i'm giving strangerville (the worst sims pack) another shot... 

Strangerville is one of the most underrated packs and I'll die on this hill!!

Strangerville is awesome. I love the whole storyline of saving Strangerville and wish more worlds had these kinds of things.

I love Strangerville and I will not apologize

I LOVE STRANGERVILLE! I love the desert, I love the build items, and I did find the bunker stuff useful for rags to riches (particularly pre-Werewolves). I'm a nerd for paranormal stories, so the little references to them (like the Men In Black stealing your fridge) is catnip for me. I enjoy the gameplay, it definitely is repetitive, but if you want to play as a villain, you can make friends with the Mother and get assistance from her. The builds are disappointing, but had some great ideas, so I always download replacements off the gallery. Some mods that help - Twisted Mexi makes a mod that lets you shut off the Strangerville story and turn it back on as you want. And if you're a builder, Peacemaker IC expanded the door and window options immensely, he used the same design but now there are more options for different wall heights.

I’m shocked she things strangerville is the worst when bateu exists…

calling strangerville the worst pack is actually insane 🤣 it is, by far, one of the best packs gameplay wise. It is definitely repetitive but that initial play through is probably the most fun ive had in sims 4 to date.

Strangerville is actually a pretty good pack like the world is beatiful (not counting the builds), build stuff is very pretty like the doors and windows and the storyline is actually pretty fun

If strangerville has no fans I am dead! It was the first sims pack I ever bought and it just has so much personality! It’s almost giving older sims game spin off energy. Yes, she’s a controversial catfish (the mother wears red? sims team WHAT? this isn’t Bella stop teasing us) but I can’t help but love her. If I’m in a gameplay slump and don’t know what to do, running thru the strangerville story always refreshes me. ❤-❤ also I love desert conspiracy vibes so so much so like…. Build stuff cool too

also it doesn’t have mc mansion energy at all!! It’s giving the exact right energy of slightly uncanny historical home and when I tell you how many sleepovers I’ve had in living rooms like this… a lot of people in old old money southern towns live like this bro.

I love Strangerville. It’s so fun and quirky and I play the storyline a lot. I don’t get people’s hate. It’s just so unique. The doors are gorgeous, beautiful world, and after you finish the storyline it’s a normal world so I don’t get the hate….

I agree 100% that the base game beds, couches, and kitchen counters could use swatch updates. If the couches all had a matching love seat and vice versa would be nice too. Building would be so much easier for those of us with less experience if the couches and counters had some additional colors.

windows should work like the kitchen cabinets imo, like you can choose the size and alike all from one basic window, does that make sense ? it would be so much easier

strangerville has pretty world and cool new military career that was lacking in the base game. strangerville good at least compared to ba2

I use the Strangerville doors and windows in most of my builds 😅

StrangerVille is one of my favorite packs so it makes me sad that people don’t like it, but I’m glad you’re making more builds for it. Personally im always looking for community lots since my legacy sims live there!

I won't sit and I won't stand for this strangerville slander when batuu and mws exist

srry but i LOVE Strangerville, it's gameplay, cas and build stuff are so good. The title for worst pack has already been held by Batuu since it came out, Strangerville does not deserve to be downgraded like that imo.

i love the vibe of this house, i’m picturing your basic suburban family, mum is either a teacher or a stay at home parent, there’s a toddler and a child who dreams of being an astronaut and loves space, the dad is in the military and is secretly pondering around in the “linen closet” experimenting and researching the mother plant. i’m lowkey wanting to get stranger ville for another desert world and for the lore, but idk if i’d want to do the storyline even though i love gameplay 😭

My husband just recently got the sims, and strangerville was the first pack he got, and he loves it 😂 He loves the possessed townies, the conspiracy theorists, the weird alien plants, the trailer park, bunkers, all of it. Strangerville, university, and paranormal are the only packs he owns (he wanted to make a frat bro) and I think it's hilarious because it's such an opposite vibe than mine. I sometimes play his game to use his packs, and I love making old houses, libraries, townhouses, and old haunted mansions using the Victorian styled items. I just love how people can play the exact same game, using the exact same packs, and have such different experiences and gaming styles. 😊

I find myself using the build stuff from Strangerville a lot because I really love Victorian houses, and I do enjoy the world. I enjoy the campy of the science stuff it comes with, but it's definitely not stuff I use very often, and I enjoyed the story line the first time i played it, and on occasional replay, but I do wish I could toggle whether I had to engage with it directly.

