Packs are on sale and I need ✨justification✨ before purchasing

I like seeing more gameplay people. It feels like the EA and Sims team cater to the builders, people who will spend hours in build mode and could care less about gameplay. 😭

Growing Together personally for me was needed to make infants not boring. I played with an infant two days before getting that pack and it got boring quickly. I know people have mixed feelings about the milestones but I think the milestones for infants really makes you feel like the infants are developing/ getting older. They can be difficult and kinda hectic but it adds a challenge to your sims life. My only gripe with Growing Together was that there was no active daycare career. They had that in sims 3 so why couldn't they do that in sims 4? I know there is a mod now...but it should have been included in the pack. I also feel like one of the few people that like Snowy Escape and Horse Ranch, lol. I love SE's world and the culture and the festivals are quite fun too. I also like snowboarding, rock-climbing and the hiking trails. As for Horse Ranch, I love horses and nectar-making. I also like the mini-sheep and goats. Basically if you want a big farm with lots of animals get this pack with Cottage Living. HSY isn't buggy for me. It could have been implemented better but I do feel like it does give me something to do with teens. I also really like social bunny and trendy. The only pack that I don't really like is Get Famous. I basically got it for the acting career. And I do like the streaming station they have where your sim can make their own videos and make money. But that's about it. I wish the world would have been more like a city. I usually have my actors live in San Myshuno rather than the bland world that it comes with.

Best packs is get together + seasons. Best combo ever, I bought these two packs together and the amount of gameplay added to my game was amazing.

I like Get Together a lot. It's got group dancing, dj mixing, and then with the dj's you can create real nightclubs. The club system is one of the very few things the Sims team keeps updated--it has cross-functionality with most other packs' gameplay. The club system helps you make friends, build skills, set up family, party, or other group activities. And then the sims actually mostly do those activities. It makes the whole game feel more alive.

As someone who plays the sims but doesn't feel the need to purchase every pack, I love your honest reviews. I feel like they needed to combine cats and dogs with horse ranch like in the sims 3. Same thing with werewolves and vampire, they should have just combined them. The sims 3 felt you got some much more bang for your buck with packs

I'm still frustrated that we don't have singers and bands still 😆That definitely should have came with Get Famous. I definitely agree about Cats & Dogs because they seem so lifeless and pointless in having in my household. They need more things to do. Especially horses! Omg the horses just idle for HOURS in my game.

I am very thankful that you don't bullsh*t about the packs you just say what they are what they do and show truthfully if it's a good pack or bad pack

Just stocking stuffer, but I want to support you. You’re a great person,as I appreciate your advice on personal things and sims 4. You encourage to live unapologetically. Merry (hopefully snowy) Christmas to you and much love Satch!

Hey Satch! Merry Christmas (to everyone celebrating)!!! Thanks for posting even though it's a holiday. I mainly agree with your choices and rankings, although the only reason I like Growing Together is because of the milestones of the infants. Without the pack, infants go from being objects in a crib to being able to crawl and sit, and it's immersion breaking. I like the fact that infants can't do anything unless they actually learn it - like lifting their head, first laugh, etc.

As a “secondary” user of the English language 😂, have a MERRY Christmas. I’ve had a rough year and your videos have been a welcome treat. Thank you!

It really goes down to storyline you have in mind for a sim, this game is just a dollhouse symulator after all.

Get Together is the most important pack to my gameplay. I have Sims in clubs full time. It increases their skill rate as you earn perks, and there is also one that basically eliminates the need to eat, sleep or pee. To me it makes the entire game more playable. There is a greater chance of death by hysteria as it amplifies good moods. But that's okay. Resurrection is easy enough, lol.

I agree with Growing Together 100%. I got it for my birthday and it is so shallow! I really think that was meant to be a base game (infant stuff, and milestones) update and a Parenthood refresh. I also think Horse Ranch and For Rent were meant to be refreshes too. How else would there be 3 EP in one year!

