MySims Agents

The player begins as an aspiring detective alongside their friend Buddy in the Wii version. A) who informs the player that their application is approved and they are hired as a junior agent. The special agent notifies the player that the agency is onto the man from the dog case (whose name is revealed to be Morcubus) believing he has a grand villainous plan. A headquarters located in the town.

Inside the headquarters, there are five floors, four which can be decorated with furniture the player earns in the game. A, the player is also able to hire other citizens as junior agents, whose purpose is to solve dispatch missions. Each case which the player investigates involve several minigames which are analyzing chemicals, hacking, lock picking and repairing machines. The player wields several tools throughout the game which are a wrench used to salvage spare parts, a magnifying glass which is used to track footsteps and a crowbar used to pry objects open.

Electronic Arts announced the game during a press release on April 22, 2009 for both consoles, with the release date in North America being June 16 and elsewhere in the autumn of the same year. The game was developed by The Sims Studio and was the fifth game in the MySims series. According to general manager of the MySims series Tim LeTourneau, MySims Agents was going to be "completely different than any MySims game before". In a sneak peek for IGN, several producers who worked on the Wii version of the game, including lead producer Rachel Bernstein, gave a walkthrough of the game.

On September 25, 2009 the game was released for both the DS and the Wii in Europe, and four days later it was also released in North America. The game was later released in Australia on October 5, 2009.

The Wii version received "generally favorable reviews", while the DS version received "mixed or average" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, where the game was ported for release under the name Boku to Sim no Machi Agents: Mai no Kaitō Kara Hihō wo ma mo re Taisaku Ikusa! (ぼくとシムのまち エージェント 〜謎の怪盗から秘宝をまもれ大作戦！〜, Boku to Shimu no Machi Ējento 〜Mai no Kaitō Kara Hihō wo ma mo re Taisaku Ikusa!〜) on October 1, 2009, Famitsu gave it a score of 27 out of 40 for the DS version, and 26 out of 40 for the Wii version.

Matt Casamassina of IGN called the Wii version of the game "[his] favorite game in the series", praised its visuals and the minigames, but lamented the dialogue stating "much of the comedy, particularly from your sidekick character Buddy, isn't very funny" and that the "sickly sweet character dialog [sic]" from the previous games returns for "disappointing results". However, GameSpot's Allen Rausch felt that "Your sidekick Buddy, for example, provides most of the laugh-out loud humor through his wonderfully expressive body language." He offered that the game "stands out" as the best game from the MySims series. Rausch further complimented the adventurous nature of the game and its storyline, but criticized the simplicity of the puzzles.