• Dec 12, 2020 They give your Sim a realistic look. They add the detailed very accurately. They work with other mods too. They work with makeup too. With these mods, you will be able to create a more realistic and life-like Sim in the game. So check out all the mods and find out which one will suit your Sims the most. Grab the Detailed Face Overlay for the Sims.
• Jan 14, 2019 This collection of hyper-realistic mods are so fun because they replaces the EA games your sims play within The Sims 4 with real gameplay footage of other popular titles on the sim’s game consoles.

The Sims 4: 15 Best Mods For Realistic Gameplay For gamers who want their Sims to deal with all the same things we do in real life, these mods will get you there. By Leyla Resuli Feb 29, 2020.

The Sims game is a very interesting one to play, this article is going to list out some of the mods which you can use to enjoy and update your game.

Most times keeping track of mods that are working is something hard to do because some mods haven’t been tended to in years, sometimes the main game updates break them or add extra features that make the mods obsolete.

Having that in mind, here is an updated collection of the to 22 best mods for the Sims 4, up to date and ranges from the little and tiny to the life-changing.

Our List Of Best Sims 4 Mods

Be sure that you do not miss out in reading the installation guides and instructions for each of these mods, also try to check if there are any conflicts so as to make sure that you are not running two mods that would clash.

Custom food interactions

This mod is good if you want more culinary creativity, the Custom Food Interactions mod is the only recommended place you could start.

It however, doesn’t add any new ingredients or recipes to the already existing ones in the game—it only adds new possible interactions to your cooking equipments and along with an updated menu framework that lets you make a fridge full of interesting meals from other modders’ kitchens.

With this mod installed, you can move on over to the ModTheSims custom food section and pick from the menu. Right there you will find recipes for each and everything, all from Chinese dumplings to beignets, blueberry cheesecake to biriyani.

You could also grab an optional bib to make sure you don’t accidentally pour saliva on your keyboard while salivating.

Building your own houseboat

If you ever get tired of living on land this mod allows you to take to water, it transforms decorative boat models in the game into full-on houseboats.

They look quite pretty but the spaces can be a bit limited which means that you’ll have to get creative as to what kind of furniture you try to pack into them. If you are a minimalist designer this is really a good choice.

If you also have the outdoorsy feeling, then this particular mod can help you to add a custom fishing location just by the side of your home.

Emotional Inertia

The Sims game has a lot of emotional bunch, in fact their moods flip within seconds like a light switch. Just by doing the simplest kind of activities like; having an good meal in a room that is well decorated would fill them with the most joy for a few hours, but then the feeling dosent last, it will vanish.

If this is not what you really like, or you just think that the system is just somehow too easy to control, then this is the right mod you should download, the Emotional Inertia.

It makes emotions to be more meaningful: emotions now last longer and become harder to override and then it would require more to reach the upper ranks of each of the emotions.

You will no longer have a problem whether your Sims are up or down, which makes your gaming feel a bit more like real they are real people.

Get a job Mod

This modders adds new careers to the ModTheSims every week. so if you’re ever looking to explore for inspiration or on which direction to steer your Sim in, then try to give it a browse.

The imagination behind these careers are impressive, most of which gives you a fully-fleshed out path to follow. Whether you want to become a bowling champ, a cook, a game developer, an engineer, a professional hacker or an investigator, you can now follow your dreams.

Become a Sorcerer

Do you ever miss the magic of previous Sims games? The become a Sorcerer mod adds a hearty serving of the supernatural, it lets your Sims sling magic spells which can either suck the sadness out of a friend or take down an enemy with a bolt of lightning or fire balls.

The mod requires you to touch lump of clay, then choose one of three available rituals—they will determine which of the Needs that would be replaced with new magical ones.

Using the magic frequently helps strengthen your powers which unlocks new spells only that it also depletes your “Magical Connection” (your mana bar, basically), which you can replenish by draining another sim or yourself.

Being an evil or good sorcerer depends on your choices, if you lean towards good or evil, which changes the kinds of spells you can cast.

If you choose doing good, you can eventually bring back ghosts to life, but if you feel that doesn’t sound like fun, just set everywhere on fire instead. This is a sure way to liven your game up if you are bored.

