Can I bring my Sims from the first Sims game into another game?
Add a .FAM file, or a .zip of a UserData folder. LifeSim is not made by Electronic Arts or Maxis and is not connected to The Sims. The import only reads what you give it.
How to find your Sims 1 files
- Open the game folder of The Sims. It holds the UserData folders.
- The Sims Legacy Collection keeps them in Saved Games › Electronic Arts › The Sims 25.
- One family: add its .FAM file from UserData › Export.
- A whole neighborhood: make a .zip of a UserData folder and add it. LifeSim lists the families, and you choose one.
- The Sims has no Mac version that LifeSim can read. No files? Take screenshots and write a few lines about your Sims.
Good to know about The Sims
LifeSim reads the names, the bio, the personality, the skills, the interests, the job, the budget, and the faces.
The personality points become traits. The Sims has no life goals, so LifeSim writes one from the rest.
The game saves no family tree, so LifeSim works out who is who from the family.
How to add the household in LifeSim
- Press the import button on this page. It opens the LifeSim builder with the import sheet open and the game chosen. In the builder, the same sheet is next to the + in the row of people.
- Add the files of the household, its whole folder, or a .zip of it. The builder opens the files on your device.
- If the files hold more than one household, choose one.
- Choose the member you play, or none of them. LifeSim writes a person for each of the others.
- Check each person, change anything you want, and start your life.
What comes over
- Every member of the family: the name, the age, and the gender
- Who they are to you, worked out from the family
- The job
- The personality, from the personality points and the interests
- The past: the bio and the skills
- Starting money, from the budget
- The looks. LifeSim draws a new portrait in its own style, from the faces that the game saved.
What stays in The Sims
- Pets. LifeSim has no pets, so the past of their owner names them instead, for example "Lives with Buddy, a dog."
- Custom traits, careers, and aspirations from mods
- The house, the lot, and the furniture. Your household gets a home in a real city.
- Custom content files, such as hair and clothes. They can show in the portraits that LifeSim reads.
- Other Sims of the town. A full Sims 4 save brings up to 4 close ones along.
Privacy
LifeSim reads the link, the file, or the text to write the people. It stores the screenshots you add on its servers.
LifeSim is rated 13+. Imported people pass the same checks as anything you type in the builder.
What happens in LifeSim
LifeSim is a free life sim. You pick a real city on a 3D map of Earth, and you live there. The people you import live there too. They have homes, jobs, and friends, and their week goes on while you are away.
You talk to them in your own words, and they remember what you said. It plays in the browser at play.lifesim.com, and there is an iPhone app. There are no ads and nothing to buy. Read what LifeSim is.
Questions
Can I play my Sims 1 family in a different game?
Yes. Add the family's .FAM file in LifeSim. Each Sim becomes a person in a real city, with a home and a job.
Does it work with The Sims Legacy Collection?
Yes. Its UserData folders are in Saved Games › Electronic Arts › The Sims 25.
Is this made by EA?
No. LifeSim is not made by Electronic Arts or Maxis, and it is not connected to The Sims.
