It’s time to relive these greatest (or worst) 4 years of your life. The Sims 4’s Excessive Faculty Years growth pack is filled with relatable content material for teenagers and individuals who was once teenagers, starting from particular posters and room decorations to promposals and a commencement ceremony. However alongside the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of highschool lessons, golf equipment, and soccer, there’s an thrilling set of customizations and modifications to company that may have an effect on Sims of all ages and life phases.
The Excessive Faculty Years growth pack provides within the extremely customizable Copperdale Excessive, and any teenage Sim can attend for an schooling. The pack is much like the sport’s well-received Uncover College growth — and highschool grades will dictate the place Sims get into faculty, with an possibility for Sims to review on-line for his or her GED.
Polygon attended an Digital Arts presentation of the Excessive Faculty Years growth pack, the place builders mentioned each Excessive Faculty Years in addition to a free replace that can be launched alongside the growth pack.
At Copperdale, Sims attend lessons and extracurriculars, which suggests roaming the halls, finding out for checks, and going to cheer apply. However they will additionally pull pranks or skip class — although if the principal catches them, they’ll get in huge hassle. At dwelling, teen Sims can adorn their room and hand around in mattress scrolling on social media. Teen Sims additionally can even now exit properties by means of the window for a bit of curfew breaking. As for hangout spots, there’s Thrifty, a thrift retailer and boba tea spot. Sims can even have their first relationships with different college students, and go to the truthful and attempt to get on the tunnel of affection with their crush.
The free replace is filled with smaller modifications to the Sim social expertise that depart a big effect on the sport. As an illustration, gamers can now set their Sims’ sexuality and attraction to different Sims. The modular set of choices permits gamers to create aromantic and asexual Sims, in addition to different queer identities. Developer Maxis added the flexibility for Sims to select their pronouns in Might, and this replace builds on that to create extra inclusive choices.
There are different modifications to a Sim’s day by day life that look promising as effectively. Sims of all life phases can now have various levels of chest, arm, again, and leg hair, which is a charmingly pointed addition to customization.
Different Sims can even have a bit extra autonomy of their relationships with one another. Sims can now categorize one another as crushes, and Sims from different households can provoke romance with player-controlled Sims. This small change may make an enormous distinction, as Sims romance normally includes discovering somebody and actively pursuing them.
Sims can even pursue desires and fears, that are smaller moment-to-moment objectives. There’s even a brand new trait for the socially awkward. Whereas all of those free modifications are relatable to the common teen — physique hair, crushes, and social fears are undoubtedly par for the course — all of them apply to Sims of all life phases.
The Excessive Faculty Years growth pack, together with the free replace, launches on Home windows PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X on July 28.
