

How do Neighborhood Stories work in The Sims 4?.Read on to learn exactly how Neighborhood Stories work in The Sims 4 and - crucially - how it will affect your existing and new saves. With the patches installed, certain non-player characters will experience major life events not directly connected to the active household, and comprehensive story progression in the style that we enjoyed back in the days of The Sims 3 is starting to come to fruition.


Hailed by some players as the long-awaited story progression feature that will allow NPCs a degree of autonomy, this feature was in fact something of a prototype when it first rolled out in November 2021, although with the March 2022 version now live, it feels like we're starting to see something closer to the intended final product. How do Neighborhood Stories work in The Sims 4? Patch 121 for The Sims 4 base game introduced a new core mechanic, called Neighborhood Stories, which has now been expanded upon with the release of Patch 125.
