Every Sims 4 Festival, Ranked
We know The Sims has always been about building and maintaining households of diverse characters, ushering them through life states, and guiding their every move. But we all deserve to get out and have fun sometimes, and if you’ve got either the City Living, Snowy Escape, or Cottage Living expansions, then you’re no stranger to festivals.
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Currently, there are nine different festivals, if you’ve got all three expansions, but no one is quite like the others. Each features a unique gimmick, and your Sims are able to explore the area to its fullest, doing things you’d do at festivals in real life — you can participate in activities, buy exclusive snacks, bump into neighborhood friends, and snag some swag.
With so many different options to keep our Sims occupied on a night out, here’s a look at what makes each of the Sims festivals so delightful.
9 The Festival Of Snow (Snowy Escape)
While we love the world of Mt. Komorebi and all the wintry fun things there are to do there, the Festival of Snow feels a little lacking. It takes place in Yukimatsu every other Saturday, but it’s mostly an aesthetic occasion. The mountain will be beautifully lit, offering a new ambiance for your Sims to enjoy all their regularly scheduled winter activities.
However, the Snowy Escape festivals each came with unique outfits, and attending the Festival of Snow is your chance to unlock a blue and white snowsuit. Grab some ikayaki – grilled squid with soy sauce – from the food stall and enjoy this wintertime wonderland.
8 The Festival Of Light (Snowy Escape)
It’s always good to pause and enjoy a reflective moment every now and again, and the Festival of Light that occurs every other Friday in the Senbamachi area of Mt. Komorebi is about exactly that. Here, lanterns float idly down the river, a Tanabata bamboo tree is available for making wishes, and Sims can pay their respects to their dearly departed loved ones.
This festival is your chance to buy a kimono that resembles one called a Komon, which features repeated patterns and is meant for comfortable, casual wear. Additionally, this is where your Sims can try taiyaki, the iconic Japanese fish-shaped cakes with assorted (mostly sweet) fillings.
7 The Festival Of Youth (Snowy Escape)
This festival from Snowy Escape is your chance to get out into a wintry wonderland for some fun with Sims of an often-looked life stage: children. This festival takes place in Wakaba every other Sunday, and is your kids’ chance to make friends, hone skills, hunt for Voidcritters, or even dance with iconic mascot, Yamachan.
Harajuku-style crepes are on the menu here, which are French crepes that are instead filled with ice cream and then topped with fruits, sauces, or frostings. Additionally, children can buy a Paper Kabuto, which is an origami folding of a traditional Japanese warrior helmet.
6 The Flea Market (City Living)
Especially helpful if you’re playing a rags-to-riches style challenge, or even if you’re just looking for some solid bargain finds, the Flea Market is where your Sims can buy new-to-them furniture on the cheap.
The selection will be different every week, and not only can you buy items outright off the vendor Sims, you can also ask them to trade collectibles with you, too.
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If buying items isn’t your thing, then give selling a shot — your Sims can set up their own tables to get in on the selling action, too. When you’re not on that grind, your Sims can stop by the food stalls to enjoy a menu that features dishes of Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian, and Spanish origins.
5 The Spice Festival (City Living)
For Sims that are feeling bold, brave, and perhaps even a little picante themselves, guide them down to the Spice Market district of San Myshuno on Friday nights to challenge them to a contest of heat: the Spice Curry Challenge. This whole festival is based around the eating contest that forces your Sims to either withstand the heat or get out of the kitchen, and if they haven’t earned the Spice Hound trait before entering, their odds of winning are slim.
You can buy spicy ingredients like chili powder or wasabi from the swag stall to take home and practice for next time. If you’re looking for more medium-spice dishes to enjoy without too much pain, the food stall at this festival serves up burritos, Asian dishes, and pretty much anything that could possibly be made spicier on request.
4 The Humor And Hijinks Festival (City Living)
Organized for Sims who love to socialize, play pranks, and tell jokes, the Humor and Hijinks Festival is exactly what it sounds like. On arrival, Sims pick a faction – either the Jokesters or the Pranksters – by drinking a certain color tea, and are then charged with running around the festival performing socials to earn points for their team. Jokesters score for each funny interaction they successfully perform, while the Pranksters earn their points from mischief instead.
After a night of buying voodoo dolls from the swag stand, trying dishes like spring rolls or hearty African meals cooked in clay pots from the food stall, everyone is welcome to watch the fireworks show that closes the night.
The color scheme of the show will be that of whichever team earned the most points.
3 The Assorted Specialties Of The Finchwick Fairs (Cottage Living)
The Cottage Living pack might technically only have come with one festival, the weekly Saturday occurrence of The Finchwick Fair, but there are five separate variants of it to enjoy. There are ones for regular-sized crops, enormous versions of the same, chickens and their eggs, cows and their milk, and llamas and their wool. Mayor Lavina Chopra is the judge, and while she CAN be bribed by slipping her 250 simoleons, we don’t advise trying: it almost always fails, and you’ll usually lose the contest because of it.
