This, many assumed, would be The Sims 5 – until, that is, EA announced Project Rene wasn’t The Sims 5, that The Sims 5 wasn’t happening, and that whatever Project Rene was would instead co-exist alongside The Sims 4.
Amid all this, extensive footage of EA’s new The Sims “game concept” have now surfaced online, fuelling all sorts of disappointment as fans ponder a reality where the future of The Sims is, in fact, just a tacky looking mobile game.
To recap, EA first began discussing its “next generation” Sims game, codenamed Project Rene, back in 2022.