New personality traits

The Sims 4 has long list of traits which can change the way a Sim behaves, and because this lists makes it relatively easy for modders to create you can as well quickly expand that list through a custom content.

The Gamer trait, for example, which allows Sims to improve their gaming skills and also their programming skills faster, while the Functional Robots group of traits allows you to spawn human-machine hybrid Sims,

There are a lot of individual traits that are available on ModTheSims, another option is to grab pre-made packages of traits. It will make your Sims natural barmen, sales people, dancers etc.

True Happiness

The main idea behind this mod from roBurky is to help make your Sims’ happiness “natural, meaningful, and somewhat personal”. In the normal gameplay, ‘happy’ is everyone’s default state, but with the help of this mod your Sims will just be simply ‘fine’ most of the time.

The happiness can come whern something really special happens to them, things such as meeting a new partner, ripping through a good workout or eating a tasty meal. These various events, which are of course many, will make the game realistic by boosting their mood for a while.

The ‘fine’ mood doesn’t mean the characters of the game would look grumpy though.

Old French Village

Bring the antiquity to the Sims 4 with this beautiful and charming mod. You can have a village of old-fashioned cottages. The houses to choose from are ten houses which varies in grandeur as well as a pub and café for when your Sims feel peckish.

Somehow, one of the mods-modder catdenny has made the village by using only default assets that can be gotten from the game, which is also very impressive.

It actually means that there are slight variations in each style, but if you are a great fan of European architecture then this mod would probably won’t bug you. It sure just a nice place to live.

You can even add the village in ‘Manage Worlds’, but this will only fit in 64×64 vacant lot. Sadly, the plots in the game are not big enough which leaves you with the option of travelling to Brindleton Bay (part of the Cats & Dogs expansion) or Windenburg (from Get Together) to find such a viable plot.

Get to college

The simmythesim’s Get to College mod have been mentioned before because it sure fills a gap that those who played The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 will noticeably feel. The mod however, have not been updated in a long time now, but luckily another modder has saved us by coming along to have this mod patched.

For now this mod only allows you pick one of three majors, carry out related activities and attend lectures, and study to get a good grade.

We hope that maybe one day we’ll get an official university expansion for The Sims 4, but If at all the mod doesn’t work for you, then this University Career mod is a recommended alternative, only thing is that it does not allow you to visit the classroom.

There are other mods to check out like the out Zerbu’s Go to School mod for those who are really interested in the academic lives of their younger Sims. You just have to make sure that you add a new Elementary School or High School to the neighbourhood for it to work.

Less ‘Musical Chairs’

This mod might sound boring, but if you agree with me, the sims’ seating habit is so weird. Another annoying part is how the move around whenever you are having conversations; whenever there are several Sims involved in a normal conversation it can look like an elaborate game of Musical Chairs.

Shimrod101 has helped to build a mod that fixes that, making it more real and likely that Sims will just stay put during discussions.

Turbo Careers

This is another mod from Zerbu, the Turbo Careers mod makes all adult careers function just like the active careers from the Get to Work expansion.

You can try downloading work venues from the Gallery also including ones with a combined function, or better still make your own. You just make sure that the right objects are available for the sims to do their job.

Some of the necessary activities in a career progression that are naturally related to the career—training, cooking, exercising—are available. A sim who is an athlete can go to the gym, one who is a musician can go for an audition or even receive field work for engineers

Heights

The height mod lets you to spawn Sims of different stature and also alter how tall they are. The GODJUL1 allows you to adjust the height of your sims to create a natural feel of variations to your sims world.

All you have to do is click and drag their feet which is found in the create-a-sim to either stretch or shorten their heights.

Replacement paintings

If your sim is an artist and have done up to five paintings a day or in a week, the same images start coming up over and over again.

This mod which is from DaisyTighfield helps to replace all the default paintings and cuts across all categories, it replaces them with images from around the web, interestingly it features lots of fan art from trending and popular movies and also video games.

