The Sims 1: All Deaths, Ranked

There are seven ways for your Sims to die in the original game.

6Guinea Pig Disease

The Sims: Livin' Large(2000)

Sims play with Guinea Pigs sometimes.

The Mashuga family in The Sims 1 stood in their garden. One of them is a toad being kissed by the other.

Anytime a Sim is in toad form, theyre in immediate danger from two different creatures.

I went to get a drink without pausing the game.

Three child sims stand on a blue background. A boy wears an alien sweatshirt, a girl wears a plaid dress, and a third girl wears a denim dress.

Three minutes unattended with full autonomy was all it took to wipe out a family.

What’s the most chaotic or unexpected thing you’ve managed to do in The Sims?

Either deliberately or by accident.

A woman glowing purple with bat wings in Borderlands 4

Best get a mop first if youre not looking for a visit from Grim.

Another thing your Sims couldnt just do back in the original game was prepare a meal at the stove.

Sims who attempt cooking with less than three Cooking skill points are a veritable fire hazard.

A Sim has died without a ladder in the pool in the original Sims.

Your Sims, Apparently…

A Sim can’t exit a pool before their Energy motive decays.

For us as we played, anyway the Sims that drowned might beg to differ.

A Sim child hungry in their kitchen in the original Sims.

Check out these childhood styles in The Sims!

A sim petting her guinea pig.

A pop-up in The Sims Makin' Magic explaining what a Toadification spell is outside of the Mashuga house.

A man playing rock paper scissors with the Grim Reaper to save his dead wife from the Grim Reaper in The Sims.

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A fire in the Goth Manor in The Sims 1 featuring the Grim Reaper, Servo, and Bonehilda.

A Sim swimming with a ladder in the pool in The Sims.

A Sim being blown out of the skydiving machine in The Sims, which kills them.-1

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