How to play The Sims 4 for free

Most recently, The Sims 4 was free to play. How to take advantage of this? We will tell you everything in this article.

Like many people, I remember being addicted to The Sims. The Sims 2 was my favorite, but I also played The Sims 3 a lot. I completely lost my desire to play before The Sims 4 came out in 2014, and I haven’t played it much since. But by making The Sims 4 free, I’m afraid I’ve regressed.

Last month, EA announced good news: The Sims 4 has recently become completely free. You can download and play the base game without spending a dime. And if we remember the controversy surrounding the game at the time, we’ll say that The Sims 4 was ultimately developed as a free-to-play game with the ability to add expansions and other packages.

Some have already paid big bucks for The Sims 4. If you’re an EA Play or EA Play Pro subscriber, you’ll get special updates for The Sims 4. EA Play Edition includes the Get to Work Expansion Pack, while EA The Play Pro Edition also adds toddlers.

To be precise, only the base game of The Sims 4 is free. This is enough to get you started, but it will only give you a glimpse of the possibilities. EA has developed many expansion packs to add different and varied items.

The expansion packs are as follows:

• Cats and dogs
• Life in the city
• Cottage
• Discover the University
• eco lifestyle
• Get famous
• get together
• Get to work
• High school years
• island life
• Seasons
• snow escape

There are also twelve game packs, more incremental upgrades compared to expansion packs:

• have lunch
• Dream home decorator
• jungle adventure
• My wedding stories
• Open Retreat
• paternity
• realm of magic
• spa day
• Star Wars: Journey to Batuu
• Stranger
• Vampires
• were wolves

By offering The Sims 4 for free, EA will offer itself a large base of potential customers for these add-ons and games. Of course, you can spend nothing, but seeing all the possibilities, you could spend tens or even hundreds of dollars without realizing it.

How to download and play The Sims 4 for free

You most likely have a device running The Sims 4: PC, Mac, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One.

Downloading the game on PlayStation and Xbox is very easy. You’ll find the game on the PlayStation Store and Xbox Store as a free download. On PC it’s a little different.

On Mac and PC, go to the EA website to find The Sims 4. Hover over the blue Play for Free button in the top right corner and select EA App for Windows, Origin for Mac, or Steam. If you choose one of the first two options, you will need to scroll down the page, click on the appropriate link for your computer (EA app for Windows and Origin for Mac), install and launch the game.

Currently, The Sims 4 on Steam is only available for Windows. You can play The Sims 4 directly from Steam without downloading the game.