New Sims 2 Mods released in Q2 2025
- BellaDovah
- Aug 15
- 18 min read
Updated: Aug 16
All of the new mods I found for The Sims 2 released in the second quarter (April, May, and June) of 2025!
This mod by Lamare adds 40 objects from bathroom & kitchen clutter to cabinets. Now, certain interactions will either require or at least benefit from the presence of these various objects, the idea being that these objects are toiletry or cleaning supplies that benefit the sims' hygiene and cleaning tasks, and gradually deplete after being used. Once a bottle/box is used up, it disappears or looks empty and brings up notification. Some items may be refilled for money or from other objects. House cleaning takes longer without supplies and goes faster with them. Sims and pets can't get absolutely 100% clean with water alone - without soapy products, the hygiene effect of washing is capped at 50. Sims won't be able to apply acne cream, wash face or brush teeth without supplies. Dishwashers and washing machines can be used without supplies, but this may cause them to break sooner. Using the toilet without toilet paper will reduce the sim's hygiene more. Bubble baths have no visible bubbles if there are no toiletries. Many small objects have a single purpose, and some can even be directly clicked on to perform interactions like apply acne cream, wash face and brush teeth, whereas some larger items like bathroom cabinets contain the supplies needed for several interactions for much longer, and can be used to restock the smaller items without charge.
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This mod by Executables makes it so when a sim gets swarmed by bees while hunting for bugs or hiking, a simple coin flip is performed to determine whether the swarmed sim will die or not. This makes the rare 'death by flies' death/ghost type easier to achieve and more common to see.
This mod by ePSYlord adds a new memory that gets automatically applied when a sim gets resurrected, so they remember this significant event.
This mod by ePSYlord allows sims to resurrect any deceased sim in the neighborhood, rather than only the ones they knew previously.
This mod by Big Woe adds several new interactions exclusively for vampires, which really fleshes out their otherwise lackluster gameplay. These new interactions are classed as "Vampire Magic", they have motive costs, minimum motives and skill requirements. They also fulfill the wants of casting a spell, pranking a sim, and several others. The first new interaction is Enfeeble which drains the target's comfort and energy. The second is Plasmophage which dazzles the victim allowing the vampire to obtain a glass of their blood, fulfilling the vampire's hunger, comfort, and energy. Vampires can now also Enthrall victims, which is similar to compulsion in the Vampire Diaries universe as the victims will be fully receptive to the vampire's next few interactions. The last new interaction is Languor, with this the vampire will shake hands with their victim and steal some aspiration score! It also improves the existing vampire interactions, making Bite Neck more difficult, and Bleh more varied.
These are two mods by Heathen Simmer with effects for the Angler Trait. Firstly, Anglers can now autonomously fish on community lots. Also as part of this package, sims with the Hates Outdoors trait will have a lower chance of success catching fish, but sims with the Loves Outdoors trait, and even more so the Angler trait, will have a higher chance of success catching fish. This is part of fway's Trait Badge Gain Speed Mods, but this mod expands on it further by also making it so Anglers will gain fun need the whole time while fishing, rather than only when successfully catching a fish. So you should use both of these mods together and let this one load last. The other package in this set by Heathen Simmer changes advertising for autonomous fishing which is recommended if you want the proper effect, which is to see unplayables fishing in the background at fishing/nature lots for some realism.
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This is a functional item converted from The Sims 4 by Vix Plays Sims, it looks like a stand where fish is sold, and sims can purchase fish-based meals from it such as salmon, stuffed rainbow trout, lime seared prawns, and much more.
This is a maxis-match mesh & texture replacement by Vix Plays Sims of Jacky93Sim's Pizza Hut Food Stand, it has all the same functionality as that allowing sims to purchase a slice of pizza to eat, but it is replaced by the stand from The Sims 4 Discover University.
This mod by Trilliane varies the slap animation sims perform based on their personality, so the interaction will be much more varied. For example, rather than pretty much every sim doing the multiple slap animation, some sims like nice sims will just do a single slap, and shy sims will perform the shy slap animation. It also improves logic around retaliating and walking off to cry, now sims who do not retaliate will be the ones that walk off and cry, rather than doing so after slapping.
