NOTE: This post contains MAJOR SPOILERS regarding The Sims 4 StrangerVille Game Pack’s endgame! If you don’t want to know what happens on the final stage of the StrangerVille Storyline, DO NOT hit the Spoiler button!

The Sims 4 StrangerVille already promises a rather interesting storyline never-before seen in The Sims Franchise. There are so many things your Sims are going to have to do in order to progress through the story and reach the final point – also known as the endgame.

Now, we don’t want to spoil the surprise for those who want to discover everything by themselves which is why we’ve hidden all the information in the Spoiler Button that you can reveal if you want by clicking on it. Huge thanks to @theojabalde for finding the details in the game code and sending them over to us!

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If you’ve watched The Sims 4 StrangerVille Reveal Trailer then you probably remember this frame:

Well, turns out that the frame is showing a teaser of an actual “Boss Battle” in the game that your Sims would have to do in order to defeat the only and only – The Mother. The Mother is a huge plant that your Sims will have to defeat.

The game code suggests that The Mother will have its own “Health Bar” that will decrease as your Sim fights the plant. Your Sim will also have an assistance of “Helper Sims” to defeat The Mother.

Here’s everything found in the code:

• mother_plant_battle.py
• “MotherPlantBattleSituation”
• player_job’: TunableReference(description=’n Job for the main player sim that fights the plant.n
• ‘helper_1_job’: TunableReference(description=’n Job for one of the helper Sims for the fight.n
• ‘player_health_statistic’: TunableReference(description=”n The statistic that we will use in order to determine the Sim’sn health for the motherplant.n
• ‘motherplant_health_statisic’: TunableReference(description=”n The statistic that we will use in order to determine the Sim’sn health for the motherplant.n
• ‘mother_plant_icon’: TunableResourceKey(description=’n Icon to be displayed in the situation UI beside the mother plantn health bar.n ‘, resource_types=sims4.resources.CompoundTypes.IMAGE, default=None, allow_none=True, tuning_group=GroupNames.SITUATION)

You can find more references to The Mother in THIS pastebin file!

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NOTE: This post has information regarding the Game Pack’s storyline that contains spoilers! (More specifically, just the storyline length)

You’ve probably heard the news already that The Sims 4 StrangerVille Game Pack will come with its own storyline. Ever since the announcement many have been left wondering how long will it take for an average player to complete the entire story in the world of StrangerVille?

Want to know how long does it take to complete the story? Click on the Spoiler Tab to find out!

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Well, SimGuruHouts has shared all the details, revealing that the pack’s storyline can take approximately 3 to 5 hours to play through the entire StrangerVille story. Of course, all of that depends on the in-game speeds, the way you’re playing through the story and much more.

I’m sure some people will find ways to blow through it quickly, but it’s intended that you take your time and not really rush through it. Our rough estimate is that it’ll take you 3 – 5 hours to play through the whole story depending on what in-game speeds you’re using, etc.

— Aaron Houts (@SimGuruHouts) February 21, 2019

Also depends on whether you only focus on the story or whether you weave it into your Sim’s day-to-day stuff (work, other events, etc.). I know some people will think 3 – 5 hours is short, but stuff like the Military career, new world, and new objects give the pack longevity.

— Aaron Houts (@SimGuruHouts) February 21, 2019

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The Sims Team is doing something in The Sims 4 with the StrangerVille Game Pack that they’ve never done before – integrating a pre-made storyline into the world. Considering that this is a first in The Sims 4, SimGuruHouts went on The Sims Forums to elaborate what it actually means to have a story integrated into the world of StrangerVille:

It was an interesting challenge designing the story for StrangerVille. As you’re pointing out, players can change who lives there and even what the lot types are, so we can’t rely on those being the same as what we ship.

We did include a few things specific to some of the pre-made households and their houses, but it won’t break the story if you get rid of them or bulldoze their lots. First and foremost, The Sims is about letting you do what you want; forgetting that would be going against the strengths of the game.

Same thing with the venues: there are two standard venues that we placed in the world which have some special functionality. That functionality is tied to the venue type rather than the specific lots we built out, so if you want to customize your venues, the special stuff should still work as long as you keep the venue type the same (it doesn’t have to be on the same lot or anything, just as long as that venue type exists somewhere in StrangerVille). If you choose to get rid of those venues completely, you might miss some of the stuff that happens there, but it doesn’t break the story/investigation.

Our aim was/is to create a story that embraces the open-ended sandbox nature of The Sims rather than trying to ram some highly scripted linear experience through. Ideally, you’ll be able to tell your Sim’s story within the situations we serve up while staying true to the stories and personas you’ve created. It’s not perfect (it’s our first time trying something like this), but I’m proud of it and hoping it’s something we can develop further in future releases.