I picked up Sims 3 and pets bundled together for £9 or so. Very frequently you can get a 75% discount. Your best bet is, as others have mentioned, to wait for the steam sales to occur. Ambitions were nice and added a few cool things such as self employment but the careers were rather repetitive. I didn’t like Supernatural either because I found it boring. I wouldn’t recommend Isla Paradiso - it’s interesting and visually appealing but the world was designed so poorly that it may crash the game, which was never patched. I think Seasons, Late Night, and Generations add quite a lot the the experience. Other than that, they can be bought cheaply on some websites which allow players to sell codes to other players but they’re often shady (the games that they sell might have been bought with money from stolen credit cards which may cause them to get eventually deleted from your Origin account). And there’s a lot of expansion packs so even with the bargains it may add up to cost quite a lot. Sometimes there are nice bargains on Origin, otherwise they’re still pricy considering how long it’s been since their release. It may be difficult because generally The Sims is not a cheap game with its numerous expansion and stuff packs.
