The Sims 4 Paranormal Stuff: What You Need To Know

The Good, The Bad & The Spooky

For just £9.99 and as merely a Stuff Pack, The Sims 4 Paranormal Stuff adds more changes to gameplay than some Game Packs have; the career and haunted house lots are definitely fun and add a much needed layer of difficulty to the game especially with the random events to keep them your victims up at night. Once you've figured out everything, however, it gets old so fast it'll be in the grave before dinner.

The writing through-out the entire pack is full of light nose-blow worthy jokes for the in the know.

For story and roleplaying purposes this pack can be really great for creating twisted tales of torture with it's many opportunities for spontaneity but overall, like the rest of them, stops at surface level. Overall, the pack has a cohesive style to it. While it's not entirely unique and the more dated styles of the Bowling Stuff Pack, Movie Hang Out Stuff Pack and the StrangerVille Game Pack go quite well, the furniture that we do get can easily be adapted.

The clothing on the other hand is almost painfully dated in some ways. With all the possibilities we could have had for hair and clothes - especially more gothic or Victorian items - it feels lacklustre to get a handful of more of the same. The Paranormal Pack has chosen it's focus, clearly, on the Conjuring films over the classic baroque grotesque style, so if you were hoping for corsets and tailcoats this might not be for you. With a good amount of packs revolving around the same flower-power era of aesthetic, it is a shame that The Sims 4 is becoming a very good Stranger Things simulator, but a painfully average life simulator.

The Sims 4 Paranormal Stuff Pack's items aren't quite to die for, but the ghosts make for a happy medium.