Sims 4 cheats list: 194 commands traced to the line, and where the other 439 live

The Sims 4 registers 633 console commands a player can type. The 194 below are the general ones, spread across 64 modules, and the rest are filed by section. Every row carries the module and line that registers it in build 1.126.73.1030, so you can check any entry here instead of taking it on trust.

Turn cheats on first

Press Ctrl+Shift+C while in game. EA gives that combination for PC and Mac alike. On PlayStation and Xbox, hold down all four shoulder buttons, or use Ctrl+Shift+C with a keyboard attached (EA, The Sims 4 cheats FAQ).

Enter testingcheats true in the box before anything else. A console that never had it switched on is the most common reason a cheat does nothing, so if a command stops taking after you travel or reload, type that line again before assuming the command is broken.

EA also states that any cheat needing that line disables achievements in the save you use it in, and leaves your other saves alone. Step-by-step setup, including what to do when the console will not open, is on testing cheats.

The general list: 194 commands

Search matches the command name, its arguments and its source module, so typing "aging", "clock" or "whim" narrows 194 rows to the handful you want. The pack filter reads the pack code declared in code: 15 of the 194 declare one (EP05, EP07, EP09, EP11, EP12, EP14, EP17, EP21, SP22), 179 declare none. The codes print as the game stores them. This page does not translate them into retail pack names, because that mapping is not in the data.

Reading a command line

A command is a dotted name followed by its arguments, typed with spaces and no angle brackets. The Arguments column lists the parameter names the command declares, in order. Names beginning with opt_ are optional targets, normally a Sim or object ID; leaving one off is how you aim a command at what you already have selected.

The Group column is the command group the game registers the name in. 26 of these sit in the Cheat group and 168 in the Live group, the group the interface itself uses when you click something. The data records which group a command belongs to; it does not record what the game does if you type a Cheat-group command with cheats off.

Five that are worth pinning:

The 63 systems these commands belong to

The dotted prefix is the system a command belongs to, and typing it into the search box is the quickest way to cut 194 rows down to one area. The breakdown also shows where the Cheat-group commands are concentrated.

Where the rest of the cheats live

Money commands, the interface-driven cheats and the pack-specific sets get their own pages rather than piling into this one, because a single 194-row table is a worse tool than four filtered ones. Money is on sims money cheat code. The point-and-click route through a mod interface, which avoids typing entirely, is on the ui cheats sims 4.

What this list leaves out

The game ships no effect text for any command, here or anywhere else, so the table gives the name and the arguments and stops there. Guessing an effect from a plausible-looking command name is how wrong information spreads between cheat sites.

Build-mode toggles are absent for a different reason: they are not registered in the game's Python command table, so no module and line can be cited for them at all. The short legacy codes are absent for a different reason again: motherlode, rosebud, kaching and money are registered in Python and cited on the money page, so they are filed there rather than here. Neither is invented back in here to round out a number.

Everything above was read from build 1.126.73.1030. Patches add, rename and retire commands, so treat the count in the heading as a reading of that build rather than a permanent total.