The MySims: Cozy Bundle brings the blocky-headed chibi sims over to PC: ‘It’s still very, very Sims’

EA’s Behind the Sims presentation was stuffed with a variety of news—a new start screen for The Sims 4, new base game items, and a townie home refresh—but some non-Sims 4 news I’m particularly excited about is the fact that the MySims: Cozy Bundle is getting a PC port, heading to our desktops on March 18.

Remember that kinda weird, chibi-Sim Animal Crossing-adjacent spin-off game? I wouldn’t blame you if you said “no,” considering the original MySims is the only one in the series that ever made it to PC back in 2008. But now it’s re-releasing on our humble desktops alongside MySims Kingdom, which puts a lil’ medieval spin on the whole formula.

The bundle landed on the Switch back in November of last year, so this isn’t exactly totally new even by re-release standards, but I’m always happy to see old games that didn’t make it over to PC finally getting their much-deserved port.

PC Gamer spoke to Sims series VP of franchise creative Lyndsay Pearson earlier this month, and had the opportunity to ask her a little bit about MySims. “At its heart, it’s still very, very Sims,” she said. “It’s the little characters that have a lot of really silly personalities, and you get to customise their world, meet their neighbours, make friends with them. And so I love that DNA of The Sims which comes through with such a different feel.”

Pearson added that the spin-off series “scratches a very different itch than I get out of The Sims 4 or 3 or any of our other bigger, traditional HD offerings on PC. So it’s fun to be able to sort of reintroduce a different flavour and give new audiences a chance.”

Hey, it’s me, I’m the new audience. I never actually got around to playing MySims as a kid—I loved The Sims and had a Wii, but it was more of a Mario Kart box than anything I actually remembered to buy games for. I’m excited to dive in and give the games a go, and who knows? Maybe if we’re good we’ll get a MySims Agents port somewhere down the line, too.