The Sims Mobile puts you in control of the lives of others. How do you organize their lives? In this review, we will discuss the new iOS game.
The Sims Mobile review
The Sims is one of the most popular and well-known computer games ever. Even people who have nothing to do with games have often played the Sims. The idea is simple: you are in charge of the lives of different people. You furnish their home, send them to work and allow them to form friendships and relationships.
Perhaps the game series is even more known for its sadistic side. For example, players who let their sim swim and then remove the stairs, so that the stupid virtual person can no longer leave. Or you can make a whole maze of your house, so that your sim gets lost while going to work and in the meantime relieves himself and starts crying from hunger. But so far our lives. The Sims Mobile is here.
This is really The Sims
This isn’t the first time The Sims has been brought to smartphones. The Sims Freeplay previously offered quite an expanded mobile version of the beloved series. However, The Sims Mobile feels like a more complete game. The game was also made by the same studio as the major versions.
The Sims Mobile is largely as you know The Sims. You make your sims feel at home, enter into relationships, exercise hobbies and you send them to work. Still, The Sims Mobile also feels a lot like a smartphone game, with timers that expire, different currencies, an energy meter and all kinds of extra things that you can buy if you put real money into it.
Enough to do
The Sims Mobile is one of those games that can take all your time, but it is not necessary. The game starts with the surprisingly extensive creator, in which you create your first sim. Then you set up some rooms and start your first job. At work you immediately notice that you decide how much time you put into the game.
You can activate tasks and then do something else, or you can actively help by activating small tasks. Those assignments do cost you energy. If you wait, a task will take, for example, an hour. Once you spend energy you have it done in the minute. This works the same with all activities, such as doing a hobby or investing time in a relationship.
The game focuses on stories. Unfortunately not so much stories that you make yourself, but stories that have been thought up in advance. For example, that you choose which course a new relationship will take or how your career will develop. There is always a reward at the end of these stories, which will motivate you to keep playing.
You have to like freemium
The Sims Mobile is a fun edition of The Sims for your iPhone and iPad, but you really have to love this freemium model. The currency, energy meters and objects that you can buy are constantly present and the game is really built around that.
The longer you play, the longer it takes for your sims to gain experience and have to do the same assignments over and over until their story continues. The game is held captive by all of these systems and you miss the creativity of the big The Sims games.
However, do you want to invest time in your virtual dolls, follow their lives and are you not averse to what is above? Then The Sims Mobile offers a lot to do. Also together, because you can even start a relationship with the sims of your friends. The game is free to download and can be found via the link below in the App Store.
→ Download The Sims Mobile from the App Store (free)
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