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Three kits in The Sims 4 featuring a gaming theme, a fancy theme, and a modern theme.
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The Sims 4 2025 roadmap: All upcoming updates and packs

There's certainly a lot to look forward to.

Over 10 years after its initial launch on Sept. 2, 2014, The Sims 4 is still going strong with plenty of content to explore and many fresh additions planned for the future. If you’re eager to know what’s coming next, The Sims 4 2025 roadmap has you covered.

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The Sims 4 team usually releases a few roadmaps throughout the year, so as more information becomes available, we’ll update all relevant details here. Based on everything shared so far, here’s the full roadmap of all upcoming updates and pack releases for The Sims 4 in 2025.

The Sims 4 roadmap

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There’s a lot to look forward to and even more announcements coming soon. Screenshot by Dot Esports

The official roadmap for early 2025, also known as the Motherlode season for The Sims 4, was unveiled on Feb. 6. This roadmap provides a clear look at all content arriving from February to April, so here’s a breakdown of everything featured on the roadmap coming to The Sims 4 soon.

Expansion pack trailer

The first trailer for the upcoming Businesses & Hobbies expansion pack aired on Feb. 6. It teases a lot of content and some of the biggest additions to look forward to are as follows.

  • An overhaul to the tattoo system. When this pack is released, we’ll be able to layer tattoos and freely paint Sims with them using a similar system to Cats & Dogs and Werewolves.
  • Multi-purpose lots. You can live and work on the same lot while designating different spaces for each. This works similarly to creating multiple units on the same lot in For Rent.
  • The ability to work as a tattoo artist and master the tattoo skill.
  • The ability to work as a potter and build the pottery skill.
  • The ability to run just about any business including gyms, pet cafés, karaoke bars, arcades, dance clubs, spas, acting schools, laundromats, bowling alleys, and more.

Expansion pack deep dive

A better look at the Businesses & Hobbies expansion pack will occur on Feb. 18 with the gameplay deep dive. The Sims team does one of these for every expansion pack to provide the best look at everything it includes. We’ll also get the official gameplay trailer on the same day.

Mystery announcement

According to both the early 2025 roadmap and the previous one that was teased during the episode of Behind The Sims that aired on Jan. 14, something special is happening on Feb. 25. There have been no official details about what this might be, but there are a couple of viable options.

The first possibility is a big base game update with lots of free content for The Sims 4. We always get some kind of update right before new expansion packs launch, although these typically take place exactly one week before.

Although this date isn’t precisely one week in advance, it’s not too far off and could certainly be a big update for The Sims 4. Some of the features teased in the trailer for the Businesses & Hobbies expansion pack will likely be released as a free base game update, and if they’re especially big ones, the team might want to get this update out a bit earlier than usual.

If it’s not an update for The Sims 4, this mystery event might be focused on past games from the franchise instead. Considering The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 were re-released in honor of the 25th anniversary of the franchise, it’s entirely possible for additional older game content, like more MySims games, to be re-released too.

Expansion pack release

According to the roadmap, the Businesses & Hobbies expansion pack will officially be released for all players on March 6. If you’re looking forward to exploring everything this pack has to offer, this is the soonest you can start playing.

A pottery business in The Sims 4.
You can create and run the business of your dreams with this expansion pack. Image via EA

Blast from the Past event

From Feb. 4 to March 18, the Blast from the Past event is live to complete in The Sims 4. It features lots of new items based on past The Sims games you can unlock by playing through it. A The Sims 4 version of the iconic The Sims 3: Into the Future townie Emit Relevart is also included in this event which means you can enlist his help to tackle key event quests like refreshing your memory in The Sims archives, finding the special Time Capsule, and pondering time travel.

All of the rewards you can earn throughout the entirety of this event are as follows.

  • Week one: You can earn some retro phones, futuristic boots, two new floorings, futuristic glasses, and a retro living chair.
  • Week two: You can unlock a new alarm clock, a bow tie inspired by the one Emit Relevart wore in The Sims 3, a long buffet table, and Emit Relevart’s outfit.
  • Week three: You can earn a retro couch, a semi-formal dress, new music, and an aspiration.
  • Week four: You can claim a three-tiered cake and a glowing dance floor.

Throughout the entire event, you can also claim special milk carton collectibles featuring Easter eggs from past The Sims games.

The Blast from the Past event rewards in The Sims 4.
It’s great to see Emit Relevart again. Screenshot by Dot Esports

More kits

Three new kits are officially arriving for The Sims 4 on May 1. This includes:

  • The Restoration Workshop kit. Some images and teasers on the roadmap image hint that this might be a garage-focused kit, but we don’t know for sure what it will be yet.
  • The Golden Years kit. There’s an elder featured on the roadmap image and the name of the kit seems to potentially imply a CAS kit focused on elder Sims.
  • The Kitchen Clutter kit. This will likely be quite similar to the Everyday Clutter and Bathroom Clutter kits which means we can probably expect to see lots of small decor items that can be used to make kitchens look messier and more lived in.

It’s currently unclear whether these kits are being made by The Sims team or creators from The Sims community. Based on an official blog post, we know two kits from popular custom content creators aharris00britney and Syboulette are set to be released sometime this year. We don’t know anything about the theme of these kits, though, so they could be two of the three kits launching in May or be scheduled for a different release date.

Since The Sims 4 releases new kits fairly frequently, there’s a decent chance we’ll see even more kits beyond these ones. This may include regular kits, collaboration kits, and creator kits.

Another roadmap

Sometime around April, we can likely expect to see another roadmap with details about what’s coming in the next chunk of the year. We usually get a few different roadmaps throughout the year, so once everything on the current roadmap has been released, additional announcements are likely to follow.

While you wait for new The Sims 4 content to arrive, consider tackling some tricky tasks from past packs. You might work through the Alice’s Sorrow quest, make Ambrosia, complete the Tarot Card collection, or find and meet the wealthy weirdo.


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Staff Writer at Dot Esports covering new releases and a wide array of topics including Disney Dreamlight Valley, Fortnite, Minecraft, 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.