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StrangerVille

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StrangerVille


Name	StrangerVille
Game	The Sims 4: StrangerVille
Housed residents	9

StrangerVille^[1] is a world shipped with The Sims 4: StrangerVille. It is a small town located on a red-sand desert plateau and is composed of a couple of community lots, a few residential lots, and a large crater housing a lab. It is the second world in The Sims 4 to feature a pre-established storyline and include a mystery the player must solve. It is also the only world in The Sims 4 that includes a trailer park.

The world hides a strange secret: its inhabitants behave strangely at night and there are plenty of scientists and military personnel walking around town.

Description

Welcome to StrangerVille: "The only thing stranger than the people is the flora!" StrangerVille is a quiet little town with a strange problem. The residents are very friendly, but at night things start to get more interesting. If you want to find out more about this town you can find Military Personnel hanging out at the Local Bar, Scientists researching at the Local Library, and that Curio Shop stand is sure to have some strange odds and ends by the trailer park.

Overview

StrangerVille Plaza

Visit the StrangerVille Information Center. This place is way more interesting than the Secret Lab

Shady Acres Vista

Boasting the most beautiful view StrangerVille has to offer, stay at Shady Acres and you too can wonder where all this wealth comes from

Interesting Locals

You'd be hard pressed to find hospitality like this anywhere else. Just try not to let them get too close...

Neighborhoods

StrangerVille consists of 2 neighborhoods and one special lot.

StrangerVille Plaza

Shady Acres

Special Lot

The ██████ Lab

Lots

There are a total of 9 residential lots, 2 community lots and 1 special lot in StrangerVille. The residential and community lots are completely editable, while the special lot cannot be edited by the player.

Residential Lots

Inhabited

All owned lots are considered households.

Old Penelope, owned by Cahill (50x40)
Riverside Grove, owned by Sigworth (30x20)
Dream Weavers Way, owned by Eclectic Arts (30x20)
StrangerVille Overlook, owned by Roswell (40x30)

Families

New Families

Sigworth family

§20,000

Jess Sigworth, Dylan Sigworth, Christie Sigworth

The Sigworth family is rather new in town. Jess, the mom, had to transfer to the StrangerVille National Base. After spending a few days on the base, Dylan has started to notice something is a bit off about his wife. Although Dylan is doing all he can to reassure their daughter that everything is okay, Christie is starting to catch on and it is only a matter of time before she realizes what is going on.

Cahill family

§20,000

George Cahill

George Cahill was a retired pilot who enjoyed taking his beloved plane Penelope for long flights across the world. After passing over StrangerVille, there was a large flash of light, causing his plane to short circuit and crash. George has since set up camp in the cargo bay of Old Penelope and has lived on the outskirts of StrangerVille ever since. Although he has grown skeptical of the residents of StrangerVille, he means no harm and mostly keeps to himself.

Roswell family

§20,000

Ted Roswell, Meredith Roswell

The Roswells are the oldest residents in StrangerVille. Ted Roswell has since become the mayor and has been aggressively pushing to get StrangerVille to be more technologically advanced. He has made some shady deals, but his crowning achievement has been the construction of the Crater Base and Secret Lab. Ted’s wife, Meredith, has been noticing Ted acting very strange at night. It might have something to do with his frequent visits to the Secret Lab to try and cover things up.

Eclectic Arts household

§20,000

Alice Martin, Mark Eggleston, Leslie Holland

The Eclectic Arts Household consists of three friends who have decided to cut ties with the modern world in order to explore their inner creativity. They received a large sum of money from their parents and are using it to explore their creative dreams in a less hectic town.

NPCs

Erwin Pries (Conspiracy Theorist)

Seasons

With Seasons installed, the weather in StrangerVille is similar to Oasis Springs. Spring and fall tend to have warm and hot temperatures with sunny or cloudy forecast. Summers have almost exclusively heat wave temperatures and sunny. Winters are mostly cloudy and rainfall with cool to warm temperatures, but doesn't experience snow and freezing temperatures in StrangerVille.

Real-World Inspirations

Etymology

The name origin of StrangerVille comes from the compound of "stranger," literally means a person you do not know or someone unfamiliar, and the suffix of "-ville," a common American place-naming convention of French origin meaning "town" or "settlement." Together, the name literally translates to "town of strangers."
- "Stranger" is likely referencing the strange phenomena of the world, so it can also suggest that the world is becoming "stranger," meaning more strange than before. Hence the name can also be understood as "town that's becoming more strange."
- The name might be a reference to Strangetown, a neighborhood in The Sims 2.
The name of the neighborhood, Shady Acres, the word "shady," literally means sheltered from direct sunlight, but can also mean "dishonest" or "illegal." Combined with the word "acre," which is a unit for measuring area, but in naming convention, it often used to name the spacious or open residential area. Together, the name can be understood as either "a neighborhood sheltered from the sun" or "a land of dishonesty."

Settings & Cultural Influences

StrangerVille is based on rural desert towns in the Southwestern United States, mostly inspired by the states of Arizona and Nevada.^[2]
The ██████ Lab might be a reference to Area 51, the restricted military base which is often linked to extraterrestrial research.
The residential lots in Shady Acres are built in the Victorian architectural style.

Trivia

StrangerVille has a unique weather type called "Strange Weather", which becomes active throughout the pack's storyline.
With The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle installed, StrangerVille is the only residential world in the game that does not feature any eco footprint. The only other worlds in the game without eco footprint are the vacation worlds (Granite Falls, Selvadorada and Batuu).
According to Erwin Pries in the Investigation trailer, the crater is the size of Windenburg.
Occasionally, after meeting a possessed Sim and interacting with them, the player will get a message from the Sim with cryptic messages like "JOIN US IN THE CRATER".
George Cahill's home, Old Penelope, has no usable counter space in its kitchen because the only open counter is obstructed.