https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46806
--- Comment #10 from Bruni newdell338@gmail.com --- Judging by video, wine-staging successfully switches the game into 8-bit color mode since it writes fixme:x11drv:X11DRV_desktop_SetCurrentMode in log
wine-devel crashes at the moment it has to change color mode and doesn't log this message.
See https://wiki.winehq.org/256_Color_Mode
Looks like the game can be launched through wine-devel using "wine Sims.exe -skip_intro -skip_verify"