Is The Sims foidslop?
A life simulator that a lot of people mostly use to design houses nobody ends up living in.
A lot of Sims players barely play the life part. They spend whole weekends in build mode designing a cottage with a window seat and a kitchen island, and then they either never move anyone in or they move a family in and lose interest within an hour. If someone does move in, there's a good chance they set the kitchen on fire on day one.
The other big group of players run long family sagas with affairs, inheritance fights and the occasional ghost. Between the base game and the expansion packs, people have spent a frankly alarming amount of money on it since 2000.
The Sims was designed by Will Wright at Maxis and came out in 2000. It's one of the best-selling PC game series of all time, and the current game, The Sims 4, has been around since 2014. EA made the base game free in 2022, and the money now comes from expansion, game and stuff packs, which is why a complete collection costs far more than the game ever did.
Part of the reason it gets called foidslop is that the player base has always skewed female, which was rare for a big PC game in 2000. The other part is the content creators. A lot of Sims YouTube and TikTok is house tours, makeovers and storytelling saves, which overlaps heavily with interior design accounts. The same fandom is also behind the long tradition of deleting the pool ladder, so it's not all cottages.
Yes, because
- Build mode is basically Pinterest you can walk around in
- The expansion pack spending gets out of hand
- Most long-running saves have a love triangle in them
No, because
- Some players mainly use it to trap their Sims in rooms with no doors
- It's one of the best-selling PC game series ever, across every kind of player
- People were building elaborate houses in it before anyone had a word for cozy
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