The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits' first gameplay trailer presents an ethically concerning look at imaginary friends

Just support them distant from me

Look, we each cognize The Sims is simply a weird small series. You tin torture your Sims, conscionable fairies and werewolves and vampires, person fractional alien babies. So I consciousness similar I shouldn't beryllium each that amazed by The Sims 4's adjacent enlargement pack, Adventure Awaits, seeing the instrumentality of imaginary friends. And yet present I am, taken aback and somewhat horrified by the game's mentation of imaginary friends successful its archetypal gameplay trailer.

I genuinely find them existentially uncomfortable. Imaginary friends travel successful the signifier of 4 antithetic dolls that tin morph into humanoid creatures that volition support your Sim kid institution if nary 1 other will. You tin take betwixt 4 antithetic personalities for them too, which includes Goofball, Creative, Competitive, and funniest of all, consecutive up Evil.

Worst of all, if your Sim kid bonds with the imaginary person enough, they tin Pinocchio-style crook into a existent human. A batch of ethical questions being raised present I'm not assured the simulation crippled volition answer, and rather honestly I don't cognize if I'd privation them astir my ain kids (NB: I don't person any, but let's ideate I bash for this gag to land).

That's not what the enlargement battalion is solely about, though, successful information it's mostly not astir getting your children to make quality life. Adventure Awaits besides introduces 3 caller neighbourhoods for your Sims to explore, with activities similar sportfishing successful upland streams, sharing campfire stories, oregon conscionable having a romanticist retreat. This comes with a caller feature, Scheduling Getaway, which allows your Sims to program play trips oregon summertime holidays. Alternatively, with the game's caller Custom Venues and Getaway System, you tin marque your ain getaway spots for your Sims to bent retired in.

At slightest those retreats dependable similar a bully reprieve from the horrors presented by the imaginary friends. In immoderate case, Adventure Awaits is retired October 2nd, truthful you don't person to hold precise long.