Get To Work is literally one of the biggest packs in the game though. It really isn't small. Having 3 careers, retail, a new world (I know it's tiny) and an occult. Now we get, like, one of those features in an entire expansion pack. Just to clarify: I'm not commenting on how good the pack is or isn't. I'm talking about the size of the pack. It is one of the biggest packs in terms of gameplay and actually expanding the game. Even though the world is small, there are quite a few hidden lots that add to the experience. It's a pretty big pack, objectively.

I have all the packs. But I'll still listen to lilsimsie talk for 51 minutes about them because she's my favorite

51 MINUTES? you’re spoiling us kayla

I think 2017-2018 was the golden era of TS4. With Cats and Dogs, Seasons, Parenthood, Vampires, and Laundry Day all released in that year.

Mermaids don’t even have their own tombstones! That’s my largest pet peeve with the Sims 4.

I have never bought a pack full-price and honestly I doubt I ever will

I think it's funny that she says "I'm from florida" to justify why she's not very interested in the beach world, but also not very interested in the snow mountain world

1:51 Get To Work 5:34 Get Together 8:40 City Living 10:32 Cats & Dogs 12:35 Seasons 15:58 Get Famous 19:18 Island Living 22:08 Discover University 25:24 Eco Lifestyle 28:25 Snowy Escape 31:18 Cottage Living 33:39 High School Years 37:48 Growing Together 41:35 Horse Ranch 45:24 For Rent

Don't forget that snowy escape came with the lifestyle stuff. Like single and loving it, the workaholic lifestyle, and so on.

Horse Ranch in the awful category for the thumbnail really sent me

I just love how different opinions we all have as a community, because for me, Snowy Scape is one of the MOST COMPLETE packs ever. It has a lot of features, introduced us to Personality Traits and Rental lots (and later rental for all worlds), it has Hiking, Climbing, New Festivals, Skiing, Snowboarding. You don't need Seasons to have a different weather, and if you only have that pack and base game, you'll be just fine. And, above all that, the builds are beautiful, and don't even need to bulldoze it. The Sims team really worked hard for this one, and I remember that was the last time I was actually excited for a release

Petition for simsie to do a build challenge using the get famous pink zebra swatch

Justice for Get Famous! Yes the World isn’t great and the fancy furniture is tacky (intentionally so) but the game play is really detailed and fun!

One of the things I like about the University expansion is that you can have Teens go to college if you have them graduate from High school early. It allows me to give them a head start on their career and pick up relevant skills without losing any of thr Lifespan of the Young Adult stage.

I think it’s so interesting when people rate Get to Work low. I’m my opinion, it feels like one of the last really flushed out expansion packs. Entire full in person careers, retail stores, aliens. The build objects are also really useful for community and creative builds. And the career buildings are some of EA’s best builds. They would make us pay that price for just one of those elements now .

clubs from get together are also great with HS gameplay. make an art club, cheer club, chess club. set the activities and requirements to teens. boom, classmates!

I LOVE city living I use it in like every save, even if my sims aren't living in san myshuno I go to the different festivals at least a couple of times with literally every sim. The collections you can get with posters and snowglobes and discovering new foods, mostly from non-western cultures that your sim learn how to cook after eating is all very neat and pretty fun, I think. My go to world for starter sims is also like 80% of the time going to be one of the small myshuno apartments, they're just really good.

Your so close to 2 million well done kayla

tell me why i just searched this thinking "oh god how outdated are they gonna be" just to see you posted this 3 hours ago??? an angel sent from heaven fr

20:52 island living lacking an island counter is comical

18:14 the only explanation I can think of is that it maybe is a reference to when Avril Lavigne was in the first sims game and her team made a rule that she couldn't use the toilet? like a "famous people don't piss" joke

I really wish there was some type of bundle option with kits like 3 for $10 or something. There’s a couple that I really like but I just can’t justify it!

I'm Native, so I maaaaaay be biased, but Horse Ranch 100% necessary. I don't really care about horses, but I NEED buckskin vests and white sage smudge clutter.

