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Play with Life.
Create the lives you've always wanted!
Ready to live a freer, more creative life? In The Sims™ 3, you can let your fantasies run wild as you design your ideal world. Start with your Sim, refining each shape, color and personality trait until you get the precise person that pleases you. Design your dream home, but don’t let a grid limit you; place, rotate and stack furniture and walls freely and to your heart’s content.
Once the “hard work” is over, it’s time to b...
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Release date: | 1 June 2009 |
Genre: | Simulation, |
Recent Steam reviews: | Very positive (155) |
All Steam reviews: | Very positive (29892) |
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Play with Life.
Create the lives you've always wanted!
Ready to live a freer, more creative life? In The Sims 3, you can let your fantasies run wild as you design your ideal world. Start with your Sim, refining each shape, color and personality trait until you get the precise person that pleases you. Design your dream home, but don’t let a grid limit you; place, rotate and stack furniture and walls freely and to your heart’s content.
Once the “hard work” is over, it’s time to be a mentor. Guide your Sim’s path through life, developing a career, finding love, and pursuing dreams and desires. Spending time with friends and family is just as important as mastering painting or accumulating knowledge.
Take things to the next level and record movies of your Sim’s adventures and share them with the ever-growing and thriving community. With a huge catalog of expansion packs and fun objects to discover, there is no end to the possibilities awaiting you. It all begins here; your adventure awaits!
Create the lives you've always wanted!
Ready to live a freer, more creative life? In The Sims 3, you can let your fantasies run wild as you design your ideal world. Start with your Sim, refining each shape, color and personality trait until you get the precise person that pleases you. Design your dream home, but don’t let a grid limit you; place, rotate and stack furniture and walls freely and to your heart’s content.
Once the “hard work” is over, it’s time to be a mentor. Guide your Sim’s path through life, developing a career, finding love, and pursuing dreams and desires. Spending time with friends and family is just as important as mastering painting or accumulating knowledge.
Take things to the next level and record movies of your Sim’s adventures and share them with the ever-growing and thriving community. With a huge catalog of expansion packs and fun objects to discover, there is no end to the possibilities awaiting you. It all begins here; your adventure awaits!
Key Features
- Customize Your Sim: Mix and match a vast range of facial features and body types to get the look you want. Infuse your Sim with personality traits and help realize their dreams.
- Stage Your Own Extreme Makeover: Decorate your Sim’s home however you want, neat or messy. Use odd angles, create tall stacks of items, and apply your favorite self-made pattern to the walls and floors.
- Range From the Home: Get out of the house and explore the lively and entertaining neighborhood for the first time. Be a part of the larger online community!
Configurations
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- OS *: Windows XP (Service Pack 2) or Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)
- Processor: (XP) 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent; (Vista) 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
- Memory: (XP) 1 GB; (Vista) 1.5 GB
- Graphics: 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
- DirectX:
- Hard Drive: At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content
- Sound:
- Built-in Graphics:
- Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA X3000 or above.
- 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
- 0.5 GB additional RAM
- Supported Video Cards:Nvidia GeForce series: FX5900 or greater, G100, GT 120, GT 130, GTS 150, GTS 250, GTX 260, GTX 275, GTX 280, GTX 285, GTX 295; ATI Radeon series: ATI Radeon 9500 series of greater, X300, X600, X700, X800, X850, X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950, 2400, 2600, 2900, 3450, 3650, 3850, 3870, 4850, 4870 series or greater; Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA): GMA 3-Series, GMA 4-Series
- *Please note that the GeForce 6100 and 7100 cards are not supported
- Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA X3000 or above.
- 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
- 0.5 GB additional RAM
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I bought a game and when i redeemed it, it canceled and now i literally payec for nothing
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I bought the game not realizing it was 32-bit and I couldn't run it on my MacOS. I contacted EA customer support and explained that I bought the game but can't run 32-bit and then they switched me over to the 64-bit game in quite literally less than 30 seconds!!
Other than this small mistake, the code worked perfectly fine, 10/10.
Other than this small mistake, the code worked perfectly fine, 10/10.
