Alleged First Look at The Sims Project X Character Design

The Sims Project X: Original Rumor

Shared by ATRL user gloamingthepain / alleged former Firemonkeys employee

The single player part of Project Rene is being sold separately, releasing end of next year (at this stage) and is being referred to in playtests as Project X.

Aspects of the Sims 4 are carrying over, but it is a seperate game.

Originally, the single player part of Rene would be included in the full game of  “Project Rene” but they’ve decided to seperate different experiences into seperate games. 

This new game will have more flashy features like Open Neighbourhoods, busier Neighbourhoods (I heard up to 3x busier than Sims 4), better graphics (similar to what we saw of the early Rene content, not the mobile playtests we’ve seen).

The game however will be more simplistic than Sims 4 in other ways as the single player experience of Rene was never meant to compete with The Sims 4 and was more a simplified single player offering in a game focusing on multiplayer, and to keep the Sims 4 as the flagship single player game. 

However, EA are keen to retire the Sims 4, simply because both QA and development costs have risen substantially in the last 24 months as the game has become complex to keep maintaining while developing new content. 

A main factor of this is many of the bug reports & broken save files are being caused due to mods and custom content, and they want to move on with a game that will have smarter tech that can identify mod related issues easier, as now hundreds of hours of QA for The Sims 4 is being wasted on trying to replicate issues that are mod related and not in the vanilla game. This means the new game will allow them to streamline to get fixes in the game faster, and waste less time trying to replicate and fix bugs that don’t exist in the vanilla game. 

So to compensate for The Sims 4 coming to a close, certain fan favourite features of The Sims 4, as well as planned Sims 4 content will be added to this new game instead.

I have no idea what EA will call this game, but it’s not a Sims 4 remaster and it’s not the Sims 5. 

They may decide to call it The Sims 5 for sake of ease, or maybe stick with The Sims 4 brand in hopes it attracts those players, but either way it’s not a proper sequel. 

It’s the single player mode of Rene being sold a standalone game and will be nowhere near as complex as proper sequel would be. 

I’m sure it will be fun, but I’m sure many will identify where it falls short to The Sims 4, while acknowledging the tech advancements of a new engine and better hardware. 

That’s all I really know as I don’t work at  Firemonkeys anymore & only know info from people who work there who are very focused on Freeplay.