The Sims 4 is expanding its sexual orientation options with new update
Image: EA / Maxis The Sims 4 is making it easier for players to create Sims that better reflect their lived experiences. As a free update coming at the end of the month along with the High School Years expansion, players can now choose their Sims' sexual orientation and romantic / sexual attraction.
It works like this: within the Create a Sim" function, you'll be able to fiddle with how your Sim experiences sex and romance. First, you can choose if your character is attracted to men or women. The Sims 4 team is aware that making this choice based on binary options isn't ideal.
I understand that there will be concerns here around the initial options being gender binary," SimGuruJessica, the design lead on the High School Years expansion wrote in the...