If you fall in love with the photos, you can look up the links that are provided in order to find the original images on websites like Deviantart or other sites. You can even follow instructions on the mod page to create your own masterpieces for your Sims to paint in-game

Gender Preference mod

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This Mod has a way of letting you change the preferences that your Sims have for their romantic partners of specific genders although in the sims 4 there are just two genders.

All you have to do for this Gender Preference Mod is adjusting the numbers so as to set your Sims to prefer one gender over the other, you could prefer one over the other or like both of them.

Risky WooHoo

This is another mod that brings The Sims closer to reality and is from the PolarBearSims. The sim gives the females who WooHoo a chance instead of expressly Try for Baby and still fall pregnant.

The mod allows you to adjust from a variety of different percentage risks where you can adjust the chances which are based on where your Sims are getting it and also the traits that these sims possess. The mod tweaks other aspects like pregnancy, introducing complications and possibly the infertility for some Sims.

One thing to take not is that the chances of getting pregnant can be manually adjusted in the MCCC and Risky WooHoo mod is also compatible with that mod.

The only difference is that the MCCC will overwrite the percentage chances. One thing to try out if you feel you want to change the game even more is to explore the Create a Sim ‘custom gender settings’ found in the base game.

They have been updated in the sims 4 and provides you with more options such as allowing couples who are of the same sex to fall pregnant. There are also other pregnancy mods you can download like the artulwww’s Pregnancy Mega Mod, which lets you do things like give birth to twins, quintuplets as many as possible.

Bills, Bills, Bills

This is a sim 4, best mod, a mod that you must have if you ever feel like making your family to feel the effect of having tremendous bills every week.

It is good if you want an added challenge to your game as the modder promises it will add more challenge without going to the extreme or being too ridiculous.

It makes the game realistic because in the sims 4, it is always easy anytime to pay the bills of the house. This particular mod become a point of contention for most gamers since the game becomes much more easier if you have a job that pays you so well.

New Traits!

There are a lot of trait slots that have been provided by modders for our sim families, this mod is available and important if you really want to go along with these additional trait slots that your sim can now hold.

For example, do you a sim who is absent-minded to be dazed by default? Then download the Sims 4 Traits Absent-Minded mod! Or maybe there is this Sim you are making who is a pleasure seeker but gets bored automatically in no time unless they keep doing things that are fun at all times?

Do your Sim seem like the really “hard to impress” Sim? It is okay, all you have to do is download the Rejoice Arrogant people and You will be able to get embarrassed after each failure you experience with the Arrogant Trait mod!

Want to be an ironic lover of things? Be one who professes hep attitudes or tastes (hipster). Be the hot and ever attractive sim? Then try the attractive trait mod or the optimist/cynic and also catch some paranoia or be socially awkward then still try out the New Traits mod, it is crazy, there is even this one among the traits that allows you to add 100 new traits all in one.

So if you want to play around some new traits all at once. this mod for sure will let you add more traits that you need all at a time but mostly three traits at a time: it is easy you just have to type a quick cheat code and also include the name of your desired trait that you wish to add it to your Sim. Everything is explained on the mod page.

You can keep checking for new traits, because this mod is always updated every month. You could also read a guide for the best sims 4 mods if that is necessary for you.

Carry Over Lifetime Skills Mod

Are you tired of having your toddler who upon all the possible skill all maxed out becomes a moron immediately they age up? Yeah that dumb and annoying, but no need to bother yourself because that does no longer have to be the case.

Just like it happens in reality, your sim can work hard enough up to their skills as a toddler and still have all these skills when they become kids.

An example that the creator of this mod gave to make things clear. If you by any means increase both the mental and creativity skills as child, the mod will help you maintain those skills as a teen, not just that, you are going to enjoy a bonus boost to your handiness skill too

Normally, whenever you level up all the skills of both your toddler and child, they will then add points into the important and appropriate skill when they are grown.

There is an outline too where you can check how these skills are split up. This mod makes it possible for you not to be able to lose all your progress made as a toddler it should be an instant addition in our mods for Sims 4 game.

Have Some Personality Please!

One can easily say the way the sims’ personality work is a huge overhaul. It always varies a lot in the background (as you can read over the exhaustive list of description in the mod page) but the best thing so far about this is that it tries as much as possible to eliminate all the idle conversations in the sims’ game.

