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The Sims 4 Toddler Stuff Review

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UPDATE: The Sims 4 Toddler Stuff’s Ball Pit object has just received a new update which updates the visuals of this object. Not only have they only listened to our feedback but they tried to take something from it. Because of this decision (and because the ball pit looks much better now) we’ve decided to give one more star to the “Build Items” section, leveling it up to 3 stars from the previous 2 stars.

The Sims 4 Toddler Stuff ReviewThe Sims 4 Toddler Stuff Pack is the twelfth Stuff Pack for The Sims 4. Yeah, I’ve already gotten used to the idea of Sims 4 having a large amount of Stuff Packs.

This pack focuses entirely on the toddler life stage. However, is it really worth the $10 price? Let’s find out!

Game Review Standards

This review is based on 5+ hours of gameplay.  Even though I was given an early review copy to test the game, I am not by any means paid or bribed to state positive (or negative) opinions about this stuff pack.  I will give my honest opinion of the stuff pack; its content and what it brings to the game.

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The Sims 4 Toddler Stuff Just For Girls Stuff Pack The Sims 4 Toddler Stuff Pack brings some cute items for your toddlers. Well, girls mostly. Like seriously, the ratio of new items for girls vs new items for boys is 9:5 (there are 9 styled looks for girls and 5 styled looks for boys). Feminine fashion choice was always more dominant in The Sims 4 but creating two times more content for girls than for boys is just not right. I know that boys and girls can pick their own fashion preferences but I’d still like to have a word with the person who said “let’s create new toddler CAS content but let’s focus mainly on stuff for girls” (I’m paraphrasing of course – I have no idea who exactly came to this idea and why).

I have to give out major props for adding this adorable hairstyle though:

The Sims 4 Toddler Stuff Review

Build Items

The Sims 4 Toddler Stuff is basically Backyard Stuff 2.0 but for toddlers. If you expected more indoor content for your little ones then I have some bad news for you – almost all objects are outdoor themed.

There are 24 new objects and out of those 24 objects 4 are stumps. Yeah, I don’t know why either.

The Sims 4 Toddler Stuff Review

Moving on you get some new rugs which are more appropriate for the outdoors, new barbecue, some new pillows which function as chairs, other decorative objects and some new playground objects made just for toddlers.

Most objects are cute and you can tell what they’re for: toddler playdates (which is a new party type in this pack that we’ll cover later).

Gameplay

The Ball Pit

One of the new gameplay objects for toddlers is the ball pit. It looks really fun and the visual effects and animations are great but there’s one HUGE letdown and that’s the ballpit texture shown on the surface. It’s obvious that The Sims Team wanted to keep the performance of the game running smooth which is why they didn’t model every single ball in the pit (there are only 10 balls popping out). However, is there really a reason to add a low-texture image on the surface of this pit? It looks really disturbing when you zoom in on your toddler and you can literally count all the pixels in the ballpit behind them.

The Slide

This one is 10 times better than the ball pit and it’s 10 times smaller too.

Toddlers who use the slide can both get happy or sad from it depending on their movement skills. Toddlers with lower movement skill will get really sad that the slide they’ve used went too fast. Luckily as a Sim parent you can help them climb the slide and also help them slide down which is really adorable.

The Tunnels

The Toddler Tunnels is yet another toddler-exclusive object which can help toddlers level up their movement skill. There’s nothing special that comes with this object other than a moodlet that will keep them happy.

The Jungle Gym

This object is a combination of all previous objects with an added twist to it. Toddlers who have Level 2 Imagination Skill can play make believe! There are two make believe interactions:

  • Make Believe Pirate Shipwreck
  • Make Believe Spaceport

Both interactions will immediately decorate the jungle gym with impressive visuals that glow, move around and flash. What’s interesting about it is that only your toddlers can see these visuals, meaning that the moment you choose a Sim of a different age they’ll disappear.

Toddler Playdates

This pack introduces a new social event: Toddler Playdates. Sims can invite toddlers that they know and play with them at their own house (or venue).

The Sims 4 Toddler Stuff Review

Toddlers that you’ve invited will arrive along with their caregivers. The social event tasks usually revolve around Toddlers using gameplay objects from the Toddler Stuff Pack, playing, socializing and interacting with their caregivers.

The reward for getting a gold medal gets you the 5,000 Simoleon jungle gym – completely free!


This pack is both good and bad in many different ways. You get an unequal amount of items in CAS for girls and boys that are cute, the build items are focused only on playtime and so are the gameplay objects. This really makes you think – why is The Sims 4 Toddler Stuff Pack named that way? You’d expect something more general and not playtime objects only. It’s starting to feel like The Sims Team is getting less and less creative with these names…

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Jovan

Reticulating splines as a webmaster for Sims Community over the last 11 years. You can find me here writing articles and doing reports on your favorite life sim games, among other things!

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JasonRMJ
JasonRMJ
7 years ago

should be 2.5 stars

Radykiel
Radykiel
7 years ago

It’s way too much – working 4,5 hours for only this. I’ll reconsider considering buying it.

Alex
Alex
7 years ago
Reply to  Radykiel

You get paid $2.50 an hour? You should consider resigning…

amber
amber
7 years ago
Reply to  Alex

omg i laughed so fucking hard to this response. LMAOOOO

SnarkyWitch
Admin
7 years ago

This looks like a 4-5 star pack to me! Okay, maybe 4 because of the crap ball pit texture, but still.

Toddler playdates??? Lots and lots of girl clothes??? FOUR gameplay objects??? Toddler playdates??? YES PLEASE GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!

