An empty house, a bare lot, and suddenly hours slip by without you noticing.

On gut feeling, from a single vote, The Sims 4 lands around the bottom third, but that is far too little to read anything into. The criterion profile says more, even if it stays fragile. Its first strength is the desert island: it ranks ahead of 80% of games, the title you would bring to never be bored alone. Connection holds above average, and so does the art style. Then everything flips on two surprising lines: fun and the feel of a controller in hand drop right to the bottom, behind almost every other game. That is the tension. A game you would keep for life, yet one that delivers neither the adrenaline rush nor the physical sensation of the great action games. Be careful though, these verdicts rest on very few votes, to be confirmed.

No surprise for a life simulator. Against a genre where the pleasure comes from slow creation and the time you pour in, not from reflexes, the criteria built for the controller naturally work against it. This is not a game you judge on immediate sensation.

So, who is it for? For you if you love to build, to tell stories, to let a life unfold under your fingers across whole seasons. Much less if you want the nervous jolt, the controller thrill, the game that grabs you through pure motion.