What Sims 4 challenge should I play next?
Sims 4 challenge generator
Press the button and you get a random challenge from 19 well-known ones, with its key rules and its goal. You also get a random start: 3 traits, an aspiration, a career, a world, and one twist. Pick one life or many generations, and base game only if you own no packs.
Apocalypse Challenge
Many generations · Rules by Pinstar
Your family starts in a ruined town under strict limits on what it can do. Each time a Sim reaches the top of a career, one limit goes away, and you win when every limit is gone.
Key rules
- Each career branch (and each teen career) has its own restriction on what your Sims can do or buy.
- When any household Sim reaches the top of a career branch, that branch's restriction is lifted for good for everyone, even if the Sim later quits.
- Each Sim can lift only one restriction: the first career they top. A Sim who tops a teen career cannot lift an adult restriction later.
- Always-on rules: no unfair cheats or mods, no early age-ups, no adopting, normal lifespan, and the family never moves lots.
- Restrictions cover 20 adult branches (Tech Guru, Business, Culinary, Astronaut, Painter, Writer, Secret Agent, Entertainer, Criminal, Athlete, two branches each) and 5 teen careers (Babysitter, Fast Food, Manual Labor, Retail, Barista).
All the rules of the Apocalypse Challenge, 7 more
- Goal
- You finish when every career restriction has been lifted.
- Packs
- Base game
Your random start
- RancherHorse Ranch
- Animal EnthusiastCottage Living
- ErraticBase game
- Aspiration
- Discerning Dweller (For Rent)
- Career
- Doctor (Get to Work)
- World
- Brindleton Bay (Cats & Dogs)
- Twist
- Night owl. Your main Sim sleeps from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and does everything else at night.
Where the rules set the Sim, the age, or the lot, the rules win.
Play this Sim in LifeSim, free in your browserHow to use the challenge generator
Pick a length first. One life gives challenges you finish with one Sim, such as Rags to Riches, Asylum, or the Black Widow. Generations gives family challenges, such as the Legacy Challenge, Not So Berry, or the 100 Baby Challenge. Any length mixes both. Pick Base game only when you own no packs: the generator then skips the challenges whose rules need a pack, and it rolls only base game traits, aspirations, careers, and worlds.
Press New challenge. The card shows the name of the challenge, who wrote the rules, a short summary, the first rules, the goal, and the packs the rules ask for. Open the full rules before you start. The card shows only the first rules, and every challenge has 10 or more, counting the starting rules.
Under the rules you get a random start: 3 traits that the game allows together, an aspiration, a career, a world to move into, and one twist. The twist is a side rule on top of the challenge, such as keeping a pet at all times or never letting the funds go over 20,000 Simoleons. Use the start where the rules leave you a choice. When the rules set the age, the traits, or the lot of your Sim, the rules win. Press New start to keep the challenge and roll only the start.
Every roll has its own link. Press Copy link to send the same challenge and the same start to a friend, or to put it under a video. Press Embed this to put the generator on your own blog or fan site.
Every challenge the generator can roll (19)
The generator rolls only challenges that have a full rules page in our Sims 4 challenge rules. We wrote each page from the rules that the creator keeps, and each page says the day we checked them.
| Challenge | Length | Rules by | Base game |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legacy Challenge | 10 generations | Pinstar | Yes |
| Not So Berry Challenge | 10 generations | lilsimsie and alwaysimming | Yes |
| Decades Challenge | Many generations | ZombieCleo, with current rules by CuteCoffeeGal | Yes |
| Ultimate Decades Challenge | Many generations | Morbid | Yes |
| 100 Baby Challenge | Many generations | SnarkyWitch | Yes |
| Rags to Riches Challenge | One life | SimishGamer | Yes |
| Black Widow Challenge | One life | Unknown | Yes |
| Asylum Challenge | One life | simswithcheese | Yes |
| Disney Princess Challenge | 10 generations | MissPlaying | Yes |
| Apocalypse Challenge | Many generations | Pinstar | Yes |
| Zodiac Legacy Challenge | 12 generations | autumnalpixels | Needs packs |
| Random Legacy Challenge | 10 generations | tigger89 | Yes |
| Villains Legacy Challenge | 14 generations | malaisepixels | Needs packs |
| Off the Grid Challenge | One life | SnarkyWitch | Yes |
| Runaway Teen Challenge | One life | Stormy Dayz Gamez | Yes |
| Breed Out the Ugly Challenge | Many generations | Unknown | Yes |
| Wonder Child Challenge | One life | Pinstar | Yes |
| Movin' On Up Challenge | One life | Mystic | Needs packs |
| Immigrant Challenge | One life | Pinstar | Needs packs |
Every twist and world it can roll
The traits, aspirations, and careers come from the same lists as the Sims 4 random trait generator, which never puts two traits on one Sim that Create a Sim refuses together. The worlds are the 29 worlds in the game files. With base game only, the generator picks from Newcrest, Oasis Springs, Willow Creek.
Twists (14)
- Pet household. Keep at least one pet at all times. If a pet dies, adopt a new one within a week.
- No autonomy. Turn autonomy off for your main Sim. Every action is your choice.
- Night owl. Your main Sim sleeps from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and does everything else at night.
- Collector. Complete one collection, such as fossils, frogs, or crystals, before the challenge ends.
- Party host. Throw one party every Sim week and get at least a silver medal.
- Penny pincher. Never let the household funds go above 20,000 Simoleons. Spend it or donate it.
- Bookworm. Own 30 books on the home lot before the challenge ends.
- Rival. Keep one enemy for the whole challenge. Never make up with them.
- Travel bug. Visit every world you own at least once.
- Full house. Fill all 8 household slots at least once.
- Garden to table. The household eats only what it grows, fishes, or cooks from its own harvest.
- Home cook. Never order food or grab a quick meal. Cook every meal on the stove or the grill.
- Kind heart. Your main Sim never picks a mean or a mischief social.
- Green thumb. Keep a garden of at least 10 plants alive on the home lot.
Want a whole family plan instead? The legacy challenge generator rolls each generation of a random legacy: the heir, the household, the heir law, and the goal. Keep track of the heirs on a Sims family tree.
Questions
Which challenges can the generator roll?
19 challenges with a full rules page on this site, including the Legacy Challenge, Not So Berry, 100 Baby, Rags to Riches, Decades, Asylum, Black Widow, Disney Princess, Off the Grid, Runaway Teen, and Wonder Child.
Are these the official rules?
They are short versions, in our words, of the rules their creators keep. Each challenge links to our full rules page, and that page links to the creator. When the creator updates a rule, their version wins.
What if the rules already set my Sim?
Then the rules win. The Runaway Teen starts as a teen, and the 100 Baby Challenge needs a Sim who can get pregnant. Use the parts of the random start that the rules leave open.
Which challenges work with the base game only?
Base game only keeps the challenges whose rules need no pack, and the three base game worlds: Willow Creek, Oasis Springs, and Newcrest. Movin' On Up needs City Living, and the Immigrant Challenge needs Get to Work.
Can I keep the challenge and roll a new start?
Yes. Press New start. The challenge stays, and the Sim, the world, and the twist change.
Is the Sims 4 challenge generator free?
Yes. There is no sign-up, and every roll has a link you can share.