Seasons is for sure a necessity, but I still can’t stop thinking about the fact that EA charged us for weather 💀

Still cant get over the fact that seasons pack should be in base game instead

I personally love Snowy Escape as an Asian, it makes me so happy to see non European or American things in the sims

Answering your question in 1:09 They have different colors by categories: deep blue is career and lifestyle, green is outdoor and adventure, magenta is family and friends, light blue is everyday activities, purple is supernatural and fantasy, red-orange is architecture and decorative, yellow-orange is fashion and style. I think I cover them all. PS: edited to add time stamp.

One of my biggest issues with "High School Years" is that I have a save that's set to Long Lifespan, but prom is EVERY. SINGLE. SATURDAY. and unlike the regular High School day, there is no "Send Alone" option. If I want my teenage daughter to go to prom, I can't take care of my other 4 kids.

Seasons and City Living are in my necessary ones as well, they make it such a different game. Parenthood, dream home decorator and tiny living are up there for me as well.

You should do a tier list video for every death in the game

I’d love to see and African or Middle Eastern styled world. The sims is basically European and American and it’s cool and all but as a life simulator you’d think there would be more cultures that are a part of life. Snowy escape introduced a new culture and I’d love to see more of it.

I love these types of “what packs should you buy” videos, I wish someone made these when I first started getting into the sims.

I know people say Snowy Escape is lacking gameplay and stuff, and I do agree, but the world itself and the Build & Buy items in this pack are my all time favorite. As an Asian who grows up in Eastern Asia, this pack is a must have for me. Also, I don't think they've ever given us other sims4 pack with similar theme afterwards.

If u only have money to buy one expansion pack out of all those packs, I would personally recommend City living over Season. 1. You got a complete new zone compare to no new zone for season 2. There are tons of events plus food stalls 3. You get to experience apartment style living in 3 very different areas 4. Loft style apartment for builders

I'm holding out hope for a 'Be our Guest' gamepack where you can run a bnb or hotel. Just imagine.

I think a fun "spin off" of this series of videos would be "which sims game has the best X" where X is a certain genre like "University" "Seasons" or "Supernatural"

I absolutely love seasons BUT I think weather should be in the base game and that the pack should have just focused on the holidays and events surrounding seasons as well as adding festivals - like a Christmas festival, a big easter egg hunt in a part etc. Also just adding more non-western holidays or at least adding things in the make-your-own-holiday section so that people could do it themselves

I personally love get famous, I love the actors career, the fans, the gifts they send you and letters... And I also like you can be famous in any career, like a famous baker, a author or football player or whatever... I like the video station to play like a youtuber... there's a lot of opportunities to having fun with this pack, but I do agree the world is terrible haha

i wanna see some turkish/arabic/balkan packs in Sims. like turkish coffee, kebabs, sims that are addicted to soap operas, more traditional rugs, going to each others home to meet parents, strict dads etc

11:42 they defo could've done like a small cozy island town neighboorhood on one side of the world, and have the other side be like a 'tourist' vacation district with added lore abt the tourists destroying their town and slowly taking more space

The colored background on the packs on the sims websites is a new way they are categorizing them. For example royal blue backgrounds like on high-school years is Career&Lifetsyle, but then Green backgrounds like on island living are Outdoor Activities. It's their way of letting you know what kind of game play and stuff is in the pack

For me I loved snow escape. When you actually take the time to play in the world instead of the typically popular ones is quite amazing. Compared to the higher ranked packs, when I play them I always feel rushed in a way and can’t seem to do everything and just ugh. But for some reason it’s just so relaxing for me when I play in snowy escape and it’s just very fun and absolutely gorgeous there. It’s personally my favorite world to play in.

Eco Lifestyle is a REALLY good pack! it impacts every neighborhood and adds so much gameplay! Definitely great for people who usually play in live mode! :D Oh! and it is hilarious lol.

I’ve been going full on strategic with my purchases in the sims lol. I bought it a few months ago when it was 5 dollars, bought Seasons and Pets during a 50% sale, bought HSYs while I could get the extra stuff, waited some more, and bought Snowy Escape and Cottage live during another sale, and then after Christmas, I’m gonna wait for a sale and buy Eco lifestyle and get together.

