polish). I think this is what the creators wanted - to build houses that will meet this weird game's requirements - and as I remember - the more transitions between rooms, the better this 'Layout' is. I haven't encountered this in real life at home either, though.

[@xxjayxx517]

The best house is Codys house 😂 oof that's my guess

[@TubeCody]

Ayyyy

[@xxjayxx517]

@@TubeCody what up bro

[@joycepacheco2973]

Large kitchen house don't have a bedroom

[@zacharybosch]

this video is very pleasing to my autism 👍

[@TubeCody]

Thank you ❤️❤️ I appreciate you watching :)

[@braddarkstar]

The Sims one has the best houses

[@TubeCody]

Yesssssssss