Strangerville build items are so cool, love the victorian vibe and the « lab stuff » haha It also matches so well with other packs !

strangerville is actually one of my favorites to build with- absolutely underrated especially when combined with a few other packs of whoevers choosing. I usually build with strangerville, base game and like 2 other packs

We DEFINITELY need another swatch update!! More solid (& not all bold) colours, instead of mostly a lot of patterns.

another day, another video of Kayla telling EA to do better. i love it.

Perition for Kayla to make a cowolant themed build🖤🤍💚👇

The sims in strangerville always make me uncomfortable 😭😭😭

I recently started playing a strangerville save again and i absolutely love it! It’s totally up my alley in terms of a story based gameplay and the world feels super unique to me

Strangerville is FAR from the worst pack…. I use the build/buy AND CAS all the time. The cas is genuinely some of my favorite, all of my male sims wear at least 2 strangerville pieces

I like to treat Strangerville as a city not too far away from Chestnut Ridge. So I keep this Wild West kind of vibe there, just say that this part of the world was strictly made because of the need for a military base and letter the families of the soldiers started to move there too and that's how the city was created. So year a ranch city with more stone buildings

i actually kinda love this pack! i recently played through the storyline again & it was really fun, even though i had already played it before

Strangerville is one of my fav packs. I use the B/B all the time. CAS is ok and gameplay is fun every now and again.

the exterior is so coraline vibes

If there would be a time for a building to be a little less pretty and more weird, it'd of course be in Strangerville, so it actually fit in more better looking strange when you think about it. Still think the build looks pretty and cool tho

Honestly, the pack i hate the most is moschino, which is common, but all i like from it is the loft windows lol

I have a soft spot for Strangerville as a whole. My Not So Berry mint generation started there, as I felt the world was perfect for the scientist career. I also love the quest based gameplay although there's no point replaying it after finishing the first time. Such an underrated pack!

I love Strangerville. I played there with my previous gen in my legacy save. The world is beautiful. The gameplay is great. The cas is amazing. I really love the pack even if most don’t like it.

I feel like this kit would work very well with industrial packs for decorating, like in the bunker having a ton of airducts and pipes and shizzle just everywhere

Strangerville with an Alien character in the Scientist Career is one of my favorite play throughs. The two mesh perfectly. I took one of the houses there beside the RV lot and built a huge 2 story deep hidden science lab under it. Love Strangerville :)

I love Strangerville. I find it hilarious and delightful when my possessed sims go for their midnight runabout and come back with full needs

the shape is reminiscent of the doll house from sims 3!

omgg i actually loved that roof piece on the rounded porch, im soo bad at doing roofs so im def gonna try that shape

its like the pink palace from coraline:))

It takes a specific vibe to play in SV for me, but overall I like it. I also think that Creek Corner Cove lot has one of the most beutiful views of the landscape in the whole game.

Strangerville is incredible. Some of the best build/buy and CAS

I actually love the strangerville doors and windows!!!!

Strangerville reminds me SO much of MCR’s Danger Days album❤️

Kayla being bamboozled by her own floor plan was truly the highlight of the video lol

I actually love Strangerville, the world is cool! (Even with the scuffed builds). I like that small camper lot - very different from lots we have. I find myself using the CAS items a lot too

a bit off topic, but i think sometimes you should try something different from the floor plan you usually do. for example, everytime you can fit 2+ bedrooms you turn them into a kids/teen bedroom, but you could also make them music rooms, art studios, candle makers spaces, little cinemas, laundry room etc... i think sometimes making more houses with these different, but useful spaces could be really cool!!!

I use Strangerville build items so often they are SO pretty

I love StrangerVille so much--it's actually probably my favorite world. And yeah, there's not a lot of furniture if you want to build a normal house, but if you want to build a bunker/military installation/scientific research center/alien conspiracy theorist trailer, there's so much! Not everyone needs to be a normie. Also, that colander hat! It makes me smile every single time.

strangerville goes great with the supernatural pack for building

I don't have strangerville yet, but this video has solidified my decision to get it. The build buy is super fun and the gameplay looks great too, in addition to the cas. It just seems so interesting and fun in terms of gameplay.

I’ve never done the Strangerville story but I absolutely love the build mode stuff. I use it all the time, especially the doors and the windows.

at the beginning when the victorian style doors were shown with the bunker style bed it immediately reminded me of Supernatural and their bunker in the later seasons. I now want to buy this pack just to make a build of their bunker. 🤣

I’m so happy to see other people in the comments who like strangerville. I had my greatest organically created sims plot line happen during strangerville. My dude was getting ready to fight the mother plant but gets abducted and impregnated by an alien. Later, I make the alien daughter revive the mother plant and restarted the cycle as a teen and help infect people even in other towns. You know, cause alien unity or something? LOL. She finally has a daughter and her daughter is forced to save the world from everything her mother caused. It was great.