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Each contest has its own ribbons, with different colors for first place, second, third, and participation as well. Sims who place in the contest will be rewarded with their unique ribbon, a cash prize, and a garden collectible as well.
2 The Romance Festival (City Living)
We love the idea of love, don’t we? The Sims Team sure seems to, because they designed a whole festival around the notion.
At The Romance Festival that occurs every Saturday in San Myshuno, couples, singles, and everyone in between can get bitten by the lovebug. One sip of Sakura tea, and your Sims will be feeling flirty in no time, which makes romance socials that much more likely to succeed.
In addition to the tea, there’s a swag booth with fireworks, a food stall with Japanese dishes (including pufferfish nigiri that’s guaranteed to be high enough quality not to kill you), and the Romance Guru who can predict the future of your relationship. And if they give you a good outlook, feel free to head over to the wedding arch with the Sim of your dreams to seal the deal right then and there. Why wait, you know?
1 Geekcon (City Living)
While all the festivals are definitely enjoyable in their own ways, Geekcon is the one we find ourselves taking our Sims to the most. After all, it’s festival about video games, IN a video game – its popularity wrote itself. Not only is it best suited to players, but it’s helpful for any Sim to attend, since they gain any skill faster than normal at the festival.
Additionally, there are two contests: the Hackathon uses the programming skill, while the Ultimate Video Game Test sees Sims trying to beat multiple games in a row on the Motion Gaming Rig. Victors head home with either a computer or a Future Cube in their inventory, but hopefully not before stopping for grilled offerings at the food stall, the rocket ships for a jaunt to space, or the observatory to check out the stars.
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Festivals — The Sims 4 Wiki Guide
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San Myshuno features five Festivals around its districts to give both city dwellers and suburbians a chance to unwind from their hectic lives. The festivals cycle around often, and there is almost always one every few days. When a festival starts, you’ll hear a special music jingle and get a purple-colored notification in the top-right corner of the screen.
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Festivals are generally optional, but they can feature high-end entertainment gear that you wouldn’t be able to afford especially when you’re just starting out. GeekCon for example features buildable rocketships, allowing you to explore space a couple times without investing in the expensive and long-lasting Astronaut Career.
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Every festival features souvenirs you can purchase, but there is an odd annoyance of a bug (or unfortunate design choice) with T-shirts. If you purchase a T-shirt, your Sim will wear it immediately, and it overwrites whatever outfit you had currently selected. Your Sim will keep the same pants, but their shirt will be permanently changed, and you’ll need to change it back yourself at a dresser. If you are sure you want the shirt, consider copying your outfit or making a new outfit for your Sim.
Festival Food
A big part of festivals is the food you can buy. Food is cheap and available from market stalls, but your Sims will likely want to share their edibles with their friends.
You can buy food any time, not necessarily during a festival, though festivals will offer some unique meals.
Eating any of the new meals will allow your Sim to understand its recipe and can make it themselves. Note that this is the only way to learn these recipes: even with Level 10 Cooking and Gourmet Cooking Skills, the Sim must try a meal before they can recreate it. Note that recipe knowledge is per-Sim, not per-household.
Finish Your Food
When attempting to learn a recipe bought from a food stall, you are required to finish your meal before your Sim learns it. This can be pretty rough when you’re trying to force a Vegetarian Sim to learn a meat-based recipe!
Recipes here may be spicy, require chopsticks, or both. These are unmarked skills: the more often the Sim eats spicy food the more they can tolerate it, and the more often they eat food with chopsticks the better skilled they are using the utensils. They are unleveled, and usually the Sim will master the «skill» after just a few meals.
You can further practice it by making the meals yourself.
Flea Market (Spice District)
The Flea Market festival is arguably the least exciting one and won’t help you with most of your skills. However, the tables are open for anyone’s business, and you can set up shop yourself to sell your Collectibles. You can’t sell any random item (you would need the Get to Work Expansion Pack and your own retail shop for that), but you can sell postcards, rocks, minerals, metals, and so on. Your Charisma Skill can help boost your prices.
Humor and Hijinks (Arts District)
The Humor and Hijinks festival will help your Sims work on their Comedy and Mischief Skills. With lots of open mics and nearby voodoo dolls, Sims can help themselves with certain Aspirations. Sims with the Deviance Aspirations will especially be helped during this festival since there will be plenty of targets around to practice those mischief-type interactions.
GeekCon (Fashion District)
GeekCon is made for gamers and logically minded Sims, helping those respective Skills.
Sims can gain Handiness well here, and Sims with high Video Game skills could play against others in a LAN Party for cash prizes. GeekCon also features rockets, one fully built and one not, that can be used for space exploration or simply working on your building skill.
Spice Festival (Spice District)
The Spice Festival is all about food. Not only can you try a lot of new recipes here and purchases spices for your home, but you can harvest ingredients you may struggle to find otherwise. If your Sim is primarily a gardener, consider visiting the Spice Festival whenever it comes through the city so you can grab some free produce and plant it yourself.
