Top 21 The Sims 3 Challenges To Refresh Your Sims 3 Experience

Playing the following 21 Sims 3 challenges can be a fun way to keep your experience fresh with the game.

Although it was first released in 2009 or more than 10 years ago, These dares will allow you to keep yourself hooked with the game and interact with the community of players from around the world.

For the record, there are still many players and fans playing this game daily, so the community around this game is still strong and growing.

Despite the release of the newer installment of the franchise (The Sims 4) in 2014, many players still prefer to play The Sims 3 to keep their progress in the game.

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Our Top List Of The Sims 3 Challenges

Here are the top 21 The Sims 3 challenges that you can complete starting today:

1. 10-Generation Legacy Challenge

This challenge involves creating the family legacy for up to 10 generations, with one founder and limited funds.

From there, your goal is to achieve great fortune and create a name for your family.

The fortune that you have gathered must be retained for at least 10 generations.

How To Play:

• It is recommended to create a new game and create a new sim that you will assign as a founder for your family.
• Create the right family name and a good neighborhood for your character.
• Choose an area that you can own and start building a small house in that area.
• You must not use any cheats for your sims.
• You will need to lead the founder’s life so that he can get married and have children while amassing your fortune at the same time.

This challenge will take quite a long time to accomplish, but with good management of your characters, you will be able to collect lots of points by the time you complete this challenge.

2. Apocalypse Sims 3 Challenge

The Apocalypse challenge involves keeping your sims survived in the coming apocalypse that will happen.

During the survival time, you will have a lot of restrictions that you must deal with.

This challenge can span many generations, and the goal for you is to keep your characters survived during the hard times of the apocalypse.

Of course, you will have lots of means to make it easier for you to complete, such as using alien technology.

But, you must work your way to keep your sims happy during this difficult time.

How To Play:

• There will be many restrictions that will prevent your sims’ progress, and you must lift those restrictions one by one.
• In total, 20 mandatory restrictions must be lifted to complete this challenge, and the other 6 conditions will be optional for you.
• Your goal is to survive the apocalypse while keeping your characters happy.
• The hopelessness status will be lifted once you’ve cleared the first restriction.
• Rising in your ranks will help you to complete the challenge more easily.

This challenge can span about 2-5 generations of your sims, and you have to go through hunger and challenging times to complete it.

3. Sims 3 Challenges: Cinderella 

The goal of the Cinderella challenge is to recreate the story of Cinderella in your gameplay.

The premise is simple. You need to create a sim that resembles Cinderella and raise her into adulthood to meet her Prince Charming finally.

How To Play:

• You must prepare the characters first, including Cinderella, Fairy Godmother, stepmother, and stepsisters. The stepmother must have evil traits, and she must have the Fabulously Wealthy aspiration.
• The stepsisters must also be evil, and they need to have snob traits.
• Cinderella must have good traits, and she must be humble.
• You need to create Cinderella and the stepsisters as children at first.
• Please place them in the same house, while the Fairy Godmother needs to be created in a different household.
• It would be best to raise Cinderella from childhood to adulthood while dealing with her evil family daily. When she reached adulthood, she must meet and marry her Prince Charming.

This challenge is an excellent way to experience the Cinderella story wherein you directly control all the characters.

4. I’m Surrounded By Idiots (ISBI) Challenge

The ISBI challenge is quite challenging because the premise is to maintain a sick, crazy, and insane family wherein you only have to control one character as a torch holder. You need to keep the insanity of your family for 10 generations.

How To Play:

• First of all, you choose one sim that will be the main character in this challenge.
• The other members of the family will be entirely guided by free will. So, you don’t know what they will do to your character.
• You will create insanity within your household by doing things that are crazy, witty, or silly.
• You must not let your controlled character to die.
• Your controlled character must have at least 2 children.

This challenge can be quite unpredictable since you don’t know what the other characters are doing to your name, but you must survive their craziness through 10 generations.

6. The Mythical Creatures Challenge

This challenge involves creating multiple generations of mythical creatures such as vampires, ghosts, demons, mermaids, and so on.

You will start with the first generation, and your goal is to turn that first-generation into a particular mythical creature. Each generation will need to be turned into different mythical creatures up until the 10^th generation.

How To Play:

• Create your sim as usual.
• Each generation must have the same last name.
• Customize the appearance of your characters to resemble mythical creatures.
• All family members must live in the same house.
• Set the game on an expected lifespan and turn on aging.

This challenge will end if you fail to produce another generation based on each generation’s mythical creature requirement.

7. Differences In The Family Tree Challenge

This Sims 3 challenge will give you the experience of managing sims in different generations with different traits and occupations.

