What are the Sims 4 cheats on PC? Whether you’re after that all-important Sims 4 money cheat for some extra Simoleans, ways to cheat death, deliver your Sim’s needs, or even just zap a Sim from one place to another, we’ve listed heaps of handy shortcuts to make the lives of your virtual family much, much easier. In this guide, we lay them all out for you and explain how to use them.
Cheats are by no means new to The Sims 4, but if you’ve never played past entries in one of the best PC games series of all time, or worry that the cheats of previous Sims games won’t work here, then allow us to step in with a dedicated list of Sims 4 cheats. If you already know how to use cheats in the life game, scroll on for a list of all the best Sims 4 cheats, from relationship cheats (we could all use those, right?), career cheats, and the classic money cheats. If you’re new to The Sims 4 cheats though, don’t worry, we’ve got a guide on how to use them at the end.
Here are the Sims 4 cheats you should ever need on PC, sorted by category:
Progress your Sims in a matter of seconds so you can quickly reach your career goals, or simply stop your Sims setting fire to the house every time they try to make supper. While you’ll find some more expansion-specific skill cheats in their appropriate sections, the basic Sims 4 skill cheat is:
For example, you could type ‘stats.set_skill_level Major_Fishing 10’, but naturally you can change the major skill to whatever skill you want to boost. Level 10 is the maximum level a skill can be, so set it lower than this if you don’t want to instantly max out your Sim.
If you want to give your sim a leg up in the world of relationships, whether it’s making new friends or finding ‘the one’, then these handy Sims 4 relationship cheat codes will help you out. If only these worked in real life, wouldn’t that be something?
Get far enough in a relationship and your sim will more likely than not want to have babies. Here are some cheats that help with pregnancy:
If you want to tweak your career progression you can input ‘careers.demote[name of career]’ or ‘careers.promote[name of career]’ to decide your place in the job market. You can also use these cheats if you have the Sims 4 Discover University expansion:
Again, you’ll need to enable cheat mode in the cheat console before entering these, but here are the main Sims 4 build cheats:
The Seasons expansion is undoubtedly one of the best Sims 4 expansion packs as it offers massive gameplay changes to the entire game. Use these Sims 4 weather cheats to have complete control over the weather:
Death is inevitable for Sims just as much as it is for us in the real world, but luckily for sims there are cheats that can help with that:
There are also a ton of cheats in The Sims 4 that can tweak and alter various stats that your Sim may have. Please note that many of these will require specific expansions:
The Sims 4 Cats & Dogs expansion adds veterinarian as a career path, allows players to build their own vet clinic, and introduces pets to the game. Be sure to type testingcheats true into the console before using any of these cheats, otherwise these commands won’t work.
You can use cheats in the official Horse Ranch expansion pack to quickly give your Sim a personality trait.
While these can be complex to input, there are heaps of Sims 4 cheats for the recent Island Living DLC, allowing you to change your tan and even turn your Sim into a mermaid. Here are some of our favorites – you’ll need to use Ctrl + Shift + C and put the code into the console to activate most of these.
After enabling ‘testingCheats True’, you can shift-click livestock to bring up a menu allowing you to:
You can also spawn animals by shift-clicking on the ground, an animal shed, or a chicken coop. When shift-clicking on a chicken coop, you can spawn rare eggs.
Shift-clicking on a Wild Bird Home allows you to control wild birds or discover their gift preferences, and shift-clicking on a fridge allows you to unlock all animal treat recipes – these can also be spawned in your inventory. To spawn colored rabbits, shift-click on the Wild Rabbit Home and click ‘create rabbit in home’. The color of the rabbit will be random. You can shift-click on sims to kill them with a vicious killer rabbit.
So far, the only cheats in the For Rent landlords expansion pack are the cheats for turning the rental cap off and back on. The rental cap in the base game is six units per lot, but the following cheat allows you to have as many as you’d like:
There aren’t any cheats for changing the UI, however, what you might be interested in instead is a Sims 4 mod called UI cheats extension. In essence, it’s a mod designed to make deploying cheats easier.
It doesn’t add any new cheats, but it replaces the need to open the command console and manually type in the cheats you want. It’s a pretty sweet quality-of-life mod, if you find yourself needing to use a lot of cheats.
To use The Sims 4 cheats, open up the Sims 4 cheat console by pressing Ctrl + Shift + C. Enter the text from your chosen cheat below into the text box, then press ‘Done’.
You may then see a pop-up that asks you to confirm you are happy to use cheats. You know, it’s just making extra sure you’re happy breaking rules. Don’t forget that enabling cheats prevents you from earning achievements in that save.
And there you have it, a list of useful Sims 4 cheats to help you manipulate your tiny little virtual people in ways you’d never thought possible. We’ve got a list of games like Sims if you need more to scratch that simulation game itch ahead of any The Sims 5 release date window. Hopefully, our cheat sheet helps you speed things up a bit in your latest save.
Additional contributions from Jordan Forward.