Everything confirmed to come with The Sims 4 Life & Death Expansion!

EA dropped a massive bombshell of an Expansion Pack announcement with The Sims 4 Life & Death. Revealing new features for both the living – and soon to be dead!

This 40USD Expansion Pack rocks new additions across all game modes of The Sims 4. In this list, we’ll be taking you through all the confirmed features and gameplay coming with this Expansion.

Let’s dig in!

Sims and Create A Sim

Create A Sim Traits: Macabe, Chased by Death, Burning Soul
Reward Traits: Ghost Whisperer, Burning Soul Trait
Aspirations: Ghost Historian
Upgraded Ghosts (Possibly a new Create A Ghost ability in CAS?)

These Sims from The Sims 2 are making a comeback!

It’s been confirmed by The Sims Team that Nervous Subject from The Sims 2 Strangetown is making a comeback in The Sims 4 Life & Death! Fans also speculate that the Sim in the center of the cover is Ophelia Specter from Strangetown. Although her hair seems to be dyed in black in this game!

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Build Mode and Architecture

The style of new Build Mode objects and furniture coming with The Sims 4 Life & Death is called Romanian Revival. This architectural theme allows for players to create gorgeous homes, Graveyards and even decorate the new Funeral Events in style.

The Build Mode items for creating Houses this time around are very cool. You get the brand new Roof Decorations which will help give your home more of a run-down vibe. Broken window glasses and other objects decaying are also to be expected in this Pack!

New Lot Type: Graveyards

Graveyards are officially confirmed as a new Community Lot Type in The Sims 4 Life & Death!

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New Lot Trait: Hallowed Grounds

New World

There’s a brand new world in The Sims 4 Life & Death is called Ravenwood. A mixture of village and small town aesthetic, this world seems to draw some inspiration from Romania / Transylvania.

The world is seperated into three different Neighborhoods:

Crow’s Crossing

The Crow’s Crossing Neighborhood is filled with villagers and Ghosts with their regular hountings. There’s an NPC called “Mysterious Merchant” offering you exclusive deals on mystery items and collectibles. You can also find the “Try Before You Die” casket sales in the middle of the neighborhood handled by this mystery merchant.

Expect festivals like Family Day and Crow’s Crossing Celebration of Life to be featured in this neighborhood. Wishing wells and haunted hauses are all premade and a part of this Ravenwood neighborhood!

Whispering Glen

This Sims 4 Life & Death neighborhood is more peaceful than the previous one. Giving you some well deserved off time from hauntings and Ghosts with its countryside surroundings. There are Crypts, a Tarot Tome Shrine and community gardens. For festival lovers, the new Moon Revelry festival is a place to share stories, dance and light a bonfire.

If you have The Sims 4 Werewolves Game Pack, a Full Moon will ensure a festival “optional clothing” rule, letting your entire neighborhood bathe in the moonlight.

Mourningwale

One of the most beautiful neighborhoods in the series, Mourningwale is a place for Ghosts to roam and call it their second home. With the Grim Reaper strolling around the neighborhood every now and then.

There’s a lake area called Baleful Bog where Sims can have an “out-of-body experience”. Also letting them transition into Rebirth if they’ve completed their Soul’s Journey.

Two types of festivals / meetups are to be expected in Mourningwale. One called “Thinned Festiveil”, and the other called “Afterlife Anonymous meetup”.

The Ghost Train

Fun fact about the new world: There’s a Ghost Train in one of the new Neighborhoods!

Gameplay

Funerals

After a Sim passes away, you’ll be able to throw a Funeral event. Managing a funeral means you get to pick a Dress Code and Color for guests, as well as plan funeral activities. Out of 14 funeral activities, the team shared Giving a Lighthearted Eulogy, Lighting Candles, Planting Something, or Serving Food.

Interactions during the Funeral Event include setting up Memorial Displays with a portrait of the deceased, selecting which Urn or Tombstone they want, decorating a Gravesite, leaving them a message on a special memorial statue, or by interring their Urns in Crypts.

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Reaper Active Career

Working with the Grim Reaper in harvesting souls is now a full-time active career in The Sims 4 Life & Death. In this career you will be taken to Grim’s “Netherworld Department of Death” location. Where you can train reaping souls from dummies, determine cause of death by sims that passed away, maintain intern Sims’ scytches and more. Or, choose to work in the field and put all those skills to action! Experienced reapers can choose which Sims can return to life after their death, and which Sim souls can they reap. There’s a “soul quota” in the Reaper profession that can be filled out by placing souls at the Netherworld Portal. Sims who meet the soul quota can become Employees of the Month!

