

Your children Sims can either play in the Puppet Box for fun (and increase their Social Skill), or they can put on a show for other Sims (older Sims can watch the puppet show, but can’t perform in it). The Puppet Show is another new Gameplay object introduced in this pack and comes in the form of a big box with two side doors and a little “stage” area. Now, while Teen and older Sims can’t use this station, the can watch the battles and will react accordingly. Various animations play out depending on the “Element” that the Voidcritter belongs to and how the battle is progressing.

Yes, you read that right! You can train your cards to have better stats which helps level it up for battles against other cards! The battles themselves are very well animated, your Sim chooses a Sim to battle against and both Sims will put their card in the docking station and the Voidcritter’s doing battle are shown on the screen. This can be annoying if you have spent time training your card to have better stats and it is suddenly given to another Sim. I recommend using the inventory trading method as the social interaction will just trade a random card from your Inventory.

Child Sims are able to trade these cards with other children by either using a social interaction or clicking the desired card in their inventory. The Voidcritter card collection is more involved too. These cards themselves count towards a new Collection for Sims and there are 20 in total to find in the world. You’ll then find a Booster Pack in your Sims inventory that you can open to reveal a randomly picked card. You do this by hunting in bins or frog spawners in the world, or by purchasing them from a computer. To get started in the Voidcritter side of this pack, you need to find at least one Voidcritter card. While The Sims Team could easily have just given us a battle station and left it at that, they decided to take it much further. The Voidcritter’s is a very well thought out and executed feature in The Sims 4 Kids Room Stuff. The songs themselves are catchy (darn teen-pop music) and feature the standard Simlish language used throughout the game.

There are only 4 new songs in this station, so if you listen to it a lot you will be hearing the same songs repeatedly. We also get a new “Tween” radio station (I still don’t know what a “Tween” is, but OK).
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The sound effects from these channels are amazing and much like the TV stations and movies we already have, I found myself watching these shows to figure out the story. In keeping with the theme of The Sims games using footage from various other games in The Sims franchise, many of these shows use footage from a MySims game which gives it an “animated” look. There is also a new TV station which features some new shows for your Sims to watch. The most notable additions to The Sims 4 introduced in this Stuff Pack are the Voidcritter’s and the Puppet Show. Your Child Sims will also be able to use a new puppet show to entertain other Sims. There’s a new bedroom set that features a wide variety of styles to spruce up your Sims rooms. The overall theme of this Stuff Pack is very much catering to the young ones with decor tying in with one of the new Gameplay features, the Voidcritter’s (more on that later). There is also a new TV station and radio station which suit the Child age group perfectly. All of the content included in this Stuff Pack is centered around the (very much neglected) Child age group. The Sims4 Kids Room Stuff comes with around 85 new additions to Build/Buy Mode and Create a Sim.