Thanks for posting today! Holidays are tough for me and you always make me smile❤️

Now that there's a sims sale, this video is perfect because I was needing help to choose a pack.

I just got the Bust the Dust pack and just I LOVE IT! The dust adds so much ambience and annoyingly realistic game play and the dust bunnies are so cute! The dust bunnies can be befriended and become indoor bunny pets that don’t age or die - unlike the cottage living bunnies that keep dying even if I turn off animal aging!

Watching this vid while doing Christmas countdown. Happy Holidays Satch! ETA: Thank you Satch for giving Get to Work and Get Famous the love that they deserve! IMO, those 2 EPs are also a must-have ❤

I'm starting to think you guys don't know how to have fun! When Outdoor Retreat was one of five packs I had in my jailbroken game, I had my sim go and find all the different growable plants and collect all the bugs without cheating on what time/where they spawned. She ended her collection with the elusive Will-o-the-wisp and found the Hermit's house, ending up falling for hermit Bruce and marrying him. They had 5 kids and Bruce went out the way he wanted, via CowPlant. Get creative y'all.

You are incredible and so genuine, honest, and I appreciate you Satch

Thank you for this. New to the sims 4 so very helpful. Merry Christmas! 🎄

Get to work is also required for Zerbu's Turbo careers mod to work, which makes all base game careers active!

Tbh I wish EA just decided to remake the sims 3. I put almost 3000 hours into the sims 3 but I have barely 1200 hours in the sims 4 :(

there's a discount going on right now, good timing for a video like this

Everyone always hates on Get to Work but it adds so much gameplay. I just got University and it just has the University rabbit holes to attend and is so buggy. Get to Work has multiple interactive jobs and the ability to build and own shops. 😊

Merry Christmas Satch! I love your videos but particularly your tier lists! Cannot wait for you to update the sims worlds tier list with Chestnut Ridge and Tomarang!!

i love your suggestions for waiting for not paying full price. so true!

Merry xmas Satch! Glad I found you this year.

My favorites are city living and island living. Totally into the vibes and the social interactions! ❤ 🌴🧜‍♀️ the scenery in island living is to die for!

I agree with this list 100%. My biggest gripe with Growing Together was that it felt necessary to buy. I truly think milestones should have come with the infant update as a huge base game update. Milestones aren’t big enough of a feature to be bought. Infants without Growing Together are no better than newborns locked to their cradle imo, especially with how long of a life stage it is. It’s also absolutely appalling that things like the playmat were locked behind an expansion paywall.

I just got Seasons and…it’s fine. Not blown away, but the price was finally too good to ignore. I was worried about feeling overwhelmed by to-do list of the holidays and changing weather messing up my Sims lives. I moved from the East Coast of the US to the West Coast - California (Bay Area) where there is mild weather all year and didn’t miss massive weather changes at all, wasn’t bothered. Neutral all year weather is cool with me. Having aging on and rasing my sims kids was my time progression as well as other sim families aging around me. What I do like in the Seasons pack tho is a sense of geography so I do like if my Sim takes a vacation in Sulani during the winter they actually DO have different weather then the Sim had at home. Even popping over to San Myshuno from Willow Creek you might hit a storm not going on at home and I will say this added the most variety to my play more than anything. And made each map feel more like a definitively different place then the other. As troubled as the For Rent launch has been, it is a need for me especially for that sense of geography. The Home Regions Mod does a great job at keeping Sims from crossing over into worlds they don’t live in. But can make the population of worlds with smaller lot counts REALLY small. The custom apartments have allowed me to increase each neighborhood population more effectively.

