Game: Home Deco Builder
Genre: Simulation, Other, Lifestyle
System: Nintendo Switch
Developer | Publisher: Kistler Studios
Age Rating: US Everyone | EU 3+
Price: US $6.99 | UK £6.29 | EU € 6,99
Release Date: February 27th, 2025
A review code was used with thanks to Kistler Studios.
Home Deco Builder is a relaxing game about interior decorating and lets you freely create your dream home in seconds! Choose from different room types and decorate your room as you want. This is the second game in the series by the same developer. Home Deco Puzzles was the first game, and the review for it is here.
Making Progress in Home Deco Builder
Home Deco Builder may seem like it has entered an oversaturated market of “fixer-upper” games involving home restoration and decorating, but as someone who is a big fan of these types of games, I say the more, the merrier.
In addition, I like progress! I like being able to unlock new things as I progress through a game, even games that don’t have a story or narrative to drive them.
Home Deco Builder offers the progression I long for in games. Okay, so it might only be a small progression, but it’s progression nonetheless.
How do you progress? By creating and saving rooms that you decorate. If you decorate and save a single room, you’ll then unlock the ability to decorate a double room. Decorate and save a double room and then you unlock the ability to decorate a penthouse. After that, the maisonette is left to unlock.
Now, call me greedy, but I would have liked to have seen a few more unlockable rooms or buildings after Maisonette, which could have been a townhouse, for example. I know, I know. Maybe I’m thinking too big, but I did say I love unlockables!
Start With a Template
Home Deco Builder offers some room templates to get you started and for you to add your own style too. These templates mostly consist of wall and floor colours and a window. This is where my main criticism lies. Because these templates already include wall and floor colours, there isn’t a way to change wall or floor colours in the game at all, except by using one of these pre-build rooms. This was a major downfall for me. One of my favourite parts of decorating games is choosing my own walls and floors, and not having the ability to do this in the game was very disappointing for me.
Lots of Customisation
A lack of custom walls and floors aside, Home Deco Builder does offer a myriad of furniture customisation options, from plants to sofas, sinks, rugs, curtains, laptops, and many more options. I also love the ability to put plants on shelves, mugs on tables, etc.
One thing I did notice is that when putting things on walls, sometimes (depending on which wall it’s put on) the asset will glitch into the wall (as can be seen in the image above with the wall-mounted TV). It’s not game-breaking, but it’s just aesthetically displeasing.
One more note – the controls, for the most part, are fine, but there is no way to rotate the room at all. You can zoom in and out, but not rotate, which annoyed me way more than it probably should have, but I like to see everything from all angles.
Conclusion
Home Deco Builder is a good game and offers plenty of customisation, but the inability to change wall and floor colours manually and the inability to rotate the rooms make it fall short of what could be a great entry into the home renovation genre.
Final Verdict: I Like It
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