The Sims 4 is one of my all-time favorite games, but I'd be lying if I claimed to enjoy it as much without any mods. Each time EA drops new DLC, whether it be a kit or a full-blown expansion pack, I grab my wallet and shamelessly pay up. I'm the proud owner of every single Sims 4 release to date - but it's never enough.

There's always something missing, and as the community knows very well, EA doesn't always give us what we want. It seems like after a decade of unanswered requests, though that's finally changing with the arrival of Lovestruck: EA's spiciest expansion pack yet . From the return of some of The Sims 2's greatest hits like turn-offs and turn-ons to the DLC's accompanying free base game update , so many new features have come to the game all at once that I genuinely don't feel the need to supplement with any Sims 4 mods .

That's a big deal for me - in the decade I've spent playing the most recent Sims entry, I've spent countless hours sifting through custom content and mods to recreate the joy I used to feel with the series' older games. A whole new world If it wasn't for Lovestruck and the "total mess" of an update that dropped alongside it, forcing me to disable my CC and mods, I may never have discovered that I love The Sims 4 as it is. But it happened, and I did: I'm obsessed with the little things like curved pools, eyelashes, and polyamory - all features that I previously needed fan-created content to have.

Create-A-Sim has also never felt better, thanks to .