If you've been returning to life sims of years past, you'll want to brush up on all the Sims 3 cheats at your disposal. Personally, I just needed to remind myself the syntax for the move objects cheat in this one so I could get down to building freely as usual, but you may be on the hunt for The Sims 3 money cheats, or trying to fix your Sims' dismal moods by "cheating needs." The prior game in the series doesn't have quite as stacked a list of cheats as in The Sims 4, so there's a lot less to memorize here, thank goodness.
Enabling cheats in The Sims 3 is very familiar, but one thing you'll want to be mindful of is that capitalization matters in a lot of these cheats. If a cheat isn't working for you, double check you haven't messed that part up. When in a pinch, you can also use "testingcheatsenabled true" and then just enter "help" to see a list of cheats. There are more than just cheat codes to know, though. Once you've enabled testing cheats, you can trigger other effects by using Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click on certain objects and Sims, as detailed below.