build mode and cas are my specialty, so I usually go for packs I know has good build objects and a nice cas, like a lot of people hate vintage glamor, but I love it because cas and bb

i'll forever defend snowy escape haha. i might be biased since i quite like japanese culture, and i also got it before city living so festivals were entirely new in my game, but I think it comes with a lot of fun elements that are often overlooked because the pack is centered around winter sports that weren't implemented well so it's easy to trash it. To me, it was a breath of fresh air after owning a whole bunch of american suburban/british countryside style packs, there was finally something in the game representing a culture other than western european. The world itself is very pretty, I like how there's the snowy area where you can ski/snowboard all year round, but you can also experience a normal Japanese town as well, which could have been done in a better way, but at least it's something. I think it adds some versatibility to the pack, another reason to purchase it besides playing winter sports and climbing mountains and I find myself using the pack quite a lot. I'm also a gameplay person, but I think it's awesome for build mode and CAS as well. Also, hiking!!!! it's not very exciting, i'll admit it, but I always use it for proposals haha, at least it looks nice, something different from willow creek. For a pack about winter sports I find it disappointing how it lacks depth, but I think it's a better pack than, like, cats & dogs by MILES and you get more substance for the same price. It should've been called something else instead of snowy escape

I've watched almost all of Satch's vids. He's spot on with most advice. Admit his game play style's different so he can be a bit more crit than I am. But I bought everything in the order Satch recommends I've no regrets.

I like Nifty Knitting. As someone who likes to crochet, being able to have my sims do something similar is fun! Also, I like the build-mode stuff

First of all, merry christmas Satch! 🔥💙 Second, could you do a playthrough or review on the Sims Urbz on console? That will be a hilarious 😂🩵

omg thank you for being so honest about growing together! I have the exact same thoughts about growing together! after I purchased it I could not believe how they called it an expansion pack when it's barely any gameplay, the milestones doesn't even impact my Sims life all that much. I was so disappointed, but I learned my lesson and that's why I haven't purchased the for rent yet, and I probably won't until there's a really really good price on it..

Needed this!

i am so happy i found your channel

thank you so much this was so helpful uwu

Greatly appreciate the video! Added some much needed perspective for deciding which games I'm going to purchase! I think I'll forever be sad about My Wedding Stories 😭 I'd never been so excited and unfortunately... if anyone has mod recs to fix it... I'd buy it 🤧🤣

I look forward to your videos satch 🎉

I missed the part from Sims2 is when a sim’s job progress their carpool car progresses as well. And also the schools bus

i was literally just watching ur video on every expansion pack in sims 4

You are glowing today Satch

I honestly trust your opinion more than, for example, lilsimsie's or any other sims 4 youtuber when it comes to these things simply because you don't care what people say about you for telling the truth ❤ Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

This may be silly to say but I feel like sims 4 for rent is a need especially if you have other packs which most summer do. The reason I say it’s a need is that it brings multi family lots unfortunately not multi functioning lots which needs to be added. But that really expands and creates bigger worlds. Especially for worlds like Delsol valley. A very small world but huge lots to add things like apartments. As for me it’s a need.

The one thing about nifty knitting and laundry day I do like is that they did it based on player's voting. I believe the consensus for paranormal stuff is that so many people wanted happy haunts they decided to add it, which either way was a really good move. Still, I feel like it shows a lot what players want and was a good way of getting the community involved

Agree, only buy on sale!! Seasons, Vampires, and Cottage Living are my favs right now.

I have -Romantic garden -Jungle adventure -Fancy party (something like that) -Christmas free stuff -My first pet (Don't have cats and dogs but cas is still usable 💅🏻) -And something I cannot remember For free from official sales and I am collecting slowly ✨

As a gameplay Simmer I really appreciate this video!

I love how you put realm of magic high on your list cause a lot of sims youtubers rate them very low. I finally found someone who kinda likes it as I do 😊. It has been the center of my every sims 4 gameplay since its release.

I personally think of Dream Home Decorator the same way Satch thinks of Tiny Living. It's there to encourage you to get more creative with build/buy mode while working within constraints... plus I really enjoy interior design. Sure, you need to do a fair amount of work (interviewing them and even taking notes irl) to understand what your decorator gig clients want and don't want and have to find a middle ground there, but I think it's satisfying when you do well, even if the work might end up looking ridiculous. lol That's part of the fun for me. lol Gigs also get you using the build/buy filters quite a bit. Anyone who says it's too easy to satisfy your clients in Dream Home Decorator hasn't done gigs where there are multiple sims with multiple likes and dislikes. If you don't do enough interviewing and don't consider the likes and dislikes, especially when they conflict with one another, you can easily fail your gig. If you're thinking that you can't properly interview your clients, consider that you might not be using the right social interactions, and no, the Interior Decorator ones aren't always enough. "Ask About Hobbies and Skills", "Ask About Favorite Color", and "Ask About Taste In Decor" are all crucial questions to ask your clients. Interior Decorator interactions only generate gig interest bubbles in the career menu... which are important to keep in mind of course since those are the things the clients will want in the renovation (and *nothing* else), but do be careful not to have anything in the renovation that clients dislike, even if they asked for them, however this may not matter if only one or two sims dislike something... in a large household. Yes, I am very careful and assume that all clients will be picky as. lol They have been very picky at times, and I greatly dislike failure. lololo

Thanks, I'm thinking of giving TS4 a chance yet again. I'm a fan who discovered the franchise through the handheld spinoffs and I played most of the games including TS1. I'm really only interested in TS4 due to the mods and the feel of a new experience since I barely played it. This video is helpful to know what to choose.

I agree with you when you say that the packs are only worthwhile when there's a sale on. I'm still missing the last 3 large packs. They are also currently on offer. But I still can't motivate myself to buy them because even combined they hardly offer enough gameplay to keep me entertained over the holidays.

Merry Christmas, Satch. I am mildly considering getting Seasons, now. I was ready to never purchase another Sims thing, essentially boycotting S4, but maybe Seasons will be 80% off at one point... I might strongly consider buying it then.

You some really valid points with good reasoning! Thank you for sharing! I personally love playing in Sulani. I agree with your critique, but, to me, it's just so pretty that I don't care, whoops.

After seeing this I really hope Sims 5 or whatever has done more planning for whatever packs they'll put out because looking at this list I see so much overlap. So many things that could've been a single pack are split across 2-3 sometimes even 4 packs.

I love the Paranormal Stuff Pack, cause it's a gameplay pack for the price of a stuff pack

Great review😊Personally the cats and dogs pack is worth it for owning a vet clinic, I like the gameplay. But owning the actual pet for sure feels meaningless in the game!

How to get liver cirrhosis: take a shot every time Satch says "I feel like"

I currently own all expansions and most game packs so this is my justification to see if I want anything I don’t own yet 😅

4 DAYS AGO! Perfect ❤

Get Together is in my need category. It is one of my favorite packs. As well as Seasons, Get to Work and City Living. Everything else is meh except for Batuu and MWS which are both under hate it/delete it for me.

im so glad I found his channel its like finding your soulmate but instead of being an romantic oriented thing it's in the ts4 creator networkism and he is the chosen one that can't be challenged

I think you nailed it. Well said.

Bust the Dust has exactly ONE thing you can do for my gameplau style. I like to have a child raise a toddler. Child can't put Toddler in bath BUT Child can hoover the Tot to raise hygiene. 😂

Glad I came here, sadly not quick enough before I pressed buy… BUT you justified my purchases were good *exhales* 😊

As an eedjit who owns all the packs; I don’t recommend owning both Get Famous and High School Years. They are cross INcompatible. If you like prom don’t ever win an award. Seasons will ruin your game for good, BUT you’ll get weather! Dine out, wedding stories, horse barn, parenthood 2, and Get Mouldy shouldn’t be purchased under any conditions. To simmer snowflakes: They’re equivalent to MLMs doing a 200% mark up on dollar store products. EA actually runs way more like a pyramid scheme than you’d think. They don’t even have to pretend to pay you guys into subservience. You’re so scared of hurting anyone’s feelings you won’t stand up for your own consumer rights; I had to Karen a whole store the other day for profiling me. Walked in and put them all in their place sternly. Stand up for yourself it’s survivial of the fittest under capitalism too, so y’all listen to Satch. He’s smart and nice. I’d bully you all into deleting the sims with no regret. He’ll at least make you not feel outright stupid. Thank you for being the only voice of reason in the sim community Satch!

