Someone recreated Friends in The Sims 4 and did a damn fine job

The One Where Joey Wees Himself Trying To Get Grade 8 Lute

Monday 08 September 2014 09:28 BST

The One Where Joey Wees Himself Trying To Get Grade 8 Lute (ian80)

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Recreating TV shows, characters and real world locations is a time-honoured tradition in gaming, from Walter White and a Kendrick Lamar album popping up in GTA 5 to the opening of Game of Thrones being remade in Little Big Planet 2 – hell, someone even recreated the entire country of Denmark in Minecraft.

The Sims 4 has barely been out a week but given its extensive customisation options it's already proving a playground for people with enough free time to sift through 500 shades of wallpaper to find the one that most closely resembles that of the bedroom of their favourite TV character.

This early Friends effort is pretty solid, with screen grabs posted by a gamer on Reddit showing Monica's, Phoebe's, Ross's and Joey and Chandler's apartments along with Central Perk, with serious attention to detail: