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The Love Island villa has been perfectly recreated in The Sims 4.
Creator Steph0Sims spent a total of 15 hours building the venue for this year's ITV2 dating reality series, using in-game tools to replicate everything the Islanders are experiencing and viewers are seeing on television including the Beach Hut, the fire pit, balcony, outdoor swimming pool and the communal bedroom.
YouTuber Steph even created The Hideaway for any Sims couple that might want a night alone to WooHoo, the name given to the interaction used in The Sims series as a euphemism for sex.
Home from home: The Love Island villa has been perfectly recreated in The Sims 4 after creator Steph0Sims spent a total of 15 hours building the venue for this year's ITV2 dating reality series (L: Sims bedroom, R: Actual villa bedroom)
Discussing her process for recreating the Mallorca villa in such astonishing detail, Steph said: 'Literally just guessing!
'Love Island didn’t release any floor plans, so I had to work it out as I went along based on the size of rooms and furniture.
'Every single object had to be placed individually including all the strip lights on the floor, so I ended up with 15 hours of recorded footage.'
Recreation: Steph used in-game tools to replicate everything the Islanders are experiencing and viewers are seeing on television including the fire pit area (L: Sims fire pit area, R: real fire pit area)
Steph decided to make the Love Island villa because she is such a huge fan of the 2022 series on which contestants such as Gemma Owen - the daughter of retired England striker Michael Owen - Danica Taylor, Luca Bish and Davide Sanclimenti try and find true love.
But there is one Islander that Steph just can't enough of, Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu, and she intends to make an Ekin-Sim character to inhabit the pixelated villa.
Steph said: 'Watching Ekin-su and literally whatever man she is coupled up with sneak around the villa kissing and try to not get caught by others is the only thing I care about. Ekin-su is the main character. Ekin-Sim coming soon!'
Away from view: YouTuber Steph created the terrace for any Sims couple that wants to sneak away from a private moment like when Ekin-Su crawled away from the group for her secret snog with Jay while coupled-up with Davide (L: Sims terrace, R: real villa terrace)
Steph says the reason she enjoys Love Island so much is because it has so many similarities to the iconic life simulation game.
She added: 'Playing The Sims, especially when you let them go wild and do their own thing, literally feels like watching a reality TV show play out right before your eyes.
'You never know what they’re going to do next and that’s the fun of watching reality TV.'
Mirror image: Steph says the reason she enjoys Love Island so much is because it has so many similarities to the iconic life simulation game (Sims villa pictured)
The Sims 4 players can download the Love Island villa via the in-game community gallery by searching for Steph0Sims.
It can be placed on any 64x64 lot, and will cost any household moving 376,520 in Sims currency but requires players to have purchased and downloaded the majority of packs.
The Sims 4 is available on PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X.
Level up: This year's villa, which is Love Island's third, is located just 10 minutes from last year's base but bosses were keen to give the show a 'glow up' ahead of its eighth series
It comes as it was announced Love Island will air two series in 2023, with the landmark winter series returning to South Africa after three years away.
The new series of the show will come to ITV2 and new channel ITVX in the New Year, with January seeing a fresh batch of Islanders heading to South Africa on a quest for love and romance.
Meanwhile, summer 2023 will see the dating show return to Mallorca for another eight week run.
Your type on paper: It comes after ITV bosses announced Love Island will air two series in 2023, with the landmark winter series returning to South Africa after three years away (pictured 2020 winter series winners Paige Turley and Finn Tapp)
The landmark debut winter series aired in January 2020 - shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic - and was won by Paige Turley and Finn Tapp.
Plans for a second winter series were shelved in 2021 amid concerns surrounding the pandemic.
Paige and Finn said in the wake of the announcement: 'Love Island enabled us to find love with someone that without the show, our paths would never have crossed.
'We both found everything that we'd asked for in a partner in each other and we now live together in Manchester (we've been here for almost two years). We've got a new amazing group of friends and literally couldn't imagine life without each other.'
Ratings juggernaut: Love Island 2022 scored its biggest launch show ratings since the 2019 series with a a whopping five million viewers tuning in to the saucy series' first episode earlier this month (pictured Gemma Owen and Luca Bish on the current series)
Wow: 2020 winter series alum Callum Jones and Molly Smith are another show success story - and are still together 2.5 years on
Paul Mortimer, Director of Reality Commissioning and Controller, ITV2, said 'Love Island has once again proved itself to be the nation's favourite talking point across the summer, and we're always blown away by the show's ongoing impact and talkability amongst our younger audience. So, rather than just serving up a Summer of Love, we thought we'd make 2023 the Year of Love with two full series of the show.'
Mike Spencer, Executive Producer at Lifted Entertainment, said 'After eight brilliant series, we are excited to be serving up two helpings of love in 2023 by kicking off in January at a stunning new villa in South Africa. We can look forward to more romances, bromances and everything in between as we embark on another epic year of love.'
Love Island 2022 scored its biggest launch show ratings since the 2019 series with a a whopping five million viewers tuning in to the saucy series' first episode earlier this month.
Smitten: Series two runners-up Olivia Buckland and Alex Bowen were the first Love Island couple to tie the knot in 2018, 2 years after meeting on the show. They recently welcomed a son, Abel
Yay: While series two winners Cara De La Hoyde and Nathan Massey wed in 2019 and are now parents to two children
Love: Fellow 2017 series alum Dom Lever and Jess Shears wed in 2018 and now share a son. They are expecting a second boy imminently
Family: 2017 runners-up Camilla Thurlow and Jamie Jewitt are now parents to two daughters and tied the knot last year
The opening saw a rise of 0.2 million viewers based on 2021's launch, with the following series going on to be streamed a staggering 32 million times.
Consolidated data has confirmed that the Love Island launch is now officially the biggest programme of the year for the 16-34 year old demographic.
For 16-34 year old viewers the show averaged 1.8m TV viewers with a 61.6% share