This is a set of mods by Heathen Simmer. Firstly, one prevents sims with the Coward, Neat or Proper traits from being able to stomp roaches - there's two options, one that disables the autonomy only and the other also removes the option from the pie menu. Next is an edit of Smonaff's Jogging Mod which allows you to choose the duration of a jog, but this edit makes it so the want to go jogging will get fulfilled. There's also a version with traits support so sims with the Athletic trait will suffer less motive drain and build body skill faster whereas Couch Potatoes will have their needs suffer more when jogging and gain body skill slower. The last mod in this set makes it so sims with the Virtuoso trait will learn Creativity faster when practicing and performing on musical instruments.
This mod by Heathen Simmer makes it so sims with the Good trait will always reject being gossiped to. There's an alternative version that bases this on nice personality instead if you prefer or don't use traits.
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This is another set of mods by Heathen Simmer this time mainly for the Absent Minded trait. The first mod in this pack gives sims with the absent minded trait a 10% chance to 'forget' what they were doing when they were about to take a shower or bath, and instead walk into the bathroom, idle briefly, do a confused animation, and then maybe another animation such as a shrug, and then leave the room, without showering or bathing and the interaction drops from their queue. Another mod we'll look at later separately is also packaged in here, Crosswords are Hard. Lastly, there is an edit of Gummi's Chess Gains Science Enthusiasm so that Absent Minded sims will gain logic skill slower from playing chess whereas Genius sims will gain it faster.
This is an edit of Simlogical's Flexi School by Big Woe, with various improvements. Now, sims' grades will drop each day, just like they would with normal school, so sims will have to keep doing their schoolwork to maintain their grade rather than being forever A+. It will also fulfil wants and memories such as getting an A+ report card. It also supports Blueybre\LimeYoshi's "Got F Report Card" Memory from the Report Card Fixes mod. The schoolwork workbook now has serious-based fun drain and improves grade by 1 level per completion. On the plus side, assigned children may autonomously work on existing school works, as long as they are in very good mood (above 65% of the green bar) and their fun is similarly so (playful children will only work near-full). Homework Wants can now be rolled if there is any school work generated by a WorkBook. There are two options whether you want to replace the Flexi School or have a separate version.
This is a default replacement by PForest for the music that plays when sims woohoo for the first time in a bed, it will now be an instrumental segment of the iconic saxaphone theme from George Michael's Careless Whisper. I unfortunately had to mute this segment from my video due to copyright.
This mod by Heathen Simmer makes it so that sims with the Slob trait will not care if their environment score is low.
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This mod by Big Woe improves the restorable car in several ways. Firstly, the motive drain is much more reasonable, it will no longer quickly tank the energy need. However, the effects on comfort, energy, and hygiene are comparable to a workout, and it will now affect comfort and hygiene more than energy. Fun gain scales with serious personality, and it now has a much faster skill gain rate so it actually builds mechanical skill faster than a book would, this rate also scale with serious personality. The pie menu interactions will also show the percentage progress now. Sims with higher skills will finish the work a bit faster than Sims with lower skills, but not significantly so. There are also several more improvements such as the rev engine interaction no longer being entirely useless, no more quitting after engine failure, better social gain from working on it together, and much more.
These are recolors and a new object by PForest. It has some nice recolors for the Sauna which make the electric heater invisible, and adds a new coal heater object that can be used in its place with move objects on and doubles as a lamp too.
This is an overhaul of the Holy Grail converted from Castaway Stories by More Popcorn, which de-ages elder sims into adults. This new model is in the style of Sims 4 Jungle Adventure, and is partially repositoried to More Popcorn's default replacement of the Temple of Jumbok IV, so that is required if you want it to look as intended. This version has many functionality improvements; Sims will not change into their underwear after returning to the adult age stage, When de-aging, Sims will do the animations for becoming an adult instead of becoming an elder, Sims will optionally gain a memory of drinking from the chalice, Sims who have drunk from the chalice before are likely to have their greed punished if they try again, Sims with the lucky or unlucky trait will have an adjusted chance of success, and it also adds some previously missing checks to accommodate zombies, witches, and more.
This mod by Lamare expands the dialog popup when a sim is asked what their job is - it now also reveals if sim has an NPC job, is retired, student, business owner or employee. Multiple factors are listed at the same time for example if an elder is retired, has a part-time job, and owns a business, all 3 will be reported.
