The Sims 3

The Sims 3: Create the perfect world with full customization at your fingertips. Refine personalities and help fulfill destinies.

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Jan 27, 2011

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About This Game

Play with Life.

Create the lives you've always wanted! Ready to live a freer, more creative life? In The Sims™ 3, you can let your fantasies run wild as you design your ideal world. Start with your Sim, refining each shape, color and personality trait until you get the precise person that pleases you. Design your dream home, but don’t let a grid limit you; place, rotate and stack furniture and walls freely and to your heart’s content. Once the “hard work” is over, it’s time to be a mentor. Guide your Sim’s path through life, developing a career, finding love, and pursuing dreams and desires. Spending time with friends and family is just as important as mastering painting or accumulating knowledge. Take things to the next level and record movies of your Sim’s adventures and share them with the ever-growing and thriving community. With a huge catalog of expansion packs and fun objects to discover, there is no end to the possibilities awaiting you. It all begins here; your adventure awaits! Key Features

- Customize Your Sim: Mix and match a vast range of facial features and body types to get the look you want. Infuse your Sim with personality traits and help realize their dreams.

- Stage Your Own Extreme Makeover: Decorate your Sim’s home however you want, neat or messy. Use odd angles, create tall stacks of items, and apply your favorite self-made pattern to the walls and floors.

- Range From the Home: Get out of the house and explore the lively and entertaining neighborhood for the first time. Be a part of the larger online community!

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Developer and publisher

Developer:
The Sims Studio
Publisher:
Electronic Arts

Quick facts

Release
Jun 4, 2009: Windows, Mac
Last updated
May 19, 2026
Storefronts
Steam
Genres
Simulation
Tags
Fantasy, Romance, and Management
Moods
Tactical
Social styles
Solo
Demo
Not announced
Price model
Purchase

Languages

Languages
LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
Chinese (Traditional)
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English

Age Rating & Interactive Elements

ESRB t

Content descriptors

Crude Humor, Sexual Themes, Violence

Support

Controller & Support

Device support

Family Sharing

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System Requirements

Minimum

OS:
Windows XP (Service Pack 2) or Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)
Processor:
(XP) 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent; (Vista) 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
Memory:
(XP) 1 GB; (Vista) 1.5 GB
Graphics:
128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 DirectX®:
Hard Drive:
At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content Sound:
Built-in Graphics:
- Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA X3000 or above. 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent 0.5 GB additional RAM
Supported Video Cards:
Nvidia GeForce series: FX5900 or greater, G100, GT 120, GT 130, GTS 150, GTS 250, GTX 260, GTX 275, GTX 280, GTX 285, GTX 295; ATI Radeon™ series: ATI Radeon 9500 series of greater, X300, X600, X700, X800, X850, X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950, 2400, 2600, 2900, 3450, 3650, 3850, 3870, 4850, 4870 series or greater; Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA): GMA 3-Series, GMA 4-Series *Please note that the GeForce 6100 and 7100 cards are not supported

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