Rabbits will assist your garden by eating weeds. Foxes (who will sneak around the henhouse and steal eggs) can be reasoned with. And if your Sim is not content to be a nature whisperer at home, they can take it on the road, befriending rabbits, birds, and foxes at the local park. Instead, they spend their time befriending the cows or telling bad jokes to the aubergines.
No longer do six to eight hours speed by while your Sim is at another lot. Cottage Living is a welcome change of pace in a game that feels suburban more often than not. The effort pays off in how it completes the experience. Even in a virtual world, there are not enough hours in the day. Between that and the weekly Finchwick Fair in Henford-on-Bagley’s, where your Sims can enter their produce, animals, or even a pie into local competitions, your Sim will either need to quit their day job or grow their family. The expansion also adds a new kind of garden plot that, along with special fertilizers, lets you grow giant crops like pumpkins and watermelons. Players can now build a henhouse or barn and purchase chickens, llamas, or cows, providing a steady supply of eggs, wool, and milk that change color based on what treats they are fed. The biggest new feature expands on what was only lightly introduced in The Sims 3: raising livestock. There’s now a lot to keep you busy if you’re a living-off-the-land kind of player. And Cottage Living makes that process feel complete. The interplay of the expansions and content packs is finally starting to approach the complexity that personified the second and third games. I’ve always complained that The Sims 4 offers a lot less content than The Sims 3, but the ecosystem of post-release content in the past few years has won me over. For the farm-minded Sims players, it is the ideal supplement to the agricultural approach to the game, opening up new avenues of self-sustainability. In this new release, Sims can now live the simple life, raising livestock, growing oversized crops, taking up cross-stitch, and participating in local fairs.
The latest is Cottage Living, an expansion that rides the country aesthetic-themed cottagecore movement that has taken over Instagram and Pinterest the past several months. From Star Wars: Journey to Batuu, the Harry Potter-esque Realms of Magic, or the ever-timely Eco Lifestyle, the series has always displayed a talent for reflecting current topics in pop culture and modern life. Over the years, the developers of The Sims have developed a fine eye for trends.
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