My Brutally Honest Review Of The Sims 4 Tiny Living

I always see people complaining the Murphy bed is not really saving space because it takes up the same amount of tiles as a normal bed, always forgetting it also doubles as a sofa so you are technically saving three tiles because you don't have to buy a sofa

Tiny living is no doubt the most op pack of the sims 4, the way we can raise skills and relationships is astounding

They definitely could have added an under the stairs bathroom/wetroom. Just a triangle shape object with the same shower animation just with the clothes on. Would be kind of a rabbit hole experience but would have been an awesome feature

For a pack built around 'tiny' living it offered very little in the way of space-saving items. We could have had new ladders, spiral staircases, mini-fridges, all-in-one bathrooms like in TS3... So many missed opportunities to actually allow for tiny living

This pack would have been perfect to include an all-in-one bathroom like they have in the Sims 3!

Nah. I love the tiny living furniture. Nice modern look with the bright blue providing nice highlight colors.

I love the idea of the cross pack compatibility to make over a house into a tiny home. Definitely adding that to my personal challenges while playing!

I never considered that mini fridges and cabinet mounted microwaves would have been perfect for this pack!
This is my favorite pack bc the challenge of making a decent looking microhome is my favorite

Tiny Living is one of my fav packs and have a very Scandinavien vibe to it. Thou murphy beds are not very Scandinavien, well I've never seen any real life. We got pullout couches, yet no murphy beds.

I'd say, though, for me, since it's a pack about BUILDING the very limited and meh build/buy items are a big problem... I'd want to have a couple more styles of furniture, bunk beds and mezzanines... Otherwise I'm gonna make one or two tiny houses and forget about it forever because I'd feel like I'm making the same house over and over.

the murphy bed gave me no warning and just killed one of my sims moms recently during high school years. low key was traumatized XD

Although I never use the murphy beds i do use alot of items all the time, like the paintings, the side candle/plant combo, the toilet, the sink and couple other items. And when I say all the time i mean every build has at least one or more of these items.

4:38 Murphy beds are actually kinda bugged, and their failure rate is way too high! It's because the function for failing objects makes them more likely to fail the longer they're in use, and a bed gets several hours of use a day. (I believe sitting on it as a sofa also counts as use).
It doesn't really show up when you're first playing with it, since it builds over time, but they're basically ticking time bombs

I really want mounted microwaves honestly. I’ve seen sooooo many homes irl with a mounted microwave above the stove, including my own house.

"The death rate is not high" 💀💀 my whole family was killed twice by a Murphy bed :( that's why I don't use it anymore

This was the first pack i ever bought, and i just remember the amount of fun i had while playing it! Definitely my favourite pack 🎉

I love your Peanut butter hoodie! I've been having a lot of depressive episodes lately and your videos always perk me up. Thanks :)

Great review Satch, the pack should have come with bunk beds tho

Tiny Living is one of my favorite stuff packs (I alternate between Tiny Living and Paranormal as my favorite stuff packs), and I agree with your criticisms about the build/buy. Even though I personally get a lot of use out of it, I do really only use the light wood tones, the blacks, and the whites in this set. I don't really like the mismatched wooden set or the reddish woods, just not my cup o tea.
So, if anyone has University, I almost exclusively make my sims complete their degrees from home in a micro home. They get their skills up super fast, and they can cook. And also, they're never late for class when they live off campus (with the exception of when I'm not paying attention and lose track of the time in my game). 😂

My major complaint with tiny living is actually not the options they gave. It's the fact I have to go and download a mod for a combination bathroom, sink/toilet + small shower or use an outhouse rather than the return of the All in One bathroom from sims 3 to help with space. If I didn't have the woohoo bush I would not have a lot of the freedom I would want with it. Particularly since the best benefits are with the micro home.
Also what's with no attempts to make tiny homes work with family gameplay? I find it an added level of fun challenge and could you imagine if they had actually gone with "How to fit a toy box, a small toddler bed and a toddler toilet in a tiny house." I like giving my sims hell yes by giving them toddlers in tiny homes. One of those poor unfortunate souls had twins. I mean I can increase it to the max tiny house size... But they didn't even try any other combination objects for you doing stupid tetris crap with your sims?
Edit: I do really really enjoy this pack gameplay wise as you can tell though.

