The Sims 4 turned 10 years old this week, bringing the longest-reigning game in the series into double digits. It's been around so long now that I sometimes forget what it was like at launch: Back in 2014 it didn't even have basements, for instance. After poring over old patch notes for other examples, it turns out I'd forgotten about all sorts of other features that I've gotten used to taking for granted.
As a Sims player, there will always be more features I want the series to add. Like, are we ever going to get cars in The Sims 4? I may occasionally dip away to The Sims 3 to revisit features like the open world and Create-A-Style, but The Sims 4 has made big strides of its own since it launched, adding better representation of skin colors and genders, as well as introducing my beloved tiny houses. For its 10th anniversary, I wanted to acknowledge how much further The Sims 4 has changed. So here's a rundown on all the features you likely forgot didn't exist 10 years ago.
