Holidays even come with activities for Sims to accomplish based on if they enjoy the Holiday or not. Pick any day and create a unique holiday for whatever the celebration. Who doesn’t want to celebrate Harvest-Fest or receive a visit from Father Winter during Winterfest (yes, it’s a lot of fest)? Maybe none of these holidays work and a personal holiday sounds better? Well, just add it to the calendar. It just wouldn’t feel like true seasonal cheer with out the appropriate holidays and while The Sims 4 is pulling from what it knows in real-life, The Sims 4 holidays might honestly be better.
The calendar might be the most important feature for Seasons, displaying days left in a season, who is busy on what days with appropriate times and has every holiday/birthday booked marked with some holidays even making appearances at random.
Keeping up with the changing of the seasons can be a lot to manage, not only for the changes they bring, but the holidays too that’s where the calendar comes in. It adds for some fun new looks and keeps Sims from dying a win-win (note: while the raincoat will keep a Sim dry, it won’t keep them from getting hit by lightning).
When changing clothes for these weather types the game will let you know what clothing constitutes as what. Two new outfits are now a part of Sims wardrobes: warm and cold weather outfits. Now that seasons are in Sims’ lives, if they don’t dress for the weather, there is more than one way that they’ll kick the bucket. Maybe a Sim is heading out into the frigid night for a drink? Well make sure to dress them in warm clothing or otherwise they might freeze to death, which applies vice-versa for summer heatwaves. Having new dynamic weather is fun, but it means making sure Sims are dressing appropriately for the yearly weather. As with any piece of Sims content, comes jobs, furnishing, gags and the plane-strange in the best of ways feeling that The Sims 4 can bring. No matter the season, The Sims 4 nails the aesthetic and atmosphere of each one and is almost reason enough to jump on this expansion, but The Sims 4: Seasons has more to show than just the yearly weather. The frigid winter air can be felt rattling through bones as cool blues set into the nooks of warm homes with the fall of first snow, watching it steadily build through the season. Just playing through summer feels hot, as a warmer tone sets over neighborhoods matched by nights of heavy summer thunderstorms and heatwaves blanketing the streets. What really makes each individual season stand out is, of course, all the things to do and changing of the leaves, but The Sims 4 has gone above and beyond in getting the mood just right for each season. If The Sims 4: Seasons gets one thing right, it’s the feeling of each season. It means living out ones’ favorite season(s) and skipping those dreaded months, whatever the time of year. A simple feature for Seasons, but an important one, is that the seasons can be set to seven days, fourteen days or thirty days. What seemed to be a relatively short cycle when starting Seasons, allotting one week in game time to each season, proved to be just enough time to get comfortable with all the seasons in planning for the next cycle. Pick a favorite season or save the best for last, once that seasonal cycle gets going it won’t matter either way. Once Seasons has been implemented in game, The Sims 4 waste no time putting that yearly weather to work asking immediately what season the player would like to start in. With The Sims 4: Seasons comes a slew of compelling changes that add depth to The Sims 4 were it had been lacking Seasons would be fun to play even without the other content (though it does help).
Hitting a good stride of yearly content, The Sims 4 isn’t running out of steam, yet, and while it took time to get to Seasons, it’s well worth it now that the seasons of sims lives are in full swing. Marking the fifth expansion after many real seasons of DLC, Sims can now enjoy year-round appropriate weather just like their real-life counter parts in The Sims 4: Seasons.