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The Sims™ 3

The Sims Studio · Electronic Arts · 2011-01-27

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Simulation

Franchise: The Sims · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 28, 2020 (Mac), Jan 13, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Sims 3: Create the perfect world with full customization at your fingertips. Refine personalities and help fulfill destinies.

The Sims™ 3 is a 2011 Simulation game priced at $19.99, with an estimated 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 34362 reviews).

788
playing now
86%
positive of 34k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
119
twitch viewers (latest)
39.7
viewers/channel (concentration)
75/100
critic score (9 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (640 ratings)
152
Nexus mods (751k downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$19.99
steam price (US)

788 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

The Sims 3 is a 2009 social simulation video game developed by the Redwood Shores studio of Maxis, and published by Electronic Arts. Part of The Sims series, it is the sequel to The Sims 2. It was released on June 2, 2009, for Microsoft Windows, MacOS, and mobile versions. Console versions were released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo DS in October 2010 and a month later for Wii. A Nintendo 3DS version, released on March 27, 2011, was one of the platform's launch titles.

Trailer

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Health check

Healthy
  • · 788 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 971 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~121/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 16,638 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4M–2.8M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 34,432 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2018-07-23) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
78878820182026Week of 2018-01-01: 210 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 292 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 171 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 300 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 153 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 158 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 338 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 436 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 603 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 788 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 697 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 462 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 566 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 566 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 413 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 369 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 349 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 327 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 288 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 287 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 296 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 315 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 310 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 248 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 237 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 291 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 238 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 233 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 263 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 225 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 175 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 176 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 190 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 293 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 321 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 248 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 228 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 199 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 250 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 210 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 190 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 236 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 201 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 187 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 206 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 162 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 232 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 185 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 178 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 21 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1.7k7272026-09-15 11:00 — 750 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 1,101 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 829 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 894 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 1,542 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 1,014 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 744 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 1,110 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 1,028 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 925 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 1,101 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 1,083 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 756 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 1,059 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 1,398 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 849 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 1,042 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 1,173 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 822 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 1,100 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 1,683 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 1,004 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 788 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
6.2k423Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 1,197 · peak 2,006Dec 2012 — avg 1,633 · peak 7,478May 2013 — avg 862 · peak 1,545Oct 2013 — avg 770 · peak 1,538Mar 2014 — avg 1,643 · peak 4,672Aug 2014 — avg 1,817 · peak 2,834Jan 2015 — avg 1,440 · peak 2,506Jun 2015 — avg 1,550 · peak 2,593Nov 2015 — avg 1,264 · peak 2,443Apr 2016 — avg 1,738 · peak 2,910Sep 2016 — avg 2,421 · peak 6,557Feb 2017 — avg 3,074 · peak 6,761Jul 2017 — avg 3,612 · peak 6,992Dec 2017 — avg 3,367 · peak 7,393May 2018 — avg 2,793 · peak 5,010Oct 2018 — avg 4,150 · peak 6,278Mar 2019 — avg 4,130 · peak 6,485Aug 2019 — avg 4,094 · peak 6,480Jan 2020 — avg 4,466 · peak 7,327Jun 2020 — avg 3,652 · peak 5,318Nov 2020 — avg 2,720 · peak 3,965Apr 2021 — avg 2,672 · peak 4,027Sep 2021 — avg 2,088 · peak 2,951Feb 2022 — avg 2,313 · peak 3,562Jul 2022 — avg 2,102 · peak 3,046Dec 2022 — avg 1,880 · peak 2,819May 2023 — avg 1,639 · peak 2,512Oct 2023 — avg 1,435 · peak 2,241Mar 2024 — avg 1,776 · peak 3,260Aug 2024 — avg 1,578 · peak 2,424Jan 2025 — avg 1,582 · peak 2,488Jun 2025 — avg 1,237 · peak 1,885Nov 2025 — avg 1,142 · peak 1,820Apr 2026 — avg 1,149 · peak 1,832Aug 2026 — avg 1,056 · peak 1,683
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
662026-09-222026-10-132026-09-22: 1 new positive2026-09-23: 2 new positive2026-09-24: 1 new positive2026-09-27: 1 new positive2026-09-28: 2 new negative2026-09-29: 1 new positive2026-09-29: 1 new negative2026-09-30: 1 new positive2026-09-30: 1 new negative2026-10-02: 1 new positive2026-10-03: 2 new positive2026-10-04: 6 new positive2026-10-04: 1 new negative2026-10-05: 1 new negative2026-10-06: 1 new positive2026-10-06: 1 new negative2026-10-07: 4 new positive2026-10-08: 3 new positive2026-10-09: 3 new positive2026-10-10: 3 new positive2026-10-10: 2 new negative2026-10-11: 3 new positive2026-10-11: 1 new negative2026-10-12: 5 new positive2026-10-12: 1 new negative2026-10-13: 2 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.50$2.992015-01-012024-05-132015-01-01 — best price $19.992015-02-26 — best price $38.862015-04-13 — best price $24.992015-04-29 — best price $38.442015-05-28 — best price $38.482015-06-18 — best price $14.992015-07-10 — best price $17.952015-11-25 — best price $13.392015-12-31 — best price $19.952016-01-19 — best price $19.952016-02-13 — best price $19.992016-08-05 — best price $16.952016-09-23 — best price $19.992016-11-23 — best price $4.992017-01-02 — best price $19.992017-06-23 — best price $4.992017-11-01 — best price $19.992017-12-21 — best price $4.992018-02-19 — best price $19.992018-06-22 — best price $9.992018-07-30 — best price $19.992018-11-21 — best price $4.992019-01-03 — best price $19.992019-06-26 — best price $4.992019-08-09 — best price $19.992019-12-19 — best price $4.992020-01-27 — best price $19.992021-12-21 — best price $9.992022-01-11 — best price $19.992023-06-29 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $7.992024-05-13 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3531772026-05-30 — 272 pageviews2026-06-03 — 273 pageviews2026-06-07 — 264 pageviews2026-06-11 — 210 pageviews2026-06-15 — 230 pageviews2026-06-19 — 255 pageviews2026-06-23 — 198 pageviews2026-06-27 — 240 pageviews2026-07-01 — 220 pageviews2026-07-05 — 245 pageviews2026-07-09 — 224 pageviews2026-07-13 — 234 pageviews2026-07-17 — 230 pageviews2026-07-21 — 353 pageviews2026-07-25 — 228 pageviews2026-07-29 — 196 pageviews2026-08-02 — 230 pageviews2026-08-06 — 277 pageviews2026-08-10 — 274 pageviews2026-08-14 — 213 pageviews2026-08-18 — 266 pageviews2026-08-22 — 215 pageviews2026-08-26 — 210 pageviews2026-08-30 — 232 pageviews2026-09-03 — 208 pageviews2026-09-07 — 248 pageviews2026-09-11 — 193 pageviews2026-09-15 — 230 pageviews2026-09-19 — 200 pageviews2026-09-23 — 247 pageviews2026-09-27 — 207 pageviews2026-10-01 — 201 pageviews2026-10-05 — 228 pageviews2026-10-08 — 177 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

