Generally speaking, The Sims 4: City Living is no more or less complicated than previous entries and expansion packs in the series. How easy is The Sims 4: City Living to pick up and play? However, living in such close quarters can give you issues with noisy neighbours, disrupting your Sims' sleep and potentially making it harder to get up and get to work on time the following morning, with plenty of opportunities for new stories to play out. Giving them more opportunities for social events, whether it's having a friend over to hang out, throwing a party, or paying a visit to the current festival or special event, life in the city of San Myshuno is much more bustling and busy than the usual suburban Sims life. In terms of what City Living adds to the core game, the biggest change is in your Sims' living arrangements - instead of individual houses surrounded by plenty of room to expand, your Sims are now crammed into tower block apartments, sharing walls with neighbours across the hall. With limited autonomy themselves (but plenty of things happening behind the scenes to keep things interesting), much of your time is spent dictating your Sims' every day activities, from what to eat and when to go to sleep, to their recreational activities, social lives or personal development as they seek out that next big promotion at work. Perhaps they'll find love, settle down and start a family perhaps you'll be a bit of a playboy billionaire genius philanthropist instead or maybe you'll slob around in your pants all day, running from the repo men as you struggle to make ends meet - with the Sims, you can create your own stories and lives for your virtual characters, with the only limit being your imagination.
A fairly free-form game at heart, the Sims sees you creating characters from the ground up, choosing everything from their looks to their clothes, personality, and even their dreams, before plonking them into a house - or in the case of City Living, an apartment - of your choice, and helping them live out their lives.