In my spare time I have been playing Winterose by @nappe-plays-the-sims. I explored the neighborhood briefly back when they first released it, but didn’t start seriously playing it until the end of November or beginning of December 2021. I am almost done playing the first rotation (I played the households in alphabetical order and I have 2 days left in the Wolff household) and although I know I will never find all the secrets in this hood, I adore it immensely.
Some takeaways (which will not be spoiler free, so if you want to explore the neighborhood on your own, I would stop reading now):
-My favorite household is probably the Greys. I love the fact that they are secretly aliens that were kidnapped/abducted and then deposited in Winterose (well, they appear to have crash-landed). I can totally imagine they attempted to decorate their house to appear as human as possible but failed miserably. Aileen’s twins were a huge surprise, and I sadly had to sell some of the decor around their bowling alley to fund the furniture for the twins until Aileen can get a job.
-Honorable mentions to the Bogomolovs, the Lovins, the Wangs and the Wolffs.
-I have big plans for the Bogomolovs and Ai Wang.
-Families like the Lovins are my favorite to play because I love the challenge of bringing a struggling family to glory. I successfully managed to get them on the right track in the first round (Vera is receiving money on welfare [a mod], Cash learned some skills and aged up well, all kids learned how to do their homework, Vera is on course to fall in love with the repairman, who has now visited their house many times, and yes, I managed to afford the family a toilet), but damn was it hard when I realized Vera was sick AND pregnant. And when her precious baby girl was born, I was very shocked indeed to learn who the father is/was.
-Basir Ali is my son and I would die for him.
-While editing the graveyard I noticed the letters “n o u j” spelled out in terrain paint around some of the graves and I really wanna know what it means.
I might post screenshots from my play through on here but I’m not sure yet.