I had a household of 6 sims and I decided to make it easier on myself by splitting it up into two and switching between them. With no story progression, I assumed this was safe. I played one household for about 30 sim days and when I went to switch back two of my sims were gone. They aren't deceased, they didn't move, so where are they? One was a child . Are they just gone from the game forever?

I'm sorry this happened to you

What are your aging settings? Are you sure they didn't die of old age? Or maybe the adults died of old age so the child got taken away?

Yes, this is apparently a glitch. I posted about it yesterday. 10 of my sims have disappeared out of 3 of my households.

I tried to search for a solution on the web and came up empty handed. Give feedback at the official forms so they know it's something to fix.

None of mine have disappeared and I have been messing around with manage households a lot. Do you think it happens because of the aging options? I have townies/unplayed households aging while the ones I play don't age until they are active.

I've been messing around with manage households, too, but no one is aging in my games yet (not until I've figured out more about the game). No Sims have gone missing either. Yet.

I had one of mine disappear right in front of me. He was standing on the sidewalk, talking to another sim, and *POOF* that other sim just went buh-bye. He was one of my created sims. Playing that household didn't bring him back.

Has anyone tried going back to a previous save? I'm wondering if those auto saves are any use.

I just installed my game yesterday. I made a character put him in one house and saved it. Then made another character put her in a separate house saved that. Went to play the game today. My girl character was in her house but the male character was't in his. He was in the unplayed world list.

My Sims did it yesterday but it hasn't been doing it all the time.
Must be a glitch but know idea how to fix it. Also my Sims tend to say they are at school when in fact they are in the tub.

Seems like this bug hadnt appeared for first days, but now it's progressing. Reported it on official forum. Still no responce.

I have been playing the sims4 ever since launch day and nothing happened to me until last night on the 8th of Sept. Last night I had my first missing objects in my household...I didn't like it because my family couldn't afford to buy that object again but I figured okay, it's a glitch and it'll be fixed, but for now, I'll just use a cheat to give them the money to buy it back....that was the start of it...several more things disappeared afterwards and worst of all, I had my sim leave the house to go visit another sim to cheat on his spouse. Anyway, after my sim returned home, his spouse had disappeared. Oh, both he and his spouse were young adults. The other two in the house were adults and they were still there. Makes my skin crawl because she is nowhere to be found and I've searched everywhere....she's not in any other household played in Willow Creek or Oasis Springs and not in any unplayed household either. She just vanished into thin air....now this I can't take. Sure, I can come up with a copy of her by digging her out of the family I created and add her back into the game, but then she won't have all the friends, relationships, skills, etc., that she accrued over the course since she joined the family. My first thoughts came that she must've died somehow, but how could she die when there is no evidence left anywhere of it happening, and nobody's moodlets reflect the fact that someone in the family just died? So...if she did die, then I'm sorry, but I need some sort of proof...sims crying or at least very tense like when the stove caught fire one time....or a headstone/urn somewhere to show that she died...anything...proof if indeed that is what happened, because if it did happen, then I'm okay with it...but to die and nobody care seems a bit strange since the whole family was best friends with each other...

To restore your lost Sim: If your Sim is greyed out and missing, you can get him/her back by manager household, move that Sim in with another family, then right back out again to his original family and the Sim will be restored.

I had this problem, but mine the Goth family (who I had four childen with my sim) and my female sim (who moved out with her baby son into a house with the sister of the babies father) but instead of being greyed about they are just gone, not in the household manage meant, says the goth family is empty - they was all children and just disappeared.

The sim living with the babies aunt is gone too but the aunt is still there with her son.

It's actually made my game unplayable because I'm sure all my sims that I have worked hard to create and raise, are just going to disappear without a family. What's the point of playing a life simulation game without generations. They have also forgotten their dead father (his graves outside) but they don't know who he is (nametag is blank) - the mom didn't even care or reconise he had died at her feet.

I hope they sort it out soon

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My sim that disappeared isn't greyed out...she is gone completely from the family and she don't show up in manage household as greyed out. It's like she didn't exist in the family....however, checking the notification wall it shows that she once existed because all of her notifications are still there, and the notifications uses her name in the dialogue, however, her picture is just an outline and the name is just a blank line. Since my sim slept over to his mistress's house that night and found her missing when he got home the next day....I kept playing to see if she would return from work, since she was already gone to work when he got home, but no such luck. So, I am convinced that she isn't coming back and have decided to put it down to her having been abducted by aliens and carried to some distant galaxy, she caught wind of the affair and ran off, or she was kidnapped and locked away in some perv's basement and that her husband and her parents will forever be looking for her....lol. Maybe the glitch has something to do with the fact that this was her first day of work and control was on her husband, ever since she got the job, on another lot....hmmm (I'll make sure from now on that his wife goes and returns from work at least one day if he ever cheats again...lol). So, my sim didn't die because there is no grave/urn...she is just gone like your sims, Marvelgirl. I bet if you check your notification wall you will see what I am talking about.

Thanks flashet, will check when I next get on. Can't load Goth lot at all but will try the Aunts family.

Sorry its been a while since I checked this thread. Didn't expect so many replies. I too have looked all over the internet for a solution to this problem and haven't found it. I know they didn't age up and die. They aren't listed in my other family's relationship panel as deceased and one of them was a child at the beginning of the child life stage and my lifespan settings were set to long. Also, the mother of that child that also disappeared was younger than the father, who did not disappear. She was a young adult and he is an adult. Plus there are plenty of townies who were young adults when I started the game and haven't even reached elder yet, nearly 100 sim days later. They aren't anywhere in the world either or listed in the manage worlds under played or unplayed sims. They just disappeared.

Yikes. Bet that'll be fixed by the time I buy it ^^

I had no idea they could disappear altogether. I thought only the grey-out bug was the thing. *sigh*

Just wanted to add that last night one of my households of sims vanished too! It was an elder and two teens but I have all kinds of aging off. They were one of my four played households.

They are not listed in any of their extended family's relationship panels any more. The household name is still there under 'played households' in the manage families screen, but the box is empty. The sims have completely vanished! I do have the option to play the house they live in, but my game goes unresponsive when I try to do so.

This is game-breaking IMO.

That's so sad!