If you are looking for more fun ways to play the game, you should try out different sims 4 aspirations.
There are dozens of aspirations to choose from that are all in different categories and can help guide you through the game.
- Animal Aspirations
- Athletic Aspirations
- Creativity Aspirations
- Deviance Aspirations
- Family Aspirations
- Food Aspirations
- Fortune Aspirations
- Knowledge Aspirations
- Location Aspirations
- Love Aspirations
- Nature Aspirations
- Popularity Aspirations
- Star Wars Aspirations
- Wellness Aspirations
- Werewolf Aspirations
- Fairy Aspirations
- Child Aspirations
- Teen Aspirations
Animal Aspirations
Any sim who starts with an animal aspiration is going to get the animal affection bonus trait. This trait’s description reads “Relationships with animals begin at higher values.”
Friend of the Animals
This aspiration comes with The Sims 4: Cats & Dogs and has your sims spending all their time with pets. You’ll need to find ghost pets to play with, befriend all the animals in the world and so much more.
Athletic Aspirations
A sim who starts with an athletic aspiration will get the high metabolism reward trait. It’s description reads “It is easier to stay fit and trim when you have a high metabolism.”
Bodybuilder
The bodybuilder aspiration is all about gaining the fitness skill and making your sims get into their best physical shape. Plus, when you finish it you’ll get the long lived trait for your sims to live a longer life.
Extreme Sports Enthusiast
If you want your sims to have some fun on the mountain, this is the aspiration for you. It has your sim going skiing, snowboarding, hiking and rock climbing!
Championship Rider
If you are looking to make your horses the best in town, you need to play with this aspiration. It’ll have you entering all the horse competitions and doing your best to win!
Creativity Aspirations
Sims who start with a creativity aspiration are going to get the muser reward trait. It’s description reads “Musers get better mood boosts to their skills when they are inspired.”
Painter Extraordinaire
This aspiration is all about being a great artist. Your sim will need to create many works of art with the goal being to create masterpieces.
Musical Genius
The musical genius aspiration is focused on instruments. You’ll get to choose from guitar, violin or piano and will write songs and mentor others in these fun skills.
Bestselling Author
This aspiration is all about writing. Your sims will be writing dozens of books and selling them for royalties so they are guaranteed to get rich too.
Master Actor/Actress
This aspiration comes with The Sims 4: Get Famous and has your sims joining the acting career and becoming a global superstar celebrity.
Master Maker
This aspiration comes with Eco Lifestyle and is focused on having your sim earn the fabrication skill. They’ll even join the freelance crafter career to earn some money!
Lord/Lady of the Knits
This aspiration comes with Nifty Knitting and lets your sims make gorgeous knit pieces and sell them on Plopsy. Finish this aspiration and you can even gain a reward trait that lets you reverse the sweater curse.
Deviance Aspirations
A sim who starts with a deviance aspiration will get the dastardly reward trait. It’s description reads “Dastardly sims perform stronger and more successful mean interactions.”
Public Enemy
If you want to be a little evil in the game the public enemy aspiration is a fun one. Starts slow with being mean and ends with watching a sim’s death!
Chief of Mischief
The chief of mischief aspiration focuses fully on the mischief skill and being a bit of a nuisance. Your sim will be doing pranks and annoying sims all over the world.
Villainous Valentine
If you want to ruin the love life of both your sim and other sims, this is the aspiration for you. Cheating, breaking up with sims and breaking up couples is an interesting way to play!
Seeker of Secrets
With The Sims 4: For Rent we get the seeker of secrets. This aspiration focuses on finding dirt on other sims that you can use to blackmail them for money!
Family Aspirations
Sims who are starting with a family aspiration are going to be given the domestic reward trait. This trait’s description says “Domestic sims will see their familial relationships grow stronger faster.”
Successful Lineage
This base game aspiration focuses your sim on making sure that their children are super successful. They’ll reach the top of careers, gain skills and finish aspirations!
