Are you ready for an upgrade to your Ghostly Sims with The Sims 4 ghost powers? Ghosts have been an integral part of gameplay since the inception of The Sims, and especially in The Sims 4. The Life & Death Expansion Pack expands on this and enhances the game by introducing ghost powers and abilities. Your Ghost Sim can now earn Experience Points and progress through the Ghost Mastery Panel to unlock otherworldly abilities that let them influence their world for the better or worse. With this change to the Afterlife, our Sims might not have to be so afraid of facing Grim after all.
The Sims 4 Ghost Powers: Life and Death Guide
The Sims 4 Ghost Powers and the Ghost Mastery Panel
The Sims 4 ghost powers from the Life and Death Expansion pack are unlocked through the seven-level Ghost Mastery Panel. This feature may be familiar to Simmers who use Werewolves or Vampires in their gameplay, as it seems to use the same skill tree layout as seen in other occult-related packs.
The seven levels in this skill tree are Wispling, Ethereal Novice, Phantasmal Ascendant, Spectral Luminary, and Transcendent Wraith. The Ghost Mastery panel offers a Good, Neutral, and Evil skill tree path, allowing your Ghost Sim to hone their powers.
Stamina & Ghostly Abilities
When your Sim performs ghost powers in The Sims 4, they earn Experience Points, which can be used to purchase abilities in the Ghost Mastery Panel. These powers come at a price, however. Each time your Sim performs a ghostly ability, your Sim sacrifices a bit of their Stamina.
To increase your Experience Points without much effort, after enabling cheats, use the cheat stats.set_stat rankedstatistic_ghostpowers_ghostxp [x], entering your desired amount of Experience Points. (Ex: enter stats.set_stat rankedstatistic_ghostpowers_ghostxp 5000 to reach the Transcendent Wraith Ghost Mastery level)
Ghost Sims with Healthy Stamina can use their Ghost Mastery interactions with ease, while Ghost Sims with Low Stamina will start to feel Tense or Uncomfortable. After purchasing the ability, Ghost Sims can take a Spectral Slumber to refill their fading Stamina. You can view this in the information in the Simology Panel.
Can’t wait for your Sim to recharge? To instantly refill your Ghost Sim’s Stamina, enter the cheat testingcheats on and use the Cheat Need… Make Happy interaction when clicking on your Sim. This will replenish your Sim’s needs and bring their Stamina back to Healthy.
Ghost Powers for Good
There are two ability paths for your Sim to explore within the Good skill tree: Comfort and Helpful. Each good interaction grants your Ghost Sim Goodwill Essence.
Embrace the good side by completing enough good interactions in The Sims 4, and unlock the Transcendent Wraith Ghost Mastery level to unlock the Benevolently Bless interaction and be granted the power of the Ultimate Blessing. This will allow your Ghost Sim to bestow the gift of boundless fortune on living Sims. Your Ghost Sim also unlocks the Mark of Good tattoo that can be applied in Create a Sim or directly by clicking on your Sim.
Comfort Abilities Level 1: Solace Embrace
Unlock the Detect Current Mood interaction to learn about Sims’ moods outside of your household, and use the Solace Embrace interaction to remove their negative feelings with a calming hug. The Solace Embrace ghost power is only available for your Sims friends and other Sims they are close to.
Comfort Abilities Level 2: Euphoric Presence
Radiate a positive aura from your Ghost Sim to influence the emotions of nearby living Sims who are in the same room. This ability allows your Ghost Sim to Radiate Assuring Aura, Radiate Happy Aura, and Radiate Fun Aura. Nearby Sims can’t help but be happy to be around Ghosts who use this power!
Comfort Abilities Level 3: Dream Weaver
Give living Sims a good dream, restoring their Energy needs faster. By performing the Weave Good Dream ghost power, your Sim can help others start their day off on the right side of the bed.
Comfort Abilities Level 4: Afterlife Quality Ensurer
With this ghost power, your Sim can instantly improve the quality of crafted items, nurture plants, and restore freshness to spoiled food. They can use this power in The Sims 4 Life and Death to increase the quality of their own items, and even help other Sims by enhancing their crafts from beyond the grave with the Nurture Plant, Improve Quality, and Restore Freshness interactions.
Helpful Abilities Level 1: Dispeller
Unlocks the Dispel Material ghostly ability to instantly remove trash, dirty dishes, puddles, messes, and more, sending them away to the Netherworld. Performing this interaction in front of other Sims will make them happy and increase their social relationship with your Ghost Sim.
Helpful Abilities Level 2: Novice Maintenance
This allows your Sim to transcend the Handiness Skill barrier, giving them a chance to clean, repair, and upgrade instantly. Select an object and choose the Instantly Upgrade, Instantly Clean, and Instantly Repair interactions to use this ghost power. This ability has three tiers, with each tier enhancing the interaction’s success rate. Your Sim may fail to instantly enhance the object until this ability is fully upgraded.
Helpful Abilities Level 3: Grim’s Ride-or-Die
At this point, your Sim has earned some street cred in the Afterlife and is known around the realms as a Good Ghost. With this ability, your Sim has been gifted the power to save a Sim from getting reaped by fist bumping Grim with the Save a Life interaction. While this isn’t always successful, your Sim will have a much better chance at saving their loved one with this power.
Helpful Abilities Level 4: Altruistic Caretaker
This ability unlocks the Bestow Longevity and Give Need… interactions. Fill others’ Energy, Social, and Fun needs and extend the living Sims’ lifespans by channeling the needs of those your Sim is close with, or offering them the comfort of longevity.