Up to the 7^th generation, you will need to build your sims according to each generation’s requirements.

You start with one character, and you need to build the necessary skills for that character to live and continue their legacy.

How To Play:

• Remember that the requirements for each generation are different, mainly for the skills and occupations.
• You must start with one character and develop skills related to the Farmer occupation.
• You must marry and have boys and girls as children.
• Then, once your children reached adulthood, you will start with the next generation and build different skills and embrace other occupations.

This challenge allows you to have fun managing different lifeways for each generation up to the 7^th generation.

8. Started From The Bottom Challenge

In the Started From The Bottom Sims 3 challenge, you will start with a character with negative traits, an ugly appearance, very little money, and generally a bad life.

You will then slowly lift your character’s restrictions one by one until you raise all the limits.

The goal is to live a good life in the end.

How To Play:

• You start with a young adult sim that has negative traits and an ugly appearance.
• There are many restrictions and things that you cannot do with this character.
• Over time, you are required to lift those restrictions one by one.
• You are not allowed to use cheats.
• You will be required to build individual skills and go for self-employment instead of having a regular job.

This challenge will be completed once you have successfully removed all the restrictions related to your character and living a good life as a result.

9. Will You Survive Challenge

This challenge involves you surviving while living with two young girls until they reach young adulthood.

The exciting thing is that you are living in a time when a zombie outbreak has happened.

So you must be very careful when you interact with other characters since you basically can’t trust anyone at this point. You only focus on your survival.

How To Play:

• You are living in a shop with very few necessary supplies.
• At the time, two characters approached you, which turned out to be a little girl and a baby girl.
• You decided to help them because they were hungry and scared.
• Then, you start raising them while keeping yourself fed and safe throughout the time.
• You are waiting for a time when the cure for the zombie outbreak has been invented when the two little girls become young adults.
• You and the two girls need to survive until you reach that point, with only the basic things you have.

The challenge will be completed when the girls under your guardianship reached the age of young adult.

10. Sims 3 Challenges: Runaway Teen Challenge

In this challenge, you are playing a character running from the home country to live in a new country.

The point is to survive with your new life and build a good life for yourself until you become old, which means making good money, have a partner, have children, and so on.

How To Play:

• You are starting with nothing but your clothes and sleeping bag.
• Survive until you get a high paying job, buy your own home, and create a family.
• You need to have Ambitions as your trait.
• Earn money for yourself and only buy things once you have enough money to buy them.
• You will do your work in a traditional way, such as fishing, gardening, and so on.

You will succeed in this challenge once you’ve reached old age and living a good life, with the right house, family, etc.

11. The Homeless Challenge

In this Sims 3 challenge, you need to start being a homeless character to earn $20,000 so that you can get out of your predicament.

This is not an easy challenge since it has lots of things that restrict your progress, so you will likely progress slowly.

Starting as a poor person, you will need to make your way through to earn your first $20,000 to complete the challenge.

How To Play:

• Start with an empty lot of your choice.
• Wear clothes that appear ugly and poor.
• You only have $100 in your pocket.
• You need to have Fortune as your aspiration.
• Your lot must not contain objects that usually belong in the average household, and you will not have basic stuff like toilets, baths, phones, and so on.

Once you’ve earned the required $20,000, you need to become the abandoned lot owner to finish the challenge.

12. Harry Potter Legacy

This Sims 3 challenge is perfect for you if you love the Harry Potter series, as you will be required to create a sim that will belong to one of the houses in Hogwarts.

The goal is to build the legacy of 5 generations, wherein the fifth generation will be in the same house as the starting character.

How To Play:

• You create a sim and choose the house you want, whether Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, or Hufflepuff.
• The character needs to be a young adult.
• You raise the character until they marry and have children up until the fifth generation.
• You need to keep each generation to belong to the same house as you.

In this challenge, you need your sim character to marry a regular human instead of a wizard.

13. Ninja Legacy

The Ninja Legacy challenge is a challenge that requires you to build a legacy of a great ninja forefather.

So, you will need your sims to complete objectives in each generation up to the fourth generation.

Your forefather is a ninja called Rock from China who one day left China and never returned.

However, he is known as a great ninja with good deeds.

How To Play:

• You play as the descendant of the great ninja.
• Work on your way to keep the legacy of your father.
• You need to have descendants yourself to continue the remarkable legacy for up to the fourth generation.
• Each generation has its objective and requires you to have ninja-related skills.

In this challenge, you need to have a lifetime wish to become a martial arts master.

14. Through History Challenge

This Sims 3 challenge involves you to create 7 generations that move through time in history.

Each generation will live differently, such as the medieval period, tribal period, Victorian era, etc.

With the help of a time travel machine, it is possible to do.

