SheSpeaksSimlish, EbonixSims, and Xmiramira are notable Sims modders that gained popularity because they decided to fill the community’s need. So Black girl gamers decided to take matters into their own hands and began to create in-game items and mods on their own. The Sims 4 is meant to be a life simulator, but feedback from the community pointed to the overwhelming reception that Black girl gamers weren’t seeing their life reflected. The base game’s hairstyles - an important point of creativity or expression for Black girl ‘simmers’ - were few and far between, and those that were available lacked nuanced details. They lacked the cartoonish vibrancy of the lighter skins available. In the latest Sims, Sims 4, some Black players across message boards and social media criticized the darker skin tones in the game as unflattering, grey, or ashy. Despite all this freedom, Black gamers still found themselves left wanting. You can kill your sims in progressively stranger ways (because, at some point, we’ve all put our sims in a pool and removed the ladder to observe as nature takes its course). Whether that’s toward success - through wealth, fame, family, popularity, a stylish vampire coven, or unbeatable cooking skills - or death.
Players have a great deal of freedom to guide their sims in whatever way they wish. Your sim pays their bills, cleans themselves, eats, and remembers if they had a sour social interaction with another sim.
