The creators of The Sims 3 on mobile and The Sims Social on Facebook has released The Sims Freeplay for iOS for both iPhone and iPad. In the game you will create up to sixteen customized Sims and their houses to interact with. Your Sims can do the usual Sims activities and careers to acquire Simoleons, the in-game cash. Completing goals in the game will give you Livestyle Points, which you can use to speed up tasks or buy items. Of course, there is always the option to purchase Simoleons and Lifestyle points via in-app purchase if you don’t want to take the time to slowly gather them.
Character Creation
Let’s check out the options for customization of your Sims. You can name your Sims, choose your gender, their hair style, clothing tops, pants, and shoes. Don’t worry if you don’t like the look of your Sim, you can always adjust them later, except for gender and name. I took the liberty of tabulating the amount of customizations you have below.
| Customization | Amount of Options (Female) |
Amount of Options (Male) |
| Skin Tone | 6 | 6 |
| Hair Styles | 18 (with 5 colors each) | 14 (with 5 colors each) |
| Heads | 8 | 13 |
| Eye Colors | 9 | 9 |
| Tops | 154 (21 styles) | 159 (26 styles) |
| Bottoms/Pants | 144 (24 styles) | 123 (20 styles) |
| Shoes | 139 (20 styles) | 97 (15 styles) |
| Premade Outfits | 29 (6 styles) | 23 (7 styles) |
Controls & Interface
Controls in the Sims are pretty intuitive. You use a single finger to move the screen by swiping or tapping to interact with objects or people. Your two finger motions are used to zoom and rotate the screen. Zooming is accomplished by the usual pinching or expanding motions, and to rotate, you leave one finger stationary as your pivot point while the other moves the camera around that pivot.
Sims FreePlay follows the same six Sim needs: social, fun, hunger, hygiene, bladder, and energy. These are all displayed along with your Sims overall happiness level in a compact dashboard in the corner, which also displays your Sims current goal. Other than that there are buttons which take you to customize your Sim, to access the item store to decorate, to view your town map, and in-game app purchase store.
Gameplay
In Sims Freeplay, game time occurs at the same pace as real world time, so when it’s night for you it’s nighttime for your Sims. The Sims Freeplay gameplay is pretty familiar if you’ve played any of the series. You still complete activities and go to work to acquire Simoleons, and complete goals to acquire Lifestyle points. Simoleons is the cash you use to decorate and customize your houses. Lifestyle points can be used to purchase unique items for your Sims, cupcakes to fulfill your Sims needs and make them inspired, or use them to speed up tasks. In-game app purchases are available if you want to use real money to purchase Simoleans or Lifestyle points. The amount of customization possibilities for your houses and town are great and should allow you to create unique looks for each of your Sims.
Otherwise, the game is what you make it. Choose how your Sims will interact with each other, build and destroy relationships, and create a town for your Sims to interact in with pet stores, car dealerships, and grocery stores. Best of all, do it all for free! Unless you are impatient, in which case you can use in-game purchases to speed up your creations.
Download the Sims Freeplay for iPad or iPhone and try it out from the iOS App Store.
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It a wonderful game .
I been serching everywhere to play sims 3 2 or regular but i never find it so i hope this one works
Can anyone tell me how to delete furniture in Sims Free Play for Iphone 4. Thank you.
Hit the Sims homestore button (in the bottom right corner on iphone), select the furniture you want to delete and hit the red button to sell it or the gray button at the top to put it into storage.
I already downloaded sims freeplay it’s worked great so far until my one goals was to inspire two sims if anyone can help me I’d be glad
just make two sims happy.Having them eating,sleeping,washing and so on by turns.
To inspire, you can click the green cupcake or fulfill all their needs..
And to delete furniture, open buy mode then click on the furniture you wanna delete.. Then tap the simolean button to sell it..
How do you get more sims and also how do you get more houses for your sims to lie in? please reply to this ASAP thanks!
how do i add a sim or build a new building? when i last levelled up, one of thr new features was that i could add a new sim, but its not clear how to. otherwise, a great game
Go to the city view and click on the vacant properties. They have a circle with a person and plus sign in it. You have to buy a house with simoleons or Life points and then you add a sim to the house when it’s built.
its not allowing me to build anything more and i have enough money life style points and vacant properties what do i do? but for some odd reason its not letting me build thou
You might have reached your population limit. Press the blue sim icon under your XP progress bar thing and it’ll tell you.
