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The Sims 4 may be missing a ton of features and be buggy as heck, but it seems to have the potential to be a decent weight gain game, if your expectations aren't too unrealistic.

First, I will list some of the things aren't in the Sims 4, or that you can't do in the game, that will disappoint some weight gain fans; just to get it out of the way. Sims in the Sims 4 don't get really fat, at least by the standards of many weight gain fans. You can't make a sim too big to fit through a door. You can't make a sim too fat for its clothes or rip them or burst out of them (Clothing adjusts to fit your sim at any size.) You can't make a sim with sagging rolls of jiggling, wobbling fat; in fact there is no jiggling or wobbling at all of any part of a sim body at any weight. Sims don't get upset or humiliated by gaining weight, they never get too full to eat or sick from overeating, they cannot be incapacitated by getting fat and other sims don't seem to notice. This lets out a lot of punishment/domination scenarios. Sims can't fondle their own or other sims' fat, which lets out some types of fat-positive scenarios. I'm sure there are other things I have left out. None of these "ruin the game" for me. I am more interested in weight gain at the low end of the scale, starting from the skinny end of the spectrum than SSBWs becoming ever more mammoth. I have never liked weight gain punishment/domination scenarios. The lack of fat fondling? Well, that's a pity, but I can live with it.

What the Sims 4 does give you is a platform to create sims which can be made significantly fatter, with a great deal of flexibility in the appearance of the sims, their clothing, and their surroundings; much more so, in many respects that the Sims 3. In my opinion, the Sims 4 is an improvement over the Sims 3 as a weight gain game. In the Sims 3, every sim of the same age and gender with the same level of fatness, muscularity, and "rippedness" had exactly the same body. (By "rippedness" I mean the slider in the Sims 3 CAS (Create a Sim) interface that controls the "muscletone texture map" that was added to the game at some point after it was released.) Of course this applies to the unmodified version of the Sims 3, but adding mods was always a difficult or at least tedious process that had the potential to mess up your game, and had to be redone every time there was an update. The Sims 4 allows more flexible body design in the CAS interface, so you can make a female sim that is top heavy, or has a pair-shaped or hourglass figure. Again, these traits cannot be exaggerated to the extent many would like, but it's a start, and I'm sure Sims 4 mods will be coming out soon.

Also, in the Sims 3, at least my experience of it, it was a little too easy to make a sim gain or lose weight; you could make a sim fat in a sim day or two. Even worse, each sim seemed to always revert back to their original weight spontaneously, if left alone. That is, if you force fed sims and made them fat, as soon as you stopped making them overeat, they would become thin again in a few sim days. And, if you by any chance you had made sims exercise to get thin, then stopped making them exercise, they would become fat again spontaneously without any increase in food intake. (OK, so the Sims 3 wasn't all bad.)

Another annoyance was that the "muscletone texture map" that made a sim look ripped in the Sims 3 was applied exactly the same over a fat body as a thin one. As you can see from the image above, a muscular sim's muscle tone is lost as they get increasingly fat. There is no separate "muscletone texture map" slider in the Sims 4, just one for muscularity and one for fatness. The image above (moving from left to right) starts with the thinnest possible version and ends with the fattest possible version of a sim with that exact body type.

Description
The Sims 4 may be missing a ton of features and be buggy as heck, but it seems to have the potential to be a decent weight gain game, if your expectations aren't too unrealistic.

First, I will list some of the things aren't in the Sims 4, or that you can't do in the game, that will disappoint some weight gain fans; just to get it out of the way. Sims in the Sims 4 don't get really fat, at least by the standards of many weight gain fans. You can't make a sim too big to fit through a door. You can't make a sim too fat for its clothes or rip them or burst out of them (Clothing adjusts to fit your sim at any size.) You can't make a sim with sagging rolls of jiggling, wobbling fat; in fact there is no jiggling or wobbling at all of any part of a sim body at any weight. Sims don't get upset or humiliated by gaining weight, they never get too full to eat or sick from overeating, they cannot be incapacitated by getting fat and other sims don't seem to notice. This lets out a lot of punishment/domination scenarios. Sims can't fondle their own or other sims' fat, which lets out some types of fat-positive scenarios. I'm sure there are other things I have left out. None of these "ruin the game" for me. I am more interested in weight gain at the low end of the scale, starting from the skinny end of the spectrum than SSBWs becoming ever more mammoth. I have never liked weight gain punishment/domination scenarios. The lack of fat fondling? Well, that's a pity, but I can live with it.

What the Sims 4 does give you is a platform to create sims which can be made significantly fatter, with a great deal of flexibility in the appearance of the sims, their clothing, and their surroundings; much more so, in many respects that the Sims 3. In my opinion, the Sims 4 is an improvement over the Sims 3 as a weight gain game. In the Sims 3, every sim of the same age and gender with the same level of fatness, muscularity, and "rippedness" had exactly the same body. (By "rippedness" I mean the slider in the Sims 3 CAS (Create a Sim) interface that controls the "muscletone texture map" that was added to the game at some point after it was released.) Of course this applies to the unmodified version of the Sims 3, but adding mods was always a difficult or at least tedious process that had the potential to mess up your game, and had to be redone every time there was an update. The Sims 4 allows more flexible body design in the CAS interface, so you can make a female sim that is top heavy, or has a pair-shaped or hourglass figure. Again, these traits cannot be exaggerated to the extent many would like, but it's a start, and I'm sure Sims 4 mods will be coming out soon.

Also, in the Sims 3, at least my experience of it, it was a little too easy to make a sim gain or lose weight; you could make a sim fat in a sim day or two. Even worse, each sim seemed to always revert back to their original weight spontaneously, if left alone. That is, if you force fed sims and made them fat, as soon as you stopped making them overeat, they would become thin again in a few sim days. And, if you by any chance you had made sims exercise to get thin, then stopped making them exercise, they would become fat again spontaneously without any increase in food intake. (OK, so the Sims 3 wasn't all bad.)

Another annoyance was that the "muscletone texture map" that made a sim look ripped in the Sims 3 was applied exactly the same over a fat body as a thin one. As you can see from the image above, a muscular sim's muscle tone is lost as they get increasingly fat. There is no separate "muscletone texture map" slider in the Sims 4, just one for muscularity and one for fatness. The image above (moving from left to right) starts with the thinnest possible version and ends with the fattest possible version of a sim with that exact body type.