Sims 4 relationship cheats

Open the console with Ctrl + Shift + C on a Windows PC. On a Mac, try the same shortcut first and then Command + Shift + C, because EA's own FAQ and the community guides disagree about which one applies. On PlayStation, hold R1, R2, L1 and L2 together. On Xbox, hold RB, RT, LB and LT.

Then type testingcheats trueCopy and press Enter. Relationship commands sit squarely in the group that EA gates behind that switch, alongside the skill, career, trait and stat commands. Without it, the console accepts what you type and nothing changes.

Friendship and romance each sit on a scale that runs from -100 at the bottom to 100 at the top. The bar you see under a Sim's portrait in the relationship panel is that number drawn as a line, with the midpoint at zero.

The number in the command is added to the current score rather than replacing it. Two Sims sitting at 40 friendship who get a 30 end up at 70. Values that would push the score past either end are clamped, which is why most players just type 100 or -100 and let the game do the arithmetic.

There is no separate command for each stage of a relationship. Friendship is one score, so raising it far enough carries the relationship along with it, and romance is a second score that behaves the same way on its own.

A worked example. To make two Sims best friends and nothing more, enter modifyrelationship Bob Pancakes Eliza Pancakes 100 LTR_Friendship_MainCopy and leave the romance bar alone. To make them a couple, run the same command again with LTR_Romance_Main on the end.

modifyrelationship takes four name arguments: the first and last name of Sim one, then the first and last name of Sim two. A space separates each argument, which means a Sim whose surname has a space in it cannot be typed as one word and cannot be typed with the space either.

When a name is wrong, the console does not complain. It accepts the line and nothing happens, which sends most people looking for a problem with the cheat rather than with the spelling. Before you retype the command, check three things: the exact spelling in the relationship panel, whether the Sim has a nickname you have been using instead of their given name, and whether two Sims in the save share the same full name.

Capitalisation is not part of the problem. Cheat codes in The Sims 4 are not case sensitive, so bob pancakes and Bob Pancakes behave the same way.

If you need a Sim who is definitely reachable, run relationships.create_friends_for_simCopy. It spawns a new Sim on the lot who already counts as a friend, which is quicker than tracking down a townie and typing their name. To fill the relationship panel with everyone in the world at once, use relationship.introduce_sim_to_all_othersCopy. Note the singular relationship in one and the plural relationships in the other. That inconsistency is in the game, not a typo.

Sentiments can be attached to a modifyrelationship command by appending the sentiment token, but Sims Community records that doing so needs TwistedMexi's AllCheats mod rather than the base game. There is no vanilla console command for them, so anything you see presented as one is really a mod feature.

That leaves two honest options. Play the sentiment out in game, or use a mod that exposes it. The UI Cheats Extension is the lighter of the two: right-clicking the green Sentiments title bar in a Sim's profile adds one, right-clicking a sentiment removes it or sets its value from 0 to 100, and the same pattern covers relationship bits under the green Relationships title bar.

The commands are identical on all four platforms. What differs is how you reach the console and what it costs you.

On PlayStation and Xbox you open the console by holding all four shoulder buttons, and you type with the on-screen keyboard. Shift-clicking, which you need for the Cottage Living animal option, is holding Circle and pressing X on PlayStation, or holding B and pressing A on Xbox.

Console players have no mods at all. The Sims 4 on PlayStation and Xbox does not load script mods, so the typed command is the only route to a relationship cheat there. That is covered in full on whether UI Cheats works on console.

On PlayStation and Xbox, any cheat that needs testingcheats trueCopy turns off achievements and trophies for that save. Relationship cheats are in that group, so using one costs you the trophies in the save where you use it.

The penalty is per save, not per account. Other saves keep earning normally, which is why a common approach is one save for trophy hunting and another for building the family you actually wanted. Build mode cheats are the exception to the rule: EA states plainly that those do not disable achievements.

On PC and Mac, the UI Cheats Extension turns this into a right-click. It is a free script mod by weerbesu that makes the game's own panels respond to clicks, and the relationship panel is one of the panels it covers.

Inside the relationship panel:

• Right-click a Sim to set friendship or romance anywhere from -100 to 100, delete the relationship outright, or remove the romance bar.
• Right-click the icon that opens the relationship panel to add any Sim to it, including one your Sim has never met.

That covers the ground modifyrelationship covers, with two names fewer to spell and no silent failures. Deleting a relationship and removing a romance bar have no console equivalent at all.

See every UI Cheats click, panel by panel for the rest, including the sentiment and relationship bit cheats in the Sim profile. If you do not have the mod yet, start with how to install UI Cheats.

Work through these in order. The first two account for most cases.

1. Enter testingcheats trueCopy again. It does not survive loading a different save.
2. Check both names against the relationship panel, letter for letter, including the surname.
3. Check that you typed the bar name exactly: LTR_Friendship_Main or LTR_Romance_Main, with underscores and no spaces.
4. Check the number. A bar already at 100 will not visibly change when you add more to it.
5. If the console itself will not open or refuses every command, the problem is not this page. Go to the fixes for Sims 4 cheats not working.

If you are using the UI Cheats Extension and the right-click does nothing, the mod is the thing to check rather than the game. That has its own walkthrough on fixing UI Cheats when it stops working.