The Sims 4: Dream Home Decorator game pack was just announced, but its premise is something that’s been seen before in The Sims franchise.
Recently, The Sims 4 released a road map to show all the things the developer has planned for the coming months. The newest Kit, Courtyard Oasis, debuted and has had pretty positive reactions from The Sims community, though the overall opinion on Kits is still a mixed bag. When Kits were first announced, the developer explained that they’re meant to be small, bite-sized pieces of content between pack releases. With this in mind, it made sense that The Sims 4’s newest game pack would be revealed sometime soon, but not immediately.
However, The Sims developers had different plans, immediately teasing and revealing the new game pack, Dream Home Decorator, right after the release of Courtyard Oasis. The social media posts on Twitter and Instagram heavily hinted at an interior design-themed game pack, which makes sense considering the road map teased a brand new career-oriented game pack. As exciting as this new game pack may seem, this concept has also been tackled before in The Sims thanks to The Sims 3: Ambitions expansion pack.
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The Sims 3: Ambitions’ Architectural Design Profession
Ambitions was the second expansion pack released for The Sims 3 and introduced players to more expanded jobs as well as brand new profession choices. Professions are active careers where players can follow their Sims to work, as opposed to rabbit holes where the Sim disappears and then returns hours later when work is over. One of the professions introduced in Ambitions was Architectural Design, though it definitely functioned more like interior decoration.
The game would offer players’ Sims different jobs based on the story progression of the town around them. If a different household recently had a child, they could ask the Architectural Design Sim to come design a nursery for the new addition to the family. A lot of the time, the traits of the Sim asking for the renovation play into what they commission the player’s Sim to add to the home. Players would be scored based on how well they completed the renovation and if they stayed on budget.
The Sims 4: Dream Home Decorator Game Pack
With The Sims 4 already having active careers, it was only a matter of time until the interior design career path made another appearance. It actually first debuted in The Sims 2: FreeTime as a new career, but it wasn’t nearly as in-depth or involved as the profession in The Sims 3: Ambitions. Now, the reveal trailer for The Sims 4: Dream Home Decorator game pack shows how in-depth and detailed the interior designer career can be.
There seem to be tons of new furniture for players to use in their own builds as well as remodels of different townie’s homes. Players will have to question the clients to figure out what their likes and dislikes are before creating what is (hopefully) the room the client always wanted. Just like in The Sims 3: Ambitions, players will have to try to remain on budget for the renovation, with the trailer even noting that going over would affect the Sim’s professional reputation.
Besides the content of the pack itself, there’s no doubt that there will be at least one base game update to prepare for Dream Home Decorator. The trailer seems to tease some items that players can look forward to, like an update to the bunk beds where other things will slot underneath them, not just other beds. A much-requested update that would have fit in nicely with Dream Home Decorator would be the addition of a color wheel, but that seems to be absent from the trailer.
Hopefully, The Sims 4: Dream Home Decorator will feel reminiscent of The Sims 3: Ambitions’ Architectural Designer profession without feeling like a carbon copy. So far, the styles revealed seem vastly different from those explored in The Sims 3: Ambitions, but players will have to wait until the pack is out to really get a feel for how the new career will function in The Sims 4.
The Sims 4: Dream Home Decorator releases June 1 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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