The Sims 2: Legacy Collection
The game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. In The Sims 2, you direct your Sims over a lifetime. Give them a long existence or leave their lives in shambles. Guide their characteristics from one generation…
The Sims 2: Legacy Collection is a simulator developed by Maxis, released 31 January 2025 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Sims 2: Legacy Collection is
The Sims 2: Legacy Collection is a simulator game developed by Maxis and released in 2025. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. In The Sims 2, you direct your Sims over a lifetime. Give them a long existence or leave their lives in shambles. Guide their characteristics from one generation to the next.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are comedy, fantasy, romance and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Sims series
The Sims 2: Legacy Collection is the 219th of 227 entries we hold in the The Sims series. The next entry was The Sims: 4 Sleek Bathroom Kit in 2025. Its critic score of 70 is almost exactly the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is The Sims 4: Parenthood at 90.
How it was received
The Sims 2: Legacy Collection holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 34% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Sims 2: Legacy Collection launched on 31 January 2025, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Avowed, Sid Meier's Civilization VII and Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Avowed, Sid Meier's Civilization VII, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Sims 2: Legacy Collection yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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