The Sims™ 3

The Sims™ 3

Steam Deck Unsupported

The Sims Studio · Life Sim · Jan 27, 2011

Yes, worth buying.

At $19.99. We haven't seen it on sale.

86%
Very Positive
34k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 28 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 26 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Story and characters: 17 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Crashes: 39 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 29 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 34k player reviews · updated 6 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
33% of themes are praise45% are divided22% are caveats
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
When i saw the first trailer of the sequel to The Sims 2 i was speechless....because of open world, texture-color wheel customization of clothes, futniture, deep customization of hairstyles and even more advanced stuff to be added with the prime core of Sims 2 gameplay.
28 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
+ Art Style is nice, its mix of a little of cartoon and realism, i do think it did age well but this is really individual to rate, as each player has different taste for graphics
26 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
The game lacks depth of any character development in any form of story telling, its basically just make a plain looking dude and send him off to create a s*x dungeon and lock your infants in small rooms closed off from society.
17 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love3 themes
Gameplay28 reviews
Graphics26 reviews
Story and characters17 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Monetization22 reviews
50%
Performance18 reviews
72%
Optimization17 reviews
82%
Interface8 reviews
13%
Players complain% still recommend
Crashes39 reviews
23%
Bugs29 reviews
62%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 3 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Full price

Currently $19.99. We haven't seen it on sale yet.

3 points recordedtoday · $19.99

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Player review score
86%
Very Positive
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