The Sims 4: Life and Death could actually be the expansion that gets the game back in my favor

Maybe it's because I recently re-watched Monsters Inc., but I couldn't help but remember the beginning of this movie as I was starting my first day of work as a trainee editor in the newest expansion, The Sims 4, Life and Death,” began .

It's an active job – one that you can take part in, rather than being sent down a rabbit hole like some traditional Sims careers – so I'm taken to a small house where an accident doll lies in the recovery position, waiting that I'll figure out how to do it. The hell it died. I have already made all the preparations in the office. Standard stuff, you know, like sharpening my scythe, practicing my harvest swing, and ordering office supplies. The whetstones must not run out.

Grim, the big bad death guy who has been a presence on the show for ages, stands at the entrance to the house and watches as I inspect things like the doll's temperature, pulse, and pockets to see if I'm any closer to the truth can come. After poking around the “corpse” for a while, I came to the conclusion that the poor thing had died from killer rabbits. Neato. I get top marks for the day.

Career is just one of them many Death events in the new expansion, if the name wasn't already a big giveaway. There are playable ghosts, “customizable mourning rituals,” wish lists, and, er, romances with death itself. I'm not going to lie, I didn't think I'd ever live in a timeline where you could bone the only Grim Reaper without mods could, but here we are. It's an expansion that's extremely scary and, more importantly, damn good.