I played base game for years until I finally caved and bought my first pack, Cottage Living. It was so much fun! I’m happy I picked it as my first one. Now there are only 2 I don’t own 😊

I'm so conflicted on For Rent because it sounds so fun but I've heard horror stories about it destroying saves

My surprise favourite: eco lifestyle My biggest disappointment: high school years My 'wish I got a refund' : horse ranch My guilty pleasure: island living My ride or die: cottage living

city living is my absolute favorite and three of the reasons why were omitted: 1. food stalls where you can learn the recipes. (plus my favorite death! fugu poisoning!) 2. dynamic public areas. the available stalls change. locations change 3. festivals! the spice festival is my favorite food stalls but also because i love winning the curry champion. it's a family tradition in my current save file

i was literally just thinking about how i wanted you to do one of these 😭

I feel like I'm one of the rare simmers who loves high school years 😅 The thrift and bubble tea lot was what sold it for me, but I ended up loving ALL the cas + build/buy items (i use it for young adults too). The Active high school I find it great for story telling. For example my sim got a crush on someone and it was so cute seeing their love story build up. They're high school sweethearts and have 4 kids now 😊. Now I do agree with lil simsie that it's time consuming so I only do active school with the sim who will be the next heir of my legacy challenge. The university pack used to be my fav my I feel like high school years executed things better. I love going to prom and graduation vs university graduation is just a rabbit hole 😔 classes too... which sucks if you're living on campus because you're sitting around waiting for your sim the majority of the time.

I just got Get To Work actually. My grey gen heir got pregnant with an Alien! I'm excited about the aliens Hybrids actually. I didn't know they were all different.

I'm realizing over time that I don't tend to agree with Kayla's opinions of packs, which is fine but means I also have to remember to take it with a grain of salt watching these type of videos for my own sake

I feel like Get To Work is pretty essential to me simply because it has 3 of the most basic jobs. Scientist, doctor and police officer were always base game careers in previous games if I remember correctly, and are easily some of the first jobs that come to mind when you think of a job. Even if you don't want to play the active careers, it's just nice to have your sims be those things if you want. Also, I really like that it allows you to accompany pregnant sims to the hospital to give birth, especially if you have something like Pandasama's childbirth mod, in which the experience is lot more in-depth and fun

I haven’t watched this video & I have no idea what Kayla is about to say regarding Get to Work - but I argue that it is one of the best EPs the team has ever released and will ever release. Okay, maybe Magnolia Promenade sucks. Okay, maybe the careers have some issues. Putting that aside, this is one of the most expansive packs for me after Seasons and Growing Together. I have all kinds of retail stores in my game - bridal, pet, grocery, bookstores, clothing, I basically have a Target in my game. When I am feeling like putting in some effort, I will go to the large mall and buy furniture for my Sim home or apartment. I will take my sim child to buy their first bike or instrument. I will buy premade birthday and wedding cakes. I will buy artwork or floral bouquets. If I want that active sim life, I will have at least one of my sims own a store or havee an active career and maybe follow them to work for a week So I don’t get bored waiting for them to come back from a rabbit hole. I also play with mods and some of my favorite use Get to Work like Pandasama mods. If someone asks me for my top expansion packs, Get to Work is on it because I actually find myself using the features every time I play unlike some others where part of the appeal actually came from the basegame pre-patch. I will die on this hill.

I personally love Snowy Escape, probably bc I like what it comes with the new skills and I love Japanese culture, Japanese landscapes and Japanese inspired buildings

i enjoy building community lots and get to work has been an absolute necessity to me. it’s one of my favorite packs. also eco lifestyle’s community lots are so much fun!! i love building them, and i love how active they are. whenever i visit them, there’s a lot of sims actually using the items i placed. great video!

For me City Living is so worth it❤❤. I’ve had it for over four years and I still use it in almost every single save!!

