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Games like The Sims™ 3

The Sims Studio, Maxis · 2011 · 86 % positive of 32,910

24 games that play like The Sims™ 3 and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Sims™ 4, The Sims™ Legacy Collection and The Sims™ 2 Legacy Collection.

Player tags

  • Life Sim
  • Simulation
  • Character Customization
  • Building
  • Sandbox
  • Singleplayer
  • Casual
  • Funny

At a glance

What games like The Sims™ 3 have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Sims™ 3: Simulation (23 of 24), Life Sim (19) and Character Customization (15).
  • They came out between 2018 and 2026, 24 of them after The Sims™ 3 (2011).
  • Best rated by Steam players: SuchArt: Creative Space (97 % positive of 7,016).
  • 4 games both play and look like The Sims™ 3, among them The Sims™ 4, The Sims™ Legacy Collection and The Sims™ 2 Legacy Collection.

By gameplay

Plays like The Sims™ 3

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Live the Life59 % positive of 625Shared: Life Sim · Simulation · Character Customization
  2. Builder Simulator73 % positive of 1,936Shared: Simulation · Building · Sandbox
  3. Hokko Life67 % positive of 2,570Shared: Life Sim · Simulation · Character Customization
  4. Youtubers Life 273 % positive of 2,174Shared: Life Sim · Simulation · Character Customization
  5. My Dream Setup90 % positive of 5,077Shared: Simulation · Building · Sandbox
  6. Streamer Life Simulator77 % positive of 7,488Shared: Life Sim · Simulation · Sandbox
  7. House Flipper94 % positive of 95,144Shared: Simulation · Building · Sandbox
  8. Hotel Renovator79 % positive of 2,296Shared: Life Sim · Simulation · Building
  9. SuchArt: Creative Space97 % positive of 7,016Shared: Life Sim · Simulation · Sandbox
  10. Furnish Master82 % positive of 807Shared: Life Sim · Simulation · Building
  11. Metro Sim Hustle78 % positive of 365Shared: Life Sim · Simulation · Character Customization
  12. THE GAME OF LIFE 279 % positive of 3,819Shared: Life Sim · Simulation · Character Customization

By look

Looks like The Sims™ 3

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Freight Tycoon Inc.50 % positive of 474
  2. Mabinogi73 % positive of 3,976
  3. House Party86 % positive of 14,988
  4. Dreamfall: The Longest Journey84 % positive of 1,152
  5. Bully: Scholarship Edition84 % positive of 36,334
  6. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas92 % positive of 82,629
  7. The Novelist74 % positive of 1,024
  8. Life is Strange: Before the Storm93 % positive of 37,293
  9. Cities in Motion77 % positive of 1,067
  10. Cities in Motion 257 % positive of 2,483
  11. Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator84 % positive of 2,126
  12. Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise71 % positive of 414

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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