Top 10 Best Sims 3 Expansion Packs

Help me and everyone else decide what is the best Sims 3 expansion pack and which to spend their money on!
The Top Ten
1 Late Night

Definitely the best game of all the expansions. The developers really captured the artistic element of the city, allowing simmers to get fully involved in a variety of new activities. However, like all the other expansions, this one lacks in some areas, particularly in content for other life stages. There's pretty much nothing added for toddlers and children, although teens have a bit more to explore since they are treated somewhat like adults.

Apart from that, it definitely offers a brilliant city-style life, complete with many features such as vampires and celebrities. Also, the addition of amazing new features like hot tubs and clothes enriches the gameplay experience. If you can only afford two expansions, this one and Generations are the must-haves for gameplay.

I really enjoy playing Late Night because there is so much to do. You can become a vampire, a celebrity, visit dive bars, dance clubs, and high-end lounges. You also have the option to live in an apartment or studio instead of houses. There's now an option to have a curved pool. Additionally, there are new places to *woo-hoo* in, such as the hot tub and elevators.

I'm not sure if this is possible in other expansions, but in Late Night you can have twins or triplets. It is really fun, especially when you have a lot of money to buy all the fancy new stuff in buy mode.

2 Generations

The Sims 3 Generations is by far the best expansion pack there is. Don't waste your time with zombies and witches and all. Just look right here and - voila! - behold the only expansion pack you need to have your Sims live their life to the absolute fullest.

Toddlers can now ride in strollers - it's so cute!
And teens can experiment with chemistry - awesome!
Elders can now talk on and on about how amazing their grandchildren are - so proud!
Children can now play pretend and dress up in cute little costumes - adorable!
And their parents get to watch their children growing up and changing into the best person they can be. They love every part of it, except how their teens just can't get the hang of learning to drive that car! Well, they'll get it eventually!

Sims 3 Generations is the best expansion pack of them all. Rise above greatness and download this one today.

I love Generations because of the endless possibilities! Your family can continue for generations. Without Generations, your sims, usually children, don't have as much fun and often engage in quite pointless activities. Generations offers the chance to send your kids to boarding schools, join clubs (which provides extra skills), have imaginary friends, become prom Queen or King, and introduces an excellent new job: babysitting! Generations offers endless possibilities and endless fun. You can play pranks on adults and become a rebellious sim who doesn't care about rules!

If you're interested in more of a family life in your gameplay, I highly recommend Generations. If this sounds appealing to you, Generations is definitely the expansion to get!

3 Seasons

This is definitely the best expansion pack for The Sims 3. It gives you seasons and weather changes, which are not included in the base game. I really enjoyed the Seasons expansion pack for The Sims 2, but this is even better. It gives you a range of activities depending on the weather, which is really cool. It allows you to partake in festivals depending on the season. You can go trick or treating, play in the snow, go snowboarding, swim in the ocean, and lots more. In my opinion, this is the best expansion because it supplies you with a realistic view of the seasons.

This expansion pack is the most in-your-face when it comes to what it adds to the game. Weather has a great effect, both visibly and audibly. It affects your Sims in a variety of ways, big and small, and it changes the landscape and the range of activities that can be done as seasons pass.

The new objects and clothing category are also big additions. From ice-skating to jumping in puddles, to catching snowflakes on your tongue and using umbrellas to ward off hail, this expansion pack has a lot to offer!

4 Supernatural

The really cool thing is when you get twins. Say, for example, if the mother was a witch and the father was a vampire, then one of the twins would be a witch and the other a vampire. There is also a new skill to learn: Alchemy, a powerful craft for making mad experiments with strange elixirs. This expansion really delves in with supernatural creatures, involving special powers and furniture for fairies, vampires, genies, ghosts, witches, etc. This game would be a great addition to your Sims 3 collection if you're hoping for a special kind of creature and new and fun activities fit for them!

The best expansion pack so far. I love everything about it. You can be a witch, a fairy, or a werewolf, vampire, ghost, even genie. You can marry another supernatural type, and the offspring have a 50-50 chance of being each parent's type. It adds zombies on a full moon, introduces lunar phases, new moodlets, and the alchemy skill, which is great. You can hunt for stuff and mix potions.

If you have enemies, you can totally change their life for the worse with a single potion, even turning them into toads. I once converted all simbots to toads. It was so funny. I love the genetics in the game, new clothing, new stuff. Each supernatural type has at least one special skill added specifically for that type, and you also get new traits like supernatural fan or skeptic.

And now imagine if one is a coward and you put them into a graveyard full of zombies on a full moon. Nice. I really love it as it adds tons of stuff, new options, and conversations. You can literally live as another life form. That would be the number 1 for me.

