i posted a sims 4 tracking spreadsheet here about a year ago and a lot of people ended up using it, which was honestly very cool to see. since then i’ve kept updating it for my own save while i slowly rebuild my entire simverse. what started as a few tweaks turned into a pretty full overhaul, so i figured it was worth sharing the updated version.

if you’re someone who plays what people call a forever save (rotational households, legacy families, rebuilding worlds, deleting all the townies because ea insists on generating chaos), this is the system i use to keep everything organized.

because let’s be honest, if we’re waiting for ea to give us better long-term save management tools… we’ll be waiting forever.

the spreadsheet is designed to track the main things that start getting messy once a save gets big:

• sims list – the main tracker for every sim in your world  

• total overview – population stats by world, age group, and gender  

• career overview – helps keep careers balanced so you don’t accidentally create a world with 11 painters and zero doctors  

• residential lots – which households live where  

• cemetery – because eventually every legacy family needs one  

• world lots – venue tracking  

• visit tracker (hidden) – just for fun, counts how often the file gets opened. I use this because I share the file publicly, you can use it to track your own usage or delete the tab altogether. 

each page now has a small guide built directly into the sheet explaining how it works, so the massive instruction comment from the original post is no longer necessary.

the sheet has also been updated to include all new worlds, deaths, etc. if you used my file previously, you’ll be happy to know I remembered toddlers exist. 

[DOWNLOAD FILE HERE](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U_HdKcMKO-frwgwJNsHGlRUQRa8fmbOqKTVy8gZFzQY/htmlview)

to use it:  

1. open the sheet  

2. click file → make a copy  

3. start filling in your sims

feel free to modify it however you want. sims players are nothing if not extremely particular. 

hope it helps someone else keep their forever save slightly more organized than ea intended. 🫶🏻

my sims 4 forever save spreadsheet (upd. 2026)