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He Impregnated an Entire Neighborhood
Although most men in the world are very terrified of having a baby out of wedlock and the responsibility that that usually entails, this Sims character made it his goal to impregnate as many people in the town as possible. He would try with literally every woman that he came across and he was actually pretty successful! He ended up having forty babies, all from different women in the city.
Once the babies were born he would never go to see them or even meet them (at least intentionally). He would even avoid all children in the streets just in case one of them was his child.
The Last Pizza She Ever Ordered
There was a family of Sims with a child named Cassandra. Even though her family made delicious foods constantly, Cassandra was obsessed with ordering and eating only pizzas. This player got pretty fed up with this obsession and decided to create a punishment. Cassandra ordered a pizza, but little did she know that it would be her last. When she sat down to eat it she was prevented from ever reaching it and slowly died of starvation.
This seems like a little too extreme of a response for a child ordering too much pizza. Maybe they could have had her skip a meal rather than just starving her to death.
An Entire Neighborhood With Just One Toilet
Have you ever wondered what would happen if an entire neighborhood was forced to use just one toilet? You probably have not, but it looks like this Sims player could think of nothing else. He created a space for an entire neighborhood, filled with lots of food and only one toilet. This toilet was out in the open, fully exposed to everyone else and he wanted to see how many people would use it despite the awkwardness.
He kept making the conditions worse and worse to see if people would use the toilet out of desperation. However, despite the necessity, none of the characters could bring themselves to use the toilet in front of everyone else.
A Statue Garden of Husbands
Some people like to stack up the ex-spouses to the maximum. This woman from the Sims also seemed to have an obsession with seducing men and marrying them. However, most of them didn't know the fate that would await them once they committed to this character. In the basement, they were turned into lifeless golden statues. Once they were turned into statues, she placed them outside in the garden of her mansion.
The sad part is that all the men were so seduced by this woman that they never stopped to think that the array of statues in the front of the house was possibly a bad omen.
Creating a Cult From the Basement
Although this doesn't seem too far from something that could happen in real life, many people create cults that unsuspecting people fall into, this player may have taken it to a bit more of an extreme. One charismatic Sim convinced people to come into the house where they were then entrapped and brainwashed to fall in love with the cult leader. Only after proving that they were truly changed were they set "free" to a large room in the house with other members.
A fire eventually broke out in the house causing the cult members and the leader to have to flee. At least some of the prisoners were able to escape to freedom!
Love Scenes and a Painter
This husband and wife in Sims 3 didn't seem to be the best fit for a couple. The man was obsessed with painting and immersed himself fully in it, day in and day out. The wife meanwhile was a very seductive lady who craved sexual encounters with multiple other men. The husband was so caught up in his love of painting and art that he never even really realized what was happening.
He even painted the love scenes of his wife cheating on him multiple times and hung the paintings up in the house. He loved the art so much that he never even connected what was happening with his wife.
The Church Needed a Graveyard
In his new Sims town, this character was determined to have a proper church. Along with that church, to make everything look right, he also insisted that he needed a proper graveyard. He didn't want to set up gravestones that weren't from actual people so he decided to murder multiple people just to create a graveyard in his new town. He then hired a priest to care for the graveyard outside of the church.
It probably would have been better to just skip the graveyard entirely. After all, that is not usually the first thing people think of as a requirement for a church.
Revenge on the Burglar
Some people are very set on getting revenge when they see something wrong. This Sims player was determined to get revenge on a burglar who entered his main character's house. How did he get this revenge? He got one of his other characters to seduce the burglar, make him trust her, and move in together. She then proceeded to lock him in the basement and torture him for many years.
Things didn't improve even when they set the burglar free. At a birthday party, the player set a fire that caused the burglar and all of his friends and family to immediately die. How lovely.
Slow and Steady Torture
There seems to be no end to the creative and horrible ways that players torture their Sims characters. Although it is very unnecessary and pretty sad to see (why not just try to make them happy), it is also very common. They usually end up torturing them so badly that they lose the will to live entirely and just give up on life, causing them to die sadly.
