Parent Game: The Sims 4
The Sims 4

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Summary

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 your new neighbors decide on a Community Space Project, reduce your eco footprint, and watch your neighborhood transform. You’ll be surprised by what happens when your Sims start making the rules.

Storyline

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 reclaimed materials. Either way, upcycling is the height of style.


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The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle Reviews & Ratings

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Review by The_Average_Joe [user]
October 24, 2020

I don’t think this expansion deserves the rave critic reviews. It’s just OK compared to others. My biggest gripe is the number of bugs itI don’t think this expansion deserves the rave critic reviews. It’s just OK compared to others. My biggest gripe is the number of bugs it introduced. From future Cubes, clay balls, white cake, and the worst feature bug ever - the dredded “sharing is caring” NAP that destroys hard-built builds permanently and kills gameplay. I think critics play for a few hours In the one world and love the pack, but play a little linger and sharing is caring will destroy the game. The only way to fix it is to know how toEmploy the cheats to remove the NAP from every neighborhood in the game!

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Review by nintai83 [user]
August 29, 2020

This was a boring theme and was incredibly buggy on release. I ended up completely disabling the eco aspects. I had to seek out modders whoThis was a boring theme and was incredibly buggy on release. I ended up completely disabling the eco aspects. I had to seek out modders who fixed the mistakes of the developers to make the pack not break my game completely.Just to give you an example of the horrors of this pack: I was eating out in a restaurant when a stranger wondered over to my table and stole the table we were dining at along with both of the chairs, our meal, and our drinks. At first I was stunned then I found out it's an intended function of the Eco-Lifestyle pack. It's part of a sharing N.A.P. or neighborhood action plan. I soon discovered that most of my furniture had been stolen from my home and all local businesses were now nearly empty,It doesn't stop with that. Some of the other N.A.P. actually encourage/cause married couples to cheat on one another. There is one that shuts down all of the power to your home. So you are literally just sitting in the dark doing nothing for the entire day. They also try to encourage you to feed your sims nasty insects to "save the environment". Yes, you heard that right. You will now see insect based dishes in your food list when you choose to cook from the fridge menu. The whole thing is a mess of propaganda. The only way to stop this insanity is to completely disable autonomy of the system. So basically you just wasted your money buying the pack to begin with.The new neighborhood is one of the smallest yet as well. The only part I actually enjoyed was the addition of solar panels and the generator was cool too, but running it turns your neighborhood into a smoggy deathtrap where sims are swarmed to death by flies...who thinks of these things and puts them in a pack? Then clears it for release?This was The Sims 4's last chance from me. I will not buy any more digital content for the game again. Honestly, modders make better content for free anyway.

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Review by maquisl [user]
July 24, 2020

They should rename it "The Glitch lifestyle". One of The Sims worst EP. It has way too many glitches, a balcony that you can't use and aThey should rename it "The Glitch lifestyle". One of The Sims worst EP. It has way too many glitches, a balcony that you can't use and a gameplay that lasts 2 days. It's bad.

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Review by TheSixthAxis
July 13, 2020

Despite the game's bugs, The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle is a welcome surprise that surpassed my expectations. Even if you're like me and the idea of off-the-grid living doesn't interest you, there's still enough in this pack that makes it worth a look - just don't expect as much replayability as The Sims 4: Seasons.

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Review by GamingTrend
June 30, 2020

Overall, Eco Lifestyle has been an average experience, though to be fair I am not overly interested in the concepts presented in the expansion. In general I have a lot more fun in packs with nightlife, celebrity, magic, and supernatural concepts, and it has been that way for me throughout all of The Sims games. It is pretty neat that your actions have an impact on the map and you see changes, be it negative or positive, but I personally didn’t feel the need to do anything else once I had my neighborhood cleaned up. Evergreen Harbor itself isn’t a very interesting map to live on, and I don’t see myself continuing on with the Sim or game I started on it.

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Game Information
Release Date June 5, 2020
Publisher Electronic Arts, Maxis
Content Rated T (Teen)
Game Modes Single player
Player Perspectives Third person, Bird view / Isometric
Genres Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Adventure
Themes Fantasy, Comedy, Sandbox, Romance
Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S