Games similar to The Sims

[Minty]

Very interesting! La Vida looks very basic, Thanksgiving Life on the other hand looks every bit as good as TS4, although I would have to say the tools the user appears to be given are more like a heavily modded version of the Sims where you get God like powers to really mess matters up to a counterproductive level.

The idea of sweeping my hand and scattering cars in all directions does appeal though!

Also not too sure about a multiplayer version - likely to attract the wrong sort of player, if you get my drift!

The big problem for anyone wanting to make an alternative to the Sims is the EA version is so well established by now. There have been Sims type clones before, all have died, in part because EA flooded the market with lots of poorly made MySims variants to muddy the market for anyone trying to sell a "Sims but different" game.

But it still seems very surprising no one else has attempted to do on. If you can have Medal of Honor competing against Call of Duty and Battlefield since I was but a boy, and SimCity being decisively defeated by the little guys at Cities: Skylines, why not an alternative Sims?