Sims FreePlay developers have released one of many fresh events for their player fanbase: SimChase #35, Scandi Scrimmage.

While most of this update, which began October 18th, is a decadent experience of Victorian proportions, the first few events, Influence Island Scandinavian Decor and SimChase Scandi Scrimmage serve as somewhat of a palette cleanser for modern-preferring players.

SimChase 35 launched October 19th, and it offers players clean cut furnishings made of natural woods and glass.

Players can look forward to earning simple chairs, spare tables, glass vases, wooden bath shelves, and woven toiletry baskets in return for completing a healthy gamut of in-game tasks within a time limit.

Influence Island rewards players for cajoling FreePlay NPCs into friendship. The prizes for this event include sectional sofas, bathroom vanities and shelving, wall decor, and more!

​What are you most excited for?

On October 18th, 2021, Sims FreePlay developers will drop their most opulent update yet. Dripping in Gothic beauty, the Mystery Masquerade update will not only bring the darkly luxurious Victorian fit for any haunted manor, but it will also bring players key updates to gameplay and build mode.

The update will also offer Simmers who prefer a cleaner, less fussy look a few Scandi events to wet their collective whistles, equally opulent Moroccan and South Asian items, and a ghastly Ghost Flustered Quest rerun just in time for the spookiest season of all.

To start off this incredible season of costumes and candy, Sims FreePlay has collaborated with Funko Pop, one of the biggest toy companies in the world. Funko Pop is best known for its adorable, big-headed vinyl pop culture collectibles.

All players in Sims FreePlay will receive a free pack October 18th that offers a cute ghost light, pumpkin light, and adorable costume heads for all Sims from toddlers to elders!

Here’s what the heads look like in Create-a-Sim:

And here are the lamps in game, courtesy of GirlWhoGames.

The title event, “Mysterious Masquerade” begins October 28th. This will be a live event which encourages Sims to craft large amounts of candles, glassware, jewelry, and pottery in exchange for the luxurious prizes pictured below.

The bookshelf pack and in-game shots:

Floor lamps and pillars prize pack:

The pillars and candelabras in game:

Bewitching Banquet set pack:

Bewitching Banquet set in-game:

Haunting Hearth pack:

Haunting Heart Pack in-game:

Simmers who complete the entire event will win the massive house template shown below:

This Mysterious Masquerade house template also comes with new female hair, sumptuous dresses, and a dance floor that enables a ballroom dance interaction:

Stay tuned for more coverage of the upcoming Sims FreePlay events! What are you most excited for?

The latest Sims FreePlay update, Coastal Living, pleased its players for weeks with airy, natural decor worthy of any beachside home. The update also offered players the luxury decor and wine cellars of the roaring twenties. Coastal Living has begun to wind down, and players have begun speculating about the next update.

This week, Sims FreePlay developers began to tease the contents of the next update, which will likely feature themed events to run through September.

The first guru-offered teaser appeared July 20th on Twitter. The official Sims FreePlay account tweeted a photo of a surprised Sim wearing a deep blue yukata, a ceremonial Japanese outfit. Surrounded by sliding shoji doors, wooden shelves, beautiful Japanese-inspired wallpaper, and clean hanging lantern-like lights.

Fans quickly connected the teaser to Sims Mobile’s recent “Hello Japan” update, which came several months after Sims 4’s enormous Snowy Escape expansion pack.

The next teaser featured two Sims in traditional
Japanese dress drinking tea. Again, the Sims were surrounded by elegant sliding doors, pink cherry trees, and even miniature Bonzai trees.

The last teaser appeared on Wednesday, July 21st. Again, the Sims FreePlay account unveiled a scenic rock garden surrounded by Japanese temple-inspired architecture.

Put together, these teasers suggest a Snowy Escape update for Sims FreePlay, one which promises the East Asian architecture inspired by the land of the rising sun. A recent Tweet from SimGuruIceFox even teased new roofing options.

Sims 4 players were able to enjoy the Snowy Escape expansion pack in November 2020. This pack gave players access to a new mountainside world called Komorebi, new cold weather extreme sports like snowboarding, skiing, and mountain climbing. Players sent their Sims packing to stunning mountain-side retreats which housed hot springs, Japanese shower spaces, hot pots, and lovely sliding doors.

Thursday evening, Game Changers began revealing more details
about the incoming update, titled “Joyous Japan.”

This update features two new Influence Islands, a Joyous Japan Live Event, two new SimChases, and fan favorite reruns.

This particular update is one fairly quick and dirty, beginning July 27th, lasting through August, and ending September 5th.

