Eco Lifestyle, the upcoming Sims 4 expansion, is easily the most ambitious work that the Sims' dev team has done on this game. It's a delicious soup of mechanics—delicate as a sprig of parsley, robust as a hearty stew. It also reveals the limitations of the world that they've created to play in.
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