If you could create any reality that you want why would you make such a dark and cruel one? But also, why not?
Stuck Painting in a Cube Forever
Considering people on Sims can create any reality they desire, it's slightly disturbing to see some of the realities that people chose to create. Instead of endless days relaxing on the beach, this player created a reality where their character was stuck in a small cube home with only the most basic of necessities such as a toilet, bed, and a shower. All he did all day long was paint.
To make matters worse this character soon made a friend online who came to visit him in his cube home. However, he was soon entrapped and had countless paintings made of him while he suffered there. Eventually, he was even killed.
He Accidentally Killed His Children in a Fire
There were many levels of poor choices that led to the tragic death of this man and his seven children. It all started when they were moved into a tiny 21-square-foot apartment with no basic facilities (no toilets). Things started to get pretty messy pretty fast which led to a horrible fire (there were also a strange amount of stoves in this apartment). The father was so desperate to save himself that he pushed his children to the flames before himself.
The father managed to escape the fire but he ended up dying from exhaustion when he saw all of his children die. We wonder how the player felt when this happened.
The Family Dog Turned Into a Human
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you turned your pet into a human? It may seem nice to be able to talk to them and have them fully understand. However, in this scenario, that was not the case. After the family dog was turned into a human, it turned out that he was actually a pretty horrible human at that and very unpleasant to be around and even abused his whole family.
The family took their revenge by trapping the dog/human in a small space that lacked any basic amenities. He eventually died of starvation as the whole family watched and gloated.
A Truly Haunted Graveyard
Oftentimes people are concerned that graveyards are haunted. They do not want to walk through them alone, especially at night, and they give people shivers just thinking about them. Imagine if it was a graveyard completely made up of murdered people. That fear would be multiplied greatly. That is exactly what happened in this Sims village and the ghosts of the murdered victims came back to haunt everyone in the town.
What do you expect if you murder a bunch of people just to create the town's graveyard? There is no way that you thought that that could end well under any circumstance.
Died From Exhaustion
What would Sims be without some experiments? People tend to get pretty creative and this player had a character seduce an old woman and take her to bed with him. They ended up doing the deed quite a few times (four to be exact) before it proved to be too much for the woman. She ended up dying from exhaustion (but at least you can say she went out on a high note).
The man then went to engrave on her tombstone the words "4 TIMES". He then also proposed to her daughter and they ended up getting married.
Lab Experiments on Children
You can only hope that some of the things people chose to do on Sims are not something that they would ever do in real life (if the opportunity ever arose). This player decided to create a reality for a family of one adult and three children. The adult decided to run the show by creating terrible experiments on his three children such as forcing them to be faced with deadly fears often.
A social worker eventually tried to rescue the three children, but actually ended up in the exact same position as them. Another person was added to the lab of experiments.
He Cheated With His Wife's Ghost
Not all marriages are happy ones. People oftentimes don't get along. This couple had their fair share of issues and things got to a pretty extreme level when the husband locked his wife in the basement and starved her to death. And this was all because she was a messy person. But things got even worse. The man remarried once she died and the deceased wife came back to haunt the house.
This man ended up feeling the old sparks between himself and his wife's ghost and they ended up having a steamy time together when his current wife walked in.
Dance Until You Drop
Some people love dancing competitions, but this is the type of dance party competition that any sane person would want to avoid. These Sims characters literally had to dance or die. A "party room" was created for all of the prisoners that played only children's music. If you stopped dancing you were killed and only the last person standing would be able to be set free at the end.
One elderly woman was ironically the last dancer standing. Instead of making sure no one else experienced this horror, she tricked countless other people into entering the "party room" where they would dance or die. Squid Game, anyone?