Big Happy Family
Sims with this aspiration are wanting a huge family with children and grand kids that they can love and be close to!
Vampire Family
The vampire family aspiration comes with The Sims 4: Vampires and focuses your sims on turning other sims and training their offspring.
Super Parent
This aspiration comes with The Sims 4: Parenthood and has your sims wanting to become the best parent they can be through gaining the parenting skill.
Food Aspirations
If a sim starts with a food aspiration they’ll get the essence of flavor reward trait. It’s description reads “Sims with Essence of Flavor make higher quality food and drink.”
Master Chef
If you want your sims to be a great chef, master chef is a fun aspiration. You’ll cook meals, join the culinary career and can get the fresh chef reward trait.
Master Mixologist
Being a master mixologist is a fun way to join the culinary career, make tons of great drinks and eventually make potions to change moods!
Expert Nectar Maker
Making nectar is a fun hobby for sims and you can turn it into a full-time job with this aspiration. This one comes from Horse Ranch and has your sims making and selling so much nectar!
Appliance Whiz
This aspiration comes with Home Chef Hustle and is all about small appliances. Your sim will prep ingredients and make delicious waffles and pizzas!
Fortune Aspirations
If your sim starts with a fortune aspiration they’ll get the business savvy reward trait. It’s description reads “Business Savvy sims earn more money from their careers.”
Fabulously Wealthy
This aspiration focuses on a sim earning as much money as they can and keeping a lot of it in their household funds. Smart sim! Earning and saving so many simoleons.
Mansion Baron
This aspiration focuses your sim on having the biggest, most fabulous house. You’ll need tons of windows, columns and beautiful landscaping.
Market Magnate
This aspiration comes with The Sims 4: Home Chef Hustle and is focused on your sim cooking and selling their items at a food stand!
Five-Star Property Owner
If you want your sim to be the best landlord of all time, you’ll want to make them a five star property owner with The Sims 4: For Rent and this fun aspiration!
Knowledge Aspirations
A sim who starts with a knowledge aspiration will be given the quick learner reward trait. It’s description reads “Quick learners build all skills a little faster!”
Renaissance Sim
A renaissance sim wants to be good at so many things at once! This sim will start and quit jobs and learn tons of skills.
Nerd Brain
A sim with a nerd brain wants to be incredibly logical and handy, even to the point where they want to build and launch a rocket!
Computer Whiz
Computer whiz sims are focused on programming and video gaming and even will create their own apps or video games!
Master Vampire
A sim who wants to become a master vampire wants to be the best out there, even better than Vlad. They’ll be so powerful and can change so many other sims to vampires too!
Archaeology Scholar
This aspiration from The Sims 4: Jungle Adventure has so much fun stuff going on. Your sim will need to excavate for artifacts and even authenticate them to see if they’re real!
Spellcraft & Sorcery
If you’ve ever wanted to play around with magic in the game, the spellcraft & sorcery aspiration is a fun choice. This comes with The Sims 4: Realm of Magic and teaches your sim everything they need about the world of magic.
Academic
If you want a sim to graduate with a degree and get a well-paying job, you may want to play through the academic aspiration. This comes with The Sims 4: Discover University and your sim will need to start and finish a degree!
Ghost Historian
If you’ve ever wanted to know more about ghosts the ghost historian aspiration could be for you. This aspiration comes from The Sims 4: Life & Death and has you needing to learn thanatology and even find a child ghost to help their mom. It’s a wild one!
Master Mentor
If you want your sims to be mentored and start mentoring others this is a fun aspiration to play through. It comes with The Sims 4: Business & Hobbies and focuses mostly on teaching and taking hobby classes.
Elixir Enthusiast
The Elixir Enthusiast aspiration comes to your game with Enchanted by Nature and lets you learn all about creating elixirs. Your sim will learn the apothecary skill and even join the naturopath career in the process.