1st June 2024
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The game works on my IMac 2021 M1 24” desktop. this version is 32 bit, if you contact customer support for ea they will grant you access to the 64 bit. It took about 5 minutes for them to fix the issue.
- Works on Mac after conversion
- 32 bit
- Have to get support to fix this
29th November 2023
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the game will not load up and they will not give you a refund ... i try two times to get this game to load up but nothing talk to two tech guys trying to get this game to work but all it could be done it report it as a bug ... so i paid for it and dont get to play it or get my money back im so disappointed ... safe to say i will not be buying anymore game for here
20th October 2023
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6th March 2025
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I downloaded it on Windows and successfully redeemed the code in the EA app. The launcher pops up but when I press the play button it just takes me back to the EA app. Idk whats wrong :/
12th June 2024
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worked fast and well, love it (btw dont download on mac bc its 32bit). everything runs smoothly and it was so easy to redeem and im so happy with this, especially the fact i only had to pay a £1. thank youu
- fast download
- simple redeem
- dont download on mac its 32bit
26th December 2023
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If you're a fan of The Sims franchise, I highly recommend checking out The Sims 3. It's my all-time favorite game, and I absolutely love it! Even if you've played The Sims 2 or 4, I suggest giving The Sims 3 a chance - you won't regret it.
1st October 2023
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Just a heads up:
If you have an M-series Macbook and wish to play The Sims 3, you will have to reach out to EA Customer Service in order to get the 64 bit version. I wasn't aware of this until I did a search on Reddit, so I'm sharing that here for anyone with an M-series Macbook like me. <3
If you have an M-series Macbook and wish to play The Sims 3, you will have to reach out to EA Customer Service in order to get the 64 bit version. I wasn't aware of this until I did a search on Reddit, so I'm sharing that here for anyone with an M-series Macbook like me. <3
- easy to install
- had to reach out to EA for the right copy
18th March 2025
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10th March 2025
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15th January 2025
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payed 4.44 for this fuckass game just to open ea redeem the shit and it didnt even work ?? So very confused and does not work
6th July 2025
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It’s legit and my sims works perfectly!
For this price it is very nice and the payment is very easy. The sims 3 is not laggy at all.
But I don’t like that it is almost every time out of stock.
For this price it is very nice and the payment is very easy. The sims 3 is not laggy at all.
But I don’t like that it is almost every time out of stock.
- Low price
- Not laggy
- Out of stock
3rd April 2025
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Like the other reviews stated, this is 32-bit. I downloaded it anyway and contacted EA customer service who granted me access to the 64-bit. Totally worth it for the price!
- 32-bit
20th March 2025
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5th March 2025
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it worked the first time playing but i couldnt save it, then i deleted the .bad file to save it then i cant make a new game
14th February 2025
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I love it so much! This game is really good and the price is affordable. Thanks to the people who make this possible.
29th June 2025
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8th June 2025
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15th May 2025
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Anyone getting this game in 2025 will know what they're getting
- A mission to get it running on modern PCs unless through EA app
8th May 2025
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My personal favorite^^
Love that it has such nice details to everything. Even though i played this game for so long i still discover new things about ts3, it runs ok for me but with some fixes and mods the game runs flawlessly ^^
Love that it has such nice details to everything. Even though i played this game for so long i still discover new things about ts3, it runs ok for me but with some fixes and mods the game runs flawlessly ^^
- open world
- large customization of everything
- the gameplay is very lively and more alive, unlike sims 4 "dollhouse" vibe
2nd May 2025
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It's very good. I bought this game after EA messed up the werewolves in the Sims 4 after an update. I love that you can create worlds and sims without limitations.
- Create a Style
- Open World
- Kind of limited in Base Game
1st April 2025
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I installed the game but when i want to an error message appears telling that I should verify the log then try later but I don't know how to verify it
26th March 2025
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26th March 2025
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12th March 2025
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its legit!!! im soooo freaking happy. im from nz so the exchange rate kinda sucked, was $3.50 instead of $1.90 but better than $30 which is what it would've been on steam. thank you so much! :)))
26th February 2025
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Ensure your Mac is compatible with the software. If it’s not, it won't open and they won’t help you find a solution. It's a waste of money!
23rd February 2025
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