Idk why but I’m obsessed with these type of videos 😭 so far I have every expansion pack except for horse ranch and for rent.

lol When Satch said that werewolves are the most fun occult to play with, I imagined him making a fun dad werewolf. lmaooo

Ich kann nicht glauben, dass das Basisspiel kostenlos ist, aber Growing Together ist im Grunde ein Basisspiel für 34. Das Basisspiel ist also sinnlos, aber man braucht es wie ein kostenloses Spiel, aber Growing Together ist das „vollständige Erlebnis“.

I agree 100% with this tier list no bullshitting

I like growing together EP but you’re right it could have came with a little more maybe the ability to attend school with child sims or attending daycare with the toddlers ….maybe it could have upgraded the babysitting career and maybe that a now live career …but I do overall like it 🤷🏽‍♀️😅

Thank you for the timestamps

i am a nifty knitting apologist- all of my sims knit and the collab with all the other packs makes me so happy but for non fiber art people i understand

I’m honestly still not over the facts that bunnys aren’t pets 😂

The seasons pack that broke farming, without this pack it work as it should. There is a mod that you can disable the effect of seasons on harvestables, it stop the bug.

this christmas i said f the sims and got alice madness returns it’s a much better game on ea app highly recommend to everyone

😩 I have 90% of the packs but I’ve bought them at full price. I need a return on my investment. 😂

I'm more a live-mode person as well. The CAS and Build modes make me fall asleep for some reason. 🤣 Since the end of Octobre I've been working on saving all my builds and sims to My Gallery on Xbox so that I can bring my save (sort of) to my PC via the Gallery. And there have multiple occasions that I have woken up on my gaming chair while in CAS or Build mode. I even turned the music off (like lullabies) for those modes but still...

I agree with get together I don’t think I could play the game without making clubs of friends for events and stuff, I feel like nifty knitting was a great stuff pack for what it was. you can unlock a bunch of clothes, sell it on plopsy, gives a new hobby, makes new items . I want more crafting stuff like that

I got horse ranch for the clothes and horses... I'm obsessed. I was never a horse girl but man I'm becoming one.

I just got a ad for the sims romantic garden sims 4 lol. Anyway love 0:00 and 16:00 11:01.

realm of magic's magical village/shopping area actually broke my heart, it's just a prop studio, what a huge missed chance for a bustling enchanted diagon alley

Or buy a key from another website and enter the key origins. You save so much more money that way.

I wish they would add pinky rings to the game. Like why is there no pinky ring option?

PLEEEASE continue with the ranking videos, i love them and they're my favorites ❤❤ and also don't worry you can continue the sexual jokes i at least like 'cause i always laugh to them lol

I know you have to think about console players but I love all the occult systems because they seem to have really creative mods around them. RoM felt kind of meh after a while until I started using mods and now I love playing as a Spellcaster. Same with Mermaids and Vampires (I don't have Werewolves).

The vibe of city living really is great, shame the appartment dlc had little to do with it.

The only one I ever bought was cottage living, the rest I'd never have if not for anadius. And I STILL need many mods to improve.

