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Your Sim.
Your city. Your story.

The classic The Sims Online, lovingly recreated. Create your Sim, make friends, run a business, and build the home of your dreams — together.

NewSO

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Your first day in the city

Make yourself at home.

Three steps to your new life online. Free to play, with no subscription.

  1. Create your account

    Pick your login and get ready to meet your neighbors.

    Join free
  2. Install the launcher

    The launcher walks you through installing the game and keeps it up to date.

    Get the launcher
  3. Enter the city

    Create your Sim, find a place to visit, and say hello.

    Read the beginner guide

A city full of possibilities

See what’s happening.

Find your neighbors and plan your next shift.

Who’s in town

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A little imagination goes a long way

A life you make your own.

Create, build, and spend time together in the classic Sims world.

The NewSO character creator with a Sim and a selection of outfits

Create your Sim

Choose a look and personality that feel like you.

An outdoor NewSO lot with a stone courtyard and garden

Build your favorite place

Turn an empty lot into a home, a hangout, or something unexpected.

Four Sims sitting together in an inflatable ball pit on sand, one of them wearing a grey gargoyle mask

Bring people together

Make room for friends, host a gathering, or run your own business.

Straight from the city

Somebody is always up to something.

Real lots, real players, this week. Nothing here was set up for the photograph.

Three Sims fishing from a wooden pier over green water with ducks and lily pads, one of them a Servo robot.
A Servo, a knight and a friend, fishing off the pier.
A Sim in a zombie costume and a Sim with demon wings standing at the end of a pool beside a water slide, while a third Sim swims.
The pool party does not ask what you came as.
A deep blue room full of amplifiers, guitars and a piano, with Sims' skill and speed meters floating above them.
Somebody built a stadium and filled it with guitars.
A Sim in firefighter gear reacts to a fire while another Sim standing in the flames says USELESS FIREMAN.
Reviews of the fire service remain mixed.
A Sim wearing angel wings stands in a kitchen beside a stove engulfed in flames.
Dinner, going about as well as it ever does.
Sims in Halloween costumes gathered at night by the Winchester House's arched front door.
A queue at the Winchester House door, well after dark.

New in town?

Say hi on Discord — the community is happy to show you the ropes, and it's the fastest place to get help.

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