The next major Sims game is finally in the works, but Project Rene (as it's known for now) isn't exactly what we expected. After spending a couple years referring to it as "The Sims 5" for lack of an official name, we now know that there isn't a Sims 5, at least not in the way we expected.
Right after making the base game Sims 4 free-to-play and committing to continued gameplay updates and DLCs, Maxis also let on that it's actively developing the next Sims game under the code name "Project Rene."
