The Sims Game Removed From Stores Without Warning
Electronic Arts has quietly removed one of The Sims games from online stores, seemingly without warning.
Following last year’s 25th anniversary celebrations of The Sims series, EA re-released the original The Sims and The Sims 2 for sale on digital storefronts like Steam and the EA App.
This allowed all four of the mainline The Sims games to be bought on these platforms, allowing players to grow and expand their collection.
However, some spin-off titles were not so lucky. As Sims Community reports, it appears that one spin-off of the series from 2011 has been quietly delisted and removed for purchase.
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The game in question is The Sims Medieval, a side entry in The Sims that essentially took the gameplay and style of the franchise and spun it off into medieval times. The main difference is that it also had a larger focus on narrative, coming with a story mode and quest-based system.
Players create a ‘Hero Sim’ and are tasked with building a successful kingdom by fulfilling their sim’s ambition, with different ambitions depending on the sim’s backstory.
This meant that the traditional open-ended gameplay of The Sims came second to the storytelling, with character customisation and home building being severely reduced as a result.
Still, despite moving away from some of the key pillars of The Sims’ gameplay foundation, there were a lot of interesting things The Sims Medieval was doing.
Compromises made to fit the new setting were genuinely quite fun, and the RPG mechanics helped to revitalise a series that was starting to get a little samey. It remained on sale as a physical and digital game until earlier this year.
The Sims Medieval Is No Longer Available For Purchase
As Sims Resource states, The Sims Medieval was quietly delisted from Steam two months ago, on 10 March 2026.
Meanwhile, the EA App store page is still up but shows that the game is “Not Available” for purchase. Instead, it points you towards other Sims games that are still available, such as The Sims 3 or The Sims 4.
If you’ve previously purchased The Sims Medieval on Steam or the EA App, you’ll still be able to access the game. Even if it’s not installed, you can find it in your library and download it to continue playing.
However, new players who want to check the game out will have to resort to hunting down a physical copy. New copies are quite expensive for the age that the game is, but you can also track down pre-owned copies for about a fiver in some third-party marketplaces.
The Sims Medieval is one such example of Electronic Arts and Maxis branching out to create different types of experiences outside of the traditional The Sims gameplay.
Other games that experimented like this include The Sims Castaway Stories, which moved the setting to a deserted island, and The Urbz: Sims in the City, a console-only version of the series set in a city.
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