Unused City Living Households
Every Sims 4 player knows the sting of cut content. The City Living expansion shipped with vibrant neighborhoods and colorful townies, yet somewhere along the way three complete households vanished from the final build. The Unused City Living Households add-on brings the Pond, Powers, and Riviera families back into your game, ready to move in and live out the lives they were originally designed for.
What Are the Unused City Living Households?
Datamining revealed that City Living once included three premade households that never made it to release: the Pond family, the Powers family, and the Riviera family. These were not random background Sims. They had proper names, defined relationships, and distinct appearances, which makes their removal all the more curious.
The creator behind this add-on took a delightfully old-school approach. Rather than scripting a complex mod, they swapped out every premade household XML template in the base game with the template for each unused household, one at a time. The result was a breakthrough: the cut families generated successfully, relationships intact.
What You Get in This Package
- The Pond household, fully generated and saved to the tray
- The Powers household, complete with its original family structure
- The Riviera household, restored with names and relationships
- A merged version containing all three families for preview purposes
Each household is provided individually, so you can pick and choose which families to place in your world. The merged file exists mainly for convenience and previewing, but nothing stops you from dropping all three into a single save.
Interesting Details Behind the Cut Families
They Borrow Assets From Many Packs
Despite being cut from City Living, these Sims wear outfits pulled from a wide variety of packs. When the creator removed those packs from the test game, the Sims appeared in their underwear, confirming the outfits were not randomly generated. This strongly suggests the households were built for something specific, perhaps a promotional video, rather than for regular gameplay.
Names Changed in the Tuning Files
Small oddities surfaced during generation. Patricia, for example, is listed as Lily in her tuning file. It is a minor detail, but it hints at how much these characters evolved before being shelved.
Generation Quirks
In older game versions, generating these Sims sometimes erased their names, and the game occasionally spawned a random Sim in place of a family member before eventually producing the full household. Persistence paid off, and the final saved families are complete and correctly named.
Version Support and Mod Compatibility
Because the add-on consists of tray files rather than script mods, it plays nicely with most setups. It works across supported The Sims 4 versions, including current patches, and does not conflict with gameplay mods, custom careers, or overhaul suites. If you already run a heavily modded game, you can add these households without worrying about broken interactions. Just keep in mind that any Sims sharing the same names in your save may need renaming to avoid confusion.
For players who prefer a streamlined setup, the foxygame.net launcher makes managing this kind of content painless, offering a curated add-on catalog where Unused City Living Households sits alongside other restoration packs and installs with a single click.
How to Install
Installation could not be simpler, and it is the same process for any tray-based content.
- Locate your The Sims 4 tray folder, found inside Documents under Electronic Arts
- Drop the household files directly into the tray folder
- Launch the game and open your library from Manage Worlds
- Find the Pond, Powers, and Riviera households and place them in any world
If you want to download Unused City Living Households, grab the package, extract it, and copy the files across. No script mods, no load order headaches, no configuration files.
Why Restore Cut Content?
Unused City Living Households for The Sims 4 appeals to a specific kind of player: the historian, the collector, the fan who wants to see what could have been. These families represent a slice of development history that never reached the public, and placing them in your neighborhoods feels like rescuing lost characters from the cutting room floor.
Whether you are a longtime City Living fan or simply curious about the game's hidden corners, this add-on delivers three ready-made households with minimal effort. Download the files, drop them in your tray, and give the Pond, Powers, and Riviera families the San Myshuno lives they were always meant to have.