What I heard when Satch mentioned the murphy bed wasn't "murphy bed", but *"murder bed"...* because as soon as I used one, my sim got locked into a scripted death and I couldn't use the bed without dying. lol I then got an Icemunmun mod that removes the death. lol

I do love this pack! Especially since I dream about owning a small house. Not a micro house, those are hell and suffocating, but small house. So I get a lot of fun biulding my dream house there. The only thing that is a shame is that the kit "Bust the dust" is turned off in these houses. But aside from that, I really think is one of the best packs of the game.

I like the clothes and the furniture items.This pack is when I would say CAS started to look nicer to me. I wish the furniture was cheaper.

This was the first pack i ever bought and i really love it. I always use things from the pack in CAS

This pack bundled with get together and either dream home decorator or Parenthood is my ride or die. I have begun building Grand tiny homes which qualify as micro homes but are fully appointed three four and even five bedroom houses. You have to dink around with it a bit but this way you get the benefits of the micro home and still get to enjoy a well appointed ranch home. My 100 baby challenge on my channel is in a hacked micro home.

One of the few packs that is 100% worth the price.

Love The Videos

Cross compatibility. That reminds me that Tiny Living is quite incompatible with the Bust the Dust Kit because if you try to vacuum a room that's too small, your sim will probably just walk out and cancel the interaction, forcing themselves to either be miserable in a horribly dusty home (and I think evil dust bunnies can kill your sim with fire?), or you will be forced to turn off the pack in the gameplay settings. There also aren't many objects that can be vacuumed with a dust vac, so a dust vac may not be able to fix the problem.

2:40 There are 9 more prebuilt tiny home lots on the Gallery.

I use to build almost all my houses as a tiny home. Now I have a mod installed (little miss sam I think) that makes the buffs lot traits for residential lots. the tiny living buffs are so OP 😅

Weirdly for me the death rate of the Murphy bed is like 90%. Whenever I start a new game with a new sim, first time opening the Murphy bed and bamm - dead… I installed a mod so there is no death from the Murphy bed.

What’s funny is it’s one of my favorite stuff packs but I have never, not even once, actually built or lived in a tiny home. I just love the mid century modern themed furniture and compact size of things. 😂😂

It's more like Modern Cozy Living instead of Tiny Living..
yeah, although the bb and cas are pretty, i was disappointed because the bb is not tiny enough, and no extra storage. i imagine we would get storage like in japan, for example in kitchen, they only need very small kitchen, and the cabinet contains dish rack etc. and yes, where's the mini fridge? also like you, i imagined we would get extra storage somewhere in the house. i was disappointed that it's not tiny, and was shocked when i found out that other bb in base game and other packs are humongous.
ok i still like the concept and since the items bb and CAS in this pack are pretty. maybe i'll try the lot challenge in the future.

I newer thought I would spend more time playing stuff pack than a propper extension. I had so much fun building tiny homes. The best way to create base house.

TBH, I hate tiny builds. Love the pack, but hate the concept of “tiny living”. I’m used to my Sims 1-2 days where I made spacious rooms to accommodate all my items with no routing issues. 😅 And I *HATE* the unfairly random risk of death from the Murphy bed. You can literally die from using it only once.

I have mixed feelings on this one but I do agree overall it’s one of the better packs. I personally just think the furniture is ugly and I maybe used that TV stand once. But the decor items are much nicer and I love building tiny homes. So I definitely like having the pack even if the furniture isn’t my favorite.

the furniture has more of an IKEA vibe than a tiny home vibe

honestly one of my favorite packs- i use it and eco lifestyle to abuse for 100 baby challenge- use roofing for the kids to live in and set the roofing tiles so that you can save money on water and electricity - also use the group pack if I want woohoo partners to paint
granted this was all before infants came out - haven't really touched the sims 4 since

That’s in my top 3 !!! It’s so simple and get sooooo nice !

I think that the cas items from tiny living is really cute

One of my fave packs!

