My Brutally Honest Review Of The Sims 4 Seasons 

What I like about this pack it that you don’t have to force yourself to use it, it naturally comes into your everyday gameplay

Fun fact about fall leaves: The reason the leaves die and fall off is to prevent the tree from dehydrating in the winter and dying. Photosynthesis uses water moisture and would remove too much water from the tree during winter, causing it to die, so the tree cuts off its leaves when the temperature starts dropping and hybernates.

Another cross-pack thing is that vampires can go outside during the day when it's cloudy/raining, or anytime if they have an umbrella

10:00 there are some weak "consequences": if your sim fails certain holidays they will have sad moodlet for a couple of hours, if your sim finishes a holiday they will get 100-500 bonus points for the reward store. Honestly, with the not-so-new likes/dislike system, I wish we had like/dislike holidays and if your sim fails a holiday they will hate it and have tense/angry moodlet when the holiday comes up (would be even better if for those sims, instead of usual holiday goals it would have "ruin the holiday for everyone" goal instead, I think it'd be really funny).

I love that you make your own holidays . I have for example made a summer holiday for my sims and selected free from school and work so now my sims have actual summer holidays . 🙂

I really appreciate when you’re showing the build/buy you don’t put down every swatch of each item, making it look like way more than it actually is the way a lot of creators do when reviewing packs. It gives realistic expectations for what you’re getting if you buy.

I was new to the sims community in 2020 and my thought process when seeing the multitude of dlc was, why are they forcing me to pay for weather and jobs, that should be in the normal game. I remember seeing strangerville vampires and even journey to batuu and thinking they made more sense as dlc because they are optional different ways to play, not something that is almost needed to have a good experience. Honestly I should have ran when I had the chance, I’ve been conditioned to think paying 10 dollars to do laundry is the coolest thing ever.

I genuinely love your reviews. It’s honest and refreshing. It’s not just hating on the whole pack or saying it’s the best thing ever, it’s just an honest review that doesn’t have too much of a bias

Americans often say "fall" but usually we understand "autumn" and sometimes use the word, except in some recent years when we have summer and then two days later it's winter, but the one day in between is called "plummet", because the leaves don't turn lovely colors and decorously fall off the trees, they just suddenly turn brown and plummet to the ground all at once. (It was yesterday.) Often the day before plummet is very pretty because all the leaves turn golden and for a day it looks like the trees are made of gold, then the next day they plummet.

I don’t think I could play without this pack it adds a cosy realistic vibe! I love when it storms & I love decorating the Christmas tree and stuff

the only thing that annoys me since i have seasons.. the emotions of the sims changing every second. aswell as being scared of storms so dramatic, its kinda annoying but i love the pack as a whole anyways :)

I love playing as the kids and doing the scouting stuff. And I super love decorating the xmas tree together as a family. I really enjoy this pack. Although my sims are always gardeners and this pack did make that more complicated. But Patchy and the bee house are amazing for helping out with gardening. Winter is my least favorite season IRL, but you're right, it's really great in the Sims, I think it might be my favorite season for games when I have kids. There's so much to do, and it's all really pretty.

I still can't get over the fact we didn't get snow depth

I always found it weird that there was Halloween decorations but there's no actual Halloween event or anything. Unless I'm insane and that exists 💀

"If you really want weather and can afford it..." Hilarious xDDD

I don't blame them for making this an expansion pack since it has always been. Maybe I'm being nostalgic, but the first time they introduced seasons was AMAZING

Seasons is actually a great pack. I love the snow too and the build items are some of my favorites, I just wish there was more doors because they’re both medium height and two tiles wide. I have never had a successful water balloon or snowball fight. They just stand around doing nothing.

The only holiday I use is the lottery. Idk, I don't particularly find holiday gameplay very fun, especially given that since they're only one day, which is like 15 minutes irl, you go thru the hassle of buying decor and setting everything up and trying by some miracle to make room for a fireplace, only to get a future cube and some seeds, and then it's over and you have to take it all down. I just turned all holidays but the lottery off

the sims 3 seasons: seasons/weather holidays colds/allergies outerwear (that actually mattered) festivals ice skating on ponds snow depth pumpkin carving aliens fog rainbows realistic rain integration with supernatural the sims 4 seasons: seasons/weather holidays (kind of better imo) activities related to given holidays heatwaves gardening overhaul the sims 3 feels like the seasons have more impact. your sim is actually affected by things from the pack itself. your sim can get allergies from picking flowers, they can get sick from staying in the cold too long or being in contact with other sims with colds. the clothing they wore in cold weather ACTUALLY mattered. the sims 4s seasons feels like a filter over the game. it’s raining and my sim gets a little icon saying they’re uncomfortable by the rain. like everything is just so surface level. you sim could be wearing a bikini as their cold weather outfit, but as long as they have it on in the cold they will be fine. not to mention they made those outfit categories base game for no reason. the calendar was pretty cool, but they made it base game. i don’t think that’s bad, but it just takes away another feature from this already dry $40 pack. i remember first getting sims 3 seasons, and hearing a little jingle with a notification that my kids got to stay home from school because how bad it was snowing. the sims also got a moodlet that lasted making them happy about it too. just small things like that are nowhere to be found in sims 4. that or they are put into the completely wrong areas of game play that don’t matter. overall the sims 4 seasons depth is as deep as a dried puddle