Ghost Powers for Evil
There are two ability paths within the Evil skill tree: Scare and Chaos. Pick your poison when you purchase abilities from the Ghost Mastery Panel. Each evil interaction grants your Ghost Sim Fear Essence.
Choose the dark side by completing enough evil interactions and ghost powers in The Sims 4 Life and Death to unlock the Transcendent Wraith Ghost Mastery level to access the Cast Otherworldly Curse interaction and be gifted power of the Ultimate Curse. Your Ghost Sim can cast a malevolent curse on living Sims, causing things to go wrong for them every day. Your Ghost Sim also unlocks the Mark of Evil Tattoo that can be applied in Create a Sim or directly by clicking on your Ghost Sim.
Scare Abilities Level 1: Spooky Spectacle
This creates eerie effects to scare nearby Sims; Unlock the Ghostly Bang interaction when clicking on yourself or on the ground, and the Flicker Lights interaction by clicking on the floor of a room or directly on the light object.
Scare Abilities Level 2: Object Manipulation
Sinister Haunt possessable objects or Haunt musical instruments, gaining fun and skill. Your Ghost Sim can possess most items, but items like tables can’t be possessed if they have other objects on them. Children, toddlers, and infants will enjoy these haunting displays, while older Sims might have a different, more negative reaction.
Scare Abilities Level 3: Haunting Shriek
Let loose a terrifying scream to gain fun and elicit fear in nearby living Sims, by clicking on yourself or other Sims. The Haunting Shriek ghost power from The Sims 4 Life and Death can scare other Sims so badly that they can lose bladder control or even pass out!
Scare Abilities Level 4: Levitator
Shake around a living Sim to drop Simoleons or items from their inventory with the Levitate interaction, and see what falls from their pockets. Watch out, though, this can make other Sims Angry and lead to a Fight! This ghost power is not available to use on pregnant living Sims.
Chaos Abilities Level 1: Conjuror
Summon trash, puddles, and spooky objects on the ground to cause chaos. Use the Conjure Material ghost power to conjure substances out of thin air and spawn them anywhere you please.
Chaos Abilities Level 2: Dark Presence
Emit a dark aura from yourself to influence the emotions of nearby living Sims through the Emit Emotional Aura and Emit Distressing Aura interactions, available by clicking on your Ghost Sim. While the aura is active, nearby living Sims will feel an intense negative mood. This ghost power can only be performed by your Ghost Sim every few hours.
Chaos Abilities Level 3: Dream Corruptor
With the Corrupt Dream ghost power, give living Sims a nightmare while they are sleeping. Sims will awaken with negative moods like Terrified or Tense from being unrested.
Chaos Abilities Level 4: Devourer
Use The Sims 4 ghost powers Manipulate the needs and lifespan of living Sims. Your Sim can use the Absorb… interaction to absorb living Sims Energy, Fun, Social, and Hunger needs, or the Drain… interaction to drain living Sims’ Energy, Fun, Social, Hunger, Bladder, and Hygiene needs, with an extra boost for manipulating terrified Sims. Your Sim can siphon a Sim’s life essence, shortening their lifespan. The Siphon Life Essence ghost power is only available to use on each living Sim once.
Neutral Ghost Powers
The Sims 4 Life and Death also adds a skill tree with Neutral Ghost Powers that don’t impact the greater good like the Good and Evil Ghost Powers. These abilities will help your Ghost Sim get the most out of their Afterlife.
Level 1: Ghostly Traverse
Teleport anywhere and enter homes uninvited. Use the Traverse interaction by clicking the ground to teleport, and the Spectral Unlock interaction on residential front doors to enter residential buildings without an invitation.
Level 2: Fear the Night
Evoke the heightened fear by performing ghost powers at night for extra Fear Essence. According to the legend, there may be a mysterious merchant wandering around Ravenwood who will pay top Simoleon for Essence in The Sims 4 Life and Death.
Level 3: Suppress Living Needs
A two-tiered ability that slows down your Ghost Sims’ hunger, bladder, and hygiene needs. The more you Experience Points you put towards this ability, the less you will need to tend to your Ghost Sims’ needs. Now you have one less thing to focus on in the Afterlife!
Level 4: Powerful Endurance
If your Sim is tired of getting tired in The Sims 4 Life and Death, the Powerful Endurance ability is the one for them. This ghost power allows your Sim to use less Stamina when performing their ghostly abilities.
Level 1: Transcendent WooHoo
Ready to heat it up and get it on in the Afterlife? Turn living Sims into a temporary ghost to possess an everyday object of their choosing with them for an ethereal WooHoo.
Level 2: Spectral Slumber
Possess an object, allowing your Sim to nap inside it and restore energy faster using the Spectral Slumber interaction. Warning: Sleeping in cramped or gross places may leave your Ghost Sim feeling restless.
The Sims 4 ghost powers have been a vast improvement to the gameplay, thanks to the Life and Death Expansion Pack. Having playable Ghost Sims with their own mischievous or loving interactions brings another level of excitement, and lets us play with our favorite Sims for even longer.
Did you know there’s a quick way to unlock the Ghost Mastery Skill Points and Levels? Check out our Sims 4 Life & Death Cheats Guide for quick shortcuts to all of these powers!
Have your Ghost Sims chosen between a life of Good and Evil yet? Let us know in the comments below!