I was looking for this video a few days ago since there’s currently a 50 % off of a lot of the expansion pack ( until the 28th! ) and ended up watching her older ranking videos. From those videos, I decided to get seasons, cats and dogs + pets stuff ( bundle! ). As for outside of the sale, I got pastel pop kit and tiny living stuff pack. So far I'm absolutely loving it! I'm glad I got them but I'm not sure if I would pay the full price for the expansion pack. but the stuff packs and kits are worth it!

I was really quite disappointed with the university pack, the world looks nice but it’s annoying that you can’t control whole university households like you could in TS2, the classes are all just rabbitholes, it just felt like a letdown. Most of my sims do go to university, but I’ve only had one actually live on campus.

I never understand the dislike among simmers for get famous, it was the first ep i bought and i to this day believe it is the most fully fleshed out pack. it gives you loads of build items, tons of cool cas items and 2 new careers that are not only playable but are super detailed, and a big (yet i’ll admit odd) world. to this day four years later i am STILL discovering new things in Get famous.

Other than the necessities like pets and seasons, Snowy Escape and (unexpectedly) Cottage Living are my favorite.

might be a controversial opinion, but I think packs like Get Together and Get To Work actually hold really well, ik simsie says about them having less content which is true but in terms of actual gameplay I still always use them to this day. I pretty much always use something from Get Together in like every build too, its crazy how old these packs are yet are still better than some of the ones after them. Like the scientist career imo is also one of the best in the whole game, and I think LOT of ppl forget about the re-playability of things like clubs and stores, which you can use in any way you want, compared to re-playability of things like snowy escape (which I really wish was better than it is currently).

Seasons is a must have pack! I don't think I could go back to playing without it now. I think it's the only pack worth the $40 price because it really does offer so much to your gameplay.

As a South African, I would love to see an African inspired world 🥺

who else NEEDS either a futuristic sims pack. i know it wouldn't fit in but the idea of into the future in the sims sounds kind of exciting.

I have City Living and Pets and I'm kinda making sure my choice for next pack is the right one, and this video helped me :) I'm getting Snowy escape and Seasons next. And then, after that if I haven't tired of sims yet, Cottage Living.

- Timestamps - Get to work - 1:45 Get together - 3:06 City Living - 4:18 Cats and Dogs - 5:36 Seasons - 6:50 Get Famous - 8:07 Island Living - 9:58 Discover University - 12:01 Eco Lifstyle - 13:53 Snowy Escape - 16:35 Cottage Living - 18:43 High School Years - 20:09

It would‘ve been nice if they added some kind of „traditional“ festival things like in the City Pack to Island Living, would suit that pack a lot

As a build-ish player I love new and diverse worlds. Snowy Escape and Island Living are my two favorites, and now Tartosa has joined them.

City Living + Get Together + Cats and Dogs and Seasons Top Tier packs

To me personally, Eco Lifestyle is the best pack out there. I love the build and buy, CAS is good and the gameplay is SO good. I love the neighborhood action plans and I love petitioning to take bad neighborhood action plans down. The careers are not that good but to me, the core gameplay that involves dealing with the community appeals so damn much for me

i'm sorry, but since when the infamous piranha pond turned into the shark pond??? i know you can have different fish in there but as far as I remember, simsie always talked about her piranhas...right? RIGHT? it feels like we somehow shifted to another universe lmao even in the bell family, there are sharks now and I didn't notice when the change happened

personally i think island living is also essential. it's a very unique pack and a wonderful new world, there's nothing even slightly similar in the whole game. i love sending my sims to sulani for the weekends whenever i feel like they need a holiday. where else would i send them? over the weekend they can swim around a little, play on the beach, cruise around on ships or jetskis, sunbathe, see some mermaids, collect shells, dive, etc. the way i see it island living and city living are very similar packs, in a way that they both offer a unique world and a different way of life for your sims, and then it's just preference which one people like. i don't have city living because to me there's nothing appealing about city life, and the festivals are repetitive and boring and lifeless, not to mention how restricted the apartments are with the walls and windows. and yet when people talk about island living it's always what it "could have been". and then when it comes to other packs people rate it for what it is, not what it could have been. yes mermaids could have been better, so could apartments. yeah maybe island living could have given us hotels but then city living could have gives us a landlord carreer or retail system thing. anyway, i personally love recommending island living to new/casual players because it will certainly give them and new and fresh experience. and it can very well be integrated in your everyday gameplay, by going there on short holidays and weekends. my sims need a little break from work or family or anything? to sulani we go! and i'm surprised to see snowy escape so low too because the build/buy and cas are so good, the world and builds are gorgeous, and you absolutely dont have to go out of your way to use the 2 districts that arent up on the mountain. ur sims can live there without caring about winter sports, you dont even have to go up there if you dont want to.

