EA and Maxis announced The Sims 4 horse expansion and release date, the life game’s worst kept secret after it leaked several times in previous weeks. The Sims 4 horse expansion, officially called the Horse Ranch Expansion, launches for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation on July 20, 2023, for $39.99, and if you buy the expansion anytime between now and Aug. 31, 2023, you’ll get a bonus rocking chair, guitar, and wagon wheel art to decorate your home on the range with.
Maxis and EA worked with sensitivity reader Stacey Parshall Jensen to create food, clothing, and decor items that reflect Native American culture, and Maxis is making a donation to the Native American non-profit organization Sacred Healing Circle. Sacred Healing Circle works to preserve traditional practices and knowledge and promote learning through programs such as the Native American Horse Preservation and Research Program.
The Horse Ranch expansion’s key attraction is, as you’d expect from the name, the horse ranch. You run your own farm and can even welcome horses into your Sim family, harvest grass for animal feed, clean out the stables, and even make batches of your own nectar – Sim-wine – with fruit grown on the farm. If maintaining this open-air paradise gets a bit too much to handle, your Sim can hire a ranch hand to help out around the place.
Like most expansions, this one comes with a brand-new town as well, complete with horse park, bar, rodeo, and dance hall. Back on the farm, you can customize horses as you see fit, including breed and coat length, and encourage two horses to “nuzzle under the stars” and produce a foal with unique traits. Sheep and goats are also welcome on the farm, and their wool and milk provide an additional income source to the busy horse rancher.
As for the ranch itself, you have a few choices, including cabin and farmhouse, with plenty of new furniture to fill it with and clothes to make your Sim match the vibe.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