The Man Who Married His Step Daughter
Maybe people love to play Sims because they can create unheard-of situations that (hopefully) would never happen in real life. This player had two characters get married. The woman already had twin daughters that the man accepted and raised as his own. Luckily they weren't actually his own as he then went on to have an affair with one of the daughters (which doesn't make it any less creepy).
The mother and other sister were forced to attend the strange and disturbing wedding of these two. The events (not surprisingly) led the mother to have a complete mental breakdown shortly after.
The Accidental Vampire Family
Somehow this player managed to accidentally create an entire vampire family. They claim that it wasn't intentional which you can only hope is the case because they were not able to properly take care of their own children. As they weren't able to come out during daylight, they could only take care of the babies at night. This led to the babies constantly crying and never being cared for properly.
Eventually, both of the parents died and social workers had to step in to take care of the babies. It was certainly a sad story to say the least.
The Human Black Widow
Although this woman could be called the Black Widow, there is one small distinction that makes her unqualified. She did, however, have a serious problem and would compulsively get married, only to then lock up her new husbands in the basement and starve them to death. She would then cremate them and had a collection of over twenty urns full of ashes of her previous husbands. It is crazy that people continued to marry her!
She never had relations with any of her husbands (she went straight to starvation and murder) so she can not be technically considered a black widow, who only murders her mate after actually mating.
Nobody Likes Bob
Some people really do their absolute best to set up a perfect little life on Sims. This 8-year-old child was playing the game and managed to set up a beautiful reality for a small family. They had a beautiful home and good jobs, everything seemed perfect. That is until Bob stepped into the picture. Bob appeared to greet his neighbors one day very suspiciously. He walked right into the kitchen of the house, lit it aflame, and walked away as if nothing happened.
This person vowed to take revenge on Bob from then on and managed to kill him in every version of the game after that. He had ruined the dream life that they had created.
The Painting Goblin
Have you ever heard of a painting goblin? Before today, you most likely have not. For whatever reason, this person always decided to start out their Sims games with a painting goblin. The goblin is always crazily obese, has green skin, and lives alone in a small room with no exit. He just paints every day, all day. There is a family that lives in the house above his basement apartment that lives off the money earned by selling his paintings.
Most of the family, however, has no idea that the goblin even exists, and they have never questioned where they get their endless stream of money.
AJ the Dog
Although dogs are oftentimes known to be man's best friend, it looks like some of them are not as great as they seem, when they are turned into a human at least. Using a spell, this family dog was turned into a human and the results could not have been more disturbing. He was not friendly and nice and loving as most people would expect, on the contrary...he was cruel and mean.
The family ended up getting rid of AJ the dog-human and killed him off through starvation because he has become utterly and completely insufferable.
One Toilet for Everyone Again
Most people are very embarrassed to have to go to the bathroom in front of other people. There are some long-term couples that still never go to the bathroom in front of each other and it's even worse for complete strangers! This person created a scenario where a whole group of people was forced to use only one bathroom for all of them, a bathroom that was completely exposed with no privacy.
Many people preferred to simply relieve themselves in their pants rather than use the toilet in front of strangers. Some even stood there stinking with excrement rather than just using the toilet.
The Burglar's Karma
Everyone knows the phrase "what goes around comes around". Although this character may have taken things a little too far, the concept applies here as well. In order to get revenge on a burglar that was terrorizing the town, they lied to them and manipulated them into a state of false trust. They pretended to be in love so that they would move in together, only so that they could then attack.
The burglar was kept in the basement (a common method of torture) and starved to death while the townspeople celebrated. They no longer had to worry about theft and they were happy with the revenge.
Trap in a Room and Set It on Fire
For some unknown and extremely disturbing reason, it seems to be a common theme on Sims that players choose to compile a large group of people all into one room, squish them in very tight, offer them no way to escape, and then light the room on fire. They then watch as all of their characters die in the flames. This is much more common than you would think (and hope).
You would hope that people would be using Sims to create a better reality than what they have on earth, but it seems that oftentimes the contrary is in fact true.
