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Two Sims with different Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs in The Sims 4 Lovestruck.
How will it work? Find out soon. Image via EA
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How to set Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs in The Sims 4 Lovestruck

Give your Sims some more depth.
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Published: Jul 25, 2024 12:11 pm

Your Sims’ love lives can become a lot more complex and rich when you use Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs in The Sims 4 Lovestruck expansion pack. This feature massively overhauls how attraction works, but actually setting your Sims Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs can be tricky.

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Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs dictate what personality traits, romance styles, and other key details your Sim finds attractive. They make romance much more interesting and detailed, so here’s how to set your Sims’ Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs in The Sims 4 Lovestruck.

How to change Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs in The Sims 4 Lovestruck

Two Sims with the same Turn-On in The Sims 4 Lovestruck.
It’s a lot easier to romance Sims when you have the same Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs. Image via EA

You can only set and change your Sims’ Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs from the Create a Sim menu. Depending on whether you’re making a new Sim or modifying an existing one, this process looks slightly different.

If you’re trying to set Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs for an already-made Sim:

  • Open your Sims Simology panel. This is the icon shaped like a head in the bottom right corner.
  • Scroll down to the Preferences category.
  • Locate the Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs section.
  • Select the Enter Create a Sim option.
  • Locate the Preferences option. This is a question mark icon right under Aspirations near the top left corner.
  • Click the Magnet icon to switch from Likes and Dislikes to Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs.
  • Apply as many Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs as you like.
The Enter Create a Sim to edit Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs option marked in The Sims 4 Lovestruck.
It can be tricky to find since the Simology panel has so many options. Screenshot by Dot Esports. Remix by Dot Esports

If you’re trying to set Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs for a new Sim:

  • Find the Preferences option. It appears as a question mark right under your Sims Aspirations near the top left corner of the menu.
  • Locate and select Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs. This option is a Magnet icon located to the right of the Likes and Dislikes section.
  • Apply all Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs you want for your Sim.
The Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs category marked in Create a Sim in The Sims 4 Lovestruck.
You can add up to 50 Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs per Sim. Screenshot by Dot Esports. Remix by Dot Esports

There are six different categories for Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs, which means there’s a lot of room to fully customize your Sims personality. All of the categories for this feature are as follows:

  • Way of Life
  • Characteristics
  • Romance Styles
  • Hair Color
  • Outfit Color
  • Fashion

No matter what you choose here, you can always follow these same steps again if you later decide you want to remove or add any Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs. Maybe your Sim used to love drink-making Sims who excel at Mixology and Nectar Making, but their preferences later change, and they start to prefer wealthy Sims who make money from being a property owner or selling products from goats and sheep instead. It’s completely up to you how you use this feature and there’s a lot of freedom to play around with it to switch things up whenever you want.

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Kacee Fay
Staff Writer at Dot Esports covering new releases and a wide array of topics including Minecraft, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Phasmophobia, general gaming, streaming, and more. She has been avidly writing and gaming her whole life and now spends her time combining the two. Kacee graduated from San Diego State University in 2021 with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Certificate in Creative Editing and Publishing. She then joined Dot Esports as a Freelance Writer in 2022 before transitioning to a Staff Writer in 2023. In her spare time, she enjoys buying more books than she can read, gaming alone or with friends, drinking too much tea, attending concerts, fangirling over movies and television, listening to music, and spending time with her family, friends, and pets, who are the most important parts of her world.
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