The thing I want the most from Sims now is Apartment! And perhaps Hotel. I really want the concept of landlord and renting and strangers live in the same building so bad. I want to build and operate apartments and hotels. Not just living in one like city living😭

I don’t have any packs in the Sims yet, but I am thinking about getting the Cats and Dogs EP. The world looks absolutely beautiful and really cozy. And the best part is that cats and dogs are added. I lost my German Shepard around 5 years ago, so re-creating him in my world would be really heart warming. It also comes with the vet career, which I am in love with. I feel like expansion packs deal with your life experiences. For example on how Snowy Escape relates to lots of asian people, and Get Famous being for people who want to be influencers irl.

Kayla's rant about the Get Famous world is gold. And Judith Worth is appearing everywhere with her fame glam and paparazzi 😅

I like these videos because even though I have most of the packs it's interesting to see how different our opinions are on all the sims packs!

I haven't played Sims for years and recently downloaded the newly free Sims 4 base game. I remember I could not focus on more than one sim when having multiple packs game olin Sims 4 before. There were so many options. Meanwhile in Sims 3 I could take care of a family of 10 and achieve all their goals, have multiple pets and open a store 😂 miss that.

I definitely, definitely play with Get To Work *a lot*. Think a lot of people forget about the hospital and police station also being in a separate world, similar to the lab. Completely agree on the fact that this is the one that needs a refresh the most BUT I feel like it is the underdog of all of them, yet a great contestant.

City living is my favourite 😍 I really hope it gets a refresh, there's many little things they could implement to make it better. It's a shame the apartments are so huge/tall but hopefully they add more apartments in other packs like in Eco Lifestyle

the thing you said about snowy escape makes so much sense, i'm the opposite! i really love it because i live close to the mountains and go skiing/snowboarding frequently(ish)

I really like the fame system from Get Famous. I like it when my Sims are artists, writers or social media influencers and their actions actually make them famous. I think it's really cool and I love how my Sims get recognised as their talents grow.

I super love Island Living, Cottage Living, Snowy Escape, and somehow City Living because they are rich in cultures, they give us so much taste. They also are very unique with their houses and style. Snowy Escape is still kinda too tourist centric but still pretty inclusive. Seasons, is basic needs.

For me discover university is actually kinda horrendous. It doesn’t feel like college at all which sims 2 and 3 managed to do perfectly. The sims 4 universities are completely dead and lifeless in contrast. It lowkey feels like remote learning bc everything is rabbit holes 💀 Another pack I’ve spent like maybe 5 hours total playing, wish I never bought it lmao.

It's kind of random but island living is one of my favourites! The ocean irl is a really special place (Maybe because I'm Australian) so being there in the sims gives me so much actual joy and peace. I also love the beachwear in that pack, cleaning the island, and the conservationist career.

I love how I watch these recommendation videos knowing that I am not able to buy any of these😂😂 can't imagine how much fun it is to play with these

Get Together is great for making money. When I did the R2R challenge I started out gardening to make money, which on its own is quite lucrative, but over time the garden grew to an unmanageable size. My sim was working from morning to night just to keep up and had very little time to satisfy their needs. Started a gardening club that met daily and basically got free labor to help tend the fields so all I had to do was harvest the crops. Later on I spent some cash on a few easels and added painting to the club activities(or possibly started a new club - can't remember because it was so long ago). I'd walk around and sell the paintings as they were completed. I think the goal of that challenge was to earn $1M and I hit that mark after only a couple of weeks of playing before maxing out my funds a few weeks later.

simsie’s videos are genuinely so relaxing. i could listen to her talk about this stuff for hourrrrssss

City Living will always have a soft spot in my heart. My family used to live in NYC and San Myshuno brings back all the memories ❤

you should do a build using you’re recommended bundle!! perfect for all the new simmers and with the sale :))

