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Have You Played… The Sims Castaway Stories?Sans Wilson

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Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.The Sims Castaway Storieswas one ofThe SimsStories series (which included Life and Pets as well asCastaway). These came out around the same time asThe Sims 2, as a range of Sims games that were made to be more laptop friendly. For me, though, these Sims Stories games were the answer to my lack of Sims Urbz. A single sim, story led, Sims game.I’ve chosen to write about Castaway Stories over the other two entries because I really enjoyed the completely new premise of the game. Life stories? Fine, but I could do that in The Sims 2 already. Same with Pet stories. But Castaway stories? I couldn’t get a Sim stranded on an island in TS2 even if I tried really hard. Plus Castaway Stories had orangutans.Your sim was thrown onto a deserted island and had to fend for themselves (albeit with you to help them). A small, but enjoyable and notable, difference was “buy mode” was renamed to “barter mode” which is fitting. It was kind of a slimline Sims game, and it was missing a lot of things, but it also added a few new items that were originally from older Sims 2 expansions, like swimming in the sea, a few different animals, and weather, all now Sims staples.It was great fun, and I miss these silly side games a lot. I previously wrote aboutThe Sims Medievaltoo, but we’ve not had anything similar to these since the Sims 4 has come out. EA, if you’re reading this: make another spin-off.

Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.The Sims Castaway Storieswas one ofThe SimsStories series (which included Life and Pets as well asCastaway). These came out around the same time asThe Sims 2, as a range of Sims games that were made to be more laptop friendly. For me, though, these Sims Stories games were the answer to my lack of Sims Urbz. A single sim, story led, Sims game.I’ve chosen to write about Castaway Stories over the other two entries because I really enjoyed the completely new premise of the game. Life stories? Fine, but I could do that in The Sims 2 already. Same with Pet stories. But Castaway stories? I couldn’t get a Sim stranded on an island in TS2 even if I tried really hard. Plus Castaway Stories had orangutans.Your sim was thrown onto a deserted island and had to fend for themselves (albeit with you to help them). A small, but enjoyable and notable, difference was “buy mode” was renamed to “barter mode” which is fitting. It was kind of a slimline Sims game, and it was missing a lot of things, but it also added a few new items that were originally from older Sims 2 expansions, like swimming in the sea, a few different animals, and weather, all now Sims staples.It was great fun, and I miss these silly side games a lot. I previously wrote aboutThe Sims Medievaltoo, but we’ve not had anything similar to these since the Sims 4 has come out. EA, if you’re reading this: make another spin-off.

The Sims Castaway Storieswas one ofThe SimsStories series (which included Life and Pets as well asCastaway). These came out around the same time asThe Sims 2, as a range of Sims games that were made to be more laptop friendly. For me, though, these Sims Stories games were the answer to my lack of Sims Urbz. A single sim, story led, Sims game.

I’ve chosen to write about Castaway Stories over the other two entries because I really enjoyed the completely new premise of the game. Life stories? Fine, but I could do that in The Sims 2 already. Same with Pet stories. But Castaway stories? I couldn’t get a Sim stranded on an island in TS2 even if I tried really hard. Plus Castaway Stories had orangutans.

Your sim was thrown onto a deserted island and had to fend for themselves (albeit with you to help them). A small, but enjoyable and notable, difference was “buy mode” was renamed to “barter mode” which is fitting. It was kind of a slimline Sims game, and it was missing a lot of things, but it also added a few new items that were originally from older Sims 2 expansions, like swimming in the sea, a few different animals, and weather, all now Sims staples.

It was great fun, and I miss these silly side games a lot. I previously wrote aboutThe Sims Medievaltoo, but we’ve not had anything similar to these since the Sims 4 has come out. EA, if you’re reading this: make another spin-off.