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This mod by EvannaMari is a set of default replacements for the eyes and an accessory to go with them, which helps prevent a long-standing issue: when the sclera was painted directly onto the eye texture or used as a makeup overlay, it moved along with the iris, which looked unnatural so players had to choose between a more realistic texture or stick with Maxis for better animation compatibility. Now, you can use eye textures with just a plain or gradient white sclera, while the lacrimal caruncle and eyelash shadow are placed on the accessory texture instead. Therefore, when the eye moves, the sclera remains in place.
This mod by Apple Sugar Water removes the chunky black Maxis eyelashes. You can choose whether you want this to apply to all sims or pick and choose which age/genders you want to remove them from. This is ideal for 3D eyelash accessories, and even eyelash-looking makeup.
This is a default replacement by PForest for the music that plays when a burglar appears on the lot, it will now be the iconic Pink Panther theme. I unfortunately had to mute this segment from my video due to copyright.
This mod by Grilled Cheese Aspiration adds a new umbrella bucket item that can be placed on community lots which sims can use to purchase umbrellas from. This is meant to compliment the immersive rain mod with functional umbrellas by velcositro, which also supports Epi's Color Traits. This adds an immersive way for sims to obtain umbrellas rather than only from the catalog.
This little mod by xndrot simply adds the option to cook grilled cheese on a grill/BBQ which is great for Grilled Cheese Aspiration sims and also adds more variety to the grillable foods.
This mod by Heathen Simmer makes it so that sims in the law enforcement career can fight the unsavory charlatan without having to be pickpocketed first like other sims.
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This mod by Heathen Simmer makes it so that sims will gain more fun from reading magazines as long as they have more than 3 points of interest in one of the subjects the magazine offers.
This mod by Heathen Simmer makes it so sims with the Absent-Minded trait learn Logic slower than normal when doing crosswords in the newspaper. Geniuses and Bookworms learn it faster. Everyone else at a normal rate.
This is a cute functional object by Grilled Cheese Aspiration which sims can use to purchase groceries for §65.
This is a conversion of the entire Luxury Party Stuff Pack from The Sims 4 by Lord Crumps and Lamare. It includes modded items - a new functional buffet platter which you can place on any surface, spawn any food item for a price, and use like a buffet table. There is also a drinks fountain which sims can take a drink from and increase their fun. There's also an edit of Mog Hughson's Autonomously Put Away Leftovers mod so that sims wont autonomously put away leftovers if there is a party or if there are even slightly hungry residents or greeted visitors on the lot.
These are functional buffet platter items by Simming Wolverine inspired by the mod above, but in Sims 2 Maxis Match style rather than Sims 4. So with these items too, you can place it on any surface, spawn any food item for a price, and use like a buffet table. It has two sizes, big and small, and the model is the same as PForest's lovely Restaurant Cloche Default. This also comes with a maxis match table in the style of Celebration Stuff, on which you can place six platters.
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This mod by DinaMarBoobs prevents more Social Class sims from being generated. It also expands the pool of sims that can become neighbors, allowing to be assigned as such all safe NPCs, townies, and other types of family instances generated by the game.
This mod by ePSYlord simply changes the time when a sim first moves into a new lot to 7am instead of 8am, so they don't miss the school bus or carpool.
This is the Wannabe Moodlets trait mod, originally by Hexagonal Bipyramid, then further expanded by MidgeTheTree, and now expanded even further by Heathen Simmer. As well as the effects implemented by both Hexagonal Bipyramid and MidgeTheTree, Heathen Simmer has made it so that now Neurotic sims will also generally have a lower mood just like grumpy sims. As well as this, a Dog Person's mood will be higher when near a dog and a Cat Person's mood will be higher when near a cat too!
This mod by Paolo kindly brings to life an idea I had on my wishlist - a popup notification will now appear when a University Student returns from class. I wanted this because I'd often not realize that my YA sims were back from class since I'm busy looking at other things going on on the lot rather than being able to see the road, and they'd waste hours of time chitchatting and things on the pavement in the corner of the lot. This helps to prevent this accidental time loss and make the most of their university time, especially useful for playing in dormitories with lots of playable sims.
