The Sims 4 cheats: a complete guide

Every reliable Sims 4 cheat — money, needs, careers, build mode and skills — with the exact steps to enable testingcheats and avoid save corruption.

The Sims 4 has one of the deepest and most stable cheat systems of any modern life-sim, and unlike many titles it still ships with the developer-supported testingcheats true command turned on by default. That means the entire library of Maxis-authored console commands works out of the box on PC, macOS, PlayStation 4/5 and Xbox One/Series consoles — provided you know how to open the cheat console and which commands are safe to combine.

Opening the cheat console

On PC and macOS, press Ctrl + Shift + C (Cmd + Shift + C on Mac) while a save is loaded. On PlayStation, hold all four shoulder buttons (L1 + L2 + R1 + R2) simultaneously. On Xbox, hold LB + LT + RB + RT. In every case, a small text bar appears at the top of the screen. Type testingcheats true to unlock the advanced cheats; money cheats such as motherlode work without it.

The money cheats you will actually use

rosebud or kaching — adds 1,000 Simoleons.
motherlode — adds 50,000 Simoleons.
money [amount] — sets the active household's funds to a specific value, e.g. money 250000.

Money cheats do not disable achievements or Gallery uploads. They are the single safest category of cheat in the game.

Needs, moods and relationships

With testingcheats on, shift-click on a Sim (or press the equivalent modifier on console) to reveal a "Cheat Need" and "Modify in CAS" menu. From there you can max needs, set mood, or add/remove buffs. To adjust a relationship, use modifyrelationship [First1] [Last1] [First2] [Last2] 100 LTR_Friendship_Main — replace the last token with LTR_Romance_Main for a romantic bar.

Career, skill and aspiration cheats

careers.promote [career_name] — instantly promotes the active Sim.
stats.set_skill_level [Skill_Name] [1-10] — e.g. stats.set_skill_level Major_Logic 10.
aspirations.complete_current_milestone — completes the current aspiration goal.

Skill and career names are exact strings; if a cheat fails, it is almost always a typo in the internal name, not a broken game.

Build mode power tools

Press bb.moveobjects on to disable object collision, letting you overlap items and place them at any height using the 9 and 0 keys. bb.showhiddenobjects reveals developer-only debug items. freerealestate on (in neighborhood view only) makes every lot free to move into, ignoring your household budget.

Safety notes moderators keep re-adding

Save before you experiment. Any cheat that spawns a Sim, kills a Sim, or manipulates pregnancy can create edge cases the base game does not always recover from. A manual save takes three seconds.
Avoid stacking pregnancy cheats. Speeding up pregnancy while also modifying the Sim in CAS is the most common source of corrupted households we see in reports.
testingcheats does not disable Gallery uploads or achievements. That is a persistent myth from The Sims 3.