Sims 2 Castaway?

I have asked about a million people* and no one I know has ever played this game and some have never heard of it. In my opinion Sims Castaway far exceeds anything any of the other Sims games have accomplished and is by far my favourite!

According to Wikipedia** It was released in 2007 which seems like a lifetime away and in a world where every game under the sun is being re-made and re-mastered and there are sequels left right and centre, it’s an absolute travesty that they haven’t done anything with this. It was glorious.

After a short cut scene, you begin the game washed up on a desert island. There are a number of differences between this and the normal Sims games, the main difference being that you have to find materials across your island and have your sim build their house and forage food for themselves. There were other islands you could visit once you’ built yourself a raft and unlocked certain things to get there and there was a bit more of an aim to the game than the others, in that you were attempting to escape the island and go home.

Who doesn’t love a desert island film? Especially one where you get to watch them build a giant tree house from scratch with pulleys and traps and such. If they released another of this type of game (which they should), then I would definitely want that! The closest I’ve seen to this type of thing, is ‘The Forest’, which was released last year. I got super excited when I saw the first half of the trailer and the characters had started building their little hut from logs they had chopped down, but was quickly disappointed when It involved hiding from mutants and turned into a survival horror, rather than just survival. Not that there is anything wrong with survival horror, I’m just a wimp and get scared easily.

Anyway, I digress. Everyone should spam EA and Maxis until they make another, or remake this one…or at least add an expansion to the Sims 4.

Has anyone played this? Did it even exist or have I made it up?*** Did you even enjoy it or was it pants? If you haven’t played it, would you?

Fin

*6 or 7

**Everyone knows that Wikipedia is always 100% accurate

*** Just kidding, I know it exists really…..its on the internet.

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