Roadmap
Built in the open
LifeLong is checked against The Sims, piece by piece. After every update we pick the biggest gap left and get on with it. These lists come straight from the notes the game is built from, so they update with every release.
Coming next
- More furniture.
Just landed
- Neighbourhood action plans, as in The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle.
- Five more careers from The Sims 4, each with two branches, a career chance card, daily tasks and work clothes.
- Five more careers from The Sims 4, each with two branches, a career chance card, daily tasks and work clothes.
- Tarot readings, as in The Sims 4 Life & Death.
- Llamas, as in The Sims 4 Cottage Living.
- Rental units, as in The Sims 4 For Rent.
- Fairies, as in The Sims 4 Enchanted by Nature.
- The eco footprint, as in The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle.
- Horses, as in The Sims 4 Horse Ranch, with Horse Riding as the 48th skill.
- Frostpeak's lodge has its toilet and sink in a restroom of their own, behind a door in the back corner, the picnic blanket is a bench, and the ground round the lot is under snow whatever the season..
- The gem table's wheel spins while someone works at it, and they sit on its taller built-in stool.
- WooHoo, as in The Sims.
- Gemology, as in The Sims 4 Crystal Creations, the 47th skill.
- Dumpster diving, as in The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle.
- Paparazzi, as in The Sims 4 Get Famous.
LifeLong next to The Sims
| The Sims has | LifeLong has |
|---|---|
| Emergencies (kitchen fires, the fire brigade), bills and the repo man | ✓ Fires from cooking that spread, put out by a grown-up or the fire brigade with a smoke alarm; burglars who steal unless a burglar alarm calls the police; grown-ups left in a fire die, with the Grim Reaper; bills in the post every few days, with the repo man taking something if they go unpaid; puddles from splashy showers and leaky plumbing, mopped up; a bin that fills and is taken out; a maid to hire; pizza delivered to the door; houseplants that wilt if nobody waters them |
| A life that moves with the clock: days pass, Sims age, events pop up while you play | ✓ Each played day is half a year, decisions pop up mid-day; the household is saved mid-day on the server, and a passkey (or a code) carries your lives to another device |
| Sims talking to each other (chat, joke, flirt, argue) building relationships | ✓ Chat, joke, hug, argue, flirt, compliment and kiss, plus one social per trait (shared interests bond twice as fast), with visitors too; friendship and romance bars; ask out, propose and get married (after an engagement, with a ring) from the room, under a wedding arch if you have one; rivals from grudges, who mock you and can be apologised to; asking to be best friends and declaring enemies; invites that can be turned down; exes you can ask over; dates with a date score that ends as a dream date or an awkward one; drama decisions with rivals and exes (rumours, making peace, getting back together) |
| Personality traits that change what Sims like and how they act | ✓ 40 traits: you pick up to 3, others get 2; they change needs, what's fun and what people do by themselves, and emotional ones bring their feeling now and then; choices and careers that suit them go better, and some choices are only open to people with the trait; reward traits bought with satisfaction points, lifestyles earned by how you live, and Polite, Responsible or Caring from values taught as a child, which fade if lessons aren't kept up, and from aspirations reached as a child or teen |
| Build and buy mode: buy furniture with money, place it, multi-room houses | ✓ Buy mode: a catalogue with prices, budget, standard and luxury versions of anything useful, place, turn and sell (half back); kept with the life; up to three storeys joined by stairs; realistic models of every piece, made in Blender Still to come: more furniture |
| Careers with levels, pay and daily work hours | ✓ 16 careers with 5 levels each (splitting into two paths after level 3) and 3 part-time jobs, own pay, hours and days; paid days off; a choice of daily tasks; mood at work drives promotions; each career's skill gates the higher levels; going to work in your work outfit; chance cards with a choice to make while you're out at work; following them to work for every job (the office, kitchen, café, shop, clinic and a babysitter's playroom), where how hard they work moves the day; a shop of your own at home, built from shop shelves and a till, with shoppers coming in while it's open |
| Skills (cooking, logic, fitness, charisma) raised by doing things | ✓ 48 skills, five of them for toddlers (handiness from repairs, gardening from a vegetable patch, programming, writing and painting that pay from level 3), levels 0 to 10, from doing things, kept for everyone at home; better skill does more good and gets promotions |
| Moodlets ("Well rested", "Sad") explaining mood | ✓ Moodlets from what happened, low needs and how nice the home is, shown as chips and added to mood; emotions (flirty, focused, angry…) from them that change what people do; weather (sun, rain, storms, snow, felt differently out in the open) snow days off school, snowmen (left out the front) and snowball fights on snowy days, wet walks home from work, seasons, fixed holidays and ones you make up |
| Camera you rotate, zoom and pan; walls cut away | ✓ Free turning (right-drag, Q and E, two-finger twist) and quarter turns, tilting (right-drag up and down, R and F, three fingers on a phone), zoom (buttons, wheel) and panning (drag, arrow keys); walls cut away, up or down, or every wall up with the roof on; seeing through the picked person's eyes |
| Rigged, animated character models; thought bubbles; plumbob | ✓ A realistic rigged person (MakeHuman body) with idle, walk, sit, talk, sleep, eat, cook, read, workout, typing and guitar animations, dance, wave, hug, kiss, shower, cheer, cry, swim, meditate, punch and jump clips, and pyjamas in bed; blinking and talking faces; plumbob; thought bubbles for low needs; work outfits to and from work |
| Music by mode, sound effects, Simlish voices | ✓ Generated bossa (day and night) and build-mode music, music on the phone in earbuds, UI and event sounds, made-up-language voices with tone by social, crying babies, sounds from furniture in use; a car on the driveway with its own radio, driven to work |
| Generations: playing on as your children after you die | ✓ Carry on as a partner or grown-up child when a life ends, with the home, money, pet and family seen from their side; switch to playing your partner while you're alive; gravestones and ghosts of family who died; or to a grown-up child who has moved out |
| Pets (Cats & Dogs) | ✓ Dogs and cats that wander, eat from a bowl someone fills, sleep in their bed, and that people pet, play with and train (untrained ones chew and claw things), a vet for when they fall ill, and moods from their needs that change how they behave, adopted from the computer or bought |
| Neighbourhood, lots, visitors, going out | ✓ Visitors you invite or who drop by, neighbours who welcome you to a new home, and house parties of up to five guests judged on how much fun they had; a map with a park (with a festival at weekends), gym, library, lounge, nightclub, art gallery, lido and bistro (order a meal at a table, or make it a date) you travel to, a day spa, and a getaway in a log cabin at Pine Lake Retreat, skiing at Frostpeak Mountain (with anyone from home, and lot to lot), with strangers to meet and regulars; visiting friends at their homes, who live with partners, kids or housemates and have things that suit them |