How To Play:

• You start with the first generation living in the tribal period.
• Each generation will go through history until they reach the modern lifestyle.
• You are living in the same lot as your previous generation.
• The appearance of the sims must reflect the time that they are living in.
• Once the eighth generation spawns, you will complete the challenge.

In this challenge, points are available to collect for you as you progress.

15. A Hard Life Challenge

This challenge requires you to deal with difficult situations because your parents split up, and one of them is running away with the money.

So, you are left with tiny things, along with your remaining parent and three siblings.

It would be best if you survived, no matter what.

How To Play:

• You need to create two adult sims, one teen, and three toddlers.
• The two sims are your parents, and you will take control of the teen.
• Your house must be small and low with necessities.
• One of your parents must move out of the house.

This challenge will be completed once you’ve survived and reached the young adult age.

16. Deal With It Dumpster Game

This is quite difficult to complete since you will need to live in poverty with no money.

You will have a lot and a house to live in, but basically, the house is empty at first.

You will need to furnish your house with things that you find in the dumpster.

You are also not allowed to sell anything you find on the dumpster, except for gems, bugs, and metal.

How To Play:

• Create a sim and move it to the empty lot to start building your house.
• You must empty any remaining funds that you have.
• You must start living your life with no money and no furniture in your house.
• Use public places to shower, take a pee, and to do all other necessary things.
• You will need to furnish your house by searching for things at the dumpster.

The goal for this challenge is to stay alive and successfully furnish your house with the things you have found on the dumpster.

17. Four Immortal Sisters Challenge

This Sims 3 challenge involves you to create four sisters that are immortal thanks to the use of Ambrosia, to make as many children as possible to be spread around town.

The four sisters will represent the four elements of nature: fire, earth, water, and air.

How To Play:

• You will start by creating four sisters that have traits representing every four elements.
• The four sisters need to be immortal with the help of Ambrosia.
• Move the four sisters to a lot of space and create a house with the necessary furniture.
• Live daily life so that the four sisters can survive and get pregnant.
• Raise the children and eventually spread them out to different places in town.

You will fail if any sisters or children die.

18. Raising Kids – Escape To Nowhere

This Sims 3 challenge is all about struggling to survive in a new place.

You are moving with your four kids with no money left and with nowhere to go.

Thus, you must be able to survive in this new situation to build your residence in the new place finally.

How To Play:

• You start with very little money and four children to take care of.
• You will need to rely on strangers or public services to get by.
• There are lots of opportunities for you to survive and feed your children.
• The goal is to survive the situation while keeping your four kids with you and finally build your own house.

You will fail the challenge if the social workers come to pick up your children because you cannot take care of them.

19. Zombie Apocalypse Survival

This challenge requires you to survive in the time of the zombie apocalypse, where zombies are roaming around town and attacking people.

It would be best if you survived the apocalypse while keeping everyone alive.

This can be daunting and difficult if you are not prepared.

How To Play:

• Create a sim and a leader.
• You need to teach your group to survive the apocalypse with the necessary skills.
• You need to create a camp for your group.
• Survive by sticking together while living the ordinary daily life.
• You need to find love and continue the legacy and teach the future generation to survive the apocalypse as well.

You must not let anyone die in this challenge since you need to keep humanity alive against those zombies.

20. Ultimate Sim Challenge

This Sims 3 challenge will allow you to create the ultimate sim and experience the game to the fullest.

You will create one sim and build its traits and skills to the fullest to live the best life in this game.

How To Play

• You need to create a new sim.
• You need to develop this sim by experiencing all the things this game has to offer.
• Keep the sim in your house until they die.
• You must obtain all educational degrees.
• Experience various things, such as normal pregnancy, alien birth, genetic merger, wishing well, and so on.
• You need to learn all skills.

You will end up with a sim character that has the ultimate characteristics, skills, and abilities.

21. A Round Robin

A Round Robin Sims 3 Challenge is a simple challenge where you need to control only one sim per day.

At first, you will need to create seven different characters.

You need only to control one character per day, allowing you to hold each of the characters once per week.

How To Play:

• The goal is to focus on one sim at a time and maximize each sim’s experience as much as possible.
• It would be best if you never used cheat in this challenge.
• You can deal with one sim per day and fully control that character throughout the day before switching to another.
• If other sims join you automatically, you can direct the other sims to do some simple tasks throughout the day.

This challenge will help you hone your skill in managing your sims, providing the best ways to grow them and maximize their achievements.

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Conclusion – Selecting The Sims 3 Challenges

These challenges will help you to enjoy The Sims 3 even more.

If you want to get the most out of this game, it is better to start with a single challenge that you like and try to complete it. You can always start today.

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