People you can build a life with, a childhood that starts with a dream, free time you actually play, and a mountain road for your car. Here's everything that changed.
The card deck for people is gone. Everyone now has three statistics: how much they like you, how much they want you and how much they hate you. You move them with things you do together, from a chat to a present to a holiday, and each person has tastes you learn as you go.
Romance is a process. The more time and effort you spend on a person, the more it pays off.
Relationships can be difficult. Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you're not who you should be, and you betray your partner's trust. Sometimes they betray yours, and you have to dig deep to find out. Grown children come back to ask for help with a home, a car or the grandkids.
Wedding planning has been completely redesigned, from the prenup to the venues and themes the wedding can take. And it can take many forms.
This answers the most common feedback: life finally has a purpose, and it's clearer what to do at the start of the game. Dreaming is when children imagine who they'll be in the future, and it helps steer them towards what they should achieve. The dream breaks the moment the child starts school.
Finishing school at 16 is a moment now. You get your grade and one choice: go to the class party and maybe meet someone, or go home and spend the evening with your family.
Walk or run through a district of your city, get a coffee, or pick another free-time activity and play it: the cinema, video games, a party, the Grand Prix, the bar, a football match or a book.
Each activity has its own bonus. The bar can help you meet new people, and a coffee gives you some time back.
The musician's career has been redesigned for more interaction and more fun. A musician can sign with a label or try a solo career. Songs come at a cost: inspiration, which you earn by letting your mind wander.
56 properties now have an isometric picture instead of a 3D model. The houses page and the buying and renting flows have been redesigned too.
Go for a ride is now a real drive on an endless road cut into the mountains above the sea. Steer with the wheel on screen or tilt your phone. Overtake the traffic, give way to coaches on the hairpins, and stop for fuel before the tank runs dry.
Cars get ABS, traction control and stability control by the year they were built. Switch them off on the dash and see what happens.
The Atlas, the app for moving abroad, learning languages and travelling, has been redesigned.
The whole game can be played in Polish, every screen and every message. Switch it in Settings, under Language. Polish is the first of several languages.
A few rules moved. Most of them make a year less time-constrained.
A lesson, a meal or a course you do by hand costs money and no time. Time is what automation costs. Now and then a by-hand action turns into a quick timing game you can win or lose.
The first ride, repair, race or tune of each car costs no time each year, and so does the first of each job on each house. Three cars means three free rides.
When something needs time you don't have, you can sleep less, or borrow a point from next year and pay back two. You can borrow once a year.
Below half happiness you need more sleep, and it comes out of your time. Keep your mood up and the hours stay yours.
Ending a year in debt no longer sells everything you own. You get a choice first: your partner, your parents, the bank, a loan shark, or selling things yourself. You only go bankrupt if you choose to.
Anything past a kiss needs both people to be adults. Children get hugs, holding hands and high fives instead.