That is my most favorite lot to build on in the entire game! That view is amazing.

Is every pack the worst sims pack? I swear every new video is "I play THE WORST pack" and it's a different pack

I LOVE the Strangerville doors, windows and fences. The style of this pack just vibes with me. I don't care too much about gameplay, generally, but I use this pack constantly for building

I love this pack and I think Strangerville dont deserve this hate. There's worst packs....

White with light green accents looks so fresh to me. Definitely not a problem! I understand the struggle with the porch roof. I think if it didn't bump outwards so much, or if the porch itself was a tile wider to meet up with the outer edge of the bumpout (not sure how to explain) that the roofing would fit better. Good recovery, though!

I actually really like this one lol

2:53 seconds in and you have built almost an exact replica of every old/historic house that was in my small town in Pennsylvania 😂😂😂😂 Exact! Down to the funky roofing on the rap around pouch that they clearly didn’t know what to do with😂😂😂

I downloaded CC for the doors and windows from Strangerville. It adds more variations for both size and height, and also has some beatiful arches to match. I absolutely love that CC.

Strangerville has such a pretty world!! I’d love to see more builds or maybe renovations there

strangerville is far superior to wedding stories and that damn star wars pack 🤧🤧 (their promo for it was also by far the best theyve ever done)

Since simsie has been streaming a lot of stardew maybe she could do a sims build challenge where every room is a different randomized stardew character? That'd be so awesome!

I’ll also add, Strangerville + Paranormal + Decor to the Max is a WINNING COMBO! Add in Vintage Glamor and it’s over the top good. I’ve done the cutest shotgun style house. It’s my favorite house to play in with a single sim. It’s so good.

A pool is NEVER a bad idea, and I do really love gingerbread houses. Well done! ❤

This reminds me of Bill and Frank’s house from The Last Of Us show

As much as I’d like (another) base game swatch update, I’d also like to see a swatch update for the older packs. Like 2014-17 old (god ‘17 was 7 years ago). A lot of them have minimal swatches and makes it hard to use some of that furniture

As a builder with a fair good chunk of packs, Strangerville ranks pretty high for me. I bought it full price and I still consider it a solid investment. I use it in most of my builds, especially since for the longest time, that was the only laptop option… but truthfully, it’s the doors and windows. If you enjoy Victorians, you need this pack. I also highly rate the world for building. I find it super inspiring. I’ve built Victorians, modern masterpieces, and some super quirky builds like a bunker for a doomsday prepper sort and a hidden bar using the plane crash pieces. I plan to revisit and do a teen hangout with the plane crash pieces too since we have ladders and all. I’ve been sick for a long time so haven’t had the chance to play much since desert luxe came out. I firmly believe Strangerville and Batuu are dark horse packs. You don’t realize how much you’ll use them until you have them. I use so many of the Batuu floors, decorative objects, lights… actually, Strangerville + Batuu is a fun combo for a desert home.

I actually use strangerville a lot, I love their doors and windows so much. I also recently realized if you ignore the welcome wagon and don't go to the crater you can pretty much live normally without too much mother plant shenanigans happening

Honestly you should try to make a mad scientists home using only strangerville and batuu!!!

Honestly I love the shape of the house. I live in a historic neighborhood and the outside reminds me so much of this gorgeous house across the street from me.

I've had strangerville for awhile now, but I only recently played it (my first gen of not so berry started there). I have never seen gameplay or anything from it, so it was really interesting and fun to me. The gameplay didn't feel that repetitive, and I really appreciated how you had to actually have a relationship with whoever to help you fight the mother plant. I am a huge star wars fan, and actually dont hate batuu, but strangerville definitely was way more engaging. If you don't work towards a cure, there's consequences and I appreciated that in a game like sims 4 which seems so dense.

I am absolutely in love with all of your videos they're so relaxing to watch

strangerville being the worst pack meanwhile 50% of packs quite literally either dont work, break your game, or are literal scammy cash-grabs??…i get not liking it, but calling it the worst pack when For Rent, Wedding Stories, High School years, Dine Out, Batuu, My First Pets Stuff, and Bust the Dust exist is quite a stretch 😂

i love strangerville it's so 1990's horror alien movie core, i love it

I agree with the windows and doors being the best! I honestly just love doing older victorsn era houses with that stuff

Strangerville is an amazing pack. The items and the world are so good. I played the infected thing once and then just use it as a normal world to play in

My teen sim was playing the violin with her cat Queen Cupcake singing it was so cute.

