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The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle
Ready for your Sims to impact their world? Move into a community of fellow collaborative makers in The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle. Play to change and make a difference in the new world of Evergreen Harbor. Help your new neighbors decide on a Community Space Project, reduce your eco footprint, and watch your neighborhood transform. You'll be surprised by...
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- Released
- June 5, 2020
- Developer
- Maxis
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator · Adventure
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Platforms
- PC · PS4 · Xbox One · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S
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The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle Reviews
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Reviewing Eco Lifestyle, the latest expansion pack for The Sims 4
If you are anything like me with your gaming habits, then you probably play a lot of games but you have maybe one or two that you seem to always come back to
Last year, we experienced EA’s attempt at keeping a greener world through the Sims 4 Island Living expansion that had us cleaning the beaches and ocean of the tropical island of Sulani. Here we are a year later with the Sims’ 9th expansion, Eco Lifestyle, that forces players to be more conscious of their carbon footprint in our digital world. I know when the expansion had just been announced, many hardcore Sims fans had voiced their concerns about being provided with literal trash. I mean, they aren’t wrong, but after playing for quite a few hours, I was pleasantly surprised with the new addit...
In fact, the expansion has sent me into a thought spiral of pretty wacky proportions. There's something special about The Sims and, for me at least, it's all about living a dream, having full control and complete independence to achieve your goals, and that's clearer today than when I played as a youngster. Now, as I'm pushing 30, The Sims has almost become a way to wind down after a day of real-life hardships. I want to achieve my goals and I want to have an avenue in which everything is possible, and The Sims is that avenue. If I can help save the world and reset eco-deterioration somewhere,...
Overall, Eco Lifestyle has been an average experience, though to be fair I am not overly interested in the concepts presented in the expansion. In general I have a lot more fun in packs with nightlife, celebrity, magic, and supernatural concepts, and it has been that way for me throughout all of The Sims games. It is pretty neat that your actions have an impact on the map and you see changes, be it negative or positive, but I personally didn’t feel the need to do anything else once I had my neighborhood cleaned up. Evergreen Harbor itself isn’t a very interesting map to live on, and I don’t se...