EA released its new roadmap for the rest of the year for The Sims 4. The announcement featured tarot cards, with each tarot card outlining a different release for The Sims 4 in the coming months. One of the most exciting of these announcements was the next expansion pack, which will release on Halloween 2024.
According to beliefs in some cultures, October 31 is the day when the barrier between life and death is at its most fragile. This makes Halloween the perfect date for the release of The Sims 4's new expansion, The Sims 4: Life and Death. There haven't been many details of the content of the new expansion pack released yet, with more promised to come on October 3.
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The Sims 4: Life and Death Releases on Halloween
It's unusual for expansion packs in The Sims 4 to be revealed so early, with trailers for new expansion packs usually only releasing just two weeks before the release date. The Sims 4: Life and Death is slated to launch at the perfect time, with Halloween being a major holiday in the USA, and October holding significance for many cultures across the world, particularly in Europe, as it's believed to be a time that the spirits from the afterlife would enter the world of the living.
October is the perfect month to release an expansion pack for The Sims 4 centered on life and death, as it hits the spooky theme for Halloween. With a title like The Sims 4: Life and Death, the new expansion will likely include ghosts, the Grim Reaper, and the afterlife in The Sims 4 in some way. The Sims 4 launched without ghosts, but soon added them in a free update. Ghosts can be added to households once living sims in an active household have built a strong enough relationship with them, and are differentiated from their living counterparts with special abilities that depend on the manner of their death.
Possible Content in The Sims 4: Life and Death
While it's currently unknown what content will be in The Sims 4: Life and Death, expanding on ghosts would be a great step. The Grim Reaper is one of the most popular NPCs in The Sims 4, and has been an enduring symbol of The Sims since the very first game in the series. Although ghosts have received more content since the launch of The Sims 4, especially with content packs like The Sims 4: Paranormal Stuff, there's still more potential for the role of the Grim Reaper and the afterlife.
Giving the afterlife a physical location to visit would be one option. The afterlife in The Sims 4 could be home to iconic NPCs that haven't made it to The Sims 4, such as the Newbies. With the relatively new addition of world progression in The Sims 4, where sims autonomously live and die, sims who die could appear in the afterlife world as ghosts. The Sims 4: Life and Death could introduce a mechanic to have living sims visit the afterlife to visit their dead relatives, or have the ghosts do the same if they want to appear in the world of the living as ghosts again.
Another mechanic that The Sims 4: Life and Death could include is a mechanic to bring ghost sims back to life. Rather than using Ambrosia, an alternative could involve a quest for a living relative to the world of the afterlife. Upon fulfilling the quest, the ghost sim could be returned to life.
The Sims 4
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 70 /100 Critics Rec: 26%
- Released
- September 2, 2014
- ESRB
- T for Teen: Crude Humor, Sexual Themes, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Maxis
- Publisher(s)
- Electronic Arts
- Engine
- Proprietary Engine
- Cross-Platform Play
- Xbox, PlayStation, and computer versions of Sims 4 are all separate games incompatible with each other
- Cross Save
- no