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Romance (Fashion District)
The Romance festival helps put your Sims in a Flirty Emotion. If you’re trying to Romance another Sim, this is the perfect place for a date: simply being there will significantly increase the heat in everyone’s hearts, and that’s before trying out the various food stalls and aphrodisiac items that spread around.
If your Sim is single, the Romance festival is still a good option for finding others to pick up, or possibly wreck some homes if you’re feeling devilish.
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Spice Festival in The Sims 4 City Living (Overview) — SimsMix
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Want something spicy? Then welcome to the San Myshuno Spice Festival!
The festival takes place at the Spice Market from 1700 to 01.00. The day of the week can be different for each player. For us, it was Friday.
To be honest, visiting this particular festival was a slight disappointment. First of all, because the curry-eating contests are not implemented at all as expected. Judging by the official video, it was supposed to be similar to the three-ruble eating competition, but alas. nine0011
In order to take part in the competition (one or the whole company), you need to click on the curry dish and select the appropriate option.
After that, your Sims will take the plates and sit down at the empty tables.
Yes, I repeat, this moment was very upsetting. Probably, the developers did not want to limit the number of participants, but in my opinion this played against them and the festival lost some of its atmosphere. But let’s not talk about sad things.
If your Sim has never tried spicy food before, they won’t be able to win this competition. nine0025 The very first spoonful of curry will cause this reaction:
He is immediately recognized as a loser and recommended to eat more spicy dishes in order to get used to it.
In addition, the Sim will receive a Discomfort moodlet for 2 hours.
But if he has already eaten enough exotic cuisine seasoned with red pepper, saffron, curry and wasabi, then victory and the champion’s shirt are yours.
In addition to participating in competitions at the festival, you can try many new dishes to add to your cookbook.
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If you prefer traditional hot dogs and hamburgers, one of the festival staff will be happy to cook them for you.
However, you can use one of the grills yourself, especially since there will be a special moodlet during the festival:
In addition, you can relax with the company at the bulbulator or listen to street performers.
And if you have a guitar or a violin and the skill level of playing them is not less than the fourth, then you can entertain the audience yourself and at the same time earn some extra money for souvenirs. nine0011
Speaking of souvenirs. In the souvenir shop you can buy:
- T-shirt with the logo of the festival
- soap bubbles
- sparklers
- fireworks
- Ice Bunny snow globe
Also only at this festival you can buy spices:
- curry
- saffron
- red ground pepper
- wasabi
These spices are useful for preparing various spicy dishes at home, such as curries, belpourri, samosa patties.
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In general, the festival is very colorful and atmospheric and definitely worth a visit.
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Live in a city with exciting neighborhoods and exciting festivals in The Sims 4 City Living.
Check out all the new and exciting features from The Sims 4 Producer Grant Rodik.
Flea markets
The Alameda and San Jose Flea Markets inspired us to create our very own flea market. Here you can find a lot of interesting things: old board games, antiques and wonderful knick-knacks. nine0011
UmniCon Festival
We love San Diego Comic Con as well as GenCon, E3, PAX and Gamescom. All these events have already become a huge part of the gaming community. That’s why we decided to capture all the cosplay, tournament and video game lovers’ experience at the UmniCon festival in the new The Sims 4 City Living expansion.
Spice Festival
San Francisco has a lot of culinary events such as Eat Drink SF and we decided to add the Spice Festival as part of our hometown. At this festival, your Sims will be able to compete in the Hottest Curry Eating Contest. Only those who are used to eating very spicy food will be able to win! nine0011
Food trucks
The streets of cities such as San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Sydney, Paris, Vancouver and Tokyo are always full of food trucks.
We thought it would be great to add them to the game, as they fit perfectly with the festival atmosphere on the streets of San Myshuno.
Love is in the air
At the romance festival, we really like the animation for a sudden marriage proposal. This is true love at first sight, from the first meeting at the festival, which reminded us of some great films. nine0011
Handicrafts
The idea of creating a table for the sale of handicrafts was inspired by the stands of artists on the bridges of the River Seine in Paris and farmers’ markets in San Francisco. We really wanted to tell the players the stories of artisans.
Celebrate the Mind at the UmniCon Festival from The Sims 4 City Living
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Enjoy the fireworks
Fireworks can be set off at the Jokes and Fun Festival and make a great backdrop for any photo.
Cook new dishes
Sample food in town to find 20 new recipes. Try to find them all!
Scour the trash cans
The cities are pretty messy, but there are new collectibles in the garbage boxes near the festivals. It is almost impossible to predict what you will find.
Plus, you can trade your finds for other collectibles at the flea market. nine0011
The Romance Expert is such an eccentric character who will tell you about your love affairs. We love adding new characters for players to discuss, and we think the Romance Master will be one of the hilarious heroes.
Endless Fun
When the festival ends, Sims can continue their fun and move to the nearest bar. We really like that Sims are always ready to have fun.
Take part in the Hacktron Tournament
You can always demonstrate and improve your programming skills at the UmniCon festival. It’s like going to the Tech Crunch in San Francisco — your Sims will be in awe of the tech showcased at the festival. You can even participate in the Hacktron Tournament!
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