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The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle

Ready for your Sims to impact their world? Move into a community of fellow collaborative makers in The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle. Play to change and make a difference in the new world of Evergreen Harbor. Help…

85 5 June 2020 ESRB T

The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle is an adventure developed by Maxis, released 5 June 2020 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

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What The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle is

The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle is an adventure game developed by Maxis and released in 2020. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on SmartSim. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Be the change you want to see in Evergreen Harbor. Start a clean-water project with fellow collaborators, or build wind turbines to power the community. Then watch your neighborhood transform. Three words: reduce, reuse, recycle. Tend to a vertical garden to grow produce, or go dumpster diving for supplies. Just make sure to take a bath after. Your greatest resource is your community. Vote on Neighborhood Action Plans each week to encourage recycling, volunteering and more. Small steps lead to big change. Keep in mind: everything you do has a lasting effect on your surroundings. One person’s trash is another’s lightly used furniture. Decorate your home with used items, or make your own with…
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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 4: Eco Lifestyle is the 163rd of 227 entries we hold in the The Sims series. The next entry was The Sims 4: Holiday Celebration Pack in 2020. Its critic score of 85 is 14 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is The Sims 4: Parenthood at 90.

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How it was received

The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 12 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle launched on 5 June 2020, within three weeks of The Last of Us Part II, Valorant, Desperados III and Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: The Last of Us Part II, Valorant, Desperados III, Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition.

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When did The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle come out?
The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle was released on 5 June 2020 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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