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The Sims 1 and 2 Legacy Collections launch for 25th Anniversary, including all DLC

As leaks suggested earlier this week, The Sims and The Sims 2 have been re-released for PC, letting players enjoy the classic titles on modern hardware

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Time to party, The Sims is back!(Image: EA)

The Sims 4 might be free-to-play, but if you yearn for a simpler time, EA is celebrating the series' 25th anniversary in style.

As per reports earlier this week, The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 have been re-released on PC, meaning players can fall in love with the classics all over again.

That's particularly important for the first Sims game which never saw a digital release and is therefore tricky to get hold of and play, while Sims 2's online component was shut down some time ago.

Both games are available as a bundle for 34.99 on digital storefronts, or you can buy them individually for 17.99 (Sims 1) or 24.99 (Sims 2).

Sims 1 and Sims 2 are back

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Both games come with their DLC(Image: EA)

A report earlier this week claimed both games will be re-released on PC "before the end of the month", and it's come to pass on the last day of January.

That ties in nicely with the post on X (formerly Twitter) above which suggests 'Time Travel' before using the same colour scheme from the series' earliest entries.

Developer Maxis Games had been teasing a return to older Sims titles, using classic sound effects in a presentation in recent weeks, and rumours have suggested the games will come with all of their original expansion packs included and that's exactly what happened.

The first game, which launched in 2000, was only released physically, while Sims 2's online features were taken offline in 2013, too.

The current version, Sims 4, launched in 2014, and is still supported with regular updates and 'Stuff' packs. Sims 5 is currently dubbed Project Rene, and is in development but likely won't launch for some time.

Anecdotally, my wife is so happy the rumours were true, having played the first game for hundreds of hours when she was younger, and I'm sure there are thousands of players in a similar boat.

Looking to play something else? Fortnite's Brick Life is, in some ways, a LEGO version of The Sims, and it's free to download and play.

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