The Last Swim
Who doesn't love a nice pool? Most people greatly enjoy the pastime of swimming and it's even better if someone has a pool of their own. For some reason, there are many people who think it is comical to torture their Sims characters when they go for a swim. They climb into the pool and are just enjoying themselves when the stairs are taken away, giving them no way to get out.
The characters are usually left to drown in the pool when they run out of energy to swim, causing them to die a terrible and sad death.
The Pizza Loving Child
Most people love pizza, it's a pretty universal food. But some people really love pizza. This child belonged to the latter category. She was completely and thoroughly obsessed with pizza, to an unnatural level. She refused to eat anything else, regardless of what her family made or the restaurants offered. Things were also getting pretty expensive for the family, not to mention unhealthy for the girl, so they decided to put a stop to it.
Sadly she never seemed to get over her pizza obsession and ended up starving to death with a big pizza in front of her, but just out of her reach.
The Rosebud Cheat
Just as with any game, there is never a shortage of people who are going to try to cheat their way to the top. The Sims is no exception and the players found a way around the system very quickly. And just as in real life, characters in the Sims want to make the most money, build the fanciest houses, and show off to everyone around. This hack of pressing Ctrl + Shift + C and typing Rosebud would help you get there.
It's pretty sad that people felt the need to cheat in a game like Sims where it is so easy to build a nice little fake reality without going to that level.
Starving to Death
It is truly sad to see the number of people playing Sims who found it comical and acceptable to just starve their characters to death. Torture is pretty common and happens far more than you would want to believe and sadly starvation is near the top of the list as well. There is no explanation, except the true horribleness of mankind that would make this such a common practice in this game.
Why do people choose to make fake characters suffer? Isn't there enough suffering in the world already, why continue it to the virtual world as well?
The Game of Comparing
Just as in real life, characters and players on Sims love to create their dream houses only to compare them with the houses of all of their friends and family. Some things never change! There are plenty of judgmental characters who hate or love what someone did with their house or where they chose to live. Whether the mansion is not big enough or the pool is too small, it seems just like real life sometimes.
In real life, there are many people unfazed by social pressures and judgments from friends and it is the same in the game of Sims.
Playing Half the Game
Sims can be a very fun game to play, but just as with anything in life, it can be difficult to complete. Monopoly, Life, and so many other games can be so time-consuming that it is hard sometimes to find the motivation to finish them. Even if people managed to create beautiful dream houses and perfect fake realities, sometimes they just quit there and leave it at that.
It seems like a shame to start something, build it up to such a lovely level, and then just abandon it. But it is at least better than the people who create torturous and depressing situations for all the characters.
Only for Individual Use
Some people are ambitious enough to try to play this game with multiple people. However, at the end of the day, the Sims was created to be a single-person game and it is difficult to share the creation with other people. For a little bit, you can feel like a god, making and creating the reality from above and dictating what people do or do not do with their lives.
Many people will try to play the game with their friends but then usually just end up being in control of the keyboard and mouse the entire time. It's hard to share the power!
A Truly Dramatic Story
Continuing on the list of terrible things that people have done on the Sims, this person had her character break up with another Sim. After the breakup, she then mysteriously invited him over. Although he did not know why he came, it proved to be a mistake. She soon murdered him by drowning him. Why you might ask? She wanted to keep the tombstone for their illegitimate child. What a drama.
Maybe the person who did this in the game just went through a terrible breakup and this is the only thing she could think of to do to get revenge. At least she kept it on the computer and not in real life!
That Pizza Was His Last Hope
This Sims player seemed to really enjoy torturting his characters as much as possible. although this is certainly disturbing, it is also very sad to think of what he did to one of his characters. His character was being starved to death and so, in an attempt to save himself, he sneakily ordered himself a pizza. When it arrived, the player made him throw it in the trash can immediatley.
The Sim obviously started crying. It must have been so sad to be able to smell the pizza and almost taste it and then be forced to just throw it away.