I absolutely agree I absolutely expected more tiny home features

10/10 for the killer Murphy bed - the only reason I bought the pack lol

In my opinion the stuff is just really pretty

I know this is an old video now but I just wanted to say that in my experience the murphy bed auto closes like that any time the sim by the wall wants to get up but another sim is on the accessible side of the bed. It got really annoying when my sim's husband moved in and woke up earlier than my sim to go to work. She worked late and he worked really early lol. Still I love this pack

one thing i will never understand is why the toilet from tiny living is not functional off the grid!!!!! (unless you decide to upgrade it to a composting one)
I do love this pack and prefer playing smaller homes in the sims. but I do think that the build buy is kinda lacking... like the table top oven from dream home decorater makes sense here... along with ladders (at the time we didn't have them) also more loft bed options would have made sense

I was killed the first time opening a Murphy bed twice.....

2:54 I just noticed that the fold-down bed can be placed against a wall. Normally, you have to leave spaces on either side of the bed so the sims can get in. Now I see there's a new animation where the sim can scoot across the bed to get to the side against the wall and then back out. I wonder if this enables all beds to work in a corner, or just the fold-down bed. (Ahh, I see you covered this later in the video 😔)

The thing i would like to have is another sort of Murphy bed, i don’t know the Name in english but in France we call it : canapé-lit (sofa-bed ?) or canapé clic-clac (sofa-clic-clac ? ) It’s a sofa wich your can « fold » so it’s a sofa or « unfold » and it’s a bed for 2.

When I first got the tiny living pack I placed the Murphy bed and my sim died immediately when I tried to use the bed it was the first time I used the pack

Seems like the only pros of the stuff pack is the Murphy bed 😭😂

This pack is IMHO the best DLC made for the sims 4. Not because its the biggest, or most complex. Not because its something we desperately wanted. Not because it's got a load of new things in it.
Because its the most concise and well implemented pack. Its got a theme and it focuses on perfecting that theme. It implemented a new system perfectly. Gave us a challenge and rewards actually worth having for managing that challenge. They didn't do off in some weird tangent with random rubbish. They made a theme and delivered it perfectly.
This is the pack that eventually made me stop boycotting TS4 DLC.
I do blame this pack for how many I've bought now though. I was quite happy boycotting the watered down crap they keep selling. This pack genuinely delivered what it promised and was worth buying with actual value for money.
It was a turning point in how they make their packs. Don't get me wrong they're still shallow in many ways, but this pack changed how they produced DLC a fair bit.
Then horse ranch happened and were back to square one.

I always want to make a tiny home but then I feel claustrophobic & immediately move my sim somewhere else

The "perfect boyfriend" is actually perfect. Is he available on your gallery?

How do you add piers to have them showing up above ground I can’t do it lol

It's literally one of the best packs. Just don't use the bed. Lol

If your on console especially xbox those murphy beds will kill your sims a lot more. I ended up just leaving the bed down indefinitely.

iv never used a murphy bed because im scared of my sim dying

I love the Tiny Living pack, I think it's the best when doing a rags-to-riches play. I get overwhelmed when it comes to decorationg or cluttering a build so the less space there is, the less stress it is for me. Thanks for the honest review Satch, I love watching all your sims content!

I want to be able to build a tiny haunted house.

ur so good lol

I think the pack is ok… but I really enjoyed redoing their tiny house/lot they gave us with it. I made it a more modern tiny home for a family of 5 and fixed the ugly landscape

Those pyjamas have been bugged for me for months, if a sim gains weight or is pregnant the pyjamas do t reflect this the sim stays thin with a flat belly.

I hope they don’t rush sims 5 before dissecting sims 4 of all its issues

I’ve used one of the Murphy beds twice, and both times it killed my sims. So it’s now illegal in my gameplays 🙅🏻‍♀️

I hate that bed. The one and only time I used it my sim died less than ten minutes in.

I'm surprised you don't like the furniture, since TL has some of my fav BB items in the game, and other simmers use them constantly in their games, too

Tiny Living is definately a good pack for challenges😁 and I love a challenge in The Sims

It really annoys me that you apparentöy can’t woohoo in beds that are placed next to a wall. Also, scooting over works really unreliably

I think the build items are beautiful but the game play is lazy

Ily

it's always the same subjects in your videos, it gets boring after a while.

Ngl I study uxdesign at uni and I do wonder if the sims team have ux designers…. Like if they just sent out a survey it would be so easy for them to see what we actually want in the game and would improve the game/user relationship drastically 🥲