The scouts actually do unlock new scout outfits with lots of badges, they just don't get automatically applied unfortunately.

I've been going back and forth between several different EP's but I honestly think this is the one I'm going for. The gardening part will work well for both of my current sims. Piper (Mermaid) on Sulani is an entertainer and loves to host get-togethers, so that will be perfect for her for the holidays. Luka (Merman) is stranded on an island that is off-grid (he can't leave the island nor talk with other sims) with no money and has a very lovely garden so the gardening portion of the game is ideal for him. Especially that portion where he can sell arrangements. The beehive will work for both of them. I'll be buy it today and ty again for another thorough review.

I can't imagine playing without Seasons, everything would feel so flat. I also love the scouting and always use it when playing kids and teens

I really admit that I love the storms in this. I moved into the big mansion in the vampire town (I know they all have names but I don’t know them 🙈) and it was storming and night at the time and it made that experience so much more impactful. I played my violin on the balcony part and it felt like something from Wednesday 😁

"And yes, you can woohoo __" is probably my fave Satch meme format.

I will never understand why that one heart dress has only a pink swatch. Was it just forgotten?

i really like seasons only because of how ingrained it is into gameplay without thinking about it, sure there's other expansions which are objectively better but i always forget they exist and have to go out of my way to use them and i just find it constricting

the ONE thing that rlly grinds my gears abt this pack os the fact that they give us a rlly nice iceskating outfit, & u can become a good ice skater (after ice skating for 3 in game hours 🤨) but thats as far as it goes? why give us a professional ice skating performance outfit but end it at that? no career, no skill levels, cant even do it for tips???

Seasons should literally be base game 💀

one cross pack feature you missed is that the bees make a wax that you can use to make candles with the candle making station from eco lifestyle. other than that great review, thank you

Seasons and get to work are to me the two best expansion packs. I love how seasons gives my game more depth and variety. I'm a person who loves to follow the seasons of the year, so ofcourse this pack is just right up my alley 😍

"If YOU are poor" haha I love your videos this just stood out to me. Im in the middle there. I cant afford to buy it full price but I can when it's on sale. I use your videos to determine if I should get a pack. Only one I didnt abide was Spa Day because it was on sale and I wanted it. I really wish on Seasons they added like/dislike on weather because I personally love thunderstorms.

the Build theme (windows/doors) is definitely craftsman architectural style, i use it all the time. the only reason i dislike having seasons is when i jump between houses in the same save, if i played Winterfest in one house, it's already passed by in my other family so they don't get to get presents from Father Winter. On the other hand, flirting with Santa Daddy is a lot of fun...

The amount of townies i have seen die of freezing when going to lots in Sanmyshuno in winter is scary 😄 why can't they put on winter clothes when going to town!

I learn so much about packs I already own, thanks to your videos. I didn't know about the scouts thing in seasons or that I could create aliens in get to work

To be fair most holidays that come with this pack are Christian US holidays so it's quite limiting in that sense but at least you can make your own holidays

Thank you so much this really helped. Just bought it with 60% off! 😮

I have families with different favorite seasons. The Halloween drinkers, the decorate for Christmas on Halloween family, the romantic holiday sims who must expand their family via marriage or conception, the new years eve socialites that dress up in their best ball outfits and must win 4 fights before midnight while locked in a mansion or be killed and have their wealth spilt between the survivors Real wholesome family play

This is one pack i don't regret buying even though I don't use the bees, sprinklers, or Patchy as much as I thought I would since they were my main draw. Wish they had included more rounded wall windows for the greenhouses and it's gotcthe same problem of items that seem like just slightly tweaked previous releases, the kids stuff really is nice. I've grown used to and even like the holidays now, though, and I love how it actually integrated with a lot of the Eco Living stuff.

