The 7 Most Underrated The Sims 4 DLCs

Going into its 11th year, The Sims 4 has released 18 Expansions, 12 Game Packs, 20 Stuff Packs and 40 Kits, totaling 90 (!) available DLCs. With so much, going back a whole decade, it’s easy for a few gems to get buried. But fret not, because we have gone through all of them and present you the 7 most underrated The Sims 4 DLCs!

Find out which are the The 7 Most Underrated The Sims 4 DLCs you might be sleeping on. We tell you how this Expansion, Game and Stuff Packs and Kits are the most bang for your buck.

The Most Underrated Buy Kit

1920s meet 2020s in Modern Luxe (full review), which updates Art Deco to current times. Opulent golden accents combined with earthier tones, harsh straight lines mixed with freely designed curves and metal frames covered in plush materials. Jazz and Hip Hop remixed into the perfect bedroom!

Most kits do not contain new gameplay, but Modern Luxe features a vanity table, with new animations and make-up interactions. They were introduced in the Vintage Glamour Stuff Pack and are also included in the Secret Sanctuary Kit, but, if you don’t have those, this Kit adds that extra gameplay value.

Creator Xureila partnered with The Sims for this Kit and made sure to deliver on community requests, like decorative pillows, a glass shelf that slots bigger items than most shelves, a decorative purse and its contents, curtains with different heights and a separate rod, inclusive art and an exquisite light fixture. Everything to make the space feel cozy and lived-in.

The Most Underrated Stuff Pack

The Moschino Stuff Pack collaboration (full review) might have been scoffed at, but it added one of the most useful tools to capture images in-game. Your sims have a variety of poses for either individual or group photo shoots, including different ages, in many moods. There are plenty of backdrops and an array of very good lighting fixtures to achieve a professional look. You can take several staged pictures for family portraits, wedding albums or simply to showcase your favorite sims. Whether cool, sexy, sad, goofy or smoldering, that perfect photograph is just a few easy clicks away.

And, while that is the big selling point, it is a solid Stuff Pack overall. The photographer freelance gigs are fun. The furniture and decór have a strong identity and a good mix of swatches, from bold, graphic and plaid patterns to neutrals, within a British Alt-Rock aesthetic. Industrial loft windows and doors are stand-outs. The hairstyles are slick and, of you play with colors and swatches, the feminine fashion can result in catwalk-ready looks. The only real misfire is that the masculine clothing isn’t at the same level, although the boots are to die for.

The Most Underrated Hybrid Kit

There are only two Kits that combine Buid/Buy and Create-a-Sim, therefore, it’s, at first, strange to justify this category. But don’t sleep on the Don Lothario-inspired Kit, Casanova Cave (full review), because it delivers in a area The Sims 4 really struggles with: masculine clothing. Usually, most CAS offering are heavily feminine-focused, with a lot of the masculine clothing just being gender-neutral. The only other kit focused on masculine fashion, Modern Menswear Kit, also featured gender-bending items.

Not Casanova Cove, with options for everyday, formal, athletic, party and sleep wear, including shoes and accessories decidedly traditionally masculine, just out of a James Bond film, with a few bolder swatches here and there for the Don Lothario flair.

The Build/Buy is also inspired, with a giant projector TV – beautifully animated – a mini-fridge, a game table, one of the best bars we’ve seen and lots of Mid-Century Modern items for that bachelor pad. You get enough bang for your buck for what is just a Kit.

The Most Underrated Game Pack

Compared to other Game Packs, Jungle Adventure (full review) feels like an Expansion. Selvadorada is an immersive world, where sims can roam large areas without a loading screen, exploring the wild, crossing rope-bridges over cliffs, with beautiful waterfalls, rivers and ancient ruins. All sorts of critters and animals, like snakes, are in their natural habitat.

While you look for, collect and deal ancient artifacts through digging dirt piles and finding treasure chests, you advance the Archeology Skill. It will come in handy when you can come across hidden temples, full of traps and danger. Unlike Strangerville, that once completed, there’s little incentive to try again, every visit to Selvadorada resets and changes pathways and a total of five different temples may be found, one per trip.

As you gather relics, you can fuse them with refined crystals and forge Mystic Relics, unleashing blessing and curses. And the supernatural goes further, as you might bump into Skeletons, a new life state. Don’t be scared. They can help out with housework and looking after the children and, as you master Mystic relics, you might even turn yourself or other into Skeletons for a few days and get rid of those pesky needs, like hygiene, hunger, energy or bladder, that bother the living.