5 University Life

I love this expansion, with a juice keg, a bonfire, and many other ways to party. It allows you to have one fun night. Another neat thing about this expansion is you can do laundry, have a social status, and have your own smartphone. The smartphone allows you to take pictures from your sim's point of view and even text friends. There are three groups: jocks, rebels, and nerds. Although they don't define your sim, it gives them other capabilities such as doing your school cheer, quizzing other people, and doing graffiti. If that isn't cool enough, the campus is amazing! It includes a coffee shop, a comic store, a diner, the buildings, sororities, houses, and dorms.

Short, Cute Little Story

My two Sims, Claire and Oliver Peterson, are the children of billionaires Tiffany and Mark Peterson. The two kids were raised well and had a lot of skills. Claire was more musically and artistically inclined, while Oliver was logical and more handy.

They got full scholarships and went to Uni as young adults. Claire was in Fine Arts and Oliver in Science and Medicine.

Oliver became a part of the nerd social group and was a total outcast. He talked rarely to anyone, just playing video games and studying in his spare time alone in his dorm room.

Claire got caught up in boys and her hormones, and ahem... let's just leave that here...

After a while, a guy named Terrence at the comic book store started talking to Oliver, and the two became instant best friends. They would study together, play video games, hang out, and participate in science projects.

Claire finally accepted a guy's constant begging to go on a date. They had nothing in common, but when she had a great time with him, the two fell in love instantly. However, she graduated from college before he did, and the two were separated, not even trying long-distance chat.

Terrence started to change. He became more affiliated with the jocks and soon, spent less and less time with Oliver. Oliver gradually became Mr. Lonely again. The two had a big fight and went from super best friends to enemies. Awkward, since they had classes together. But Oliver graduated with his sister.

When the two left college, Claire joined the Music career. After all, she valued her guitar and piano more than her paintbrushes. Oliver started his career in Medicine, totally ignoring the unlocked nerd social group job. He said goodbye to his loneliness and even met a special someone.

Claire couldn't connect with the guys in Sunset Valley like she did with the one she still loved. She decided to call her college sweetheart, and he moved in with her with an... more

6 Island Paradise

The Island Paradise EP is one of the most graphically impressive expansion packs of them all. My favorite addition would have to be the Scuba Diving, and the impressive detail the designers put into it. The sharks add an element of danger, and a new way to die!

Another aspect of the Sims 3 Island Paradise I love is owning the resorts. It's amazing and really gives you something to design to your heart's content. The only part of Island Paradise I dislike is how slow the houseboats are - always buy an additional boat to get around!

I haven't got this game, but after seeing a lot of very enjoyable Let's Plays, I think it is awesome. You can be a mermaid, scuba dive, build a houseboat, travel on the sea, build your own resort, be a lifeguard, and find and build on your own private island! Not to mention the cool clothing and furniture, like the all-in-one bathroom, meaning you can shower and use the toilet at the same time! There is also a new death too - death by shark! And that's not even everything. There is just so much more to discover with this game, and it is number one on my to-get list!

7 Pets

Are you looking for the best Sims 3 Expansion Pack out there? Well, look no further than right here! The Sims 3 Pets Expansion Pack has everything - and I mean it, EVERYTHING - from kittens to puppies, from cats to dogs. Horses are also a wonderful addition to the family.

You can create a pet for your household, or you can simply just adopt one from the shelter. But, if you adopt one from the shelter, hover your mouse over it first and check out their traits! Make sure that they're not destructive - otherwise, they might chew, scratch, and/or destroy your furniture! Anyway, the good thing about creating a pet for your house is that you can determine what you want the pet to look like (you can make them pink, purple, any color you want!) and decide what their traits will be. Recommended traits: non-destructive, loyal (for dogs), shy (if you want them to just communicate with their family rather than everyone else), etc.

The Sims 3 Pets is a great expansion pack, and I recommend it for those who are animal lovers, just as I am. Crazy cat lady here! My people own three cats and two kittens, soon to be four cats and one kitten! My people's cats/kittens all have very unique names and are very non-destructive, therefore they do not scratch or claw at the couch. One thing I must mention is that pets can gain traits and, if they do not have the non-destructive trait, if you make them scratch things they may become destructive! So make sure to keep a good eye on them to ensure they're not doing something bad.

Anyway, that's all I have to say about the Sims 3 Pets Expansion Pack - other than to buy it now before Sims 4 rolls in, taking up all of the space on the shelves at the store!

The Sims 3 Pets Expansion Pack - pets... friend or foe?

8 Ambitions

The Sims 3: Ambitions introduces new career opportunities and control mechanisms into gameplay. Manipulation of Sims' career progressions, actions, and interactions during their working hours are feasible. Additional career pathways introduce a diversity of skill sets available for acquisition. These features, which were absent in The Sims 3, give players greater control over their Sims' career pathways, choices, and lives.

Although I would've voted for Late Night, I just can't let this expansion pack fall to number 8. The jobs it adds are fun and a nice change from staring at a building while your Sim(s) vanish inside. It's a must-buy, even if it isn't your favorite expansion pack, because the new features really add to the gameplay. I can't see myself playing without them.