There would be never a time when two sims will blab without aim to each other, or blab for nothing in particular: instead, the mod will help them to choose an interaction that is far more interesting than the initial.

Another interesting feature about this mod is that it does not just select the interactions at random, rather it selects them based on traits, the current mod of the sim and surprisingly the existing relationships between these two sims in question.

This in fact gives your gaming experience a greater sense of reality and also a sense of autonomy than before. You would expect much more love kisses from lover interests and even “you suck” punches to any of your enemies.

MC Command Center

This is one of my best mod, it lets you to play around virtually with your sims’ lives which gives you control over them and also others in their world.

You can put certain clothing items on blacklist, this can be done even on the sim that you are not controlling. Categories like employment rates for sims of respective ages, pregnancy scanning of sims and of course the power to terminate these pregnancies.

The mod comes with lots of automatic settings that are geared towards letting Sims that you don’t control live full lives without you, get married and have babies, the mod also allows you to adjust some settings in the game so your Sims don’t spend half of the day to shower and have breakfast.

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We play EA’s Sims 4 to experience a detailed simulation of human life.

It’s fun to watch the wacky situations our sim counterparts get themselves into… or the situations we force onto them for our amusement.

But The Sims contrasts substantially with human life in its cartoonish nature. Everything is funny, absurd, and sims just take everything as lightly as possible. For them, life is simple.

Well not anymore! Thanks to the tireless work of some amazing modders, we can re-introduce some of the more nuanced aspects of human life into the game, increasing the simulation’s complexity and often making everything just a little bit darker, grittier… more real.

For anyone interested in making their Sims experience as real as it can be, here are the some awesome mods for increased realism.

20. Realistic Reactions

Have you ever been cheated on?

Hopefully not, but let me tell you it isn’t chill.

For this reason I always found it unrealistic that sims would just get angry at their cheating spouse for a little bit before returning to normal, at least whenever infidelity was actually discovered.

Creator Scaldwellhu agrees. And they made a mod to make cheating as big a deal as it usually is in real life.

Now couples will be devastated by the event, and it’ll take a lot of work to get things back in order. Even the kids will feel upset when their parents are in this situation!

19. Miscarriage Chance

Pregnancy is a beautiful process. But sometimes there are complications, and that’s just a fact of life.

This mod by LittleMsSam introduces a slight chance that one morning, a pregnant Sim may wake up with cramps and abdominal pain, prompting them to go to the hospital.

While sometimes they’ll come back with a healthy baby and make everyone in the household relieved, more often than not they’ll return with dark news despite the doctor’s best efforts.

It’s sad, it’s dark, and it’s incredibly realistic.

Now on the flip side, if you want pregnancy custom content that’s a bit more light-hearted take a peek at our pregnancy mods list. Not as much realism, but a whole lotta fun in there.

18. Pregnancy Overhaul Mod

Creator LittleMsSam doesn’t just want to put a damper on your reproductive fun.

She just strives for realism, which we can find in her Pregnancy Overhaul Mod.

Not only does it replace the absurd pregnant belly size found in vanilla for something more anatomically correct, but it removes the exaggerated pregnant walking animation as well.

It also lets expecting sims continue practicing yoga, swimming, and other such activities up to the beginning of their third trimester, as is normal for would-be-moms in real life(which I had to Google to confirm, I mean I’ve never been pregnant so…)

17. Risky Woohoo & Try For Baby Chances

Normally you can actively choose whether you want a sim to have safe Woohoo with a partner, or outright try for a baby and get them pregnant.

But that’s not quite how it works in real life.

Modder PolarBearSims came up with some tweaks to make the Woohoo experience more immersive by replacing it with Risky Woohoo, and implementing a complex fertility system affecting all sims.

Depending on their fertility levels, location of the encounter, and some other factors, some sims will have more of a chance of becoming pregnant accidentally than others. Sims may also become infertile, requiring them to get fertility treatments to actually get pregnant. If that isn’t real, I don’t know what is.

