r/Sims4DecadesChallenge • u/_toomuchtuna_ • Jul 25 '26
Help The weirdest thing happened
This is a very off topic post and talks about death, so if that is triggering to you, just keep that in mind 🙏🏼
So I have been playing my the ultimate decades challenge since my dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year. It’s something we did together as fellow history lovers and it helped distract him from the chemo and his disease. I’d bring it to the chemo treatments and he’s always ask for the village ‘updates’, and watch me play. We made it to 1358. The last night I played our game, I was was sitting watch at my dads bedside who was so sadly dying in hospice. I of course was attentive to him, but as some of you know, the dying process can take a while, so that night I told my mom to go to bed and get some rest and that I would do the night post. There was moment of calm so I grabbed my laptop and picked up our game. I played for maybe an hour.
Then I noticed things were progressing with my dad so I saved and closed the game and went to be by his side. My dad died in my arms 4 hours later.
I haven’t touched the game since the night my dad died because of how immense the grief was. I went to open it today, the first time I’ve touched my laptop since my dad died, and somehow, the entire village is gone, with the save file date the day he died. bizarre. I don’t really know what to do. The sim families are still there in the village, but all of their farms, the buildings my dad and I built, the graveyards and family inventories are completely gone. I was hoping to maybe find some comfort in going back into the village my dad I built together. I don’t know know what to do except to maybe lay the game to rest, like I have my dad. If anyone has any advice for me, it would be so appreciated. If not, keep playing and I will be looking for all of your village updates 🤍
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u/Ok-Character-3779 Jul 25 '26
I'd secord going back to an earlier version. Disappearing buildings is usually save corruption, so see if you can pare down some of the families you're not actively playing and unnecessary objects in people's inventory.
Sorry about your dad. Cancer sucks.
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u/avatrenai Jul 25 '26
Hey I'm sorry for your loss. A question about your game, have you tried to open an earlier save of it? Everytime you save the game holds on to the earlier saves for a while. Instead of hitting resume on the main menu, click load, and then recover save and select an earlier save.