Summary

  • Skyrim player impresses fans by recreating Whiterun in Sims 4, capturing key sights like Warmaiden's smithy and guard barracks.
  • Whiterun build acknowledged as not 100% accurate, but still recognizable and celebrated by Skyrim and Sims players.
  • Despite missing locations like Gildergreen tree, Sims 4's limitations make Whiterun build impressive and worthy of community praise.

A fan of The Sims 4 and Skyrim has done something extremely impressive in recreating the city of Whiterun in the life sim game. The build does a remarkable job of recreating some of Whiterun's well-known sights, and players of both Bethesda's epic and The Sims 4 are celebrating it.

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For most Skyrim players, Whiterun is one of the first places one will visit, and that makes this Sims 4 recreation of the town very recognizable. Reddit user mzzzz1 shared their design with fans on the Skyrim subreddit, explaining that while the build isn't 100% accurate nor to-scale, they had a lot of fun with it. Despite that disclaimer, their version of Whiterun is immediately recognizable, with the first screenshot showing the perspective most players will see when entering the town. Places like the Warmaiden's smithy shop, guard barracks, and the marketplace surrounding the town well are all present.

Skyrim and Sims Players Are Impressed By Whiterun Build

Plenty of players have come out to praise mzzzz1 for their recreation of Whiterun and to ask questions about it. Mzzzz1 explained that the build took "forever," and had been constructed on a 64x64 lot in Henford-on-Bagley, a world that was added to The Sims 4 in the Cottage Living expansion pack. They said that they planned to upload the build to the Gallery, so that other players could download it, but warned that the build did use some custom content that would need to be downloaded in order for it to look right.

While the Whiterun build is missing some classic locations like the Gildergreen tree and the Cloud District, it's an impressive recreation, especially since it was made in The Sims 4. Skyrim players have recreated locales in Minecraft and similar titles in the past, which are more suited for creating towns. Packing everything in Whiterun into a single lot in The Sims 4 isn't practical, so what mzzzz1 accomplished here is something the community seems happy to celebrate, especially given the limitations imposed by the nature of the game.

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The Sims 4

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Top Critic Avg: 70 /100 Critics Rec: 26%
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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
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no
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DIGITAL
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Simulation