Stay tuned for more detailed information about this update right here on Simmer’s Digest.

Summer is in full swing, and the world of Sims has begun heating up with fresh events and new pack announcements. Sims FreePlay kept players busy with a new garden-themed SimChase, a Produce Market Rerun, and a Moroccan Kitchen reboot.  Just days away from their final few events for the current update, Sims FreePlayers are looking to the horizon for the newest gamut of events for the June and July months. Meanwhile, Sims Mobile kicked off their Modular Wardrobe Treasure Hunt event and began the final stretch of their newest game mechanic: Sim Festivals.  Naturally, the biggest news of the week came from Sims 4, which dropped its long-anticipated "Dream Home Decorator" game pack.  Simmers in all circles are scrambling to decorate, remodel, and snag the best items for their pixel people to enjoy. ​

In classic FreePlay form, Sims FreePlay inundated its players with several, exciting events, sometimes all at once.  On May 27th, players began the newest SimChase: Garden Grapple.  During this event, players complete a laundry list of tasks-- many of which require multiple Sims-- in order to win the perfect pool-side accoutrements. If players are able to beat the "rival" Sim by completing the given tasks within the time limit, they are able to earn special outdoor items like patterned patio flooring, a grand hot tub, modular stone planters crawling with cacti, garage doors, and stone cladding. Not long afterward, on June 1st, Simmers dived into the Produce Market Live Event rerun.  A Live event that encourages Simmers to craft candles, constructor coins, glassware, jewelry, and pottery in return for prizes, Produce Market rewards Simmers with the brightly colored items required to build a quaint fresh farmer's market.  This event is stuffed to the brim with items like checkered store flooring, bread displays and hanging lights, wall signs and cute chalk displays, rustic stone animal stacks, produce freezers, grocery counters, shelves, fruit baskets, and much more.  The grand prize for these crafting efforts is, of course, a grocery store lot already brimming with the offered prizes. 

If this were not enough, just one day later on June 2nd, a brand new Influence Island began for Sims FreePlayers! This Influence Island event is version two of a previous event-- Moroccan Kitchens. During this event, players confuse and cajole game NPCs into friendship.  Their influencing efforts are rewarded with network coins, and these network coins purchase Moroccan-inspired assets like stone counters, squat glass tables, loose-fitting, colorful outfits, beautifully braided hair styles for men, and more.  This event runs for just ten days and will run alongside a SimChase Rerun: Mansion Mania, which begins June 4th. 

The past few weeks have been busy for Sims Mobile, which added a new game element to its growing repertoire-- Sim Festivals.  During these festivals, players complete in-game tasks to earn pink tickets.  These tickets move players along a fixed track of prizes.  Currently, Simmers can choose from two prize tracks.  The first prize track is free and offers a sparse collection of prizes like a lovely armchair, a well-rounded stool, a metallic droplet table, perplexed dresser, and a signed autograph of new NPC Venessa Jeong. 

However, if a player purchases the "festival pass" for $9.99, they earn 60 levels of possible earnable prizes that include Venessa Jeong as an official in-game NPC, in-game currency packs, a fully-furnished house template, a wooden island tub, trendy hair and clothes, and more.

Currently, players are digging and investigating their way through the newest Treasure Hunt event.  As Sims uncover golden bunnies and ancient relics at various excavation sites, they turn in these currencies for such glamorous prizes as gilded modular cabinets, bright lamps, lovely rugs, modular shoe and coat closets, designer shoes, stylish hoodies, cropped clothing, fresh hats, and a new twisted hairdo for men. The incredible grand prize is a backlit vanity desk, tufted chaise, and plush seat. 

Sims Mobile is also nearing the end of its scheduled events for the most recent update, so Mobile players are hungrily watching gurus and GameChangers for word of the next update. 

​This week, the highly anticipated "Dream Home Decorator" pack, a new Game Pack that allows Simmers to enjoy a new interior design career, hit Origin with a bang.  The pack offers many jaw-dropping changes to build mode including modular seating, sectionals, and modular storage units.  In addition, Likes and Dislikes were folded into both base game and Dream Home Decorator. The new interior design career encourages Simmers to remodel the homes of NPCs.  After choosing a gig, Simmers travel to an NPC's home to remodel their room, floor, or commercial space. As Game Changers began releasing their reviews of the Game Pack, offered for $20 USD, the Sims community buzzed eagerly about their joys and disappointments.  While lauded for its beautiful build assets, the pack has suffered from a few unfortunate glitches. In addition, some players, who are not as enthralled with the building portion of Sims 4, complained that the pack did not offer the gameplay that they had hoped. 

