What To Expect In The Sims 4: Life & Death

The Sims 4: Life And Death is one of the largest expansion packs the series has seen in a long time. It’s packed full of features, including two new careers, a new world, several new gameplay mechanics, and, of course, a range of clothing, furniture and decor items.

If you’re thinking of buying the pack, here’s everything you need to know about what you can expect to find in The Sims 4: Life and Death.

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The Immersive World Of Ravenwood

A Haunting Location Packed With Secrets

Ravenwood is the new world, and it contains three neighbourhoods, all of which have a unique look. The Whispering Glen is a countryside area, with vibrant grass, flowing rivers and a beautiful stone statue, while Crow’s Crossing is a busier town. The third neighbourhood, Mourningvale is home to the supernatural.

Each neighbourhood has its own secrets to uncover and festivals to partake in. You’ll get a range of house types, varying weather, as well as different landmarks to interact with and discover more about.

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Funeral And Remembrance Events

Hold A Service Or Create A Memorial For A Lost Loved One

You can now hold funeral services for deceased Sims. The new social event type allows you to mourn or celebrate their passing by choosing from a range of activities. Eulogies can be delivered from a podium and new headstones, coffins, and urns offer different ways to host the event.

Memorial items including candles, photo frames, incense, an altar and a whispering message statue all give Sims ways to remember their loved ones. You can set up a service or memorial at home, or visit the new cemetery lot type.

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Join Two New Careers

Get Personal With Death In The Reaper And Undertaker Careers

There are two new careers, the

Reaper Career
and the . The Reaper career is a fully active career where you accompany your Sim to the Headless Quarters and actively get involved in soul collection. You’ll work alongside Grim himself, ushering people into the next life.

The Undertaker Career is a traditional two-branch rabbit hole career with choices to make along the way. At level five, you can become a Mortician or a Funeral Director.

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Explore Your Life’s Journey

Complete Your Bucket List And Become Reborn

The Bucket list is a new way to achieve life goals. Your Sim can auto-generate goals, or choose from specific categories. You can also wipe uncompleted tasks clean and start again.

These goals combine with aspirations, skill building and career progress to allow you to complete the Life’s Journey path. Hitting milestones here will give your Sim a boost in their everyday life, and options for the afterlife.

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Choose Your Afterlife

Reincarnate Or Become A Powerful Ghost

Achieving your life goals will allow Sims to come back as a ghost, or head down a path of reincarnation.

Ghost Sims can live alone or in any existing household, and have access to a range of different powers and abilities. They can choose to use these for good or evil.

Reincarnation allows your Sim to be born again into a new life at any age. They will always retain some traits and advantages from their previous life, but you can choose the level of genetics you wish to keep.

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Unlock The Power Of Tarot Decks

Help The Order of Lenore Assemble A Powerful Tarot Deck

Uncover the mysteries of Tarot with a purchasable Tarot Deck. With this you can do Tarot readings for others. You can also get your own Tarot reading from friends or at

Ravenwood’s festivals
.

Those who wish to uncover the true magic or Tarot can seek out the Order of Lenore and help them assemble a powerful deck of 26 cards by completing tasks around Ravenwood.

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Complete An Aspiration And Learn A New Skill

Uncover New Goals And Earn Rewards

The

Ghost Historian Aspiration
sees your Sim studying writing, alongside the new . Completing the aspiration to level four unlocks the ability to write horror novels, a new genre for the writing skill.

The Thanantology skill will also be useful in both new careers, and is only a five-level skill which is fairly easy to max out. It just takes a little patience.

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Embrace New Personality Traits

Are You A Skeptic Or Do You Love The Macabre?

There are three new personality traits to explore: sceptic, macabre, and chased by death. The first two are mutually exclusive, and the last can be applied to a Sim with any other trait combination.

A sceptic Sim will refuse to believe the eerie goings-on in Ravenwood, and will demand proof from anyone and everyone. Even then, they may not believe it. A macabre Sim meanwhile, will fully embrace the creepy happenings.

A Sim who is chased by death is more accident-prone than most, and reacts strongly to near-death experiences.

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Complete The Gothic Look With New Clothing

All Ages Can Now Embrace The Macabre

It would be remiss not to mention the wide range of macabre, gothic and Victorian-inspired attire in this pack. There are outfits for all ages, including infants, and a lot of imagery around life, death, rebirth and remembrance are used in the designs.

The Victorian era is also a clear inspiration for this pack, with a lot of signature vintage styles included. Many designs are unisex, and all have black swatches as well as some with colour added, to suit all tastes.

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Build A Beautiful Gothic Paradise

Embrace The Victorian And Macabre

The furniture includes core pieces to furnish a home. A full kitchen, including dishwasher, fridge, and oven is included, alongside a dining table and chairs. There’s also a set of sofas and chairs, as well as some coffee tables and a book case.

Bathrooms benefit from a new bath, sink, and shower, and you’ll also find some kids’ toys, a desk, and some general clutter decor. Exterior wise, there are walls, floors, windows and doors, as well as roof decals and fences.

There are also a range of funeral and memorial items, including headstones, urns, coffins, memorial altars, a podium, and other memorial items. These can be used in events or homes.