The Sims franchise is a great PC or console classic to dive back into when painfully bored. There are limitless opportunities for real-life-simulated fun or disaster, whether that’s settling down with a family or becoming a mastermind criminal. It’s entirely up to the player to decide what to do with their simulated life.
Sometimes these almost infinite possibilities in The Sims can be overwhelming and only increase boredom. Often, players just need a structure to follow. The Sims Challenges are fan-made gameplay ideas, instructing Simmers to follow a strict set of rules to achieve a certain goal.
10 100 Baby: Non-stop Baby Mania
This particular The Sims Challenge has been around almost as long as the franchise itself. It requires a jobless matriarch Sim to give birth to 100 babies in as few generations as possible. Babies can be aged up immediately, avoiding those unanimously annoying few days of constant crying. However, toddlers, children, and teens must first complete their learning for that era of their life before aging up and moving on. But here’s the catch, the matriarch Sim must sleep with a new suitor for each baby.
9 Legacy: 10 Year Generation
Arguably one of the most popular The Sims Challenges, the Legacy Challenge requires a single Young Adult Sim to move into a 50×50 empty lot. To kick things off, the Family Funds Cheat must be used to give this starter Sim only §1800.
From here, the founding Sim must grind to build up their wealth and make a family that will continue for 10 generations. Players can choose their succession laws, from traditional first-born male heirs to something completely original.
8 Asylum: 8 Insane Traits
This Challenge requires the player to create a full house of 8 Sims, each with the Insane trait. However, only one Sim can be controlled. To make things extra interesting, the rules include placing 5 beds, 6 seats (only 1 of which can let a Sim nap), 1 bathroom, and no smoke alarm. With these restrictions, there’s bound to be trouble. The goal of the Asylum Challenge is to finish the aspirations for the player’s chosen Sim as a sign that they can now leave the asylum.
7 Not So Berry: Color-coded Sims
In the Not So Berry Challenge, each generation of a player’s Sim family must abide by a color scheme and its respective traits, aspiration, and career. For example, the first generation is the color Mint, a Vegetarian Scientist who aspires to be the Chief of Mischief. The next is Rose, and so on. Challenges like these encourage players to experience different styles of The Sims gameplay and expand their horizons. Players can use the Free Real Estate cheat to start them up, but no cheats can be used after that.
6 Rags To Riches: Started From The Bottom Now We’re Here
After purchasing a lot, a Sim is left with nothing in the Rags To Riches Challenge. The goal of this Challenge is to go from rummaging for food in trashcans, sleeping in public places, to owning a fully furnished home, having a family and a career.
Before a player’s Sim is allowed to make progress, mandatory steps must be taken. For example, a Sim must achieve level 5 Handiness and level 3 Logic before building a home. This Challenge is all about finding creative ways to climb the ladder.
5 Black Widow: Marry, Cheat, Kill
This Challenge does what it says on the tin: marry and kill to make money. A player’s matriarch Sim must have Materialistic, Snob and Romantic traits and the Serial Romantic aspiration. The gameplay structure is as follows: marry a rich suitor, host a dinner party, then find a new romantic interest and move them into the lot. The Black Widow Sim must be caught cheating to then kill off the husband and marry the new boyfriend. The overall goal is to reach 10 graves or more, all signed by the Black Widow.
4 Bachelor or Bachelorette: Dating For Dummies
Players can make their very own season of Bachelor or Bachelorette in this The Sims Challenge. Create 7 contestants to live in the lot with your protagonist Sim, and with looser rules than a lot of Challenges, players can get creative with the dating options and use the Motherlode cheat to their heart’s content. The main Sim must go on a date with every contestant to get to know them. Every day at 3 pm the player must eliminate the weakest relationship until they’re left with their perfect match.
3 Hotel: Roll The Dice
In this Challenge, everything is left to chance apart from the hotel and its owner Sim. Players can find guests by simply inviting neighbors into the lot, once they’re in their room it’s mandatory to delete the door. Using a dice or a number generator, players must randomize possible events such as romance or WooHoo with the guest, remove all furniture from their room or kill the guest.
Using the Modify Funds cheat, players can put in the hotel earnings each day, depending on the quality of the hotel and the number of guests.
2 Block Party: One For The Builders
The Block Party Challenge is a little different from the others. Players must demolish every lot in their Sims world so that they can rebuild each house with specific requirements. In The Sims 4, the chosen world can be Willow Creek, Oasis Springs, or the completely empty world of Newcrest. Builders must include 2 starter homes, a park, 4 community lots, and at least 1 large mansion. With no limits on cheats or mods, the Block Party Challenge allows builders to simply enjoy being creative and bask in the glory of building a new town.
1 Prison: Locked-Up And Wishing
A Sim has been framed for a crime they did not commit in the Prison Challenge. Once the sentenced Sim has completed their lifetime wish, however, they can leave the jail, which is also occupied by 7 other Sims who the player cannot control. Completing a lifetime wish is rather difficult when a Sim is locked in a cell from 9 am to 9 pm every single day though. No Money Cheats are permitted in this Challenge, and locked-up Sims must not leave the lot at any point in the game. With certain permitted traits as well, this Challenge is definitely one for Simmer veterans.