Sims 4's Next Expansion Pack Has Everything It Needs To (Finally) Redeem The Game

has had its ups and downs over the course of its nearly ten-year history, but the next expansion pack has a lot of potential to bring it closer to the ideal experience. franchise has traditionally followed an expansion-heavy model, supplementing each successive base game with an overload of additional purchases to add and improve features. Not every expansion for is worth the purchase, but the best ones bring out the game's underlying potential in ways that it hasn't seen befor

The next expansion pack for is , which unsurprisingly focuses on the romantic options in the game. Romance has always been a huge part of, providing a way to build families or simply have fun with the characters. It's actually somewhat surprising that it's taken a decade to dedicate an expansion solely to the concept, but the long wait may have only served to make the final arrival of more anticipated than it ever would have been before.

The Sims 4 is looking for love as the game's latest expansion is all about romance and seduction with the return of a classic piece of furniture.

's set of features promises to overhaul the process of meeting potential love interests and going on dates, with a lot of changes and additions to the process that haven't been seen before. A new attraction system wrangles a set of Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs to determine partner satisfaction, covering interests and interactions alike. Appropriate to the times, a dating app called Cupid's Corner also joins the fray, and it's possible to plan out a variety of dates after finding a match in the app.

Not every addition in will necessarily have as much wide appeal as the basic overhauls to romance, but they all lean into the theme appropriately. A romance consultant career provides the opportunity to make a living off of love, and a new world called Ciudad Enamorada stands out as the best place for the flirtatious to start up a life in the game.

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