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But it isn\u2019t the customizable horses, the picturesque world, or the surprising amount of gameplay Horse Ranch offers that has me obsessed. It\u2019s a silly rabbit hole cave tucked away in a random corner that I absolutely cannot stop playing with.\u00a0 I realize the Horse Ranch expansion pack is all about, well, horses and running a ranch. And while these features are certainly impressive, it\u2019s this ridiculous Dungeons & Dragons-style cavern that has me hooked and excited about The Sims in a way I haven\u2019t felt in years.\u00a0 Dreadhorse Caverns might be one of my favorite additions ever Listen, I don\u2019t usually love rabbit holes in The Sims 4, but Dreadhouse Caverns is a game-changer. The entire Dreadhorse Caverns adventure takes place offscreen. You can click to interact with the cave, but once your Sim vanishes into its depths, you can only interact through pop-ups. This lack of visuals is usually a big downside of rabbit holes, but not with this cave. Instead, it was like taking on a D&D-style adventure where anything could happen next. You can find this hidden cave deep in the Galloping Gulch area of Chestnut Ridge. It\u2019s one of The Sims 4\u2019s most well-concealed secrets, and even though you can\u2019t actually watch your Sim take on the dangers of this cave, the gameplay associated with it is so good you won\u2019t feel like you\u2019re missing out at all. It\u2019s quite like D&D in this way; a large part of the fun is left up to your imagination since you\u2019re only given pop-up text boxes to work with.\u00a0 If you\u2019re familiar with D&D, you\u2019ll love what this cave has to offer as I felt myself getting whisked away on an epic campaign each time I sent my poor Sim back into the depths of the cavern. Dreadhorse Caverns is the perfect mix of actual strategy and that signature Sims goofiness as each pop-up you receive becomes more ludicrous and dangerous than the last. Each time you send your Sim into the cave, you need to work your way up to reaching 100 percent cave exploration process to progress to the next level. You can earn more progress by fighting the foes you come across and navigating past obstacles. Like in D&D, success isn\u2019t guaranteed, the choices you make matter, and strategy is key.\u00a0 Related: How to get goats and sheep in The Sims 4 Horse Ranch Expansion When you encounter an enemy, be it a hungry T-Rex or a Two-Steppin\u2019 Giant Spider ready for a dance battle, you'll need to tell your Sim whether to be offensive or defensive. You then need to keep an eye on your own health and how much health your enemy has left. This process continues until you either successfully vanquish your opponent and progress forward in the cave or until you lose and exit the cave in defeat, which means you have to wait a while before trying again.\u00a0 Many of the obstacles you encounter in this cave are only passable through solving a riddle, such as the \"speak baa\" riddle, where you can only progress to a higher level of the cave by having a mini sheep in your inventory. This riddle is extremely silly, but it\u2019s also quite clever, which sums up the D&D vibes and general cave-exploring process quite well. You get decent rewards for your exploration efforts, and out of everything the Horse Ranch pack offers, this is the only feature that consistently kept me engaged and returning for more. Every adventure into Dreadhorse Caverns felt drastically different from the last, and I consistently ignored my horses in favor of tackling another expedition into the caves.\u00a0 The pack is great, but it\u2019s not the most versatile My expeditions into Dreadhorse Caverns have become regular and likely will be for some time. I love scouring the world for collectibles, and each entry into the cave grants a drastically different experience from the last. But, beyond this, I probably won't make much use of Horse Ranch's other features long term.\u00a0 When I consider picking up a new The Sims 4 expansion pack, I always look for versatile packs that integrate well into my everyday gameplay. Expansion packs like Seasons and Growing Together rank highly for me because of this, so with Horse Ranch, I was looking for features that have longevity and adaptability.\u00a0 I can see myself returning to Chestnut Ridge fairly often because it is a picturesque world packed with activities. One of my biggest complaints with many of The Sims 4\u2019s worlds is that they are beautiful but barren (I\u2019m looking at you San Sequoia and Britechester). Chestnut Ridge, however, has an abundance of interactable assets.\u00a0 Nectar-making is a skill I'll regularly use, and prairie grass is one of my new favorite ways to forage for random items. But beyond this, there aren't many features that I see meshing well into my everyday style of gameplay.\u00a0 As much as I love horses, I don\u2019t know how often I\u2019ll actually be adding one to my household. I would probably use them way more if they didn\u2019t take up one of the precious eight household slots we currently have to work with. Because of this, I will probably only return to them occasionally. Overall, I\u2019d rank Horse Ranch somewhere in the middle of the currently available expansion packs. It's not one of my favorites, but it\u2019s got some great (if not novel) features. 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But it isn\u2019t the customizable horses, the picturesque world, or the surprising amount of gameplay Horse Ranch offers that has me obsessed. It\u2019s a silly rabbit hole cave tucked away in a random corner that I absolutely cannot stop playing with.\u00a0 I realize the Horse Ranch expansion pack is all about, well, horses and running a ranch. And while these features are certainly impressive, it\u2019s this ridiculous Dungeons & Dragons-style cavern that has me hooked and excited about The Sims in a way I haven\u2019t felt in years.