Undertaker Career

This off-site “rabbit hole” career has two branches to pick from: Mortician and Funeral Director. Rewards include a new “Plague Mask, “Murphy Membrane Bust” and “Corpus Commendation Plaque”.

Tarot Cards

Give your Sims a reading of their life with the new functional Tarot Cards!

Soul’s Journey and Bucket List

Your Sims finally have a purpose in life with the new “Soul’s Journey” Sim panel interface. This addition mixes your Sim’s Aspirations and Wants which will help progress the bar along with the new “Bucket List” feature.

This feature is available for Sims who are Young Adults all the way up to Elders. Depending on your Sim’s traits, you’ll receive different Bucket List goals that your Sim will need to fulfill in order to help progress their Soul’s Journey. Or, if you want to create and manage your own Bucket List – you certainly can! Interactions like Write on the Computer or Journal will allow Sims to pick a random goal for themselves from different new categories, like Family and Travel.

If your Sim doesn’t complete the Bucket List by the time they pass away, they can complete their Soul’s Journey as a ghost through their Unfinished Business.

Sims Rebirth

So, you’ve completed your Soul’s Journey. Congratulations! You get to experience life all over again with Rebirth – putting your Sim in the baby steps once again as they transfer from passing over to being born. There are big gameplay benefits to being reborn, such as unlocking powerful Reward Traits, Infant Milestones from Growing Together and even unlocking all Childhood Development Skills from Parenthood. It all depends to the age you want to be reborn in!

Pet Crows

Crows are a new type of Pet in this Expansion Pack. You can train them, socialize or take them wherever you go!

Beware though, they are known to be murderous.

Grief System

The new Grief System ensures that traumatic events in The Sims 4 Life & Death don’t get overshadowed by simple, happy moodlets. What can trigger this new Grief System is a loss of a death of a known Sim, divorce, getting fired or pet death if you have Cats & Dogs and / or Horse Ranch installed.

Four Grief Types have been revealed, including Denial, Holding it Together, Anger and Blues. Based on the Sim traits that you have, different Grief types will be applied.

New features like rabbit hole Grief Counseling will help your Sims alleviate some of the symptoms. Other interactions can help progress the grieving process like consoling about death to other Sims. They can also take a creative road and perform hobbies to help progress the Grief.

Wills and Heirlooms

While alive, your Sim can write a Will through their computer, at the Crow’s Crossing town hall or the Family Day festival. With Wills Sims can leave their heirlooms and belongings to Sims of their choice, as well as leave a personal note.

If you really want to be dramatic and create a storyline of your dreams, there’s an ability to “set emotional reactions” after reading the Will to set Sims. Micromanagement goes a long way through designating which Children or Pets should be in custody of who in case the Sim that’s writing the Will dies. If everyone in the family passes away, you’ll be able to choose a different household in the world to leave your belongings, or just donate everything to charity.

Dying Peacefully in Sleep

One of the frames in The Sims 4 Life & Death Reveal has shown a Sim passing away in their Sleep! After passing away, their soul will slowly rise up in the glowy star.

Ghost Upgrades

The Sims 4 Life & Death Expansion gives new Features for Ghost Sims. They can choose to sleep inside inanimate objects or, if the Ghost Sims are a couple – choose to WooHoo in objects!

Ghost Sims can be further customized in Create A Sim and build their new Ghost Powers in Live Mode. For those who want to become rich by being a Ghost, you can now earn Simoleons by scaring other Sims – or doing good deeds for them.

Specter Ghosts from The Sims 4 Paranormal Stuff

The cute version of Ghosts are being reintroduced all over again in The Sims 4 Life & Death!

Ghost Cowplants

We really don’t know how this one came to be, but it seems that Cowplants are eligible to become ghosts now too!

“The Wednesday” Dance

Players noticed that the popular Tiktok “Wednesday Dance” has been introduced to The Sims 4 Life & Death as a new dance animation! Make move Gangnam Style from The Sims 3 University Life, there’s a new star in town.

NOW WAIT A SEC! I NEED TO SEE THE FULL CHOREO OF THAT DANCE ANIMATION#TheSims4LifeandDeath @TheSims pic.twitter.com/J8JY6MjjRP
— marc (@marc_coronado) October 3, 2024