I just bought Island Living, and its amazing imo. You get 2 new occults, mermaid and elementals. Volcanic eruption lot challenge, and an amazing island world. I live in florida so this is the closest thing i will get to it lol

I love that you do these videos kinda often because things change lol

We're surprising my mom with a setup which can handle Sims again. So this video came in CLUTCH as I choose what expansions to have in her surprise Origin account to go along with the tech. :)

my first pack was get to work as a gift from my parents (and the only pack i still have on disc lmao), and cat's and dogs was my second. but i really can't agree more that seasons is THE best. especially for a first pack, it's really the best example of specific gameplay enhancements (holidays etc.) and absolute game changing experiences like the seasons. also being able to change the length of seasons, as well as toggling on/off things like thunder storms are really cool to me. there's just so many small details that i couldn't live without, like the roller/ice rinks and having snow ball/water balloon fights. WELL worth the money.

If I had to choose only 3 EP I would totally go for > Seasons - I agree with Kayla, it's an incredible pack, very useful and fun, I just can't imagine my game without it (TS2 and TS3 too!! I love TS3 version of it) > Snowy Escape - I ADORE THIS PACK, I'm very into Japan and Japanese style, so this world and build/buy objects are like a dream come true. If I remember correctly, thanks to Snowy Escape we can travel to every world for vacation now (if there is a rental house) > Discover University - great CAS and really well done gameplay imo. It is hard but not impossible to finish studies with A or 6 (with 3 sims at the same time!!). And if I could take 2 more > Get together - for cafes, world and clubs > City living - for apartments, festivals (they're awesome!), many food options from different cultures and just the vibe

I love the way you rank different kinds of packs in separate videos because this way you can talk more about each pack, and honestly, I would like it if the video was even longer.

i really really wish that high school years would include more gameplay surrounding the career days. if they included a singular day of active career work to give students a taste of work life

I'm so addicted to this kind of videos that I mentally do them myself, discussing the reasons and all the good stuff🤣

I adore the house you built in Snowy Escape! I've used it a lot ☺️💕

One of my favourite unexpected features of city living is the food festivals and recipe collecting! Before I would often have my sims cook and use their own ingredients they’d grown, but this opened up a whole new world for me! The amount of new and culturally diverse recipes is so fun to explore, and unlock to add to your sim’s own cooking! The food festivals themselves are also such a fun event to take friends, family, and partners to go to together! 😊 now that I have it, I can’t imagine being without it. I really love gardening and creative pursuits so Eco Lifestyle ended up as a must have for me! Initially I didn’t know what I’d think of it, but after watching simmers play it, I went for it and it was so perfect for me! If you like your sim doing creative things, non-traditional careers, and having them make things for themselves, this is probably a great pack for you too. I also really enjoyed the convertible community lots, we’ve never really had anything like that before and it helped my sims make a lot of connections!

It seems so strange hearing the village in cottage living being described as “a downtown area” 😅

I think my most nostalgic packs are Get Together and Outdoor Retreat. I love those packs for that alone haha. Also I use clubs all the time to just make my kids have friends!!

The Get Famous pack is one of my favorite because I made a bunch of celebrities in my world and its more fun to see them walking around when they're actually famous

Oh my gosh this is so helpful! I was struggling to decide what to include in my next pack purchase so I love this!!

Lilsimsie is actually amazing at these videos!! I don’t have all the packs, but when I’m looking to get one I always turn to Kayla :)

i literally just bought a bunch of packs since they were on sale LAST NIGHT, i wish i’d waited one more day for this video lmaooo

i literally havent played the sims in a little over a year and i am inspired to start again by this video. thank you.

wow i can’t believe you were 17 when city living came out..i remember watching your videos back then but i didn’t get the sims 4 until yearsss later city living was the first expansion pack i bought because i thought the concept was so cool definitely agree it’s amazing

I feel like if I were to complain about a pack not having hotels, it'd probably be Snowy Escape. As you said, the vibe for Island Living is very local community, but the vibe for Mt. Komorebi, I mean it came with the traveler lifestyle! It's where "traveler lifestyle" sims want to go! They could have implemented hotels here so easily, in addition to the vacation rental lots.