I just got Get Famous and omg I love it I adore building the most obnoxious mansions in the high part of Del Sol Valley, they look ridiculous but they are so fun to build. The gameplay is also pretty cool, I'm currently making a legacy challenge where every sim must be 5 star celebrities

Simsie's rankings: Must have (on sale): - Seasons (makes the world more lively and holidays, good build buy, but no world, gardening busted), - Cats and Dogs (vet clinic fun, pets in every household, good build/buy), - Get Together (uses clubs every time, great world), -Growing Together (makes infants/toddlers better for long lifespan, great build buy, great cas, meh world with good builds, always uses it, must have for family gameplay) Very good: - City Living (good in general, lots of apartment lots, versatile build buy). -Cottage Living (good build buy, good world, simsie's vibe) - For Rent: amazing for building, good cas, terrible bugs, only buy if you love building) Pretty good: - Discover University (focused-meh world, university and skills fun, build-buy is mixed), - Eco Lifestyle (good build buy, meh world, good cas, interesting skills), - Horse Ranch (very yeehaw but can be fun, horses fun but not used often, some build buy really good, great for wooden/rustic vibes) Just Fine: -Highschool years (doesn't use school never invited to prom, uses the fairgrounds a lot, more buy than build) - Snowy Escape (build buy doesn't mix well, spa, skiing, mountain lot, not her vibe, not used much), - Island Living (more of a game pack than an expansion, meh build buy, good world) Not for me: -Get to Work (doesn't use it very much, but can be fun), -Get Famous (bad world, weird build buy, pond/acting career redeem it a little)

If you buy all the expansion packs it’s over $600 😮😮😮

hi everyone!

Yeah the snowy escape thing is so true! i grew up like 2 hours away from the mountains so I could go skiing for like a day trip (which is relatively affordable too if you don't stay overnight and pick a cheaper area). So I have my sims go skiing or snowboarding ALL the time and i love the world bc it's the only one with mountains my favourite pack in general is probably city living though

51 minutes?! Thank you Kayla. This is just what I needed today. I’m sick (cold) but I cant not go to school tomorrow because a. It’s my birthday tomorrow and b. I have a speaking exam in French tomorrow and I can’t skip that even if I’m sick and not feeling the most healthy 😅 I should be rehearsing my sentences so I feel better and more prepared but instead I’m watching this. Thank you for being a good and entertaining distraction ❤ We love you ❤❤ Update: So.. my teacher fell sick and moved the exam to Monday so I have the entire weekend to rehearse for it and seriously, I’m so relieved not having to do it today anymore. Thank you for all your birthday and good luck wishes ❤ you are the best

If I’m not mistaken, piercings first came with Discover University

Get to work is so underrated

Hey guys for who didn't know already, the blooming rooms kit is gonna be free in a few weeks, there is not a date i think but don buy it yet save your money💚🎮

I don't think you are begging for money by telling us about creators' codes! Actually, I am glad you say this often because I forget all about it and I buy pretty much every pack as they come out. When I remember/you remind me, I choose to support the smaller coming up creators, so I appreciate that you are speaking for creators as a whole and not just for yourself. I think that's very sweet of you, and I like you even more for that. And I already like you a ton!

8:06 I feel like I overuse Windenburg and Evergreen Harbor but Eco and GetTogether are hands down two of my favorite build EPs. They’re just so versatile. Get Together especially has a ton of versatile build objects like fencing and pillars that I feel like I use in every build.

I hate that all these pictures have different background colours. They are all expansion and should have the same :(

I absolutely love the build items in high school years. You said it's a lot of "teenage furniture." Call me a teenager because I use that furniture in every single build. Especially good for people who like pink and art deco styles!

High school years is so good! The build stuff is beautiful, so as the cas. I find it so hard to make houses and sims without high schoo years now! And the gameplay is pretty good and you don't use it all the time but still more than most of the packs.

omg so early, I have enough time to watch this whole video before catching your stream in an hour, hooray!

Kayla I just bought a pack last night wishing you had an updated vid on expansion packs and its giving how i bought sims one month before it became free 😭

3:08 you can also kill vampires with the freeze ray if you freeze them while in the sun

I LOVE Eco Lifestyle, it feels like it was made for me, and I had no idea there was any backlash. I spend most of my gaming time at Evergreen Harbour or using Eco mechanics for playing, and the CAS selection also really fits my vibe along with Discover University, which is another fave of mine. I just wish City Living had a bit more going on, especially with some richer lore, but I do love playing in the apartments.

