The Sims (2000)

All time rank: 96 of 1,000
2000s rank: 34 of 275
2000 rank: 5 of 24
List appearances: 42 lists
Developer: Maxis
Platforms: Apple MacintoshWindows PC
Genre: Life Simulation
Series: SimCityThe Sims
Wikipedia: Wikipedia
IGDB: IGDB
HowLongToBeat: HowLongToBeat
Main: ~20h
Main+Extra: ~33h
100%: ~46h
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The Sims

Source Lists

All time 30
2025 Indy100
The best 100 video games of all time #38
2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Greatest Video Games of All Time #24
2024 Moustique
On a classé les 100 meilleurs jeux vidéo depuis la sortie de Pong en 1972 #43
2023 British GQ
The 100 greatest video games of all time, ranked by experts #41
2023 GameStar
Die 300 besten PC-Spiele: Das große Ranking #95
2020 Collider
The Greatest and Most Influential Video Games of All Time #1
2019 IGN
Top 100 Video Games of All Time #64
2018 GameStar
Die 250 besten PC-Spiele aller Zeiten - Das große GameStar-Ranking #84
2018 Hyper
The 200 Games You Must Play #1
2018 IGN
Top 100 Video Games of All Time #65
2017 Polygon
The 500 best games of all time #43
2017 Stuff
Stuff's Best Games Ever: The 50 greatest games of all time #50
2016 Digitally Downloaded
The top 100 of all time! #18
2016 Time
The 50 Best Video Games of All Time #31
2013 NA
1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die #1
2012 Complex
The 50 Best PC Games Of All Time #12
2012 G4
Top 100 Video Games of All Time #91
2012 GamesRadar+
The 100 best games of all time #40
2012 Gameswelt
Gameswelt Top 100 #91
2012 Time
All-TIME 100 Video Games #1
2011 Stuff
Countdown of top 100 games #70
2010 FHM
FHM's 100 Greatest Games of All Time #32
2009 Benchmark.pl
100 najlepszych gier XX wieku #1
2009 Empire
The 100 Greatest Games #38
2009 Game Informer
The Top 200 Games Of All Time #70
2008 Stuff
100 Greatest Games #61
2006 NA
Game On! The 50 Greatest Video Games Of All Time #1
2005 Yahoo! UK
The 100 Greatest Computer Games of All Time #15
2003 Entertainment Weekly
We rank the 100 greatest early video games #7
2003 GameSpot
The Greatest Games of All Time #1
Decade 5
2021 The Guardian
The 15 greatest video games of the 00s – ranked! #2
2010 CNN
The top 10 video games of the past decade #1
2010 Gamereactor
Decenniets Dundertitlar #12
2009 Complex
The 100 Best Video Games and PC Games From the 2000s #99
2009 The A.V. Club
The 15 best videogames of the ’00s #14
Miscellaneous 2
2023 Edge
The 100 Greatest Games of Edge's Lifetime #94
2019 The Guardian
The 50 best video games of the 21st century #17
End of year 5
2021 Goomba Stomp
The Best Games of the 2000s (2000) #2
2010 IGN
Best of the Decade (2000) #4
2001 Ars Technica
The first annual Game.Ars Über Game of the Year Awards (2000) #1
2001 Game Developers Choice Awards
GDCA Game of the Year 2000 #1
2000 D.I.C.E. Awards
Game of the Year 1999 #1

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