I always forget werewolves, vampires and tiny living are different tiers of expansion because they impact so much as far as gameplay, worlds, etc

I just recently got The Sims 4 when it became free and I’m debating getting a couple packs while they are on sale. Currently I’m thinking just Seasons and City Living but this video is very helpful for looking through all my options!

Great video! I'm overwhelmed with all the DLC so it's nice to see a tier list from someone who knows the game well

One of my issues with HSY is that we can't build a high school in a different world. I get why, but it yoinks emersion from me. In my head, Oasis Springs or Mt. Komerebi are nowhere near Copperdale (like you can't drive there and that's how I play). I know that's nitpicky personal play style, but I like having my gens moving being a big deal.

One thing I really appreciated about the packs released around 2019-2020, they really expanded the range of styles available for CAS and building, to the point where Eco Lifestyle + Tiny Living meant I could uninstall almost all the custom content I was using for builds, which made my game experience so much better. I'll always rate those packs higher just for that.

This really helped me, I was having a hard time deciding what expansion pack I am going to buy next. 😁

When you're in Massachusetts... Brindleton Bay is *very clearly* Cape Cod, and the two universities in Discover University are *very clearly* Harvard and MIT.

Hey Kayla for the prom thing I’m pretty sure if u travel to the auditorium u can attend prom. I did it once because I wasn’t done getting my sim ready and from what I can remember it worked

Honestly I bought every one of them this last summer when I got wifi. I'm only missing 3 kits. You inspired me to spend my bonus on something I love.

That was so helpful, thank you! Even if my preference was different than yours, you gave your reasoning which helped me choose which ones I would find most fun.

Recently decided to get into the game, and while waiting for a sale I did a lot of online research on which dlc to buy or not, on reddit, youtube videos like this, and reviews, and arrived at a tier list pretty much identical to this. It seems the community tends to favor less niche dlc, aka the ones that add features that can benefit the whole game, and not just a single very specific playthrough. Given all the dlc is around 1000usd on steam right now this definitely will save me some money haha. Great video!

This video came at the PERFECT TIME, I was literally just googling this the other day!

seasons just hits different ✨

I like gardening and I like being on an island so my favorite 3 are seasons, island and cottage. I hope they expand on these in 5! ETA: I totally forgot about tiny living and eco!!! I love being able to live off the grid!

My favorite thing in sims 4 is definitely the interior decorator, sure im kinda bias since im literally going to college to be an interior designer but still. I love the jobs that you can actually do instead of just waiting for your sims to come home. The items are also one of my favorite, i wish they had windows in it tho.

I was really sceptical about eco living because its not my thing. But I got the game when it had 50% discount and I love it! I love the gameplay and the things you can make yourself. I feel like there are a lot of things you can do. Just like cottage living.

I LOVE these videos - keep up the great work Kayla

I just got island living today but over all I think the best packs are defo cottage living, seasons and cats and dogs

The thing I would change about some of the packs is making more playable lots for as much as the packs cost us. I end up replacing most houses in the game except Snowy Escape and I never play Windenberg. That is awesome that, that mansion in Snowy escape was built by you. It's my favorite house in the pack. City Living and Glimmerbrook. It just has some beautiful graphics and you can do so much with it.

I love Island Living, but only because of Nilani. I can't explain why I'm absolutely in love with her, but I am.

I'm torn between buying City Living and Cottage Living, both sound so great :')

ahhhh I’ve been waiting for this video! I have been debating on packs for so long 😭

I play a LOT in the Island Living world, but I was born in Hawaii and then moved away when I was 6, so pacific island vibes are super super super nostalgic for me. That's definitely one of those very personal effects on the ratings though lol

I had no idea that you could make that part of eco lifestyle greener that sounds fun

get famous was a pack i didnt expect to like as much as i do, the world is awful but the gameplay and the sims make it super enjoyable. essential packs for me are 100% cats and dogs, cottage living and seasons i cannot play without them

yess, the two packs i have are both necessary [pets n city living] still might get one of the occult-focused ones or eco lifestyle next, i really want the dive for tresure options and reduced power bills

Thank you for the insight, I was thinking of getting Season, Island Living, University, Snowy Escape, Cats and Dogs, City Living, Magic Realm, Kids room stuff, Toddler stuff and get to work first as my Necessary. Love your input on the DLCs, keep up the good work.