This mod is an edit of SimWardobe's Vocation Trainer with significant improvements by Big Woe. This is an object which sims can use to teach other sims about skills or badges they are advanced in, and sims learn by taking notes in the workbook. Firstly, it's updated for the newer expansion packs, so now all badges from all expansion packs are teachable. There are several skill-related improvements, such as the minimum requirements for teaching, a student's skill gain rate varies dependent on the teacher's logic and charisma as well as the student's serious personality. Teachers will gain Social but lose Comfort and Fun while teaching - the nicer the teacher is the less fun they will lose and if they have over 7 or more niceness they will actually gain fun instead, implying they enjoy teaching. Teachers also gain Charisma while teaching. Students will gain Social but loose Fun while studying, but Fun loss can be mitigated by teacher's current Charisma, and can even be turned into gain if the teacher has high Charisma. Students will chat to each other while studying, and students will gain STR between each other as well as with the teacher. There's also Enthusiasm gain depending on the subject being taught. Lastly, there's less age restriction - children can be teachers and students.
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VeronavilleQuiltingBee's Lighting Mod Updates & Minimalistic CAS Screen
The lighting mods by VeronavilleQuiltingBee (aka DreadPirate); Maxis Match and Cinema Secrets (I use Cinema Secrets) have been updated with CAS lighting changes, and Cinema Secrets “Soft Amber” lighting colors have changed to actually be a softer amber. The CAS lighting changes are partly to complement the author's new Minimalistic CAS Screen which removes all of the items and decor in the background.
This mod by Leto Mills is a collection of individual recategorizers and unhiders for clothing from the University Expansion Pack. The recategorizers enable young adult clothes for adults, and the unhiders will reveal University clothing and hats that are already enabled for adults/elders but hidden in CAS. They come as unmerged files so you can pick & choose, and some come with options for which categories the clothes will appear in.
This mod by Leto Mills is a collection of Maxis-match default replacement meshes for all the Maxis clothing for children, in separate files so you can pick and choose. They are mesh-only (GMDC) and therefore are compatible with texture-only default replacements as well as recategorizers. The goal with these was to rework the fat morphs and to iron out some kinks on the normal morphs. The fat morphs look more realistic and subtle now.
This is a program by Chieltbest which scans all of the textures in your downloads folder which can help you identify ones that are unoptimized or larger than they need to be. This may mean you decide to remove those entirely, or edit them yourself with a program such as Chieltbest's Yet Another Package Editor. This will reduce the strain on your game, preventing long loading times, lag, and the dreaded pink soup!
This is a program by handonthemouse which allows you to easily make your own skintones by editing existing ones or blending different ones together.
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This is a new lifespan mod by Matti which is inspired by Stardew Valley in that seasons are 28 days long, so a year is 112 days and everyone has a birthday once a year. This makes the lifespan very long, so babies will be babies for 112 days before becoming a toddler, and adults will be adults for a whopping 5264 days before becoming elders.
This mod by ePSYlord prevents the doors from hiding, so they'll always be visible in buy & live mode just like they are in build mode.
This mod by ePSYlord prevents the game from creating NPCs that you currently do not need. I believe this means, usually when you place items in buy mode on a community lot such as bars and a restaurant stove, NPCs like chefs and baristas will be created immediately, I think this mod prevents this and makes it so that they will only be created when the lot is loaded in live mode if there aren't already enough.
This mod by KittyCarey changes several job levels in various careers so that their workdays will be weekdays rather than weekends. Examples include the College Dean of Students and Education Minister Levels (9 & 10) of the Education career, and the Field Researcher, Project Leader, Inventor, and Top Secret Researcher levels of the Science Career, as well as several other levels across the Architecture, Journalism, Law, Military, and Natural Science careers. It does not change careers that make sense to work on weekends such as Music, Entertainment, Dance, etc.
This mod by jonasn makes sims sometimes take big bites when hungry or sloppy. It applies to hotdogs, hamburgers, toaster pastries, gyros, cuisine platters and Santa cookies. This is a very simple mod without any new visuals, intended to balance eating times with foods that come on a plate.
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This mod by Heathen Simmer prevents the want to "watch movie" from rolling if the sim has the technophobe trait.
