“I would make a lot of Sims that basically resembled me and they all lived the life I wanted. “When I was younger, The Sims was an escape,” the 26-year-old explains over Zoom. In 2017, Netherlands-based Twitch gamer and former YouTuber Mousie (real name Hannah) recorded a 13 episode Serial Killer challenge on The Sims 4, choosing to use exploits to see her character ‘Penny Dreadful’ murder as many Sims as possible. RTGame credits the popularity of his bizarre Sims series for helping him jump into streaming as a full-time career, while other YouTubers such as CallMeKevin and Plumbella count speed runs where they kill entire neighbourhoods among some of their most viewed content. While many in the Sims streaming community focus their content on cutesy legacy-style playthroughs or intricate design challenges, there’s an increasing interest in more boundary-pushing content. Hundreds of Sims meet their maker across the 18 videos in his Sims series, with titles such as ‘When you’re bored in The Sims so you recreate The Hunger Games’, and ‘When you’re bored in The Sims so you organise the Thanos Snap.’ In this particular video, he replaces every residential house with a hedge maze, and moves the exact same family of eight identical Sims into each one, where many will remain trapped until they starve to death. This post-apocalyptic nightmare comes from 26-year-old Dubliner RTGame (real name Daniel), who has 2.6 million subscribers on YouTube.

It’s one YouTuber’s take on how to play The Sims – with these bizarre scenes boasting 1.1 million views. This isn’t a campy horror movie, or the start of the next iteration of Fallout. Dark figures appear on the horizon, and his worst fears are confirmed – the android clones are marching towards his home. The snow started falling when the cull began, and Hankson now finds himself trapped in a permanent blizzard. The peaceful facade of suburbia has been destroyed – townsfolk, neighbours, and friends crushed, houses bulldozed and replaced with a series of six-storey tall hedge mazes, looming ominously over Hankson’s small and rundown cottage. The once desirable Sunset Valley, where Hank Hankson lived a humble life with his dog Sumo, has been ripped to pieces but an unknown, malevolent, but somehow familiar force.

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