Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 07:42 pm
The Sims™ FreePlay – Simulation Game Review
The Sims™ FreePlay is a Simulation/Adventure game from Electronic Arts Inc., first launched in 15th December 2011.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 430,464+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes The Sims™ FreePlay Stand Out
The Sims™ FreePlay lets you create, customize, design and build to your heart's content on mobile!
Create your story, your way. Build your virtual town, family and life! Design and decorate dream homes that show off your interior design skills and personal style. Expand your Sim Town and watch your community grow as you earn more Simoleons.
Play in real time and control your virtual world! Life can be altered for each of your Sims as they progress over time. Choose their paths through love, romance, relationships and marriage. Build up your town with Sim virtual families and watch as they grow and develop from babies to seniors. Create to complete goals, earn Simoleons and pick up rewards. Design fun and fulfilling life paths for your Sims, then watch them thrive!
Choose every aspect of your Sims lives: careers, appearance, personality and more! Then, watch as their stories unfold! Love and romance, or drama and breakups – the choice is always yours.
Download The Sims™ FreePlay and start creating your dream life today!
SIMS™ FREEPLAY FEATURES:
Create Their Story:
- Customize every aspect of your Sims' lives
- Choose what careers your Sims will have, and watch as they succeed
- Life simulations from babies to seniors lets you watch every stage of their virtual lives
- Love, romance, relationships and marriage; watch your Sims live through it all!
Virtual Community:
- Build a town and create your own virtual world
- Customize up to 34 Sims of your own!
- Grow your community as you earn more Simoleons
- Expand your town with a pet store, car dealership, shopping mall and more!
Customize to Your Heart's Content:
- Home design and virtual reality all in one!
- Design and build dream homes, complete with swimming pools, multiple floors and incredible decor
- Choose a Sim and design their looks from head to toe
- Customize your Sims personalities, interests and more!
Real Life Connect:
- Virtual towns meet real-life friends!
- Choose to visit your friends' Sim Towns and form new relationships
- Compare your design skills with theirs as you check out the homes they've personally designed!
Virtual life is calling – what will you create?
Join Our Virtual Community!
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Please Note:
- This game requires 1.8GB total storage.
- This game is free to play, but you can choose to pay real money for some extra items, which will charge your Apple account. You can disable in-app purchasing by adjusting your device settings.
- Advertising appears in this game.
- A network connection is required to play.
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This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, The Sims™ FreePlay is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Sul Sul! The Hygge Holiday update is here; a cozy winter escape full of festive cheer.
Here’s what’s happening in SimTown:
- Hygge Where the Heart Is: Furnish an alpine cabin
- Yuletide Snooza-Palooza: Win the coziest pyjamas
- Dog Days of Winter: Huskies guide Sims to warmth
- The Thought that Counts: Race for holiday gifts
- Ghost of Christmas Presents: Foil Carole’s schemes to save Santa’s workshop
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Holiday Chalet Look: A cozy outfit for festive strolls
Stay cozy, Simmers!
Download & Availability
The Sims™ FreePlay is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get The Sims™ FreePlay on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love the game a lot and made our family,but also there are a few other things that we would like you to add! 1. We got the dog and/or cat adoption thing store and we like it but also we have a boxer and there is no way to have a boxer. (please add a boxer!) 2. So please tell us how to make a person have a baby. We have some people married and we cant figure it out yet! (Please tell us how to get people to have babies) 3. We dont want to make it long so here is the last one! We would like our characters to have a like job where you work on new clothes Plus you can kinda make your own unique clothes! (A job where you make clothes) That is it Ty for reading hope you add this.
We love this game because its so much fun and we love the quest that is called nanny knows best and its really fun to play this game we do recommend.
We were playing and the entrance for the 1st time you enter the game and when we checked our level we were level 1 but 1 minute ago we were almost level 8 and now Im crying please help.
We love this game. We havent gotten any kids yet. We started it like a week ago and its so fun for the game owner. Youre such a talented for making this fun game.
The best and we love the way they can be friends.
The reason why we want them in the App Store is that we dont have a laptop to play the sims 5 and we really want it because in sims 1 we dont get to do much.
Its its just perfect made us happy.
Ive been playing Sims since they came out. This game definitely holds up and is always entertaining.
We have a glitch or a bug that the event girl is still there and Ive already completed the event just wanted to put that out there shes just standing there and you cant do anything with her, we dont want to restart our game cuz we put some years into this game and we really enjoying it, is there away to get rid of this bug or glitch.
We love the Sims because its free. Theres not any ads we had it been really fun.
-we really wish that sims would gain weight if they eat too much and lose weight if they did some excercise. -we would also suggest that you add an in game time feature that would be really cool and would attract more player because that is one of the largest issues in the simsfreeplay community -would also request for different building grid because some of us really love to clutter rooms butthe grid is a huge ick -Would also really wish if there was a fame feature -Would really love some skin details NB:Otherwise its a good game and we really enjoy it.
Its so cool and all but its just that when we get to level five we cant really do anything and we dont know what to do. They dont give you a guide but we love this gamebecause the Sims is the best love it loves we.
It takes a long time to get to level seven, but it took a game.
We love love love this game it doesnt lag or cost to download but it does have some interesting features but its ok it does have things you can buy but not much which is nice.
Greatest Sim Game Ever to be Made Ppl.
OMG we LOVE THIS APP we TOTALLY RECOMMEND THIS! Every so often they pop up this offer that obviously costs some mony, but dont worry you can decline the offer.
The game is a good game but for us is not working we did not mean to delete this app and when we tried to download it again it did not work.
