I may spend about 80% of my Sims time building, but I really enjoy that 20% of gameplay — okay, about 18% gameplay and 2% CAS. I’m always looking for new challenges to give my gameplay structure, and I’ve fallen in love with the “Tiny Town Challenge” as created by Deligracy. I’m also a big fan of James Turner‘s interpretation, as explained in his video series and web page.
Basically, it’s eight little Rags to Riches challenges on one massive lot, plus a community space. Eight Sims have an assigned skill, decorating style, and preferred color, and over time, they fill the lot with homes and decorations as their profits allow. Me being me, I had to change it up a bit, so welcome to the OCCULT Tiny Town version of Deligracy’s great idea!
Sims 4 only has five canonical occult races that you can access in Create A Sim: vampire, alien, werewolf, spellcaster, and mermaid. To get to eight, I expanded it a bit, adding a PlantSim, a ghost (a regular Sim killed, brought back to life, and added to the family), and a medium (a regular Sim who talks to the dead).
We’ll be playing Occult Tiny Town on Mondays for the foreseeable future and adding new Sims as we go. So far, our two Town citizens are:
London Burns, werewolf extraordinaire, woodworker, glutton, introvert. I gave him a glorious beard, and he shaved it off in his first shower. He’s the softest (in a good way!) werewolf I know.
Casper White, ghost, animal lover (except that one wild rabbit that killed him), romantic, but a brat. Ghosts can go anywhere, regardless of wall or gate settings, so he’s up in everyone’s business.
Next Monday we’ll premiere our next two Town members, chosen randomly from the six remaining. Join us for occult mayhem in our tiny town!