Can’t wait to get this tomorrow for my birthday!

Alp Şeker
Alp Şeker
7 years ago

It’s 2017 and there are still stereotypes about what is boys clothing and what is girls clothing. I feel like this a useless article. What kind of clothes do boys wear REALLY? They are toddlers and they are creative happy and goofy individuals. I don’t think that it’s fair to put them in a box and tell that’s boys clothing and that’s girls clothing because last time I checked you can make them wear whatever they want. Please be more open-minded its 2017 for God’s sake.

Jackboog21
Jackboog21
7 years ago
Reply to  Alp Şeker

I think what the article is saying is there’s a lack of typical boy clothing, the type of clothing the majority of the gender were. This is true for all ages in the game. Girls are given tons of things that are typically female. But boys are rarely given anything. This isn’t about what type of clothes boys and girls wear, this is about a severe lack of content. If that was the issue, then you could just disable the gender tag.

Heather
Heather
6 years ago
Reply to  Jackboog21

I completely understand your concern. I think mentally folks think that the male hairstyles can be added to females… and honestly with the took they set up you can use female hairstyles with guys. I think they made it general ‘overall’ but focused it for the ppl that they thought would most fulfill the playpacks. Horray for non profit but completely understandable for a company like this esp when they open up hairstyles for all choices and there are options to add custom content from members directly.

Heather
Heather
6 years ago
Reply to  Heather

For the record I didn’t talk myself into buying this stuff pack. There wasn’t enough for me to see the worth. Plus I tend to age my toddlers sooner with uh, cheats for skills/trait stuff to boost them because I like long lives but not for toddlers. If you’re like me, you’ll probably boost past toddler and the toddler stuff gets good ratings. I didn’t use it fully but I’m an impatient cheater 🙂 (gotta with 100+ kid challenge). but the child is better than the toddler from what I can tell. 🙂 hope that helps w/ too many words 🙁 sorry!

Marg
Marg
7 years ago

The texture of the ball pit is horrid!

J
J
7 years ago

The thing is they shouldn’t have made it at all if it had to look that shitty in order to work. Make it a sandbox and the toddlers can dig or build sandcastles. Make it a kiddie pool. Honestly a sandbox would have been way better than this. It’s really, really, really bad and does not add quality to the game.

J
J
7 years ago
Reply to  J

“It” meaning the awful ball pit.

SnarkyWitch
SnarkyWitch
4 years ago

This looks like a 4-5 star pack to me! Okay, maybe 4 because of the crap ball pit texture, but still.

Toddler playdates??? Lots and lots of girl clothes??? FOUR gameplay objects??? Toddler playdates??? YES PLEASE GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!

Can’t wait to get this tomorrow for my birthday!

J
J
4 years ago

The thing is they shouldn’t have made it at all if it had to look that shitty in order to work. Make it a sandbox and the toddlers can dig or build sandcastles. Make it a kiddie pool. Honestly a sandbox would have been way better than this. It’s really, really, really bad and does not add quality to the game.

J
J
4 years ago
Reply to  J

“It” meaning the awful ball pit.

Radykiel
Radykiel
4 years ago

It’s way too much – working 4,5 hours for only this. I’ll reconsider considering buying it.

Alex
Alex
4 years ago
Reply to  Radykiel

You get paid $2.50 an hour? You should consider resigning…

amber
amber
4 years ago
Reply to  Alex

omg i laughed so fucking hard to this response. LMAOOOO

JasonRMJ
JasonRMJ
4 years ago

should be 2.5 stars

Marg
Marg
4 years ago

The texture of the ball pit is horrid!

Alp Şeker
Alp Şeker
4 years ago

It’s 2017 and there are still stereotypes about what is boys clothing and what is girls clothing. I feel like this a useless article. What kind of clothes do boys wear REALLY? They are toddlers and they are creative happy and goofy individuals. I don’t think that it’s fair to put them in a box and tell that’s boys clothing and that’s girls clothing because last time I checked you can make them wear whatever they want. Please be more open-minded its 2017 for God’s sake.

Jackboog21
Jackboog21
4 years ago
Reply to  Alp Şeker

I think what the article is saying is there’s a lack of typical boy clothing, the type of clothing the majority of the gender were. This is true for all ages in the game. Girls are given tons of things that are typically female. But boys are rarely given anything. This isn’t about what type of clothes boys and girls wear, this is about a severe lack of content. If that was the issue, then you could just disable the gender tag.

Heather
Heather
4 years ago
Reply to  Jackboog21

I completely understand your concern. I think mentally folks think that the male hairstyles can be added to females… and honestly with the took they set up you can use female hairstyles with guys. I think they made it general ‘overall’ but focused it for the ppl that they thought would most fulfill the playpacks. Horray for non profit but completely understandable for a company like this esp when they open up hairstyles for all choices and there are options to add custom content from members directly.

Heather
Heather
4 years ago
Reply to  Heather

For the record I didn’t talk myself into buying this stuff pack. There wasn’t enough for me to see the worth. Plus I tend to age my toddlers sooner with uh, cheats for skills/trait stuff to boost them because I like long lives but not for toddlers. If you’re like me, you’ll probably boost past toddler and the toddler stuff gets good ratings. I didn’t use it fully but I’m an impatient cheater 🙂 (gotta with 100+ kid challenge). but the child is better than the toddler from what I can tell. 🙂 hope that helps w/ too many words 🙁 sorry!

Jovan Jovic
Jovan Jovic
4 years ago
Reply to  Jackboog21

Exactly. And I’m not just talking about clothing – girls got 4 hairstyles and boys got 2.