The Sims 4: The best mods 2022 and how to install them

You want to install mods in The Sims 4? We have the best current content for you and explain how the download works.

You want to improve your gaming experience in The Sims 4 and are looking for the best mods? We have for you an up-to-date overview of the most important mods around a more realistic life simulation, the construction mode and comfort functions.

All mods are up to date and work with the latest patch of The Sims 4. Furthermore, you can find all important steps to integrate the mod of your choice into the game in our installation guide.

Cheats and comfort functions

Cheats with MC Command Centre

Suitable for whom? Hand on your heart: We have all cheated in The Sims. Whether it’s the legendary “rosebud” cheat for great wealth, getting rid of unwanted Sims or filling up needs quickly. Sometimes you just have to cheat a little.

And for that, the MC Command Centre is a must-have, letting you take control of your game from a handy menu. Gone are the days of printed cheat lists that you have to laboriously type into the console.

What’s in it?

• Comfortable menu that gives access to all important cheats
• Direct control over your Sims’ age, needs, finances and relationships
• Possibility to let Sims die and determine the way of death
• Possibility to impregnate Sims and set all parameters (gender, parents, status)

Free colour selection for hair and clothes with colour sliders

Suitable for whom? Remember the good old days of The Sims 3? When you could use colour sliders to dye clothes any way you wanted and not just have a choice between washed-out beige and mismatched green for a jumper? When you could still set blonde hair in all shades and not have to resort to … well, yellow?

The Sims 4 did without this mechanic for some inexplicable reason, but the mod Color Sliders brings it back! This allows you to adjust colour, brightness and saturation at will and create new colours for your Sims creations.

What’s in it?

• Colour slider for hair and clothes
• Adjustment of hue, brightness and saturation
• Easily save custom colours

Pose with Pose Player and Teleporter

For whom? If you want to have even better screenshots of your Sims for videos, storyboards or just your private pleasure, then you can’t get around the Pose Player and Teleporter. It provides the basic framework for thousands and thousands of CC poses that you can easily download and apply to your Sims.

This is how you depict large group photos, couple pictures and situations on pieces of furniture such as swings, beds, chairs and much more. Whether it’s fights, intimate hugs or solo poses – with the help of the mod and numerous pose packs, it’s finally possible.

What’s in it?

• Basic framework for numerous CC poses for your Sims
• Teleporter statue that makes the correct placement of your Sims a breeze

More realistic life simulation

Disease and health with Slice of Life

Suitable for whom? For many, The Sims is just too harmless. Because the series leaves out some topics that are part of life. These include alcohol and drugs, but also health topics such as acne, diseases and menstruation. So if you want to achieve a more realistic life simulation, you will find many new challenges in Slice of Life.

In addition, there are also different personality types for your Sims, the turn-ons and turn-offs that you remember from The Sims 2: Nightlife and special talents, similar to those in The Sims 2: Leisure Fun. You can turn all aspects of the mod on and off at will, allowing you to screw together your own experience.

What’s in it?

• Numerous diseases and health issues
• Drugs and alcohol
• Turn-ons and turn-offs for your Sims
• Personality types and talents
• New memory system where Sims remember things like breakups, first kisses or parents separating
• You can be spontaneously invited to parties or activities
• More smartphone options and new career as a social media influencer

Emoting with Meaningful Stories

Suitable for whom? Who doesn’t know it? Your Sim’s great love has just passed away and after a ten minute mourning period he sees a really snazzy vase and he has the day of his life. Meaningful Stories improves the mood system of The Sims 4 and provides more realism. This means your Sims won’t go from being sad to being happy as quickly as they used to be.

The “True Happiness” system also ensures that they only feel true happiness when something exceptionally nice happens – like the first kiss or a promotion. The mod is definitely a challenge for experienced players, but also offers a helpful in-game tutorial.

What’s inside?

• More realistic intermediate mood levels
• “True Happines” system
• Ingame tutorial

Holidays and events with Memorable Events

Suitable for whom? The Sims 3 had many a feature that didn’t make it into Sims 4 – and which we sorely miss today. These include the numerous holidays and events that found their way into the game with the Generation add-on, among others. But the mod Memorable Events not only brings them back, it creates a huge catalogue.

These include events such as bachelor parties, museum trips, singles parties, sleepovers and introducing the new partner to the family. These events work as prestige events, meaning you get lovingly crafted challenges for the special day and afterwards it ends up in your Sim’s memories and they can talk about it with others.

What’s in it?

• Catalogue with over 40 events and holidays
• Fully integrated into the gameplay as a prestige event, including rewards and memories

Relationships with Wonderful Whims

Suitable for whom? Wonderful Whims is definitely not a mod for beginners – for Sims pros, however, it offers an extensive expansion of your game that lets you get to know The Sims from a completely new side. It’s largely about relationships – you can set your Sims to be asexual, unattractive or polyamorous, for example.
However, the mod also offers an extremely extensive menu for likes and dislikes, which can be defined down to the smallest detail: Whether external features, personality traits or certain details in outfits – here you can determine exactly who your Sims like or dislike right away and for what reason.

What’s in it?

• Complex system for likes and dislikes
• Many settings for romantic relationships
• More personality traits
• Preventive system and menstrual cycle

Dating apps with Simda Dating

Suitable for whom? Dating in The Sims 4 is sometimes pretty mundane: Just talk about grilled cheese three times, a passionate kiss and you’re set. In past parts there were much more possibilities with likes and dislikes or online dating. The latter also returns in The Sims 4 thanks to Simda Dating.

So you can meet Sims on your smartphone, arrange blind dates, find the love of your life or invite someone to your home just for one night to show him or her your cow plant collection. Simda Dating is explicitly compatible in Wonderful Whims and makes your Sims’ dating life even more realistic.

What’s in it?

• Dating apps on PC, smartphone or tablet
• Blind dates
• One Night Stands

Building and Construction Mode

Building Options with T.O.O.L.

Suitable for whom? If you are facing a big building project in The Sims 4, then the T.O.O.L. mod is almost a must. Once you have internalised it, you won’t be able to build without it. Because T.O.O.L. enables numerous building functions that are not included as standard: Free tilting of objects, exact positioning, intuitive duplicating, infinitely variable scaling and much more.

The intuitive controls allow you to create large-scale projects such as luxury mansions, castles, locations from movies and games, or just your perfect little home.

What’s inside?

• Numerous construction functions such as stepless and exact rotation, scaling and shifting
• Intuitive operation through own menu

Unlock all objects with BuildBuyMode Unlockr

Suitable for whom? In The Sims 4 there are numerous building objects and furniture that remain hidden until you unlock them. These include career rewards, for example, for which you have to reach the maximum level. However, if you use The Sims mainly for building projects, you will probably want full access to all objects.

The BuildBuyMode Unlockr directly unlocks all bonus objects in the catalogue and lets you use them without any problems.

What’s inside?

• Unlocks all construction objects hidden behind career rewards etc.

Install mods in Sims 4: How to download

Download the mod:

• Download the zip file of the respective mod
• Unzip the file in the path “\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods”.
• You can create another subfolder in \Mods, but the game will only search one folder lower in the hierarchy – so don’t create another subfolder
• In the folder Mods you will find the file “Recource.cfg”, which you are not allowed to change or delete

Enable mods in the game:

• Open the game options in The Sims 4 and navigate to the “Other” tab. In the left-hand column, check the box for “Allow script modes”.
• Start The Sims 4 again
• Now you can use your downloaded mods