It’s the cottagecore dream I’ve seen only on the internet.Įxcept that Cottage Living takes the fantasy in a new direction. Cottage Living has it all: an Instagram-worthy, Smeg-esque fridge, iconic Dutch ovens, and twee-patterned fabrics. Larger lots are essential for expanding gardens and newly-built chicken coops.
The aforementioned new neighborhood, Henford-on-Bagley, has the charm of a rural English village.
The expansion pack, which will be released on July 22, is built upon the cottagecore legacy that Sims players have embraced for so long, including community-built lots made by fan-favorite creators. The irony of cottagecore, as Vox’s Rebecca Jennings put it, is that it’s an aesthetic that largely exists online, “posted and participated in through a smartphone from cluttered apartments or suburban bedrooms.” The Sims 4: Cottage Living takes it a step further, allowing its players to not just interact with these idyllic worlds online, but to create and live in the world - just as a Sim.Īnd I have good news: Cottage Living is excellent at doing just that. So it makes sense for developer Maxis to give in to the trend, to release Cottage Living near the height of its popularity, to a group of players who have been eager to fully embrace the aesthetic for years. Cottagecore’s mainstream explosion is due, largely, in part to TikTok and Instagram, where the shareable and cozy content can be passed around and admired with ease. Cottagecore transforms the trappings of domestic living, like baking bread and canning fruit, into an embraceable aesthetic designed to cover up the grim realities of the world. In the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, cottagecore was a way for people to reclaim the reality that forced some people - but not all - into the isolation of our homes. The Sims 4’s newest expansion pack, Cottage Living, fully embraces the fairytale, cottagecore aesthetic that’s become increasingly popular over the past year. Henford-on-Bagley is a self-sufficient community and an idyllic, pastoral paradise - one that feels like it’s been plucked from the coziest of fairy tales. Mushrooms grow wild in the nearby brambles, as mischievous rabbits and foxes play in the mossy groves nearby.
There are booths for fresh flowers and local vegetables, with picnickers huddled around woven baskets from which they pluck jars of canned fruit. Each Saturday, the townspeople of Henford-on-Bagley descend upon the village square for the weekly fair.
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