I want a fanasty circus. (That’s not a typo. Fanasty should be a word). My circus is fun, colourful, almost family friendly. I think the circus is like that: fun, colourful, fantastical, and a bit dark around the edges. How do you visualize a circus for the Sims 4?
Clowns, a ringmaster, performing animals, jugglers, magicians, barkers running games and the midway, and sideshow freaks, all under the big top in the three ring circus of the Sims 4. I couldn’t find all of that. Circus (or zoo) animals turned up in the gallery. I really would have liked to find a juggling Sim. I don’t think kicking a soccer ball counts as juggling. Lots of fashion and builds but only a few circus related careers and challenges.
The Sims 4 Circus Content Spotlight: Mods, CC and Challenges
The CC, the Mods, the Cotton Candy Stuck in your Hair…
Where should my family of Sims start?
You may have tried the multiple infants and toddlers challenge. This family of Sims, has too many toddlers but they kind of look like short clowns and they act like them too. So they’re taking them all to the circus, to enjoy the show, of course. Oh dear, there were six little clowns just a second ago…
This family: Richard Sherkhan (adult) is somehow a sibling with all of them. Including Daisy Barnum, the young Mother of all the toddlers: Hallie, Bailey, Jack, Leon, Max, and… Well, maybe he’ll get a new name while he’s with the circus. I hope they feed him, he was a little hungry last time I looked.
What to Wear…
People don’t really dress up to go to a circus. You might end up being included in the show, like it or not. In some of these circuses I don’t think you would like it. My favourite outfit were the ringmasters, not the skimpy ones but the full formal attire. That will be one I keep, after the circus has moved on to another town.
- The Circus Collection – Ellone Andreea
- Horror Circus Collection – MissFortune
- Put a Spell on Me Dress – Simsplify
- Red Queen Dress – MysteriousOo
- Carnival Bodysuit – talarian
- Fancy Dress – applesaucesims
- Carnival Costume Adult – talarian
- Carnival Costume Toddler – talarian
- Toddler Circus pajamas – LittleRedRidingSim
- Dahlia Ring Master Costume – SM Sims
- The Contessa – noriannsimblr
- Quincy Tails – SimmieV
Send in the Clowns
Do you think of clowns first when you think of the circus? I don’t, and I don’t have any fear of them. But, a lot of people must love/hate clowns. There are a lot of clown fashions.
- Clown face – Reevaly
- GPME Gold Makeup Set – GoppolsMe
- Scary Clowns SFX Makeup – KareemZiSims
- Clown Blush Lipgloss Facepaint Eyeshadow Eyeliner – Sagittariah
- Clown Bikini and Facepaint – Guala
- Masque de Clown
- Simpai Clown Makeup set
- Overalls Clown – bukovka
- Clowncore – missatan
- Harlequin Clown Outfit – WhyHelloSims
- Dress Clown – bukovka
- Spooky Clown Outfit – SimmieV
- Circus Set with clown and harlequin – sewerwolfx
Not to be Forgotten… Sideshow Freaks
We do get our own sideshow freaks while playing the Sims, with or without mods. I still don’t know what caused this to happen to my infant. It goes away if I reset, or travel. The other is my all time favourite Sims meme. I’ve included the Creepy Dolly, a sideshow freak who escaped, met Vladislaus Straud and became a vampire.
What to Build
This time I didn’t make a circus house for my Sims. These screenshots are all from the lots I installed and tested out from the links below. My circus family (and the animals) walked through and tried everything functional in the lots.
- Circus Party Pt.I and Pt.II and Pt.III – Severinka_
- Violi Nursery Set – Pilar
- Circus Bedroom and Bedroom 2 – Pilar
- The carnival Afesta kids bedroom set 1 and set 2 – jomsims
- The Carnival Carousel – Colour drop – Shapes Wall – lavilikesims
- Circus Whimsy Bedroom set (Toddler) – LittleRedRidingSim
- Vintage Carnival Posters – Liegenschonheit
Lots
Necrodog’s Fair Stuff was the easiest to load and use, by far. Plus it was mostly functional. I’ll keep that as a lot to add to my Sims, along parts from JPCope. I didn’t give a fair try to the Floating Circus. Yet. After all of these I was getting ‘circussed out’.
Old lot blueprints seem hit and miss for me. I don’t know how these will load for your hardware/ software. I’ve left notes with those I tried and failed with. Try the gallery in game, I had better luck with those. Most need a huge lot!
- Mr. Mysterio’s Floating Circus – Surely-Sims
- Circus No CC – mikkimur (Looks good but mainly decor, not very functional).
- Fair Stuff – Necrodog (Did not crash, lots of function, and looks good).
- No CC Circus – plumbobkingdom (Tried twice, crashed big twice).
- Carousel Park TS4 No CC – Simooligan
- Carnival decor set and lot – a3ru
- Circus and Carousel (No CC) – NolanaSims (Crashed when saving game).
- JPCope Circus Blueprint – JP Cope (Crashed but worked really well until then).
Sims 4 Circus Builds to Watch
I keep finding more Sims 4 Circus builds, some are long, some short. I decided to link to them and let you decide which you would like to watch.
- Simproved Circus Speed Build
- Amberbamer Gaming Circus Speed Build
- Simspiration Halloween Circus/Carnival
- AC Gamer Creepy Circus
- Sims 4 Creations The Circus Speed Build
- StormDesign Octagonal Tents
- Mursimie Magic Circus (Not in English)
- Sims4Mur Circus Base game version
- Nolana Sims Circus Speed Build
Sims 4 Circus Challenges
Create-A-Circus – Roll the dice to see what circus character you make: circus role, colours, and physical details. Options for a background story and occult types. A bigger challenge could be to keep your creation around, included in your storylines without adapting them to look “normal”.
Freak Show – How many clowns can you create? Each different, even including a clownfish. How far can your imagination (and your CC) stretch to create the clowns in this list? Save them for the next challenge…
The Circus Challenge – More like career development for circus people. You start as a regular person who gets a job at the circus. Then you build your circus: the performers then the entire lot itself. But its a run down circus, on a budget. The circus moves from town to town and puts on a show each week. You gradually update the lot and performers as you make money. You win when your lot is worth a million simoleans.
- CAS Challenge – Create a Circus – J3llyfish
- Create Your Clown – Sims 4 Challenge
- The Sims 4 Circus Challenge – EmmalineSimmer
Have a Career in the Circus
- Circus Career (TS1 to TS4) – Twilightsims
- Circus Career (Ringmaster or Magician) – BosseladyTV
- Acrobat Career – FabiolaTheRebel