Location Aspirations
Sims with the location aspiration to start will get the home turf reward trait. The description says “These sims become happy when they are in their home neighborhood.”
City Native
This aspiration comes with The Sims 4: City Living and has your sims experiencing everything they can in the city. You’ll need to order from food stalls, donate to protesters and more.
StrangerVille Mystery
StrangerVille Mystery is one of the more interesting aspirations to play through. It has a whole story to it where your sim will need to save a whole world from becoming possessed!
Beach Life
If your sim wants to hangout in the sand and sun, the beach life aspiration is perfect. This aspiration comes with The Sims 4: Island Living and has your sim doing fun things like finding treasure and sleeping on loungers.
Mt. Komorebi Sightseer
If you want to explore the mountain world of Mt Komorebi this is a fun aspiration to play through. This aspiration comes from The Sims 4: Snowy Escape. Your sim will go sledding, make wishing on forest spirits and more.
Perfectly Pristine
If you have sims who love to clean and want to stay neat, the perfectly pristine aspiration is a good choice. It comes with The Sims 4: Bust The Dust and your sims will spend lots of time cleaning!
Fabulously Filthy
If you’re okay with your sim living in a gross house, play the fabulously filthy aspiration! This comes with The Sims 4: Bust the Dust is just dirty and gross.
Fount of Tomarani Knowledge
This aspiration comes with The Sims 4: For Rent and has your sims learning all about the world. You’ll need to cook certain foods, visit specific locations and more.
Love Aspirations
If you start a sim with a love aspiration they’ll get the alluring reward trait. It’s description reads “Alluring sims are more successful at romance than others.”
Serial Romantic
The serial romantic aspiration is all about finding as many partners as you can. These sims are noncommittal and want nothing to do with having a long term partner!
Soulmate
The soulmate aspiration is a very wholesome one to play through. These sims want to find a partner that they can be with for life and go on dates and have the best time for the rest of their lives!
Romantic Explorer
This aspiration comes with The Sims 4: Lovestruck and has your sims exploring all the new romance from the pack. They’ll want to spend time with a romantic partner and go on awesome dates.
Paragon Partner
The Paragon Partner aspiration comes with The Sims 4: Lovestruck and is all about having multiple partners. Sims with this aspiration want multiple partners who are all happy and satisfied with their love lives.
Nature Aspirations
If you start your sim with a nature aspiration they’ll get the collector reward trait. It’s description says “Collectors can find rare collectiblees more often.”
Freelance Botanist
The freelance botanist aspiration is from the base game and focuses on gardening. This aspiration will have your sim needing to grow plants and eventually even a cowplant!
The Curator
The curator aspiration is a base game one that is about collections. Your sims will spend lots of time outdoors looking for frogs, crystals and fossils to complete collections!
Angling Ace
The angling ace aspiration is all about fishing. Your sims will need to pack all sorts of fish at different locations and even learn how to fish with bait.
Outdoor Enthusiast
This aspiration comes from The Sims 4 Outdoor Retreat and has your sims needing to learn the herbalism skill and identify different plants. You’ll be spending a bunch of time in Granite Falls with this one!
Jungle Explorer
If you want to learn more about the jungles from Jungle Adventure, this is a good aspiration for you. Your sim will need to go deep into the jungle and explore the temples too!
Purveyor of Potions
If you want to be a spellcaster but don’t just want to learn spells, you can learn potion recipes instead! Sims in this aspiration will get to learn recipes and craft potions as they grow their spellcaster rank.
Eco Innovator
The Eco Innovator aspiration is from The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle and your sim will be gaining influence points to vote on action plans. They’ll also need to join and succeed in the civil designer career!
Country Caretaker
This aspiration comes to you from Cottage Living and has your sim raising animals and growing crops. They’ll need to connect with their animals and even join the Finchwick fair!