I think with Sims4, most packs are wrongly classified and creators too dont know which pack label should include what level of content.. Some kits feel like stuff packs, some stuff packs feel like game packs or kits, some game packs feel like expansions and some expansions… feel like game packs at best. I like aesthetic worlds that gives a sense of different culture/vibe and even a climate, and not just a different but similar pretty views… So I like island living and pets cos of it. And i just have to have a fluffy friend so no matter how bad it is, pets is a must have for me too.. But mostly you just KNOW most game packs should have been released together as expansions like pets and horses, maybe snowy escape and jungle adventures under “vacation/bon voyage”, get together and city living as former doesnt have gameplay to be worthy of being an expansion pack, parenthood with growing together and ofc we all know so many if not all of the stuff packs… just should have been combined to be a game pack or should have been IN the released game/expansion packs Like tiny living, eco lifestyle and laundry day… or nifty knitting, bowling, movie hangout could be a “hobbies pack” like sims 2 freetime. Like we ALL KNOW, horse ranch is a pack made of half cottage living and half of pets.. when horses should have been in pets and lambs and aesthetic should have been in cottage living.. And because that is mostly the case of all packs, to have the full experience of a pack, to have the full aesthetic and theme, you need multiple packs combined sadly. And as long as the old simmers that have played sims, sims 2 and sims 3 prior to sims 4, feel that contents WERE taken out surely from packs released to be made into a seperate pack, and feel cheated basically, i dont think most of us can be interested in a pack for more than a few days… Like when 1 sims 3 pack came out, you’d need multiple generations and sims to have experienced everything on it. But Sims 4 feels more like “experience it then be done with it, then start waiting for the next pack”.. which is a shame as theyve done some good things like the occult systems are neat how u level up but even that… once you reach the top feels empty. Bought and downloaded ALL packs almost besides some kits and stuff packs… But i am downloading Sims 3 again and cant wait for a game that actually keeps my mind busy with all the things i can do.

Ooh a day old fresh tier list for every sim pack this is new for me. Mine mine mine to watch yummy

Although you put the Cats and Dogs in Meh, and a few diferent stuff packs in Hate Me (toddler, laundry, kid, knitting), they are good if the person is interested in a more complete family/home style game (which you admit to in Growing Together and other packs). Personally I would rather put Get Famous in Meh than Cats and Dogs, and moved some of those packs you put in Hate me in the Meh category. But definitely buy them on discount! I miss when EA did 50% off on stuff packs.

Which expansion pack/pack/whatever is on sale do you guys think has the best kitchen? I Don't have any non base game kitchen sets and I tend to build old looking rather than modern. I like the base game nice wood ones but they're $350! And the $250 cabinet has tile counters 😭.

you could rank them 200 more times and i’m still gonna watch it every time

I so disagree with the lack of gameplay in Discover University! Yes the rabbithole classroom is a tad disappointing, but it was a rabbithole in sims 2 too. But the gameplay is genuinely challenging in terms of juggling coursework, paying for classes and accommodation and being part of clubs and societies. And there is more to the University experience than classes! You can have room mates, part time jobs (ok, we've always had part time jobs, but it really adds to the true uni experience), clubs and societies including all the events they put on whihc you can attend even if you aren't a member... In terms of overall gameplay I love Discover University. It does lose a couple of points for the lack of knowing exactly how your grade are, but once you get a hang of calling your professors and decoding their feedback it gets easier. I also dislike "graduation", which is just standing around for a few Sims hours getting excited wkih your classmates, the watching a rabbithole fir another few sims hours then boom, University experience over. I do agree with the ending of the experience is extremely lacklustre, but that doesn't take the overall experience down too much. In terms of overall gameplay I really like Discover University and it's a firm favourite and I do think if you have the money it's worth the spend.

Merry Christmas Satch 💖 Cottage living is sooo good to me, who made that pack and where did they go??? (not working for sims anymore i feel) Also do u like FPS games like The Finals? I'm rlly enjoying it atm, so fuck EA for now xd Happy Hollidays

I agree with you except, I do like the live in butler you get with vintage glamour. Like you, I never pay full price for any of the expansions etc. They usually come down in price once they've had a load of bugs and bad reviews lol

I think im the only person who likes spa day lol