We seriously hope that sims FreePlay isnt going away??!!! This is one of the only games Ive put real cash into. We love this game so much.
We love all the Christmas events, we just wish Santa appeared more this year and our homes stayed in theme. The snow isnt sticking lol thank you for the FreePlay.
Hi, we love this game so much but we think that it should be easier to get LP because we think it is pretty hard to get but we need the LP for so many specific things. And one more thing we think that there should be better clothes because the clothes we can use arent as cute. But this game is absolutely amazing and we really like it so happy to be able to play a game were you can build a town and family.
Great Game. Would love to be able to use our BackBone to play.
Yeah we thought that it would be in 3rd person lol its still good.
Glitches in this quest forcing us to use Lifestyle Points on tasks. Frustrating and ridiculous! So far you owe us 7 LP with more to come, FireMonkeys! You now owe us another 54 LP for just skipping the task altogether. Email incoming to you, FireMonkeys! To say Im much more than frustrated with these shenanigans would be an understatement.
Finish the the request for plumberg but how did we get there.
This game was one of the best life simulation games Ive ever played But some stuff did cost money but otherwise great.
This is the funniest game ever our favorite part is when us and our sister just play the game and have a bond together and this game lets us spend more time with each other love this game you should play.
This game is amazing and very fun.we like how you can make your own character build and connect with other sims.Also this game is also kind of like real life,you have to take care of the sim,pay for houses,and have children.
Its really fun to play and we love it we would recommend it for anyone.
The game is great Its fun and a good time waster for us. We just have a few things that would make it even better. – you should make the characters more customizable and have their own treats and special – you should lower the time it takes for the Sims to do things its kind of stupid how long it is – we think there should be a free build option and a place with bigger plots so you can have free rain to build whatever you want without having to think about your money and problems – life point should be a little bit easier to get. – also adding neighbors is kind of hard. We have no idea how to do it. We tried many ways, but our real world friends havent showed up as our neighbors. We think there should be an ad friend thing or something. Like a world code. Thats all we really have to say its a good game and we like it. We play it a lot. Im just saying some things that are on our mind when Im playing the game. And some things you could think about when you update the game. :D.
We have been obsessed with this game since we were in middle school, we are 27 now and still playing. Have seen all the updates and changes to the app & we love them! We think it would be the coolest ever f there was a patch pr update that made multiple basement level possible. We have always loved the idea of building underground homes but it is difficult to fit it all into one basement level. Since there are many possible levels to build the house up it would be a cool addition to the game for multiple basement levels, even if it is just 2 more levels down.
Ok so this app is the best a lot of ads but do the Sims speak like Simonian or something? Is Simonian a language? Do they have their own culture? Also not to be rude, but what does mean? Please reply.
We locked a man in a room in this game. He has never been let out since.
So we updated our phone then we updated this and now we cant play this cuz its 13+ so creator please tell us if you see this why is it so inappropriate for 9 and +.
Nationality selection of all races of all countries where you can choose for your sims Species selection which is human underneath that would be ghoul vampire werewolf and all animals which is a human but a mutant one and all animal and different types of them in breeds under animals when selected And genetics like the sims 4 has thats similar to the function of sims 4 but using the same function for sims FreePlay.
We love this game. But we wish we remembered our old account because we had so much built.
This game is so fun and addicting, we wish it wouldnt waste battery. The only thing about it is that whenever we try to get two sims married the ring keeps showing up as the cheap dinosaur ring even though we bought a silver ring and literally wasted 3 lifestyle points. Also, sometimes none of the icons show up whenever Ive been playing for too long but thats not as big a problem. But overall its wonderful.
So we love this game it's the apsaliot best game ever but… There are so many adds and it talks a long time to have a baby and get to level 6 or 7.
We loved this game because we had 2 little boys and a girl and was pregnant with another. It is a fun game and we really enjoyed it. We had to get rid of it and we are thinking of getting it again even if we have to redo everything. Thank you to the people who made it possible to make this game.
Everything on this apps page looks like the sims 4. The icon,the photos,everything.But when you get the app its the sims 3.The gameplay is grainy,and it takes forever to do anything fun. In the meantime youre left with a bunch of empty lots. If you guys updated the gameplay it would be much better.
Hey sims maker can yall make a feature to send all our sims to work at 1 time for goodness sake.
This is actually a very fun game. Not a lot of glitches, but super good.
Theres no ads and good quality.
Can you add some sim 4 things like the pause button and realistic building items and avatar items and a camera and a phone where its just like and actually phone and you can make and room have walls or no walls on each side and you can do more stuff with the babies and a calling thing to call sims and text thank you for reading.
We think it's almost like the actual sim games. But it needs HUGE graphic upgrades. Even the new hairs look like the old ones because of how bad they look. We thought by the new game icon the graphics got better but they did not. If you guys could put this gameplay with the sims mobile graphics, it would be the perfect sims mobile game.
THIS game is SO MUCH but there is a catch its really hard to get a relation ship.
Ive been playing this game for what feels like 10 years at this point and while we do love it we wish building wouldnt get so expensive and we wish we could change the lot types to community lots or vacation lots since theyre making so many more community lots and resort templates but theyre still labeled as residential.
This game is really fun the only problem that we have had was the job part its a really long wait and hard to enjoy until you get unemployed sims.
We love the game, but we've been experiencing a bug lately where we're stuck on the loading screen without actually getting into the game.
It is amazing but pls remove adds and pop ups.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 5.97.1
- Size: 2,193.08 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
- Developer: Electronic Arts Inc.
Last updated: 1st December 2025 | Genre: Simulation, Adventure | Developer: Electronic Arts Inc.