Crystal Crafter
The crystal crafter aspiration is so much fun and so silly. Your sim will need to gain the gemology skill and eventually craft an item so they can summon the Grim Reaper whenever they want!
Nature Nomad Aspiration
Being a nature nomad requires your sim to become one with nature. This aspiration came with Enchanted by Nature and focuses on the natural living skill so your sims can sleep and bathe outside.
Popularity Aspirations
Sims who start with a popularity aspiration will get the gregarious reward trait. It’s description says “Gregarious sims build friendly relationships faster.”
Joke Star
If you want your sims to be funny, the joke star aspiration is for you. This aspiration is focused on gaining the comedy skill and telling and writing jokes!
Party Animal
If your sim loves to attend and throw parties, this is the aspiration for them. Your sim will need to get high scores on events they throw as well as make friends!
Friend of the World
This aspiration is focused on making your sim be everyone’s best friend. Sims in this aspiration will need to make 20 friends and even have a BFF while gaining the charisma skill throughout.
Neighbourhood Confidante
This aspiration was added to the game for players who want a huge influence on other sim’s lives. This one has you making friends and giving them (hopefully good) advice to change their lives!
Leader of the Pack
The leader of the pack aspiration came with The Sims 4: Get Together and is all about clubs. Your sim will need to join (and eventually lead) a successful club with lots of members and tons of perk points.
Good Vampire
There are a few vampire aspirations but some of them have your sim being kind of evil. The good vampire aspiration has your sim asking others to drink and avoiding drinking deeply while making friends and gaining the vampire lore skill.
World-Famous Celebrity
This aspiration comes with Get Famous and focuses your sim on trying to get to a world renowned celebrity who is adored by everyone!
Discerning Dweller
If you’ve ever wanted to rent a home but be a good neighbour, this is the aspiration for you. This comes from The Sims 4: For Rent and is all about being a good tenant and a great neighbour with parties!
Esteemed Entrepreneur
This aspiration came with The Sims 4: Business & Hobbies and is all about a small business. Your sim will need to grow their business rank and alignment and have as many happy customers as they can.
Star Wars Aspirations
If you start your sim with a star wars aspiration they’ll get the prepared voyager reward trait. It’s description reads “Sims who are prepared voyagers fill up their needs slightly when travelling.”
Hope Vs Order
This aspiration is made to familiarize your sim with Batuu and the two factions you can choose between. After finishing this one you’ll get to choose between being a Paragon of Hope or an Enforcer of Order.
Paragon of Hope
This aspiration has your sim join the resistance where you’ll be doing missions to help protect the world from the first order. Your sim will need to gain resistance reputation points through these missions.
Enforcer of Order
Being an enforcer of order has your sim joining the first order and falling into line. They’ll need to check IDs of Batuu citizens and arrest the ones who are resisting. Your sim will do missions to gain first order reputation points to grow in their rank.
Galactic Privateer
The galactic privateer aspiration has your sim being a scoundrel. They’ll be focused on lying, cheating and stealing their way to more galactic credits and they’ll need to do missions to increase their scoundrel reputation.
Wellness Aspirations
These aspirations w all added with the refresh of The Sims 4: Spa Day adding so much fun gameplay!
If your sim starts with a wellness aspiration they’ll get the spa membership reward trait. It’s description reads “These sims somehow came into possession of spa membership. Nobody is really sure where it came from, how to cancel it, or who keeps paying for it each month. But one thing is for certain all fees at spas are waived! Nice!”
Inner Peace
This aspiration has your sim looking toward harmony and a peace in life. You’ll need to be mindful, relaxed and calm as much as you possibly can.
Self-Care Specialist
The self-care specialist aspiration has your sim needing to gain as much money as you can through offering wellness services. They’ll need to gain a social media following and maintain customers too.
Zen Guru
The Zen Guru aspiration is focused on teaching others everything you can about wellness through teaching yoga and meditation, sharing detox tea and comforting other sims.
