The Sims is undoubtedly one of the most popular series in gaming history. It currently holds the distinguished honor of being the most played game on the PC by a long shot, and it's easy to see why. After all, when it comes to life simulation games The Sims is pretty much the only franchise that can provide the m🧸ost complete and satisfying experience when it comes to fulfilling the various aspects of this genre. The sheer amount of detail and content present in these games is truly mind-boggling, and while the series might've experienced its fair share of speed bumps (which can mostly be blamed on EA's unnecessary corpor🍨ate meddling) there's no questioning the staying power of this powerful franchise.
However, while there might a ton of detail present in the game in order to truly cement its position as a bonafide life-simulation game, most players haven't noticed that Maxis has actually included a number of hidden stories and secrets in the game that range from somewhat creepy to borderline disturbing at times. This can be especially jarring, especially since the tonality of The Sims is rather kiddish, which makes the existence of these horrifying elements all the more disorienting. The following entries list out 25 of the most disturbing facts about The Sims that even die-hard fans don't know about.
25 Olive Specter And Her Unhealthy Obsession With The Grim Reaper ♔
The stories present in all of the games in The Sims series are pretty unique in their own little ways, providing you with an innocent platform to base your roleplay on. However, there are some Sims who don't exactly have such light-hearted backstories, and Olive Specter from The Sims 2 is one such example.
The garden behind the 🐲house of Olive Specter is full of dead people, including her previous husbands and p🔴eople she didn't exactly like either. It's pretty obvious that one shouldn't get on Olive's bad side — after all, her memories also show that she is romantically involved with the Grim Reaper. This provides her with a powerful incentive to kill all these people, since she can meet her lover by doing so.
Speaking of the Grim Reaper...
24 Your Sim Can ♎Use Her Body And ꦑConvince The Grim Reaper To Spare A Life
It's always heartbreaking when a Sim that you saw grow up in front of your very eyes experiences the last stages of their life. When this Sim is close to his/her death, then the Grim Reaper will appear for a while before taking the life of your Sim for good. However, if you're extremely attached to your Sim then you can postpone this fate... albeit at a rather di🌃sturbing price.
See, you can negotiate with the Grim Reaper to spare a life, but that can only be done if you're on good terms with him. And — let's face it — the best way to ensure this is by making one of your female Sims use her body to 'appease' the Grim Reaper. By developing this rather disturbing relationship, you can successfully convince the Grim Reaper to spare a Sim and extend their life for a few days.
Whether✱ you're willing 𓆉to pay such a steep price is a question for another time.
23 💮 Skip Broke's Death Is A Rather Cheeky Reference To The Psychotic Si💟ms Players
Let's face it — during your playthrough of The Sims, there had to be that one instance where you gave into your psychotic tendencies and removed the ladder of the pool while your Sim was innocently swimming around. And obviously, since there's no ladder, your Sim — who lacks the basic inꦑtellect to simply climb out of the pool — would keep on swimming around before getting tired and 🎀drowning to his death. Jeez, you maniac.
It seems that this manner of death became rather popular, and Maxis acknowledged these psychos in The Sims 2 by including a dead Sim cal𓆉led Skip Broke, who died because of a 'suspicious pool ladder accident.' It's a pretty cheeky reference that clearly implies that Skip's death was caused by these psychotic players.
22 ꦺ It'ꦉs Heavily Implied That Don Lothario Travelled Back In Time
The romantic Don Lothario is present in both The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, and his appearance stays pretty much the same in both games. This is certainly quite odd, since there's a time difference of 50 years between both games. Apparently, Don Lothario also appeared out of nowhere in Riverview, which strongly implies that he time traveled into the world of The Sims 3 to escape his engagement with Cassandra Goth from The Sims 2.
The fact that time travel machines and teleporters exist in The Sims 3 only serve to accentuate this theory. Apparently, there were several women laughing at him whil꧑e he was teleporting as well (according to his bio), which can mean that Don decided to take the plunge and teleport to Ri🍌verview because of sheer embarrassment.
21 𒅌 Ther🥂e Are Only Three Matrilineal Families In The Sims
Matrilineality is a concept that used to be alien due to the pre-defined gender roles that had taken over society a long time ago, but now this dated concept is slowly disappearing. It's not the norm anymore that the woman always has to take the man's surname after marriage... but this is certainly not what happens in The Sims franchise.
