If you are still confused with what determines a game being a remake, remaster or reimagined, get ready to add another “reee” to the list. EA revealed that The Sims 4 will now have what they are calling a refresh.
“A refresh is when we take a Pack and expand on that core theme, adding new features that elevate that experience,” the description reads on The Sims’ official site.
What it boils down to are free updates to your existing paid DLCs, adding more features that should give existing owners more value for their money, and entice more players to grab the older DLCs, or as they call it in The Sims 4, packs.
(There’s also kits, even smaller DLCs that adds a handful of very specifically themed home decor items. Given kits just launched this year and are distinctly name compared to the expansion packs, game packs and stuff packs, these are likely to be excluded for future refreshes. At least for the time being.)
The first of the 39 (!) packs to get a refresh is aptly the Spa Day game pack. Spa Day previously adds spas your Sims can visit, learn the wellness skill (yoga and meditation), reflexology and stone massages, saunas and new clothing and hairstyles.
The new refresh adds the following features:
- Now you can make Sims with the High Maintenance trait that will make use of spas more often.
- Kids can now do wellness activities.
- Sims can aspire to be a Zen Guru, a Self-Care Specialist or seek Inner Peace.
- Sims can earn money by teaching mindfullness
- Manicures, pedicures and facial masks
- Custom nails. Customisable colours, designs and shapes
Owners of The Sims 4 Spa Day game pack get all the new features from the refresh for free. And the features will now come standard should you go buy Spa Day now.
This new refresh opens up a big can of worms The Sims 4 team can do. Sprucing up old DLC that make use of newer features in base The Sims 4 should keep fans happy for a bit.
The Spa Day game pack refresh for The Sims 4 is live now PS4, PC (Steam, Origin), and Xbox One.