Venture Rene isn’t The Sims 5

The Sims franchise is transferring past linear, sequential online game releases, in keeping with franchise vice chairman and common supervisor Kate Gorman Revelli. As an alternative of transferring on to The Sims 5, changing The Sims 4, Digital Arts and developer Maxis will proceed to help The Sims 4, including onto the franchise by creating subsequent to it, not changing it.

“A lot of the best way individuals play The Sims is about expressing themselves and their creativity and discovering their very own set of targets to pursue inside the recreation, however what brings them again is their attachment to these little those who they’ve constructed,” Gorman Revelli informed Polygon. “We additionally know that we’re not going to go to a linear mannequin, as a result of we have now a lot with The Sims 4. What we’re actually is, how will we proceed to work with our group, work with our gamers, and never have you might have this second in time the place you’re going to reset all of your progress and lose these wonderful recollections, characters, and issues that you simply’ve constructed inside these 10 years of your gameplay, probably?”

Confused? Up till now, most individuals thought-about Venture Rene as The Sims 5. However that’s not fully proper. Venture Rene will exist alongside The Sims 4 and different video games as a multiplayer part. “We need to proceed to increase, so if you wish to play that sort of multiplayer expertise, that’ll be what you search for within the issues we’ve talked about about Venture Rene,” she mentioned. The primary actual have a look at what to anticipate there may be scheduled for later this 12 months, in keeping with Gorman Revelli, as a part of its new experimental testing grounds, The Sims Labs.

“Once more, it’s a complementary expertise to all of the issues — it’s not a linear expertise,” she mentioned. “There’s quite a bit we’ll be seeing within the playtest, however the core piece to know what Rene is we’re actually a method to make The Sims playable collectively. That’s what we’ll be persevering with to iterate on and be taught with the group.”

Gorman Revelli was clear that The Sims will proceed to evolve and improve. In a put up on The Sims’ weblog, The Sims 4 was described as “a foundational Sims expertise” that’ll proceed to be modernized. So will there ever be a recreation known as The Sims 5? The reply feels like no. However that doesn’t imply the Sims expertise isn’t going to alter or evolve; no matter would fall, maybe, fifth in line as a mainline Sims recreation (Rene or not!) is not a substitute for The Sims 4 — it’s a continuation of it.