Ultimate Cheats for The Sims 4: Life & Death Secrets

While you can enjoy The Sims 4 without any cheat codes, where’s the excitement in that? Cheat codes can significantly enhance your gameplay, and with the new Life and Death expansion, even more codes are available to explore!

This guide focuses on the brand-new cheat codes introduced in The Sims 4: Life and Death, highlighting only the latest features and leaving out older codes from the base game or previous expansions.

To activate cheats, press “Ctrl/Command + Shift + C” (on PC or Mac) or all four shoulder buttons (on console). After that, type in “testingcheats on” to enable cheats.

Trait Cheats

Though trait cheats aren’t a new concept in Life and Death, this expansion introduces a few additional traits that you can access using existing cheats. Below, you’ll find the trait name, its description, and the cheat needed to activate it.

Trait	Description	Cheat	CAS Trait?
Skeptical	Your Sim questions everything around them and needs solid evidence to believe it.	traits.equip_trait trait_Skeptical	Yes
Chased By Death	Your Sim faces a greater chance of dying and experiences more close calls.	traits.equip_trait trait_ChasedByDeath	Yes
Macabre	Your Sim welcomes death and the eerie! These Sims can feel good in frightening situations.	traits.equip_trait trait_Macabre	Yes
Ghost Whisperer		traits.equip_trait GhostWhisperer	No
Grimborn	Your Sim is a descendant of the Grim Reaper.	traits.equip_trait Grimborn	No
Grim Descendant	Your Sim is the grandchild of the Grim Reaper.	traits.equip_trait GrimDescendant	No
Anger	Your Sim can express grief through anger to cope with sorrowful events.	traits.equip_trait trait_grief_anger	No
Blues	Your Sim can express grief through sadness to cope with sorrow.	traits.equip_trait trait_grief_depression	No
Denial	Your Sim can express grief through denial to deal with difficult events.	traits.equip_trait trait_grief_denial	No
Holding Together	Your Sim can express grief by trying to stay strong through trying times.	traits.equip_trait trait_grief_hold	No

If you notice any trait not included here, it’s likely that it doesn’t have a cheat available. Traits like Burning Soul, for instance, cannot be obtained using any cheat.

Career Cheats

The Life and Death expansion introduces two new careers: Reaper and Undertaker. While navigating these careers normally is an option, cheat codes can assist in promoting or demoting your Sims.

For an instant boost to the top of a career track, use the promotion cheats multiple times. Make sure to also develop their related skills to match their new role.

Skill Cheats

With the Life and Death expansion comes a new skill called Thanatology. This skill helps Sims gain insight into grief and death. In reality, thanatology involves studying the science of death and dying.

There are just five levels for this skill; to adjust your Sim’s Thanatology skill level, use the following cheat.

• Stats.Set_Skill_Level Minor_Thanatology [skill level]

When using this cheat, substitute [skill level] with a number from 1 to 5. For instance, entering “Stats.Set_Skill_Level Minor_Thanatology 5” will max out the skill. You can also lower a skill by entering a number that’s below the current skill level.

Aspiration Cheats

Next up are the aspiration cheats. There’s a new aspiration designed to guide your Sims toward a deep understanding of ghosts. To progress in the current stage of the Ghost Historian aspiration, you can utilize this cheat.

• aspirations.complete_current_milestone

This cheat works not only for the Ghost Historian aspiration but for any aspiration in the game. Just ensure that you are currently following the Ghost Historian path; you’ll need to have started it to use this cheat.

Ghost Mastery Cheats

Finally, we introduce Ghost Mastery. While inhabiting a ghost, your Sims can now enhance their ghostly skills and acquire new abilities. If you’re familiar with the mechanics involving vampires and witches in The Sims 4, you’ll find these are quite similar.

To gain additional experience in Ghost Mastery, use this cheat code:

• Stats.set_stat rankedstatistic_ghostpowers_ghostxp 20000