My favorite expansion packs - as a Southeast Asian person with a huge interest in Japan (in fact, so huge I self-studied my way to Japanese fluency) - are Snowy Escape and For Rent. I haven't bought For Rent yet because I'm waiting for that 50% discount, which will probably be in another year or year-and-a-half. In all my time playing The Sims, I never thought we'd get a pack based on the region I grew up in, let alone an entire expansion pack. So it's a big deal to me that the Sims team tried at all. Of course, there could be more put into the pack, but there could always be more. I'm so looking forward to combining it with Home Chef Hustle and playing Rags to Riches with a makcik (auntie) who sells nasi lemak by the roadside to support her family. Especially now they fixed nasi lemak in the game to look more accurate to its real-life counterpart. Snowy Escape was just a no-brainer for me because I love Japanese homes. In fact, all I've been doing is to build Japanese homes based on those seen in real life. (I still haven't played with a single infant, and it's been over a year since infants came out.) But even with like 10 other packs I still couldn't completely recreate the Western-style mansion that is the Yuzo Yamamoto Memorial Museum (where author Yuzo Yamamoto lived in the 1930s in what is now Mitaka, Tokyo) because of the limited swatch system and the lack of proper futons that go on the floor.

I live in Portland, OR (born and raised) and I love how Eco Lifestyle has so many references to here and is so obviously what Californians think Portland is like.

Honestly, Kayla, this has helped SO much. I have been hemming and hawing going back and forth about what I want and your rating videos, especially how thorough they are as to the WHY, have helped me tremendously! THANK YOU!

I LOVE your sweater! Also, always love an updated ranking vid

One of my fav things in all Sims 4 is the different festivals that come from City Living. San Myshuno has 4 city events that bring the city to life - be it the romance festival, the spice festival (my fav) and so on. I love the small bit of diversity that comes from it, all the various street food dishes that you can’t know how to make until you taste it first at those stalls, etc. That’s prob the major selling point of the pack for me, I could not go without it in a let’s play.

Hey, I really love your content, I’m really going through a tough time as I have major exams in a week and I’ve just lost a close friend of mine. You’re an amazing content creator and help me calm down. Thank you lilsimsie ❤

Yes! Literally was JUST wanting an updated version of this. Thank you!!

I remember desperately wanting farm stuff with sims 1 and sims 2 back in the day and even sims 3 wanting a dedicated pack for farm stuff. Cottage Living will always be my favorite pack. I love it so much ❤

I have been pondering between Seasons and Cats & Dogs for days now and this video actually helped a lot thanks!

i srsly love you, you arr by far my favorite sims youtuber❤ i constantly watch ur videos and u never fail to make me laugh and see ur 1hr videos as if they where 5 min ones cause i would be having such a blast

This ranking is so different to mine, its so interesting seeing how different people feel about each pack

been watching since 50 thousand followers and watching you grow so much over time has been an honor ❤

YES THANK YOU SO MUCH I NEEDED A UPDATED VERSION TYYYY

I found out that if you have a spellcaster who knows a garden spell they can tend the garden and the plants will not glitch

the way i was looking for a video today and to my surprise my favorite youtuber updated the list!!!!

definitely not what i expected when i asked for longer videos but i watched the whole thing and loved it either way soo 😭

I feel like the packs that focus on the world are the ones that'll have the most varied opinions. If you see a world that appeals to you, I'd say go for it! I use Island Living and Snowy Escape CONSTANTLY because they fit my gameplay style and I love playing in those worlds. I use Cottage Living and Horse Ranch a lot less because I never play in the worlds and I could take or leave the gameplay and furniture. Except for the expansions that come with truly universal gameplay (Seasons, Get Together, Cats and Dogs), I feel like that's when it really comes down to personal preference. I think the perception that the Sims 4 DLC is lackluster isn't unfounded but it's not really because of the expansions. It's all the piecemeal DLC that really adds up

the clickbate in the screenshot paired with the same 😦expression gets me every time

I love your videos and I really enjoy watching you build ❤️

I just bought Get To Work and my simmers never have a job but I like building stores and is the middle of making a shopping center- it has so much for retail 🥰

Kayla forgot to mention that Get Famous also adds an after-school activity for those kids/teens that are not big on scouts lol. Get Famous adds the drama club after school activity... but yeah the world is weird lol.

I just got get to work and I actually like it so far which is surprising! I am debating on getting one more pack before the sale ends and i'm so glad that I stumbled upon this video.