I love strangerville CAS items

I love strangerville. It's the only world where mystery-adventure exist literally. I solve the mystery of whats behind the possession & I even slay the monster under that lab. It's fun!

the shell of this build is goofy in the most awesomest way ever

i actually love strangerville, i use the fences and windows religiously

The fact that I got heated when simsie started talking about this pack is honestly embarrassing since I’ve only played the storyline ONCE but I truly do love this pack. The windows, doors, and the less weird furniture are an Americana style that we don’t really in any of the other packs. I just love the vibe and idea behind it more than anything. A small town in southwestern America that was left behind in 70s along with the big secrets it holds. LOVE IT!!!

I like the weirdness of Strangerville. It's one of my favourite packs.

Some of my most treasured sims 4 memories come from playing the Strangerville pack. Probably because my sim's personal story fit in so well with the Strangerville mystery storyline. She and her twin brother, then young adults, were long estranged from their alcoholic dad who lives in Strangerville. Their mother separated from him when the twins were little, so they barely remembered their early childhood years spent in the desert town. The twins' mother had since passed away - so when their dad came in contact with a strange fruit and became infected, my sim chose to drop out of the university and move in with him to find the vaccine and solve the Strangerville mystery. Not only did she achieve that, she also managed to mend her and her brother's relationship with their dad. And while she was at it, she also fell in love with Erwin the conspiracy theorist, who helped her defeat the mother plant. They are now married, have a child, and live in one of those victorian houses on the hill. (I still can't get over how beautiful the view from their house is. Sometimes I load into their household just to look at those mountains). My sim has since become a bestselling author - her first book was, of course, autobiographical. I've also swapped most of the original lots to better ones from the gallery and I still send my sims on a little Strangerville holiday every now and then. This world really has a special place in my heart ❤

I’m in my Simsie build era because I’ve built 3 houses for my sims in the span of one week. I must be channeling that energy because the family is in Strangerville, and now Kayla is building there.

I LOVE Strangerville because it reminds me of west Texas! I just wish there were more big lots with the desert terrain instead of the grass. I use the build items in probably half my houses.

I love this just for the house layout and style

I’m not usually one to comment on videos but since I’m actively doing a strangerville playthrough, I feel like I could add my 2 cents. When I originally bought the pack, it was entire for the doors and windows, I won’t even lie. I’m not usually one to build in the desert worlds, nor am I really big on gameplay. I’ve been trying to get into different gameplay features and thought the structure of strangerville would help. This is by far the most interesting gameplay experience I’ve had so far. I built a cozy little trailer home micro home on the trailer park lot, I’ve made my sim, like, the ultimate mystery hunter (honestly might go for paranormal investigator next with her) and she just drives around investigating things, and she stumbled across Strangerville. I’m genuinely so attached to all of the townies in this world, and the gameplay itself was just a lot of fun. I’ve even thought of making up some story line if the original gang of people I recruited to fight the mother plant getting together regularly, and like one day the plant starts to regrow and no one believes her that something’s wrong. I create stories for my sims all the time, and this is the longest I’ve stuck with one, tbh. Editing to add: I won’t defend the default builds, I usually end up rebuilding most of them to fit my needs better lol. Or just to make them look better. Why does the eclectic arts household, with 3 sims, all single, have only 2 bedrooms???

idea: zombie apocalypse bunkr made from strangerville items

I like this house, Kayla. For the kids' space themed bedroom, I would've used dark blue wall covering and dark sky ceiling paint.

Imagine if they added vibes or something so it would throw sims off it was a creepy room or whatever vibe the room would give off haha I'D LOVE THAT. Like if it had the same mechanism as the for rent pack when you split the rooms up into apartments, but this time it would be the vibe rooms would give off.

That strangerville rug was so prettyyy

The reason friezes do that is because once you join walls into a room, any wall that is an exterior wall is forever considered an exterior wall, even if you add another room making it an interior wall. You can test this. Make a house and then pick up a room and rotate it so that the wall that was on the outside becomes an “interior wall.” Then use shift to “paint all” exterior walls and watch your now interior wall paint along with the walls it’s joined with. Same with friezes, mapping to all “exterior” walls. It’s one of the reasons I hate the rooms system for building.

I'm playing there in this moment. I love this ♡

A very nice desert house :D Gotta love the yeehaw picture especially 🤠