



You can completely shape your child Sims’ futures with the pack the way you parent them will directly reflect on their adult personality, and they can receive special traits when aging up to young adults depending on how your Sim raised them and how they developed their “character values” (a new metric in the game that monitors children Sims in their manners, responsibility, empathy, conflict resolution, and emotional control). I really enjoy this pack because of how many things it adds to the gameplay, and the gameplay really changes in significant ways due to it. Families can volunteer together Sims can ask and give advice, comfort one another, talk about their moods, write in their diaries, and more. Children can bring home school projects, which adult Sims can help them complete to get a boost in their grades. The pack mainly focuses on gameplay for toddler, children, and teens. Exploring the temples is tedious (it took a whole Sim day to even make through the jungle and to the entrance, and it wasn’t really fun getting there most of the action happens off-screen through pop-up notifications), and out of the two vacation packs, I still prefer camping in Outdoor Retreat. After my first vacation there, I felt no need to return. The new world is relatively small (mostly comprised of rental lots and a few areas to shop and explore), and just doesn’t feel unique or interesting enough to warrant a visit. Part of the reason this pack is at the bottom of the list is due to the fact that the gameplay is so similar-there’s a very been there/done that feeling to it all- but also because there’s no real incentive to go to the jungle. Truly, the gameplay for exploring the jungle and discovering the hidden temple is pretty much identical to the gameplay in World Adventures exploration is done through a series of interactions, which will succeed or fail depending on your Sims’ related skills. This pack is the second “vacation” type pack in The Sims 4, but it’s really reminiscent of World Adventures in fact, it seems almost identical to travelling to Al Simhara in The Sims 3 and exploring pyramids.
