The Sims 4: Royalty & Legacy
A lifestyle expansion for The Sims 4 focused on aristocratic drama and dynasty-building. Manage family prestige and unity as you vie for a throne, shape a kingdom in the new world of Ondarion, and navigate…
The Sims 4: Royalty & Legacy is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Maxis, released 12 February 2026 on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Mac.
What The Sims 4: Royalty & Legacy is
The Sims 4: Royalty & Legacy is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Maxis and released in 2026. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
A lifestyle expansion for The Sims 4 focused on aristocratic drama and dynasty-building. Manage family prestige and unity as you vie for a throne, shape a kingdom in the new world of Ondarion, and navigate scandals, rivalries, and romantic intrigue.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, drama and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Sims series
The Sims 4: Royalty & Legacy is the 227th of 227 entries we hold in the The Sims series. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 80 is 9 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is The Sims 4: Parenthood at 90.
How it was received
The Sims 4: Royalty & Legacy holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2026 averaged 79, so it scored about average for its year.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 3.3 GHz Intel Core i3-3220 (2 cores, 4 threads), AMD Ryzen 3 1200 3.1 GHz (4 cores) or better, 4 GB RAM and 128 MB of Video RAM and support for Pixel Shader 3.0. Supported Video Cards: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or better, ATI Radeon X1300 or better, Intel GMA X4500 or better. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 26GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Sims 4: Royalty & Legacy launched on 12 February 2026, within three weeks of Resident Evil Requiem, Reanimal, Marathon and Cairn. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 13 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil Requiem, Reanimal, Marathon, Cairn.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Sims 4: Royalty & Legacy yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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