Time Day 1, 00:00
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Starting

Select a person

Select a person to see their mood.

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Select a person to see what they need.

How to play

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Build & place
  1. Build pauses the household. Select furniture and a destination, turn it with the curved arrows, then Confirm. Choosing another item commits a valid move and cancels an invalid one. Cancel leaves the furniture unchanged; Exit build returns to play.
  2. Walls selects the edge between two floor tiles. Choose Wall, Doorway, Window or Remove beside the edge. Rotation turns the selection without changing the house. A window stops people and lets daylight through. The status explains refused edits.
  3. Room builds a whole room at once. Select two opposite corner tiles. Doorway lets you choose an edge of the outline; Corners restarts the outline. Build room applies the entire edit, and Cancel clears the selection.
  4. Buy lists everything for sale with its price. Choose something, select its destination, use the curved arrows to turn it, and press Buy. The price comes out of Funds. Unaffordable items are disabled.
  5. Floors selects a tile without changing it. Choose Boards, Tiles or Carpet beside the tile to apply a covering. Remove restores its original floor; Clear removes the selection.
People & actions
  1. Choose a person under Household to select them and see their needs.
  2. Tap or click an object to give the selected person its default action.
  3. Long-press or right-click for more actions, including talking to another person.
  4. Queue mode starts on: new actions go after the waiting ones. Turn it off to put a new action first, keeping the waiting actions after it. Holding Ctrl or Cmd also adds an action after the waiting ones.
  5. Use Clear orders to stop the action you gave the selected person and remove their waiting actions.
  6. The dock shows mood and life satisfaction. Life satisfaction ranges from 0 to 100 and changes over months or years. Hover or focus its meter for the exact score. Open Sim details for needs, moodlets and career. Choose Traits to see their traits; Close returns to the compact dock.
  7. Choose People inside Sim details to see how the selected person feels about everyone else.
Camera
  1. Drag to move the camera. Pinch, use the mouse wheel, or use the zoom buttons to move closer or farther away.
Options & saves
  1. Open Options for Light, Sound, Death, Save, Load, New game, New housemate, Help and Changelog. Changelog opens the game's update history in a new tab. Open Sim details, then Queue, for Queue mode and Clear orders. Light: flat gives neutral daylight without the automatic lighting cycle; Sound mutes everything; Effects sets all sound volume; Voices adjusts conversations within that mix.
Shortcuts

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Start a new game?

This replaces the saved household and cannot be undone.

New housemate

Personality

Load the saved game?

Progress since the last save will be replaced.