You can never get tired of this expansion pack. You just can't. I don't think I've ever had as much fun playing The Sims 3 as when I got Ambitions - there's just so much to do! Careers have become one of the highlights of every game for me. The possibilities are just endless with this one!

9 World Adventures

The expansion pack focuses on travelling to various areas in a manner similar to previous expansions, The Sims: Vacation and The Sims 2: Bon Voyage. Sims are able to travel to simplified versions of France, China, and Egypt. At these locations, Sims can participate in adventures to earn rewards and benefits. Sims are also able to level up in new skills: photography, martial arts, and nectar making. In addition, the expansion pack provides new objects, socials, wishes, and opportunities.

This is an absolutely wonderful expansion pack. I feel that it's really the most unique in layout and feel compared to the base game town, and you receive three worlds to explore, compared to the single locale in other EPs. There's a nice element of goal-based gaming that you can take or leave thrown in as well. Plus, since it takes up zero base world time, you can go to Egypt on a single day off and make some extra money "exploring" tombs and doing quests to supplement a young Sim's day job and to pay for the trip itself.

10 Into the Future

You can alter the timeline in the future based upon your actions in the present. Travel back and forth, and no time passes in the present while you're gone. Create or buy plumbots that can repair, cook, clean, socialize, entertain, give massages, or even get their own job to earn you extra simoleons! Turn your future city into a utopia or a dystopia for interesting effects. I also like the fashion, items, city, and extra features offered with this one as well. Definitely the best.

You get to go into the future, but then you can come back and change the future! The new furniture and clothes, etc., are really cool, and you can play a brand new instrument (laser rhythmicon, sorry if I spelt that wrong). The best thing is now you can build plumbots who you control and get trait chips for. You can also discover a crashed ship and fly in a jet pack. It is awesome! Excuse me, I'm off into the future!

The Contenders
11 Showtime

In my personal opinion, Showtime is a bit weak. If you like rising from the bottom as a Singer, Magician, or Acrobat, then it might be for you. However, it is somewhat exclusive in what it's trying to do. Plus, many of the items are blocked by the SimPort system. If you don't have friends on TheSims3.com, well, you're out of luck.

At least there are Genies and special interactions with each career. I mostly played as the Magician, so I can tell the story of a Stage Magician rising to become a Wizard. Speaking of wizards, if you have the Supernatural expansion, you can create Genies in CAS.

This expansion pack is by no means the best, simply the one that doesn't get boring easily. Tired of your 'normal' job? Become a singer. Tired of being a singer? Become a magician. Tired of being a magician? Who cares, there are tons of things to do, even if you don't have any other expansion packs.

It's simple and fun how you can have your sim easily start a family while having a job - simple and a lot easier than the base game jobs!

12 High End Lot Stuff

Although the items your Sims can purchase from this pack are expensive, it's well worth the money. They look amazing in any household and match well because they're all new and high-tech, like something you might get from the future without actually having to be there. (Nobody cares about you, Into the Future Expansion Pack! We all love High End Loft Stuff, thank you very much!)

This is one of the best stuff packs!

13 Master Suite Stuff

This one is the most amazing stuff pack there is and possibly ever will be! It provides more furniture, mostly for parents. If you're looking for kid stuff, that's in Generations, my favorite expansion pack! Thanks! It's the best one ever - get the grown-ups something SPECIAL for their awesome room, then get Generations for the kids they have...

14 Dragon Valley

Dragon Valley is great to play with Supernatural. Otherwise, it's kind of weird to have non-magic Sims playing around with dragons and such.

I got this for Christmas one year. Those dragons are pretty great.

15 70's, 80's, and 90's Stuff

If you also have Generations, it's so funny to see the children watch their grandparents with a strange face as they boogie on the dance floor! You're a weird-looking star, grandma!

16 Movie Stuff

Besides this being a stuff pack, it actually adds something to the game.

17 Town Life Stuff

This stuff is amazing and is a lifesaver!

18 Barnacle Bay

I love Barnacle Bay - I have indeed fallen in love with it! You can explore many of the pirate-themed restaurants and buildings to get the whole feel of the place. Make sure to go down to the beach and shop at all the downtown shops before you go!

19 Sunlit Tides
20 Monte Vista

Adds a great new world with new venues and plenty of new foods to try!

21 Date Night
22 Hidden Springs

How is this not higher up on the list? Yes, it's only a town, but it's a beautiful map with waterfalls and emerald green grass. All of the NPCs have interesting backstories, and best of all, it comes with The Fountain of Youth! This is super good because, if you (like me) want the other sims in the town to age while your sims don't, you can! Just take a drink, and eternal youth is all yours. And yes, if you have Supernatural, you can just buy the potion, but not everyone is into that kind of expansion.

23 Midnight Hollow
24 Riverview

Nice town. I'm planning on creating a hipster town. I think it would fit well.

25 Fast Lane Stuff
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