This mod by Heathen Simmer makes the Read Novel want be satisfied by reading any fiction book from the bookshelf by default, rather than only being fulfilled by novels written by playable sims. I wanted to make this mod myself years ago but didn't know how so I'm so glad this exists now!
This is an edit of the Artist career by Heathen Simmer so that all chance cards are now added to the Artist career. PTO, career outfit, wages, and motives are also slightly adjusted.
This is an edit of the Medicine career by Heathen Simmer. Chance cards all actually give/take the proper amount of Simoleons based on what the chance card actually says. The “General Practitioner” level is misspelled as “General practioner” and is fixed as part of this, incorporating this mod. “Nurse” level 3 is changed to “Patient Care Assistant” to accommodate custom nursing careers. Motives and skills required slightly adjusted (getting promoted to Paramedic requires Logic now), and PTO is adjusted to give Sims more points per shift as they progress.
This mod by Heathen Simmer allows sims to repair sprinklers even if they are inaccessible.
This is a custom TV channel from The Sims 3 by Heathen Simmer, Fishing Fracas. This TV channel raises Nature enthusiasm and Sims will also gain the Fishing badge very slowly. Sims with the Angler trait love this channel. If they have the Love the Outdoors trait, their interest in Animals may increase if it’s below 5 points. If they have no traits, there is a tiny chance that they will increase their Animal Interest.
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This is Heathen Simmer's edit of the Mel's Car Globals Mod to incorporate compatibility with Pick N Mix's Driving License Mod, and LimeyYoshi/Blueybre's More Dangerous Burglars, as well as trait support - Vehicle Enthusiast sims will build mechanical faster when repairing car.
This mod by Heathen Simmer adds a new interaction. Sims with the Childish trait, or playful, sloppy, and mean Sims can “prank” toilets, doing a devious laughter animation, dropping something in the toilet, and then the toilet will now be clogged. The next person to use it will have to deal with an overflow! This compliments their Neurotic Reactions mod as sims with the Neurotic trait will react badly to this. There is another version available without traits, which checks for the “Immaturity” feature, and if the Sim is not “Immature” then it checks for Mean, Sloppy, AND Playful Personality. So only certain Sims with certain personalities or Immaturity will be able to do this interaction. It is Non-autonomous.
This mod by Big Woe tweaks and overall nerfs the Investment system which is an Aspiration Perk for the Fortune Aspiration. Now, each investor counts: all investment earnings\losses are generated for every Sim with the benefit - more investors equal bigger results. The base amount is now fixed and independent of funds, but there is a scaling addition for wealthy households. It is now Aspiration bar-based: chance of success is dictated by the level of each investor's Aspiration bar.
This mod by Lamare prevents sims from doing the idle where they put their hand over their eyes to cover them from the sun (some people say it looks like saluting) if they are carrying something. They can still do it as long as they do not have an object in their hand.
This default replacement by PForest removes the amplifier and music note effects from the microphone, so its only the stand itself giving it a smaller profile.
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This is a default replacement for the Toaster Pastries by ghostwoohoo which makes them look like poptarts instead of vague beige squares. I've used this lovely default for a long time now as it must have been shared on their tumblr some time ago, but its newly released on MTS.
These are default replacements by Someday The Sun for the tech fences added in apartment life that have the colorful sideways teardrops. This default makes the fences shorter and removes the teardrops, so they are much more generic and usable now.
This mod by Big Woe makes it so as long as there are leftovers stored, Sims who autonomously attempt to make a serving or a meal or stuff their face will be overridden to retrieve the first leftover on the menu instead. Getting leftovers instead of stuffing face will be 100% of the time. Getting leftovers instead of making or serving a meal will be 100% unless they have more than 4 nice points in which case it will be 70% instead of serving a meal, or if they have more than 4 nice points in active it will be 70% instead of making a meal.
This mod by Big Woe makes changes to relationship decay rate depending on status. It enhances the ability for Sims to remain on good terms with one another via dictating when the STR decay per day should stop. Sims have a set range of relationship values where their STR will cease decaying, allowing certain status to be kept for life: Best Friend, Love, BFF, Enemy and close relatives, unless they do something to upset each other. It also changes to how BFF is earned and preventing it from supplementing Best Friend, as well as introducing proper BFF loss on low LTR. There's also STR decay changes cover both Sims and pets - pets benefit even more so.