The Sims™ 4 Enchanted by Nature Expansion Pack Review Summary

Beloved fairies, excellent pack quality, and fun new jobs and skills are offset by crashes, freezes, poor Build Buy and CAS, and a disappointing disease and ailment overhaul.

Excellent pack quality: Many reviewers describe the pack as amazing, beautiful, fun, and one of the best packs released. This positive sentiment is widely shared across multiple clusters.

Fairies are a beloved occult: Players love playing with fairies, finding them cool, pretty, and a favorite occult type. The fairies are a major highlight of the pack for many.

Enjoyable new jobs and skills: The new job is enjoyable and adds systems for going out to work, working from home, or inviting clients to the house. The apothecary and homelessness skills are more fun than expected.

Fairies have diverse special abilities: Fairies as a life state have unique abilities such as not needing to eat or use the toilet, absorbing emotions, stripping vampire powers, aging other Sims, and manipulating luck and relationships.

World and build items are great: The world, CAS, and build items that came with the pack are great. The world Innisgreen is stunningly beautiful and the build items are pretty and hard for builders to pass up.

Game Crashes and Freezes: Frequent crashes, freezes, and infinite loading screens severely disrupt gameplay. Many players report losing saves and being unable to play.

Ailments and Disease Overhaul: The new ailment system is widely criticized for being irritating, expensive to treat (1500 simoleons), and spreading rapidly. Many players disable it or find it ruins game balance.

Poor Build/Buy and CAS: Build/Buy items lack versatility and a cohesive fantasy style, while CAS items are plain and often reused from previous packs. Many players find the content insufficient.

Fairies Disappointing: Fairies are considered underwhelming, with abilities that are niche, expensive, or not unique. Their needs deplete quickly, and they often get stuck or fail to function properly.

Not Worth the Price: Many reviewers feel the pack is not worth its price, with complaints about it being priced like an expansion but offering game pack content. Some regret buying it entirely.

Fairy occult life state: The expansion introduces fairies as a new occult type with customizable wings, small forms, and glowing flight. Fairies can heal other Sims, feed on emotions, and have unique needs that deplete quickly.

Build and Create-a-Sim additions: The pack includes new build mode items, create-a-sim items, and occult CAS items accessible without being an occult. It adds new eye color variants, tattoos, horns, and customizable wings.

Fairy abilities and interactions: Fairies possess special powers such as shrinking, removing vampire powers, aging others, manipulating luck, mood, and relationships. They can drain emotions, upgrade furniture with fairy dust, and have unique interactions with other occult species.

New world Innisgreen: The expansion adds a new world called Innisgreen, divided into human, rural, and fairy areas, with many lots including a 64x64 lot and special lots. It features exploration, collectibles, and pre-made structures.

Apothecary and herbalism skills: The expansion adds apothecary and herbalism skills, allowing Sims to brew potions, make pressed flowers, and gather magic herbs. There is also a naturopathy career where you can follow Sims to work and heal them.

Building placement animation bug: An infinite building placement animation occurs, and the world is buggy with objects suddenly floating around. Cannot build stairs.

Frequent crashes after expansion: Since adding the expansion, the game crashes at least once every couple of hours. The pack crashes the entire game every 20 minutes and crashes constantly during loading.

White screen rendering failure: The Innisgreen world white screens and does not finish rendering, requiring a restart to access other worlds. World sometimes does not load at all, preventing further play.

Infinite loading screens: A never-ending loading screen occurs when placing a lot from the gallery, and an infinite loading screen happens with created families, including in the new world. The game broke twice while in the gallery and create-a-sim.

Saving and quitting hang: The game hangs completely when saving or saving and quitting, and the system must be restarted after the hang. The crash leaves the screen pannable and sims doing idle animations, but clicking and saving/quitting are shut down.

Wait for a sale: Many reviewers strongly advise waiting for a discount of at least 50% before purchasing this expansion pack. They consider it not worth the full price.

Highly recommended by some: Despite mixed opinions, some players highly recommend the pack, calling it one of the best expansions for The Sims 4. They praise its content and fun factor.

Appeals to specific interests: The pack is recommended for players who enjoy fairy life states, fantasy, nature builds, or occult themes. Those not interested should skip it.

Technical issues and bugs: Reviewers report game crashes, bugs, lag, and balance problems, especially as more packs are owned. Some recommend waiting for fixes before buying.

Not recommended due to issues: Many reviewers do not recommend the pack in its current state due to bugs, missing content, or imbalance. Some want refunds or fixes before purchase.

Community fair range: $10.00 - $20.00.

Session length: 4.0h.

Reviewers report this expansion is boring and dull with no described point at which it becomes fun, and continual ailments plus re-verification tedium keep enjoyment from starting.

Friction: Boring and dull new map and supernatural content; Constant sims ailments that normal medicine cannot cure; Treatment gated behind interest in the apothecary career or spending 1500 simeolons; Tedious restarting and re-verifying of game files; Bland gameplay that gets boring very fast.

Unlock drivers: Occult gameplay adds new methods of play and reduces boredom of normal Sims.

Fairy Nostalgia Occultist: Creates occult households and experiments with cross-occult interactions, often mixing fairies with spellcasters and werewolves. Motivation: To play and combine fairy magic with other occult life states in fantasy-driven stories. Stance: buy.

Cottagecore Builder-Decorator: Spends most time in Buy/Build and Create a Sim, focusing on furniture, styling, and aesthetic coherence rather than occult mechanics. Motivation: To build and decorate beautiful nature-inspired homes and Sims that match a cottagecore aesthetic. Stance: sale.

Storyline Sandbox Roleplayer: Builds character-driven narratives, pairs new pack features with existing Sims systems, and learns content gradually between saves. Motivation: To enrich ongoing Sims storylines with new skills, lifestyles, and occult roleplay options. Stance: buy.

Expansion adds occult fairies: The expansion introduces fairies as a new occult type with fairy-themed content including CAS items, skills, careers, and build items. Reviewers have wanted fairies since The Sims 3, where they were a favorite.

New world Innisgreen included: The expansion adds a new world called Innisgreen with a 64-lot neighborhood, pretty beach buildings, useful shops, and forest areas with mushrooms, gardening supplies, and a used bookstore as interactable objects.

Community rules against politics: The game's community has rules against political discussion, but the game promotes diversity and the LGBTQIA+ flag. The official forums contain bug reports and technical issue discussions, and DLC content is based on community feedback.

Pack priced as expansion: The pack is priced as an expansion at $40 but some feel it is sold as a game pack due to its content scope. It includes CAS, BB, a world map, quests, and building.

Numerous DLCs cause bugs: The game has many DLCs, and owning more packs leads to increased bugs and lag. This is a common complaint among reviewers.