Casey’s Reviews
Is The Sims 4: Growing Together Worth It?
An honest review of the latest Maxis DLC
Normally, I wait for Sims 4 DLC to go on sale before I invest in a new pack. Although the Sims 4 base-game, first released in 2014, is now free (and was $5USD for some time before that), EA Games milks its users by releasing paid DLC that adds features, traits, and items.
Many of these features really should have been part of the game all along.
Case-in-point: When the game was first released in 2014, newborns aged up directly into children — a massive leap, considering toddlers were part of every game since the original. Toddlers were added to the base-game in 2017, with everything needed to take care of them: toddler beds, high chairs, toys, potties, skills, aspirations.
The base-game update that just dropped added a new life stage (“infants”) but very few usable items. Players are justifiably miffed that the update didn’t include a single changing table, despite the ones from Growing Together matching the base-game furniture.
It added nonfunctional diapers and wipes as clutter, though! Yay!
In the base-game, infants have no gameplay. They are just smaller toddlers, with less to do since they can’t build skills. Luckily, the…
