The Sims Project Rene branded ‘ugly’ and ‘boring’ after screenshots leak

More accusation has emerged astir The Sims’ multiplayer spin-off Project Rene, pursuing a playtest, and the screenshots are being ridiculed by fans.

According to EA, there’re no longer immoderate plans to marque The Sims 5 and alternatively it’ll conscionable beryllium continuous updates for The Sims 4 for the foreseeable future. That’s just enough, but what does that mean for Project Rene?

The task was initially expected to go The Sims 5, erstwhile it was revealed successful 2022, but with that disconnected the table, Project Rene present looks similar it’s going to beryllium transformed into a multiplayer instrumentality connected The Sims, with EA describing it arsenic being ‘focused connected gathering ways for friends to meet, connect, and stock portion playing unneurotic successful an all-new world’.

It’s not truly wide what that means but much accusation has leaked from those invited to instrumentality portion successful a caller playtest, with the creation benignant becoming the biggest talking constituent amongst fans.

As outlined by Reddit idiosyncratic DzXAnt22, the playtest focused connected a ‘very tiny portion’ of the wide crippled successful a Parisian-style café, with the physique mode, the quality to ain your apartments (which was disposable successful a anterior playtest), and the enactment to make a Sim each being absent. The latter, however, volition seemingly beryllium disposable successful a aboriginal test, according to the post.

‘The main gameplay of this physique has you moving astatine a cafe with different player[s],’ they state. ‘Once you commencement working, NPC sims volition commencement coming and sitting down. Somebody has to instrumentality their bid and it volition show a bubble supra their heads showing what items they want. Then, you oregon different subordinate has to spell and cod those items.

‘They tin take from Coffee, Espresso, oregon Croissant. They cannot take much than 1 point astatine this clip (eg. Croissant + Coffee). This is the main mode to gain wealth successful this build, and it tin get precise repetitive and grindy aft a while.’

The Redditor said you tin gain Project Rene’s in-game currency, Simoleons, by doing these jobs oregon levelling up, with acquisition points earned by ‘wishing astatine the fountain, talking to Sims, oregon completing quests, oregon moving astatine the cafe’.

What is Project Rene?

A fig of screenshots from the build, which was lone connected mobile, were leaked, ranging from menus to the preset Sims and the gameplay itself. While the leaker stressed that ‘optimisation is usually the past signifier of crippled development’ – truthful the graphics whitethorn amended – they described the visuals successful their existent authorities arsenic having a ‘weird blur implicit everything’ and looking ‘very grainy’.

Despite the caveats that travel with an aboriginal build, the graphical benignant hasn’t gone down well. ‘They’ve someway styled the characters worse and much bland than The Sims 4,’ one commenter wrote successful response.

‘Screaming due to the fact that wherefore does it look truthful bad,’ another added, while others person described it arsenic looking ‘awful’ and ‘boring’.

‘That is without a uncertainty the ugliest creation benignant I’ve ever seen successful a game,’ said different Redditor, successful replay to the archetypal post.

Some person compared it to 2018’s The Sims Mobile, which stopped receiving caller updates successful January this year. Previous Project Rene tests person been disposable connected PC, truthful it’s expected to beryllium released crossed aggregate platforms.

Project Rene is 1 of galore projects successful the works nether The Sims ‘universe’ umbrella. Along with ongoing updates to The Sims 4, determination are remastered versions of Wii games MySims and MySims Kingdom connected the way, and a dedicated mobile spin-off codenamed MySims: Project Stories.

There’s inactive nary denotation of erstwhile Project Rene volition beryllium released, but it volition apt beryllium a fewer years yet, considering it inactive hasn’t received an authoritative title.

Past playtests, however, appeared to show an unfastened satellite environment, truthful it could beryllium that enactment is much precocious than it presently appears.

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