Does anyone know where to find the bench work $1200?
That’s supposed to say bench *worth
Have you found the $1200 bench yet? That’s where I am stuck too. Thanks!
The $1200 bench the game refers to is actually a $1200 kitchen counter. I think it is just a wording problem in the game, but I remembered an earlier task telling you to buy a coffee maker and place it on a bench.
How do you creat more sims?
Please help!!
How do I get more cupcakes? My next goal is to feed someone a cupcake but mine is gone and I don’t remember using it! Please help because idk what to do now!
You purchase cupcakes with your LifeStyle points.
How do I rotate my furniture ??!
Go to the home store (bottom right corner if on iphone), tap the piece of furniture you want to rotate. Rotate button is the gray one at the bottom, will rotate 4 ways, the arrow points which way the object is facing.
Actually, that doesn’t work with me. The grey button only moves the furniture from left to right and top to bottom across the screen.
What do you do with that button to make it rotate? Rotating my finger isn’t obvious enough for the touchscreen. Dragging the button across the screen will only make it move the furniture, but only in the same alignment. Rotating the entire house with two fingers turning, doesn’t work either, the game just zooms in and out. That does work in living mode, but nog in buy/build mode.
I use the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray.
Hopefully there is someone out there who can help me
Can I move two sims that are partners in together? Can I swap the sims’ homes? I am wanting to move my partners into the family home that is occupied by another sim…. Is this possible?
this game is amazing! i was just wondering one thing, can you delete a player or move furniture?
Does anyone know when the “check yor mailbox” issue is to be solved?? Cannot level up & no mail to check, this is a great game but very frustrating with these glitches. I’ve already deleted & re-downloaded the game, don’t really want to do again.
There’s an update for it in the app store that fixes it. It’s been out for about 5 or 6 days at least
How can I schedule two sims to wool hoo on Friday. This is my next goal it says to book it? Can anyone help.
Woo hoo is like having sex just make two sims become romantic and when they are parents you can woohoo
One of my sims is stuck at work, I don’t know how to fix it? The bar says 0s left but use 90lp to finish the task? I don’t even have that many life points… Anyone had this problem?
I’m having the same problem, did you ever find a solution?
You bake the cupcake on the stove, the one your thinking about is to inspire your sim using lifestyle points.
How do I make 4 sims artist? I already have 4 sims as artist already and they are currently at art dealer level for work.
I am having the same issue. I have found that some people are having to make 6 of their sims artists. I am going to try that now and send them to work when the time comes to see if that’s the answer!
When I try to access the store I get an unknown error. iPad
I have an origin account. Been trying for three days. Driving me crazy. Anyone have any advice?
One of my Sims moved into my newly built house (without my knowledge) just as I was about to make a Sim for that house.
I was amazed when I saw it was already occupied!
She won’t go home and her old home won’t allow me to move a Sim into it because (I’m assuming) it thinks she still lives there!
What can I do about this impossible situation, can anyone help me please?
How do I move 2 or more sims in to a shared house that is only occupie by 1 sim?
How do I get into “Build mode” so I can move walls around? All that happens when I try and move walls in “Buy mode” is that I end up moving the nearest piece of furniture to the wall I’m trying to grab, and I need to expand a room for a party. I’m on an iPhone, not an iPad.
Go into the “Buy Mode” and select “Rooms”. You should see diamonds on the walls of your house which you can drag.
does anyone know how to ‘un-partner’ two sims in free play?
Can you help a newbie who just started his town, stop a Sim from gardening for 24 hrs for pumpkins, so I can do other things with him?
CharlieFoxtrot
In the upgrade, touch the Sim. A bar will come up with the time remaining on his task. There should also be a red X. Hit it and youncancelmthe task.
how do you delete a goal? i dont have enough money to complete it help!
How can I make my sims automatically go to work on their own? I have to work when they have to go to work and I can’t be sending sims to work while I am at work. I was so mad when I checked on my lunch break and saw they were all home doing nothing!
I didnt even get to have my sims married does anyone know how to?