However, even if you are just looking for rest and relaxation, Selvadorada is a vacation world, where you can go to take a break and the grind can hit pause. New music and food compliment the exotic environment and will suit a honeymoon, a family vacation or just a change of pace from work and house chores. Learn the Selvadoradian Culture Skill, salute like a local, discover local myths, access secret food and drinks and master a new Dance, Rumbasim!

Build/Buy is gorgeous, colorful and elaborate and the same attention was paid when crafting Create-a-Sim, featuring options across genders and ages, celebrating Latin-American culture. Hand-painted details adorn every aspect of this pack, infused with culture and heritage.

The Most Underrated Build Kit

The Castle Estate (full review) kit contains no Buy objects and is solely focused on building. Still, as you can see in the picture above, for what is just a Kit, you can fairly simply construct you dream Medieval Castle. Doors, exterior trims, fencing, floor covering, friezes, spandrels, stairs, wall covering and windows come together beautifully and there is a lot of variety in swatches so your castle can look brand-new or weathered by the centuries.

It includes traditional fairy-tale aesthetics and darker, Gothic palettes, suiting different moods. Regardless if you want to live in a Royal home, create a museum or wedding venue, it’s impressive that a single kit was able to put together everything you need to erect a magnificent estate.

The Most Underrated Create-A-Sim Kit

Out of the 40 Kits released so far, only one contains clothing and accessories for both children and adults: Throwback Fit (complete overview). Children are really underserved, and the only other Kit featuring Create-a-Sim items for kids is First Fits, which most don’t think is underrated. The very first CAS kit, Throwback Fit, has a great variety of clothing, not only age-wise, but in styles.

While primarely a workout clothing collection, many items are exactly that kind of elevated sportswear taking the fashion trends by storm right now, in all sorts of social settings. Think of Zendaya in the Challengers press tour. The swatches go from extremely saturated to pastels and neutrals, with different prints and patterns for each asset, allowing for maximum versatily.

The Most Underrated Expansion Pack

While Expansion Packs like Cats & Dogs, Seasons or Business & Hobbies are easy to understand, Get Together (full review) isn’t. Marred by a confusing marketing campaign, most players do not realize it is one that has the most to offer and really adds a lot of flexibility and gameplay. Your sims can learn the Dance skill and dominate the dancefloor, performing show-off moves, entering dance battles or presenting elaborate group routines. They can also learn to DJ and have that side hustle. If clubbing isn’t your scene, you can go to a cozy coffee shop and order treats or meet up at a pub for beers, where you can play foosball, darts, Don’t Wake The Llama or challenge someone at the arcade machine.

Met that someone special? Take it to the closet, for one of the top woo-hoo animations or keep it down-low, doing it in the bushes. With so much to do, you’ll need to unwind, perhaps at the natural pools. Once you get your energy back up again, climb on the diving board and try out several kinds of jumps. And, as the party starts back up, people cuddle and play around the bonfire, even performing fire tricks.

It’s a lot and we have not even mentioned the main feature of the Expansion yet. Clubs. And while it’s fun to unlock perks, learn handshakes, cultivate rivalries and coordinate outfits, Clubs make gameplay so much more fun! Having trouble meeting that someone new? Why not create a Club full of single sims interested in romance? Family gatherings including different households? Easy and fun with clubs. Your house is dirty? Create a club to clean it. For free! School friends, co-workers, gym buddies.

There are no limits to how flexible it is and the options are always updated to add activities from new Packs. You can tell sims what do do and that makes any gathering practical. It is probably one of the expansions that changes the game at the most fundamental level.

Moreover, Winderburg, the German-inspired world, is one of the largest and most beautiful, offering three distinctive neighborhoods: a modern downtown area, the quaint countryside and a ready-for-rave island. Build and Buy are vast, with ultra-modern neon glass and steal aesthetics on one hand and traditional European architecture and interior design on another.

Finally, Create-a-Sim also offers a lot, both for masculine and feminine fashion preferences, with several unique items for each. Children also get quite a bit, including exclusive hairstyles that are not repeats of the adult versions. Either you want fresh, sexy club attire or posh, old money ensembles, Get Together got you covered, with many of the styles from a decade ago back in fashion again.

Well, that is our list. Comment below or in our Socials if there are other The Sims 4 DLCs you find underrated.