Relationships are a beautiful thing, whether romantic or platonic. This holds true inThe Sims 4, where you can form meaningful relationships with the Sims around you. Of course, as a video game, you can also cheat your way into relationships with other people in The Sims 4.

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Here, we are going to go over all the cheats in The Sims 4 related to relationships with others. These cheats can help boost your relations, alter connections, and maybe even cause some mayhem. First, let’s take a look at how to use cheats if you have never done so before.

How To Enable Cheats In The Sims 4

Before you may use cheats, you need toenable the ability to do so.This can be done by following the steps listed below, which are separated by the platform that you play The Sims 4 on.

Console (Xbox and PlayStation)

the sims 4 command bar with testingcheats true enabled

All 4 Shoulder Buttons

Once you have done this, a text box will appear at the top of your screen;this is where you type in cheats. Prior to typing in a cheat, type in the following words.

With that, you are all set to start using cheats!

How To Increase & Decrease Friendship

If you want to alter your platonic relationship, there is a cheat for this. You will be able toincrease and decrease this friendship, which is displayed in the green bar.Below, you’re able to see the cheat that lets you increase and decrease this friendship.

Rather than two separate cheats, you will use one to alter the number of friendship points. By using anypositive number, the friendship will increase.Conversely, usingany negative number will cause the friendship to decrease.Let’s take a look at an example if you wanted to decrease the friendship between Bella Goth and Geoffrey Landgraab.

The Sims 4 Sims Hugging

How To Increase & Decrease Romantic Relationship

Similar to platonic relationships, you will alsouse one cheat to manipulate romantic relationships, which is displayed in the pink bar.The cheat to do so can be found below.

As you can see, it’s pretty similar to the platonic cheat, with the exception of ‘Romance’ at the end. Below, you can see an example of this cheat used to increase the romantic relationship between Bella Goth and Mortimer Goth.

Two Sims share their first kiss on the beach in Windenburg

How To Change Pet Relationships

If you have the Cats and Dogs DLC, you may also alter your relationship with these pets. This cheat follows the previous two, making it easy to remember.

Remember, when using this cheat,you will still need to type in the first and last names of both the Sim and the pet in question.Like the other cheats, negative numbers will decrease your relationship, while positive numbers will increase it.

A Sim plays with her cat while kittens run around the brightly-colored purple and blue room

Introducing Your Sim To Everyone

If you aren’t looking for an instant friend (or lover), you can also opt to just meet everyone in town. The following cheat willintroduce your Sim to everyone in the neighborhood,but it won’t solidify these as friendships; you have to do that part yourself.

Creating Friends

Lastly, let’s look at how to create an instant friend. This cheat will seeminglycreate a Sim out of thin air who is already friends with your Sim.

Rather than typing in the name of your Sim,you will need to have them selected.It’s important to note that the created friendwill not be added to your household; they will just exist as an NPC in the world.

Four Sims from The Sims 4 sit at a bar. One is talking about grilled cheese, while the other three listen

two friends with good compatibility in the sims 4