1.3k02026-09-30 21:34 — 11 viewers2026-10-01 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 15:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-02 00:34 — 48 viewers2026-10-02 09:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-02 18:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-03 03:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-03 12:34 — 224 viewers2026-10-03 21:34 — 56 viewers2026-10-04 06:34 — 54 viewers2026-10-04 15:34 — 56 viewers2026-10-05 00:34 — 64 viewers2026-10-05 09:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-05 18:34 — 34 viewers2026-10-06 03:34 — 58 viewers2026-10-06 12:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-06 21:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-07 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 15:34 — 462 viewers2026-10-08 00:34 — 67 viewers2026-10-08 09:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-08 18:34 — 87 viewers2026-10-09 03:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-09 12:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-09 21:34 — 47 viewers2026-10-10 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 15:34 — 46 viewers2026-10-11 00:34 — 17 viewers2026-10-11 09:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-11 18:34 — 81 viewers2026-10-12 03:34 — 56 viewers2026-10-12 12:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-12 21:34 — 182 viewers2026-10-13 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 15:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-14 00:34 — 30 viewers2026-10-14 09:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-14 18:34 — 138 viewers2026-10-14 20:34 — 119 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing19 DLC

17 supported languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish…

Post-launch support: 19 DLC released, first 2011-01-27, latest 2013-10-23 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGFunnyCasualComedyRomanceSandboxBuildingLife SimModdableAdventure

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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