The reason it existed in the first place is it really is a game about all these different aspects of life. You have to set up a situation in which they end up having to meet the Grim Reaper in one way or another. And in most cases, you cannot directly smite a Sim. So it really has left any sort of injurious interaction of the player choosing to do something to the Sim. Lyndsay Pearson: Something important about the world of the Sims is the Sims cannot directly hurt each other. We spoke with Lyndsay Pearson, Executive Producer of The Sims, to see why players are given that power and why the Grim Reaper is part of the game. With this power comes the power to kill your Sims. The popular game lets you play puppet master to Sim families you create. Since the year 2000, The Sims have taken the gaming world by storm.