It seems that college will not be out for summer time this yr, as a result of The Sims 4’s subsequent enlargement pack Excessive College Years is ready to launch on July twenty eighth. The primary full enlargement since Cottage Residing launched a yr in the past, Excessive College Years is ready to do precisely what it says on the tin, massively increasing gameplay choices for Sims of their teenagers.
The pack guarantees to introduce staples of highschool life like attending courses, getting detention, going to promenade, and graduating, all as on-screen actions that the participant can information their Sims by way of. Whereas there is a good bit of overlap with the sequence’ established college-themed enlargement packs like The Sims 4 Uncover College, giving this therapy to excessive school-aged characters is a franchise first, and one thing that is been on the fandom’s collective want record for a really very long time.
As a full enlargement, Excessive College Years is ready to be full of different new actions, lots of which take your Sims exterior of the college grounds. You’ll be able to seize a boba tea after which presumably puke tapioca all around the haunted home journey on the native pier amusement park, for one, and it seems as if the in-game social media choices are going to be considerably expanded. The bonus objects for early purchasers are themed round streaming, suggesting that Sims are going to be getting their very own model of Twitch, too, which I am truthfully stunned they did not have already got. The Sims has by no means precisely been shy about getting meta.
Different enjoyable particulars noticed within the announcement by your resident fountain of Sims trivia embody the long-awaited return of physique hair choices, so quickly your Sims will not all must be weirdly easy from the neck down any extra. And one character within the trailer makes use of rolling pronouns, an possibility that wasn’t included within the current pronoun replace, however could be actually attention-grabbing to see added (even when mentioned replace continues to be a work-in-progress with some jank to be ironed out).
The Simlish college yr is ready to start out on the relatively unconventional date of July twenty eighth, when The Sims 4 Excessive College Years launches for £35/$40/€40.