[Top 10] Sims 4 Best Addons Every Player Should Have

Updated:

09 Feb 2024

"What pack should I buy?" "Which is the best?" "Is x DLC worth it?"

I see Sims players ask these questions a lot. So, to answer them, I've put together a list of the top ten Sims 4 DLC packs. I've based it on ratings on sites like Steam and Metacritic, so you aren't just getting my personal opinions—this is the definitive top ten according to players and critics around the world.

10. Seasons (Good)

Summer thunderstorms are one of the joys—and dangers—of this pack.

Bored of endless sunny days? Seasons brings The Sims 4's environment to life with two new features: weather and seasons. Your Sims can experience spring showers and summer thunderstorms (or blazing heat, depending on where they live), play in piles of autumn leaves (in more ways than one), and marvel at winter's first snow.

With the changing of the seasons comes another feature: holidays! Most are Sim-ified versions of real-world holidays, like Harvestfest, when families enjoy a Grand Meal, share what they're thankful for, and try to appease a horde of magical gnomes. Oh, and you can create your own holidays!

Seasons brings a handful of smaller features to the game as well, like the Scouting after-school activity, which gives kids and teens a helpful reward trait if they earn every badge, and the Money Tree, so your Sims can get rich quick.

Seasons key features:

Seasonal cycle and activities
Weather, including two kinds of extreme weather: thunderstorms and blizzards
Holidays (default and custom) and holiday-related NPCs
Gardening features: new plants, a Gardener career, and growing seasons for all plants

9. Cottage Living (Good)

Food tastes best when it's home-grown and home-cooked.

Farming sim meets The Sims in this cottagecore expansion. Cottage Living lets you have your own farm where you can raise crops and livestock, befriend the local wildlife, and embrace simple living.

Cottage Living features the quaint town of Henford-on-Bagley. Unlike the base game worlds, Henford-on-Bagley really feels like a community. It has a weekly village fair where you can show off your crops, animals, and home cooking, and by interacting with and running errands for the town's several NPCs, you'll discover the rich history of the town and its residents.

Another thing that brings Henford-on-Bagley to life is its wildlife. Befriend small animals like rabbits and birds, and they'll bring you gifts and help out on the farm in unique ways. You can even befriend the pesky foxes, and they'll respect that your chickens aren't their food!

Cottage Living key features:

New plants and farm animals—including llamas!
Wild animals that help or hinder your farmer Sims
Henford-on-Bagley, a rustic, England-inspired village with half a dozen new NPCs
Finchwick Fair, where you can showcase your livestock, crops, and pies
Run errands for NPCs to earn rewards
Live off the land with the Simple Living lot challenge

8. Spa Day (Good)

Manicures and pedicures are just the start of what spas offer.

Spa Day is all about relaxation! This pack's spas offer your Sims the usual spa treatments, massages, and even a sauna to help them relax and put them in a good mood. Some spas also offer classes in yoga and meditation to help Sims get fit and master the Wellness skill.

The Wellness skill is the real draw of this pack. Yoga will get your Sims in shape and give them long-lasting positive moodlets. Meditation not only helps Sims regulate their moods; with high enough skill, meditating Sims gain special abilities like levitation, frozen need decay, and teleportation—even to hidden lots!

Spa Day key features:

Spa where Sims can relax
Wellness skill, with powerful perks
Yoga and meditation
New trait and three new aspirations

7. StrangerVille (Good)

The truth is out there, but so is the ██████.

Something strange is going on in StrangerVille. Bizarre plants are sprouting everywheren, and the townsfolk are praising "ŦĦ€ MØŦĦ€Ř" and acting in a way that can only be described as "possessed". No one knows what's going on in the mysterious lab in the crater, but rumor has it it's pretty shady.

StrangerVille brings a story mode to the Sims with a mystery that feels like something out of The X-Files. I won't spoil it, but you might face off against an otherworldly antagonist at the end.

By the way, don't eat the bizarre fruit.

StrangerVille key features:

Story-based gameplay
A new world with a mystery to unfold
StrangerVille Mystery aspiration that follows the story

6. Growing Together (Good)

San Sequoia, a family-friendly seaside city.

Growing Together is the pack for family gameplay. This pack is the reason The Sims 4 got infants. Quirks like Messy Eater and Little Babbler make these new babies feel alive and unique, and milestones give them goals to strive for even before they can learn skills.

This pack breathes life into all the family with the new family dynamics system. Dynamics bring a new dimension to family interactions: they affect relationship gain, sentiments, moods, and more. As an example, a child of a strict parent is likely to succeed in school, at the cost of their happiness and a loving relationship. On the other hand, they'll have a great relationship with a permissive parent but may turn out spoiled or undisciplined.

