You can now make the Sims 4 be The Truman Show literally as well as metaphorically

3 years 9 months ago

A screenshot by Simoniona of their Truman Show gallery build, showing the stairs and door from the last scene of The Truman Show, but rendered in The Sims 4The Sims 4

has always kind of been The Truman Show as god game, hasn’t it? You make your little puppet people, you control every aspect of their lives and personality from birth until death, you make them get in the pool and then remove the ladder. I am become Ed Harris, destroyer of worlds, right? And now, thanks to an incredible build creation shared by Sims community member “Simoniona“, your Sims game can be The Truman Show both metaphorically and literally.

She’s created a version of Truman’s neighbourhood from the movie, so your Sims, too, can wish their neighbours good afternoon, good evening and good night. And, even more impressively, there are two versions of it. One is the street from, as it were, Truman’s point of view at the start of the movie – a suburban paradise. The second is when the scales have fallen from his eyes. The lot is bordered with big movie set surrounds, a light has crashed onto the set, and we even have the iconic steps and door for your tiny Trumans to make their own escape.

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Author
Alice Bell