Sims 4 players are already buzzing about the next Sims 4 expansion pack promised to arrive this summer, though developers have not yet revealed what the pack will entail. 

Until next time, stay safe and happy Simming!

The varied realms of the Sims are all steadily changing, offering fresh content for their respective, awaiting audiences. Sims FreePlay finally unveiled their New York Apartment update, Sims Mobile wrapped up its charming greenery Treasure Hunt, and Sims 4 geared up for the upcoming bunkbed update with hints of more to come. ​

After several days of Twitter teasers, Sims FreePlay developers finally rolled out their latest New York Apartment update featuring Big Apple loft worthy looks such as contemporary industrial bookshelves, drafting tables, enormous windows, steel beams, chic chests and wardrobes, sleek ovens, and far more.

Influence Island: New York Bedroom offers players an array of Big Apple looks in exchange for exchange tokens. After convincing and cajoling neutral NPC Sims into “clan mates,” players get the chance to spin for such prizes as king sized beds, metal floor lamps, faux cow-hide rugs, wardrobes, leather ottoman, and vintage lighting.

SimChase Season 26 guides players through a gamut of events in competition with a “rival” Sim. Successful Simmers have the chance to win sleek bathroom and breakfast items such as corner showers, wall lights, brick wallpaper, and New York hair for male and female Sims.

The Lofty Lifestyle Live Event begins April 5th and continues to offer the glamor and glitz of New York life. Players can win a drafting table, vintage bicycles, industrial lighting, exposed brickwork, and metal shelving, but only the craftiest of Simmers will succeed.

Influence Island season 8 will offer Scandinavian 2.0 prizes. These are the same prizes as the previous version— beds, hanging shelves, kitchen tops, basin sinks— but in new color swatches.

SimChase Season 27 gives players the chance to create an iconic New York Diner with such prizes as diner uniforms, bat stools, black and white flooring, milkshake makers, wall lighting, square booth tables, and more. ​

[Screenshots from the lovely Joy C. Finger. Watch her video here: https://youtu.be/dofVaJW7aBI ]

Sims Mobile wound down it’s Greenest Garden event. Players claimed their new glossy female hair, rustic sprinkler, and quaint greenhouse only to settle in and wait for spring cleaning reruns— Wash n’ Fold, which begins April 5th, and Dessert for Two, which begins March 22nd. 

The Wash n’ Fold Sweet Treats rerun allows players a second chance to win the SimpleSuds Washing Machine, the Linen Fresh Clothesline, and a beautiful slew of adorable laundry clutter and furniture like pastel shelves, squat hampers, and wicker chairs. 

The long-awaited “Dessert for Two” Sweet Treats rerun gives Mobile players a chance to win the coveted Sweetheart Spa, Mads Multicolor Braid, Date Night Movie Screen, and an array of date night wear, comfortable couches and romantic lighting. 
​

As the Rustic Wedding and Art Deco events draw to a close, FreePlay developers have begun hinting at the next game-changing update.

Late Wednesday evening, the official Sims FreePlay Twitter account tweeted a photo of a stylishly dressed Sim lounging on a contemporary sofa with an industrial, loft-style dining table un the background. The accompanying caption included emoji that represented the unmistakable icons of New York City— the Statue of Liberty and an apple (suggesting the Big Apple.)

This image came on the heels of another teaser: a tweet showing a contemporary wooden coffee table, the legs of the loft sofa, a corner of an industrial bookshelf.

Upon the coffee table was a new plant, fresh table plant options, and other table decor options.

If this were not enough, SimGuruPenny also tweeted a picture of her SimSelf perched on a comfortable sofa alongside a handsome man. Behind their heads were wall lights, arranged above the sofa, a position which is currently impossible in FreePlay.

Will the next update include fresh loft style furniture and new decorative abilities?

​Stay tuned! FreePlayers will find out soon.

Developers neither condone nor support these mods, and having them shatters the “terms of service” between a player and the developer, even if the player uses the cheat “once only.”

That is, if a player gleefully uses these mods to his advantage, but then complains when his game crashes irreparably, he will not have the EA Help team on his side to save it.

On the heels of their latest Rustic Wedding and Art Deco update, Sims FreePlay developers quickly followed up with hints about their next major update.

The current teaser shows an architect or graphic artist’s desk perched before large, loft-like windows. The view outside the modern windows is of a gleaming glass and steel cityscape awash in afternoon sunlight.

Does the desk refer to FreePlay’s “architect” homes? Are the developers adding more build/buy features to city apartments? What new feature could FreePlay developers have planned?

Stay tuned here for more updates!