16. More Best Friends

I’ve never been able to give a definitive answer when someone asks who my best friend is.

I would never be able to pick just one. They’re all key parts of my life!

Thanks to creator LittleMsSam, your sims won’t have to pick just one either.

Now the “become best friends” interaction will have a 30-minute cooldown rather than a one-time use, allowing you to create inseparable squads of Sim besties.

15. SNB – Sim National Bank

The way money and bills work in The Sims 4 is pretty basic for a game made for simulating human life.

Sim National Bank by SimRealist is an in-depth mod that endeavors to overhaul the financial system in TS4, letting sims manage bank accounts, take out loans, pay their bills individually, and so on.

Quite honestly, this is one of the most realism-enhancing mods I’ve ever seen.

But only the most hardcore players will actually have fun introducing accounting into their sim lives, which is why I don’t place it higher in this ranking.

But let it be known, this mod is exceptionally realistic.

14. Personality Please!

Sims are notoriously less complicated than humans. They take life one day at a time and often choose what feels right in the moment, rather than what makes sense in the long run.

Personality Please! by PolarBearSims is a mostly romance-centric rework that makes Sims considerably less promiscuous by making traits, aspirations, and past events greatly affect their relationships with other sims.

Now they’ll actually need to be compatible if you want them to get down and dirty.

Other than that, the mod also gives cats and dogs more varied personalities, and sims can learn traits and choose careers just from having deep conversations with others. How cool!

13. Automatic Beards

Ever since I turned 14 years old, my ever-growing beard has been an important part of my life.

Every morning I decide whether or not to shave, and the choice has important ramifications on how my life plays out. The same should be true of our digital friends.

This mod makes sim beards grow automatically over time, requiring constant shaving. Unless you want your sim to become Gandalf the Grey, that is.

12. SimDa Dating App

Dating and finding partners is astoundingly easy in Sims 4 compared to real life. Which is why we needed dating apps, and they don’t – until now.

The SimDa Dating App by LittleMsSam works a lot like a streamlined version of Tinder, allowing your sims to schedule meetings, set up blind dates, or simply call somebody over for a one night stand.

Each of these interactions has its own interesting features and possibilities.

You can start relationships, have some fun… and even get someone pregnant by accident. Just like real life!

11. The Explore Mod

While there’s a lot of places to visit and activities to enjoy in The Sims 4, there’s always room for some improvement.

And more autonomy is always good.

The Explore Mod by KawaiiStacie lets your Sims go out and explore the world autonomously, either alone or with friends.

They’ll have adventures, gain skills, meet people, and maybe even change their world view!

This mod adds several entertaining activities like gambling, getting your nails done, doing temporary work for an extra buck, and even going out to get takeout if you’re too lazy to cook. All very realistic and very immersive.

10. Height Slider

One of the most frustrating and unrealistic things in the game is how every sim is exactly the same height as others of the same age group.

Well thanks to this mod by creator Luumia, you’ll be able to give your sims different heights through a slider in CAS.

Everything else will, of course, scale proportionately to height.

As a bonus, Luumia included a hip shape slider and neck length variation for even more Sim variety.

9. Extreme Violence

The world is a very violent place, and even peaceful suburban areas like see their fair share of violence from time to time.

Extreme Violence by Sacrificial Mods adds the possibility for wrongdoing sims to attack others in a wide variety of ways.

Shooting them with machine guns, cracking their necks, chopping them up with a machete, and even crushing their skulls by sitting on them are only some examples.

I mean, I guess it’s realistic?

Not only does it add the acts in themselves, but a bunch of added functionality revolving around them, like the possibility for sims to acquire the Serial Killer trait, or paying a gang to off someone your Sim doesn’t like. Yikes!

8. Meaningful Stories

Sims don’t take life too seriously, and they’re incredibly fickle.

They may be completely devastated by the death of their pet one moment, then ecstatic because they watched a good movie the next with no in-between.

This mod by Roburky reworks the mood and emotion systems to make them more nuanced and realistic.

A depressed sim will need time and help from their friends to get out of a rut, and something like a first kiss will make them feel happy like never before.

