MySims: Cozy Bundle Brings Goofy Chibi Sims to PC: ‘It’s Still Very, Very Sims’
EA’s Behind the Sims presentation was filled with a lot of news – a new start screen for The Sims 4, new base game items, and an update to the townie’s house – but some non-Sims 4 news that I’m particularly excited about is that MySims: Cozy The Bundle will be getting a PC port, coming to our desktops on March 18th.
Remember that weird game that looked like a chibi simulator called Animal Crossing? I wouldn’t blame you if you said no, considering the original MySims is the only game in the series to come out on PC back in 2008. But now it’s being re-released on our humble desktops along with MySims Kingdom, which puts a little medievalism into the whole formula.
This pack arrived on Switch back in November of last year, so it’s not exactly new even by re-release standards, but I’m always happy to see older games that didn’t make it to PC finally getting their well-deserved port.
Earlier this month, PC Gamer spoke with the franchise’s Vice President of Creative Director for the Sims series, Lindsay Pearson, and had the opportunity to ask her a little about MySims. “At its core, it’s still very, very Sims,” she said. “These are little characters that have a lot of really silly personalities, and you get to customize their world, meet their neighbors, befriend them. And that’s why I love that DNA of The Sims that makes it feel so different.”
Pearson added that the spin-off ” scratches a very different itch than The Sims 4 or 3 or any of our other larger, traditional HD offerings on PC. So it’s exciting to be able to reintroduce a different shade.” and give a chance to new audiences.”
Hey, it’s me, I’m the new audience. I never got around to playing MySims as a kid – I loved The Sims and I had a Wii, but it was more of a Mario Kart box than anything I actually bought games for. I’m looking forward to diving in and trying it out, and who knows? Maybe if we’re good we’ll get a port of MySims Agents somewhere in the future too.