I bought get together literally only for the tudor style wallpaper(i play on console, so CC is not an option) and i fell in love with it❤

I’ve been thinking about Seasons for a while, just downloaded and used your code 🎉

my favorite expansions are definitely city living, get together, and snowy escape. the worlds are so good, i love all their features, and the build buy stuff is amazing in all of them!!

I always check out your pack ranking vids before I buy, so thank you

downloaded sims 4 today, completely f2p, but after i watched your vids to help teach myself how to build i love your vids lol

Great video as someone over here who basically just started playing the sims and already went a little too wild on buying packs! Time to watch another ranking I guess

I was so annoyed that you couldn’t build your own apartments when I got City Living that I never played with the apartments in that pack. BUT! I realized there were other aspects of that pack that I love. All the festivals are fun, all the different foods to learn, pufferfish nigiri, and there are so many lot traits!! And the city neighbourhoods are tiny, so they feel like they’re bustling with all the sims in one small area. Also, the park is my favourite wedding venue.

Thank you for the video! I love the lenght of it! I need to say for me must to have is: seasons (it finaly gives you a feeling of time!); get together (as we finaly have 6 personality traits; and infant milestones are so good!) and city living (you can finaly sing, and the townies are the best!)

i dont really plan on buying sims packs atm but these videos are always sooo fun!!

yes do it again! i like these videos. and event though I have all the packs it is helpful to me because it often reminds me of things I've forgotten about and then I go use them/do them.

Lol watching Kayla talk about Snowy Escape made me laugh. Part of the reason I want to get Sims 4 (my laptop cant run it) is to go hiking, skiing, using the onsen, and climbing a mountain. To me that is everyday/ normal stuff that I will make my sims do when I get the game. To her its not because she is not used to it. I will also want island living because the tropics sound exciting to me.

Yes please make the other videos too! I don’t have all the packs but of the ones I do have my favourite expansion is probably Cottage Living or Growing Together. The both have so much depth and add so much to the game.

The only reason I would buy Horse Ranch is to have those shutters. Actual shutters in the game is such a game-changer for me because I love building traditional houses. I would only buy the pack when it is on sale though

I loved this! And this type of video in general! And I would indeed love to see them for kits and stuffpacks. Me personaly I love Seasons, exactly for the reasons Kayla mentioned. And Cats and Dogs, because I am an animal person as well. Me and my partner have five cats at home. Those are my top two, but I have to be honest and just say I enjoy all the family gameplay related packs and everything to do with like farming and animals. And to close this whole story with two just mentions of packs that I think are just a fun add to your game are Eco Lifestyle and Snowy Escape. The last one I have been playing with recently and I just had so much to do. It was wonderfull. Hopefully that will help someone. Or maybe nobody and that's oke as well 😅🥰

this was genuinely so helpful!

Just found your channel, and I love it. Thank you for being honest with the expansions and how you feel. Your ratings are about the same as mine. I'm not a big fan of Get To Work but I did like making an alien and having them act as if they're trying to spy on the humans.

Couple of notes. With Eco Lifestyle, if you fix the world and have Seasons installed, the snow will glitch. The game can't decide what the world should look like. With Snowy Escape, you can hike in Granite Falls (Outdoor Retreat) as well. They really do just walk around though. I love the "lifestyles" in Snowy Escape. My sim accidentally loves junk food and wants to add sugar to everything, or he is now a workaholic and is autonomously leaving the lot, abandoning the kids to go to work in the middle of the night. Others hate it but I love the chaos.

YES, PLEASE MORE STUFF PACK/KITS RANKINGS VIDEOS!!!!

Thank you so much for making this video! I need some help chosing❤

It’s funny watching other popular sims channels who absolutely hate all of Kayla’s favourite packs and love her least favourite ones lol Almost every other KZfaqr is like “growing together sucks it doesn’t even add anything” lmao Though tbh all people I’ve seen have given valid reasons. It just depends on your style of gameplay

Ooooh this is great! You should do one of these but with the Sims 3 if you haven't done it!

exactly what i needed today a looong video ☺️

i had such a stressful day today, thank you so much

Your sweater is the cutest!! Such a lovely color and pattern on you :)