Transitions between emotions also take time, and there are transitional periods when they’re feeling a bit of everything.

7. Passionate Romance

The romance system in vanilla TS4 is pretty basic.

You can flirt, go on dates, Woohoo and get married, but it never really feels like a relationship.

Passionate Romance by Sacrificial Mods improved this greatly by adding several new interactions like snuggling, hugging romantically, taking a romantic selfie, and even grabbing each other’s butts like they used to in TS2.

6. After School Activities

Going to school has never been just about learning history or science.

It’s also about making friends, acquiring skills, and finding yourself.

With this add-on by amazing creator KawaiiStacie you can add all these things. It endeavors to flesh-out educational experiences by adding over 30 after-school programs for children and teens.

Examples include the Anime Club, the Yoga Club, band, and basketball.

Sims partaking in these activities will learn skills, make friends, gain motives, and may even apply for scholarships depending on their performance throughout their school life.

5. Wicked Whims (NSFW)

If there’s something humans never get tired of, it’s sex. We love it, and so should our Sims if we’re to have a realistic experience in-game.

Wicked Whims goes a long way to develop everything sex-related in TS4, from turning the Woohoo interaction incredibly graphic to giving female Sims a fully-functional menstrual cycle complete with mood swings, cramps, varying fertility and a need for pads and tampons.

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This one goes deep.

It even introduces contagious STDs! Now if that isn’t seriously realistic, I really don’t know what is.

4. Basemental Drugs

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Alcohol and other drugs have been a reality of life since time immemorial, and that’s not about to change anytime soon.

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Basemental Drugs endeavors to introduce this reality of human life into TS4. It lets your sim pals acquire, consume, and sell alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and many other mind-altering substances.

Sims engaging in these activities may become addicted, have problems with the law, get arrested, and even go to rehab… and that’s only the tip of the iceberg.

It’s not pretty, but it is the real world.

3. Basemental Gangs

If you like Basemental Drugs, the Basemental Gangs expansion is sure to pique your interest.

It fleshes out the entire drug dealing aspect of the mod, allowing you to create a criminal empire and become the leader of one of four gangs.

Again, dark but quite brutally realistic.

You’ll have underlings, earn loads of blood money, and there’s even an entire skill system to become a better thug. It may not be wholesome, but it sure as hell is realistic.

If you’ve ever wanted a little more GTA in your Sims experience, this mod is the ultimate crossover.

2. Life’s Tragedies

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As you may have realized by now, not everything is glitter and candy.

There are tragic and difficult moments in everyone’s lives. And they can arrive when you least expect them.

Life’s Tragedies by Sacrificial Mods adds a wide variety of possible tragedies that may befall your Sim or NPCs close to them. Like randomly being run over by a car, getting jumped by a homicidal maniac, or even contracting a life-threatening disease they’ll need surgery to overcome.

It may seem a bit intense, but don’t worry. You can control how often these tragedies happen, so you can either turn your Sim’s life into a horror story or just inject a tiny bit of dark realism into your game.

This will be absolutely hilarious, devastatingly upsetting, or some kind of in-between, depending what you’re looking for.

Just note the download page includes a lot of other mods from this creator, so look towards the lower part of the screen for their “Life’s Tragedies” download file. It does get updated from time-to-time so if you want the absolute newest version definitely grab it from the link above.

1. Slice of Life

Easily the most comprehensive and complete realism overhaul for The Sims 4 is Slice of Life by KawaiiStacie.

It’s an extensive mod that touches almost every aspect of life in the game.

Your sims get visible emotions, recurring memories of past events that’ll affect their moods, a complex fitness system, and reactions to their own appearance. Among many other things!

One of the most impressive features of the mod is giving every single sim a personality based on the Myers-Briggs 16 personalities test, which affects the way they behave and interact with other sims to a great extent.

It also adds many features we’ve already seen in previous mods such as functional alcohol, serious sickness, and a complex menstrual cycle, all in a single polished CC pack affecting every sim in your world, including NPCs.

This is truly the ultimate realism mod for The Sims 4, hands down.

If you need a one-stop shop realism mod then give this a try before anything else. You’ll be surprised how much it offers.