My main critique (besides bugs & glitches overall) Is that seasons should've been in the base game

I have an issue with the scout outfit : It's a warm weather outfit only. There is no cold weather version of it. Going to your scout meetings in Winter is bad, like real BAD. Regarding the gardening. Seasons make it possible to plant without planter boxes. You can plant literally anywhere on the lot. Even other lots like community lots, other residential lots and parks. I just HATE that horrible brawl day, and the way it creep up on you. Unlike other holidays, it only show up a few days in advance and screw you up. Whenever I get it, I promptly delete it and change it to a Dance Day, or a streaking day. A successful holiday is worth satisfaction points, at 100 points per «traditions» completed. You may want to have the Waterproof and the Storm Chaser traits. First make the Sims impervious to rain, the second make them happy during a thunder storm. The kids from Father Winter gain satisfaction 50% faster.

i may be wrong about this but isn’t there the toddler pool included with seasons? so there is one gameplay element of seasons for toddlers ? unless if i’m missing something

Father Winter seems to be an adaptation of the Slavic dedushka maros- that means grandpa winter. He is the Slavic Santa clause but he has a niece called sneguratshka.

4:45, We didn't get a world in The Sims 3 Seasons

The Sims 3 didn’t get a world with seasons either though. Maybe you meant the Sims 2? I only ever played 3&4 so I wouldn’t know. Would LOVE a Season themed world though. Some small town that has a festival for all the seasons, a park that has cherry blossom in spring, flowery fields in summer, beautiful red and orange trees and leafpiles in autumn and frozen ponds to ice skate on in winter!

You weren’t right about some things in the video: 1. We didn’t get a world with The Sims 3: Seasons even though you said we did. 2. The Father Winter baby trait doesn’t provide Sims with a skill boost, it boosts satisfaction points gain by 50% when fulfilling Wants.

Was waiting on this‼️

I have to say this is my fave pack so far. I love the challenge it creates for gardening and the holidays too. I just had Christmas and it was sooooo fun. Only issue I had was I used to have my Sims kids go outside when my Sim was tending their farm but they can't do that alot now

How is it that I've had Seasons for many years and am only just now learning that you can do custom holidays, disable certain holidays, and so many other things about gameplay?

Some people say seasons is a must have but tbh I could wait for it. I really want the damn swing set though

I appreciate that they incorporated realistic weather in sulani and oasis springs. Im from florida so we never get snow so im glad they added that detail. I think seasons is the most fleshed out pack for the sims 4. I wish every pck was as detailed

Hi satch! What a nice video to enjoy! Thank you! I always value your opinions. I think the gameplay would feel very empty without it. I have zero packs, and this was the one I was thinking about getting for my birthday or possibly get together or get to work.

I really wish that when it rained my Sims will put on their raincoat and then not get wet. I’m sure that’s too big ask but it sure would’ve been nice.

There is some game play for toddlers. They have the kiddie pools to play in during the summer and they can take part in some (not all though) of the holiday activities, such as eating a grand meal at the winter fest holiday.

I feel like the world of City Living also has its own weather as it rains a lot more and has a lot more thunderstorms than other worlds

The best pack that lines up so effortlessly with this easily spooky stuff - it’s classic EA to sell DLC for DLC 😂

i bought spooky stuff the other day thinking that there would be cross-pack compatibility with seasons, only to find that there is none. if i had known that, i wouldn't have bought it

I don't have this expansion but I have the flower arranging skill with they bonsi tree. They sometimes put half of a pack in another pack so that a feature is there but useless unless you get another pack.

There's also a new death that came with seasons - besides just lightning, which can also power you up with electricity powers instead of killing you sometimes - you can scent your flower displays, and if you scent them with the death flower, it forcibly ages the sim you give the flowers to...so you can use your flowers to kill others!

can you do the tierlist on how each sims 4 dlc intersects with other ones

This pack adds a lot of depth to other packs like the chinise winter mountain kne because its cold

omg when you talked about the automatic umbrellas I raised my eyebrow and thought "does this work on the sims 4????" and then came the bugs and glitches part lol at this point is just predictable

Can you do Cats & Dogs next? I’m trying to decide what packs to get on sale for a friend of mine.

i'm really not mad seasons didn't come with a world bc of the weather effects in all other worlds, but how cool would a world inspired by Switzerland have been where you can go skiing in the winter and canooing and biking in the summer

Seasons is the ONLY pack I ever bought full price at release day.

Hey Satch! I have some money to buy a pack and im between seasons or cats and dogs which one do I buy? Hobbies: -I love cats -But I wanna add holidays and stuff to the sims 4 like christmas or halloween and which one would be more boring over time? also does seasons add special days like love day too? or is that the city living pack no idea can you answer my questions lol quite a lot sorry

Maybe an unpopular opinion but I wouldn’t mind if seasons would be multiple different packs in sims 5. As long the calendar and weather are in base game. Sims 4 already sells mayor seasons gameplay in smaller packs

We say autumn in the US too! It's almost half and half. 😁

Satch= I'm british so I said autumn instead of fall Me (1st language being spanish) = I thought Autumn was the correct one this whole time

Getting seasons today!

