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Anna Koselke

"Sorry," but The Sims 4's famous NSFW mod WickedWhims is "not happening" for indie competitor Paralives, dev confirms

Paralives married couple surrounded by roses.

Paralives, the colorful new indie answer to EA's own life sim gem, The Sims 4, encourages all sorts of mods (yes, even NSFW mods) – but the most famous adult mod in the entire genre won't be making its way to the recent game.

The mod in question here is WickedWhims. If you've not heard of it, it adds a whole lot of spice to The Sims 4… as well as various real-life features, like birth control, family planning, health simulations, and much more. It's known very well in the Simming community – heck, it's launched a whopping 400,000 times a day. So, it comes as no surprise that fans have been wondering whether or not its developers would bring it to Paralives.

Husk, also known as HelpfulHusk, who helps work on WickedWhims (and its more SFW counterpart, WonderfulWhims) alongside creator TURBODRIVER, says that it isn't – sad news for all of us who hoped for a Paralives counterpart of the adult mod.

They confirm as much in response to a fan asking about it online, writing, "Sorry to say that's not happening!" When asked why not, Husk explains that they're not too certain.

"I dunno, just telling you what TURBO said," Husk states. They do tease "what the other person said is as good of a list of reasons as any," though, pointing to another reply under their own.

That one cites a few potential reasons that WickedWhims won't come to Paralives – a different game engine, the difficulty in transferring assets, problems with re-exporting animations in Blender, and "mod files can easily be stolen in the [Steam] Workshop."

To top this all off, "They'd have to do all this and keep up with their current mod." Well, this all certainly makes sense – but that doesn't mean "someone else" won't step up to the plate, as folks are now discussing over on Reddit.

As one person puts it, it's "the way of the Internet." Indeed… and a quick browse at the Steam Workshop shows me that we've already got a very aptly named "UncensoredParas" mod available to download.

Over on NexusMods, there are even more. So, yeah… we don't have too much to worry about, although I will admittedly miss all of the extra features that WickedWhims adds to The Sims 4 in Paralives, honestly.

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