Women's History Month is in full swing as both Maxis and Firemonkeys leap full-bodied into spring with fresh content.  This week, Sims FreePlay inundated their players with a Live Event, an Influence Island event, a hobby event, and a SimChase simultaneously; Sims Mobile developers unleashed a deluge of spring-themed purchasable packs and player-pleasing events; and Sims 4 got down and dirty with their new "Bust the Dust" vacuuming kit, their "Throwback Fit" kit, and their "Country Kitchen" kit, though not without hiccups.  The Sims 4 team also revealed their internal spring cleaning efforts through a published list of bug-correcting efforts, aptly dubbed the "laundry list" in the spirit of transparency. ​

​The world of Sims FreePlay is a buzz this week with activity.  Busy Simmers engaged their Sims in a series of incredible events -- all within the fresh Art Deco.  Persistent players win a slew of sleek, gilded prizes during Influence Island - an event that encourages players to swindle and cajole NPC Sims into friendship in return for "network tokens."  These tokens purchase such glamorous prizes as Art Deco Archways, Gold pendant lights, Diamond Mirrors, Gold Deco Coffee Tables, Gold Deco showers, bookshelves, baths, corner chairs, bathroom sinks, and a grand prize pack of wardrobes, king-sized suite beds, lavish pianos, Deco wall lights, Fret Deco paint, and Flapper worthy outfits and hairstyles for female Sims.  

Additionally, the current Glam Mansion Live Event offers more gilded gifts for Sims FreePlayers in return for their crafting efforts.  Players craft candles, glassware, pottery, and jewelry to earn jaw-dropping luxury items befitting only the swankiest Sims.  Players are currently working to earn pristine bamboo plants, geometric paintings, geometric showers and sinks, geometric baths and toilets, counters and tinted windows, shiny kitchen essentials, a gleaming breakfast bar, luxury lounge sectionals and coffee tables, and a grand prize of the imposing Glam Mansion, an expertly pre-designed lot for upper class Sims. 

Meanwhile, Kam Ham's current SimChase offerings encourage Sims to compete against a "rival" Sim in return for luxury restroom prizes.  The hobby event lures Sims into the fashion hobby in order to win an array of fresh male hairstyles.  

FreePlay Simmers now look to the horizon for the next update announcement for April and May.  

​This week, Sims Mobile developers unveiled a gamut of spring cleaning events for the gardening gamer.  The Greenest Garden Treasure hunt, which began March 8th, promises such quaint accoutrements as bird houses, bug farms, a functional greenhouse, and large broad-leafed plants and flowers to build a landscaping paradise.  

The rest of Sims Mobile's current spring-themed update features long-anticipated reruns such as the "Dessert for Two" Sweet Treats event, which is due to begin March  22nd.  This event offers the amazing marble lover's tub, a huge outdoor movie screen, a wealth of romantic candles, and the sparkling path any Sim could use to seduce a loved one.  The Wash n' Fold Sweet Treats event, which rewards players with a functional washing machine and other laundry room essentials, will return April 5th.  

Wumples returns in this update alongside some anniversary prize offerings, several pack reruns, and purchasable packs filled with flowers for the gardening guru.  

​Maxis rolled out their "kit" DLC this week to mixed reviews.  While some players balked at spending more money for bite-sized content, other players leapt at the opportunity to add more game play, fashions, and kitchen-themed build-buy to their games.  According to the developers, these new kit offerings are easily digestible content updates, offered for $4.99 between larger pack releases, to whet the insatiable Simming appetite.  These kits will offer either fashion (for the discerning stylist Simmer), fresh build/buy (for the bold builder), or new gameplay (for the avid storytellers and completionists.) For now, Maxis has released three "kits" - "Throwback Fit", which offers colorful 90's athleisure wear, "Country Kitchen" which offers brand new country-style worn kitchen items, and "Bust the Dust," which offers a set of vacuums, a new dusty gameplay loop system complete with dust bunnies, and two new aspirations.  Not long after release, however, the kits began disappearing from Origin, even for the players who had already purchased the kits.  Maxis is currently looking into the issue. 

Sims Nation Magazine and Simmer's Digest offered three free kits to their followers.  

The winners are: @MaiamakesSims (country kitchen), @cowplant318 (Bust the Dust), and @giawlegend (Throwback Fit.) 

An enormous shoutout to streamer TaylorRynai who helped Sims Nation raise $122 for our Girls Who Code Charity event! Let's keep Simming for Good! 

That's all for now but keep checking the Simmer's Digest website for more giveaways, challenges, and events.  

Stay safe, thank a woman, and happy Simming.