I made a living in sims with flower arrangement and painting selling them on plopsy not gonna lie but I never ask patchy for gardening tips I steal his seeds 😅

I find it strange that seasons have holidays and stuff, but in order to get Halloween or something like that you basically have to spooky stuff or a similar

Does this pack mean that they change into their everyday outfits automatically when they go inside? As a Finn 🇫🇮🇪🇺, the fact that they wear shoes inside at home doesn't make sense. I bought this pack and others during the summer sale, but I don't have enough space on my PC to install The Sims 4 yet, so I'm unable to check it. I play on my Xbox (Get to Work was free and MWS cheap).

I turn off the thunderstorms and blizzards becauce the shallow emotion system just makes them a gameplay hinderance. I wish the emotions and weather tied together better.

"Or in my sims case - fight the Easter Bunny" Ah, yes. Been there, done that. You can't trust this hopping snitch, I swear. It's kinda sad what happend to "The Sims" after "Sims 2". I miss all the details like the bloody flopping slice of pizza, the way your Sims got picked up with rusty and beaten up cars at the beginning of a new career. Or just simple things like a round "Rock Paper Scissors" with good ol' homeboy Death. Now the whole game is a loveless and hollow shell of ... something. The basic game is a bad joke without all the expensive packs and add-ons. I'm really excited about the alternatives for "The Sims". Like "Paralives" or "Life By You". Thanks for your honest review, dear fella.

I love the pack because of the windoes the gameplay and the furniture

Wait what world came with seasons in the sims 3

They missed an opportunity by having a rain outfit selection like they do with hot weather and cold weather.

New subscriber here, loving your content and your style of video :D

15:19 About that. I agree weather should be base game (just like inZOI is doing. Don't know about Paralives and Life By You). I actually think that things people typically experience in real life should be base game. So weather, cars, cats and dogs, laundry, home maintenance (like what Bust the Dust does), active careers etc should be base game. Then things that are more out there like supercars, horses as pets, ranches, being an astronaut etc can be expansion packs therefore if you want the more out there stuff it's up to you to choose to get it

Lmao he answered the question just as I was thinking it 😅🤣🤣

weather should indeed be default to basegame... I bought it on sims 3 and it wasn't my fav... I HATE the calender and the stupid weekly 'seasonal' events... so I didn't buy it at first. Then all of a sudden the calendar got basegame... I was annoyed because I couldn't find how to turn off the events. People said you needed the pack to do so. Bought it... Only to find out it added even more to the calender. Yes, you can delete all the holidays, but no... not the seasonal events??? (or at least, it won't let me!) You can turn it off you say? HOW!!!??? I like the items, but seriously, due to all the issues, I've stopped 'playing' and just build most of the time when I do play the sims 4. How do I turn off the events? I can't find it... not in my settings, not on the calender either. This a glitch, a bug? Anyone else having this? Oh well.

I really really hope life by you comes with seasons /weather eventually in base game and doesn’t go down the EA route

The swatch system is the reason people miss so many good designs. You are more likely to skip over swatches if you have you hover your mouse over every swatch. I find it exhausting. TS2 had a whole catalog that shows you immediately what is available when you click on an item. The only click you need is to click through pages, not every individual swatch

0:10 I love this statement, lol!!!

Should I buy seasons or get together?

What is the music in the background? I’ve heard it before I like it

i love this series!!

We didn’t get a new world in the sims 3

What's the song that's playing in the background? I recognise it.

When will they expand or refresh this pack? 😢

Do all the chimneys animate in winter?

I don't think we did get a new world for sims 3 seasons? did we ?

What’s the name of the music in the background ?

.cool video keep up the great content.. Thank you…

8:02 how did you know what I was thinking

Season is actually one of my favorite expansion packs. I like all tje different seasons and what the sims CAN DO In each seson. Ihe case part though was a bit lacking for kids at leaste in clothing. They COULD HAVE HAD A BIT MORE clothes for kids in sesons. It feels like kids get either skipped out on or forgotten in some packs especially seasons. WHY is that? 🤨🤔over seasons is a good pack for sims 4 as well as sims 3. 👍✌

.... you can fight for presents?!?! /loads game It's on, Santa. /mortal combat song plays

0:18 okay but i almost shat myself

Havent seen yet but here is my take Its not open world and thats a game over to me. After playing like 40 hours recently on Sims 3, I realized that most stuff that are better in 4 get worse because its not open world. Im tired of making sacrifices in Sims 4. For me to experience a bunch of things, I have to face a loading screen and split my family, while in Sims 3 you get to control it all at once, and you are able to freely do whatever you want with no issues. Anyway let me see the video :)

2:45 I mean... I live in a country which has only two seasons, lol!