As The Sims 4 continues to get major content updates from EA in an official capacity, a huge number of fan-created mods have been added. Some of these modders' creations rival those major expansions - both for quality and quantity of additions. Here are a few that stand out.
The Slice of Life mod for Sims 4 by KawaiiStacie promises to add more drama and interactions to The Sims 4. It's a tall order, but it more than fills it. The mod adds a massive Personality System to the game that influences how sims interact with the world around them, based on their traits and skills. That's the major component of the mod, but it also adds things like acne, phone apps, a menstrual cycle, a sickness system, and new professions. Slice of Life is a huge mod, and a must-have for simmers.
Another great mod is Meaningful Stories by roBurky, which sets out to reframe how sims experience emotions in order to tell more meaningful stories. A sims' experiences will have a more realistic impact on their moods while using this mod. For example, a few negative events in a row will build upon each other, leaving the sim in a very bad mood that will take more than just one comfortable chair to cure. It definitely blows the recently introduced (and official) "Kits" for The Sims 4 out of the water.
The Biggest (and Best) Sims 4 Mods
The Have Some Personality Please! mod by PolarBearSims tries to tackle the same problem as Slice of Life, but from a slightly different angle. In this mod, everything a sim does is driven by their personality - all the way down to the topics that they chat about. No more will a mean sim decide to have a flirty conversation for seemingly no reason; instead, they'll be downright unpleasant to everyone around them. It's a small detail that adds up to a huge change for the motivations of sims.
MC Command Centre by Deaderpool gives the player the ability to do just about anything they want in The Sims 4. It's not the most user friendly mod, as much of its power is hidden behind console commands, but the website has some good documentation to help find everything. MCCC gives players a variety of ways to kill their sims, something that The Sims 5 needs.
While not technically a mod, the Simsie Save from lilsimsie is a complete overhaul of the The Sims 4 worlds. Lilsimsie has gone through and renovated a majority of the lots in the game, and has created dozens of new families to live in them - all while keeping with the theme of the various neighborhoods. It's a massive undertaking, and is probably the biggest change the neighborhoods will see until the possible open-world of The Sims 5. Armed with these mods, alongside a healthy dose of official EA DLC, The Sims 4 can become an amazingly robust game, capable of telling a near-limitless number of stories.