The Sims 4 is a game about life, and life is about sex – at least in part, right? While sexual encounters in-game are portrayed in a way that would be appropriate for network television, it's little surprise that the game's most notable mod would arguably be the one that makes it all X-rated. The mod's popularity is no secret, but a new interview with its creator puts a massive figure on that success.
"On average, 400,000 people per day" play the mod, according to a machine translated interview of creator Turbodriver from German outlet Taz (thanks, PC Gamer). "That's how often my server is pinged, at least, because someone starts the game and has installed the mod." Some nuance of Turbodriver's comments may be lost in the AI translation, but that figure of "400,000" is impossible to mistake no matter what language you speak.
WickedWhims does much more than simply wipe out the pixelated blur that covers Sims' naughty bits in the base game. It also introduces features like birth control, simulations of menstrual cycles, and STDs. The additional bits of depth these features add to your Sims' sex lives are popular enough to have spun into a separate mod called WonderfulWhims, which comes without the smut.
It's impossible to fully contextualize what 400,000 daily users means in the context of the overall Sims 4 playerbase, because daily active user counts are not publicly provided. EA reported in 2024 that 85 million people total had played The Sims 4, but that includes players on console where mods like WickedWhims are not available.
Similarly, SteamDB reports concurrent player counts ranging from 20,000 to 40,000 depending on the time and the day of the week. But that doesn't give us a perfect insight into the number of daily players. More importantly, it only counts players on Steam – not the EA app, where The Sims 4 was available for six years before coming to Valve's platform.
However it compares to the wider pool of The Sims 4 players, 400,000 daily users is a nearly unbelievable level of success for any mod. "I can hardly believe it myself," Turbodriver says. "But it's true."
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