\u00a0 Dreadhorse Caverns might be one of my favorite additions ever Listen, I don\u2019t usually love rabbit holes in The Sims 4, but Dreadhouse Caverns is a game-changer. The entire Dreadhorse Caverns adventure takes place offscreen. You can click to interact with the cave, but once your Sim vanishes into its depths, you can only interact through pop-ups. This lack of visuals is usually a big downside of rabbit holes, but not with this cave. Instead, it was like taking on a D&D-style adventure where anything could happen next. You can find this hidden cave deep in the Galloping Gulch area of Chestnut Ridge. It\u2019s one of The Sims 4\u2019s most well-concealed secrets, and even though you can\u2019t actually watch your Sim take on the dangers of this cave, the gameplay associated with it is so good you won\u2019t feel like you\u2019re missing out at all. It\u2019s quite like D&D in this way; a large part of the fun is left up to your imagination since you\u2019re only given pop-up text boxes to work with.\u00a0 If you\u2019re familiar with D&D, you\u2019ll love what this cave has to offer as I felt myself getting whisked away on an epic campaign each time I sent my poor Sim back into the depths of the cavern. Dreadhorse Caverns is the perfect mix of actual strategy and that signature Sims goofiness as each pop-up you receive becomes more ludicrous and dangerous than the last. Each time you send your Sim into the cave, you need to work your way up to reaching 100 percent cave exploration process to progress to the next level. You can earn more progress by fighting the foes you come across and navigating past obstacles. Like in D&D, success isn\u2019t guaranteed, the choices you make matter, and strategy is key.\u00a0 Related: How to get goats and sheep in The Sims 4 Horse Ranch Expansion When you encounter an enemy, be it a hungry T-Rex or a Two-Steppin\u2019 Giant Spider ready for a dance battle, you'll need to tell your Sim whether to be offensive or defensive. You then need to keep an eye on your own health and how much health your enemy has left. This process continues until you either successfully vanquish your opponent and progress forward in the cave or until you lose and exit the cave in defeat, which means you have to wait a while before trying again.\u00a0 Many of the obstacles you encounter in this cave are only passable through solving a riddle, such as the \"speak baa\" riddle, where you can only progress to a higher level of the cave by having a mini sheep in your inventory. This riddle is extremely silly, but it\u2019s also quite clever, which sums up the D&D vibes and general cave-exploring process quite well. You get decent rewards for your exploration efforts, and out of everything the Horse Ranch pack offers, this is the only feature that consistently kept me engaged and returning for more. Every adventure into Dreadhorse Caverns felt drastically different from the last, and I consistently ignored my horses in favor of tackling another expedition into the caves.\u00a0 The pack is great, but it\u2019s not the most versatile My expeditions into Dreadhorse Caverns have become regular and likely will be for some time. I love scouring the world for collectibles, and each entry into the cave grants a drastically different experience from the last. But, beyond this, I probably won't make much use of Horse Ranch's other features long term.\u00a0 When I consider picking up a new The Sims 4 expansion pack, I always look for versatile packs that integrate well into my everyday gameplay. Expansion packs like Seasons and Growing Together rank highly for me because of this, so with Horse Ranch, I was looking for features that have longevity and adaptability.\u00a0 I can see myself returning to Chestnut Ridge fairly often because it is a picturesque world packed with activities. One of my biggest complaints with many of The Sims 4\u2019s worlds is that they are beautiful but barren (I\u2019m looking at you San Sequoia and Britechester). Chestnut Ridge, however, has an abundance of interactable assets.\u00a0 Nectar-making is a skill I'll regularly use, and prairie grass is one of my new favorite ways to forage for random items. But beyond this, there aren't many features that I see meshing well into my everyday style of gameplay.\u00a0 As much as I love horses, I don\u2019t know how often I\u2019ll actually be adding one to my household. I would probably use them way more if they didn\u2019t take up one of the precious eight household slots we currently have to work with. Because of this, I will probably only return to them occasionally. Overall, I\u2019d rank Horse Ranch somewhere in the middle of the currently available expansion packs. It's not one of my favorites, but it\u2019s got some great (if not novel) features. If you love horses and the country lifestyle, you\u2019ll probably really enjoy this pack, but if not, it might not be worth buying for you.\u00a0 I\u2019m probably going to send every Sim I ever make into the depths of the D&D cave, but I can\u2019t justify the full price of The Sims 4 Horse Ranch pack just for Dreadhorse Caverns, even if I want to. 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{"id":916262,"date":"2023-07-25T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T22:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/?p=916262"},"modified":"2023-07-25T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T22:00:51","slug":"forget-the-horses-the-best-part-of-the-sims-4-horse-ranch-is-this-dnd-style-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/the-sims\/news\/forget-the-horses-the-best-part-of-the-sims-4-horse-ranch-is-this-dnd-style-cave","title":{"rendered":"Forget the horses, the best part of The Sims 4 Horse Ranch is this D&D-style cave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything about horses in The Sims 4<\/em> Horse Ranch<\/em> expansion pack is impressive, from how detailed you can get with the rich create-a-horse system to the stunning animations that are so good they\u2019re sometimes scarily realistic. Horses are immensely complex creatures, so I was worried Horse Ranch<\/em> wouldn\u2019t do them justice, but it certainly did.\u00a0<\/p>

And sure, I love everything about horses and what the rest of the pack has to offer. But it isn\u2019t the customizable horses, the picturesque world, or the surprising amount of gameplay Horse Ranch<\/em> offers that has me obsessed. It\u2019s a silly rabbit hole cave tucked away in a random corner that I absolutely cannot stop playing with. <\/p>

I realize the Horse Ranch<\/em> expansion pack is all about, well, horses and running a ranch. And while these features are certainly impressive, it\u2019s this ridiculous Dungeons & Dragons-<\/em>style cavern that has me hooked and excited about The Sims <\/em>in a way I haven\u2019t felt in years.\u00a0<\/p>