Another cool feature of this pack is trait discovery. Sims can discover or change their traits as they go through life, like a new parent becoming Family-Oriented or a Slob becoming Neat after putting in the effort to change their habits.

Growing Together key features:

Infant quirks and milestones
Family dynamics and social compatibility
Trait discovery
Midlife crises
Stay-over visits and new social events
New child aspirations
A new world: San Sequoia

5. Get Together (Excellent)

When it comes to the social scene, nowhere beats Windenburg.

With Get Together, your Sims can (drum roll please) get together! They can join clubs to meet like-minded Sims or start their own and become Leader of the Pack, Get Together's exclusive aspiration. Clubs can be based on anything: shared hobbies or interests, age groups (like a kids' club), even VIP clubs requiring a personal invite.

Every club has a list of club activities set by the leader. Members will play chess in your chess club; make, eat, and talk about grilled cheese in your grilled cheese club; you name it. If your invite-only club for cooking, cleaning, and repairing objects conveniently meets at your house, they'll do all your housework while believing it makes them important.

Get Together also features Windenburg, a beautiful, European-themed world that rivals San Myshuno in size. In addition to its vibrant population, Windenburg has over a dozen community lots, including three special lots where the locals hold frequent parties. The pack also includes much-needed items for base game lots, like bar games for bars and DJ booths and dancefloors for nightclubs.

Get Together key features:

Clubs
Windenburg, one of the largest Sims 4 worlds
Special party lots
New items and events for bars and nightclubs

4. Tiny Living Stuff (Excellent)

Careful opening that bed!

Murphy bed deaths return in The Sims 4: Tiny Living Stuff! This pack contains a variety of new furniture for compact living spaces, including the infamous Murphy bed, which doubles as a loveseat when closed and might carry a small risk of crushing Sims to death if they open it wrong.

The best thing, though, is how this pack rewards players for building small. Small homes under 100 tiles have cheaper bills and happier residents, while micro homes under 32 tiles get a whole slew of perks. Tiny homes can be built on any size lot, so you can go all out with your garden even with the tiniest of homes!

Tiny Living Stuff key features:

Tiny Home Residential lot type
Perks for living in a tiny home—the smaller, the better!
Compact furniture for small spaces

3. Paranormal Stuff (Excellent)

I see dead people. I mean, I'm trying to.

Spirits and specters are the theme of this spooky pack. Paranormal Stuff introduces the Medium skill, which lets your Sim hold séances to commune with the dead. As they progress in this skill, they'll be able to summon the skeletal maid Bonehilda and even turn themselves into a ghost! (Don't worry, it's temporary.)

Any Sim who masters the Medium skill can summon Guidry the Ghost and ask for a Paranormal Investigator license. This opens up the Paranormal Investigator freelance career, which involves a lot of appeasing and exorcising specters (cute little ghosts you do not want to anger) and cleaning up cursed objects.

Speaking of specters, expect to see a lot of them if you live in a haunted house. Yes, that's right, you can live in al haunted house. How cool is that?

Paranormal Stuff key features:

Séances and a corresponding Medium skill
New and returning NPCs, including Bonehilda
Paranormal Investigator career
Functional haunted houses

2. Werewolves (Excellent)

Moonwood Mill has a slight wolf problem when the moon is full.

If you're looking for a supernatural pack, this is the one. Werewolves adds a new occult life state with the most in-depth gameplay yet.

Werewolves turn into beasts not only during a full moon, but also when their fury gets too high. What triggers a werewolf's fury depends on their unique temperament, and if a werewolf gets too furious, they'll transform and go on a violent rampage.

Werewolves get some cool abilities, too. There are 31 unlockable abilities, ranging from small things like intimidating others and digging up treasure to powerful perks like resisting the full moon's effect, transforming at will, and even immortality!

Werewolves key features:

Werewolves
Unique werewolf temperaments
Unlockable werewolf abilities
New aspirations
Werewolf packs
New world and NPCs

1. Home Chef Hustle Stuff (Best)

Everything you need for the ultimate kitchen makeover.

A stuff pack may seem like an odd choice for #1, but this culinary gem is the best-rated Sims 4 DLC. Along with the usual Create-A-Sim and Build/Buy items, Home Chef Hustle Stuff has three brand-new kitchen appliances, including a waffle maker and pizza oven. These new appliances, of course, come with new recipes.

This pack isn't just for cooking at home. It also lets you run a food stand, so you can sell your delicious cooking wherever you like. There's even a new aspiration for it!

This may be a small pack, but at only $10 USD, it's one of best-value DLCs for sure.