In fact, in the entire series, there are just three matrilineal families — only the Capp, Summerdream, and Tricou families have adopted this progressive mindset, which is pretty confusing to say the very least. After all, it's odd that in the midst of a societal shift towards a more progressive mindset, The Sims (which is supposed to be an accurate depiction of life) ꦅhappens to have such💖 a regressive environment.
Speaking of matrilineal families...
20 The Befuddling Existenc♉e Of The Tricou Family (Or ܫLack Thereof)
The House Of Fallen Trees iꦕs occupied by the Tricou family — a family that's shrouded in mystery for a number of reasons. Why you ask? Well, just take the rather glaring fact into account that anybody with the last name of Tricou died from starvation (aside from two exceptions), leaving bไehind the Teens — and no, we don't mean the age group. We mean the Teens family.
There are just so many questions that will come to a player's mind when they decide to play this particular house. How did the Tricou family die to begin with? How come allꦐ of them died by starvatꦓion? Did the Teens have anything to do with their demise? The questions are endless, and unfortunately, there are no answers to satiate one's curiosity regarding this subject matter.
But hꦓey, since we're on the cheery subject matter of death...
19 𓆉 Kill Too Many Sims And The Game Maꩲkes A Sarcastic Joke
The Sims is meant to be a simulation of life (who knew?), and in order to play this simulation properly, you need to treat your Sims with love and care as they grow from small infants into fully-fledged adults. And while death might be a part of The Sims, the focus i🌠s on constructing and guiding peopl🏅e through their life before meeting their death through natural causes.
What is certainly not recommended is for players to go completely off the deep end and find the most creative ways to kill their Sims. While this might be entertaining in the short run, it quickly gets old after a while, and if you stubbornly keep on killing off your Sims, then you'll fall victim to a sarcastic pop-up from the game that reminds you that — in the end — The Sims is a 'life' simulator.
18 How Did E♒rik Darling Die?
The Sims 3 features a dead Sim known as Eric Darling, who was the victim of another unfortunate drowning (it's up to the player to interpret how this drowning actually happened). His death happened during his honeymoon as🐟 well, making it all the more tragic... especially for the widow he left behind.
Agnes Crumplebottom (the aforementioned widow) was left heartbroken, lonely, and bitter due to the unexpected death of her husband. This only makes the death of Eric Darling even more tragic, since the full details of his demise aren't exactly common knowledge — even among the die-hard fans of The Sims.
These small stories are just one of the many reasons why The Sims shines so much — it'ဣs always a treat to solve these mysteries, and the online community is pretty active when it comes to🌳 formulating theories regarding these strange and mysterious incidents.
17 T♒here's A Plant In The Game That Straight Up Eats Your Sims
The Cow Plant (more complicatedly know as the Laganaphyllis simnovorii) is a unique plant present in The Sims that can provide you with a refreshing elixir that can actually extend a Sim's life. This functionality makes the Cow Plant one of the most u﷽seful plants in the game... but do be prepared — if you're serious about growing this plant, make sure 𒆙that you devote a sizeable amount of time and care into nurturing this beast.
We're saying this because there's a huge risk that can arise with this plant while you're growing it. You need to constantly feed it so that the plant can produce its milk and — more importantly — not get hungry. However, if you happen to forget that you have a massive beast plant that needs to be fed, then you'll be penalized appropriately since the plant will goad and eat up one of your Sims to satiate its massive appetite.
16 ✤ 🀅 The Haunted Nature Of The Remington Family
In Rive🧸rview, the꧃re's a large house occupied by Hannah Jones and her husband Aiden. Her uncle (who was a part of the Remington Family) used to occupy this house with a lot of people — all of whom died in rather painful ways. The unsuspecting player might be forgiven for thinking that it's the best place to start a home... but trust us, it absolutely isn't.
The fact that the entire family died painfully for varying reasons should alꦚready be a pretty massive red flag, but if that isn't enough to deter you from trying this house out, then keep in mind that there are a bunch of unanswe🥀red questions to consider. There were some particularly supernatural horrors afoot. Perhaps the biggest question out of all is that who in the heck even invited Hannah to her uncle's house if everyone was dead, to begin with?