Werewolf Aspirations
If you have a sim start with a werewolf aspiration they are going to get the lunar confidant reward trait. It’s description reads “These sims get an initial relationship boost when introducing themselves to werewolves (positive or negative, depending on how they act).”
Werewolf Initiate
This aspiration introduces you to the world of werewolves and starts your sim with needing to become one. You’ll want to experience a full moon, read books to learn more and increase your werewolf rank!
Lone Wolf
The lone wolf aspiration is about being the biggest and baddest around. These werewolves want to be strong and even fight with Greg, the scariest of all the werewolves.
Emissary of the Collective
A werewolf in this aspiration wants to be a good example for all werewolves and sims. They’ll be a werewolf ambassador and want to lead The Moonwood Collective.
Wildfang Renegade
A werewolf who is working through this aspiration wants to take over the world as a werewolf. They do this by turning other sims into a werewolf and becoming the leader of the wildfang group!
Cure Seeker
When a werewolf no longer wants to be a werewolf they can play through the cure seeker aspiration. This guides you through the process and gives you a lunar link trait so you can still have some benefits.
Fairy Aspirations
This collection of three fairy aspirations come to the game with The Sims 4: Enchanted by Nature and let your sim discover a whole new world of occult!
Fairy Stories
The fairy stories aspiration is the only one you can choose in CAS or when a sim ages up, when you finish this aspiration you’ll see the discordant fairy and harmonious fairy aspirations open up to your sim.
Discordant Fairy
Discordant fairies are not the best people and want to do bad things. They’ll trigger the fear of magic on other sims and shift their luck!
Harmonious Fairy
Being a harmonious fairy is about being good and connecting with nature. Your sim will love to deal with plants and help others by curing their ailments.
Child Aspirations
Artistic Prodigy
If you love artistic sims you’ll want to play through this with kids. They’ll be learning art, playing with their imagination and learning instruments. Plus, they can get the creatively gifted trait to learn creative skills faster in adulthood.
Rambunctious Scamp
This aspiration is great for kids who want to use their body and be good at fitness. When this kid finishes the aspiration they’ll get the physically gifted reward trait making them gain fitness skills faster.
Social Butterfly
If your kid wants to have lots of friends and be a chatterbox, this is a fun aspiration. Kids who finish this aspiration will get a socially gifted moodlet to gain social skills like charisma faster in the future.
Whiz Kid
Whiz kid is all about being super smart, getting an A in school and learning the mental skill! These sims will get a reward trait to be better at all mental skills in the future.
Slumber Party Animal
The Slumber Party Animal aspiration comes with Growing Together. This aspiration focuses on throwing awesome slumber parties as well as gaining the creativity and social skills!
Mind and Body
The mind and body aspiration came with Growing Together and is a fun one. This aspiration focuses on the mental and motor skills and makes your child understand their body more clearly.
Playtime Captain
Playtime captain is one of four aspirations from Growing Together and is all about fun. The child will need to gain the motor and social skills and have fun!
Creative Genius
Being a creative genius comes to the game with Growing Together and is a great one. Your sim will need to gain the mental and creativity skill and have a really cool treehouse!
Teen Aspirations
When you give a sim a teen aspiration they are going to get the relatable reward trait. It’s description reads “Relatable sims build friendly relationships with fellow teens faster.”
Drama Llama
Sims in this aspiration from High School Years are going to be filled with drama. Breaking up with sims, being mean on Social Bunny and more!
Goal Oriented
This aspiration from High School Years is for an overachiever sim. Goal oriented teens are going to be focused on getting good grades, joining after school activities and earning money while in school.
Live Fast
Sims who are in the live fast aspiration from High School Years are going to do things without thinking. They’ll get in trouble, go to parties, pull pranks and more!
Admired Icon
A sim who wants to be iconic will want to do the admired icon aspiration as a teenager. This high school years aspiration will have your sim needing to grow on social media and sell cool outfits on Trendi.