MakeRoom

Good decorating game currently for low price, which already feels more flexible and enjoyable than Tiny Glade, but has problems and missing features. GOOD: - Ability to create custom objects - Complete freedom to resize and move anything - you could even design your entire houseplan - Easy on your GPU, even 1440 on an old card BAD: - The controls are awful. The controller "support" is useless because it's a fake mouse cursor, not a real controller configuration. Escape doesn't close menus, close button is far from the menu. No tooltips. No shortcut keys displayed anywhere, nor any way to change them (I found delete key works only by button mashing). I did the tutorial with the controller then found it was bad so switched to mouse but couldn't find any keyboard controls. There's no quick way to switch between room decoration and custom object decoration - you keep having to save and exit to the main menu. A recent patch note claims you can group objects, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. - You can lock and hide individual objects, but cannot unlock and unhide - instead you have to unlock or unhide every single object in the room with a global control. - Any new walls or floors you add cannot have their own color and material - they have to follow the room's existing wall and floor. So you can't make a house with rooms of different colors - which would be a wonderful possibility for the game, since you can already shrink objects to make the room look like a whole house. - You cannot name or duplicate saved rooms. So there's no way to work on different versions of the same project. - The "Objectives" and cleaning part of the game are utterly pointless and serve only to prevent you from using about 10 hidden objects. It may as well be removed in favour of focussing on free decoration and creation. Really hope the programmer adds customisable walls and floors, bigger rooms, customisable hotkeys, tooltips, room duplication, and object grouping - it would be a fantastic home design tool then.

this might be the first time ive gone out of my way to write a genuine review for a game. i grew up on house decorating flash games as a little kid- i spent a significant amount of my childhood making cute little bedrooms and the like, wishing there was more detail in said games. as i grew older i would pick up more and more games with home decoration as a way to express yourself on the side, with much less limitations- think webkinz, animal jam, the sims etc. but decorating was always a side mode compared to everything else you could do on these aforementioned games. i always wished to find just a game about decoration, nothing else, with a way to include your own assets and truly go wild. i was gifted this game by one of my dear friends and it is honestly one of the best gifts i have received. this game is exactly what 7 year old me on my dad's computer wanted all those years ago, and i love it. i have so much fun sitting down and making adorable little rooms whenever i'm having a hard day and just want to unwind. it has almost everything i was looking for. community and self-made creations, being able to use custom textures from your computer, exact resizing and rotation options with no space or placement limits, being able to choose and set the time of day and ambience, being able to add individual effects like smoke and fireflies, etc. this game goes above and beyond as an interior and even exterior decorating game. makeroom as simple as it is has embedded itself into my heart and it will likely be my go-to whenever i need to quench my urge to re-organize my room every instant. could not recommend this game enough if you're looking for a calm title to pass the time, whether it be pouring your heart out into a room that takes you hours to finish or just getting a handful of silly items from the workshop and lighting everything on fire. <3

I use this to mockup bedrooms for my art and take screenshots. Worth it for the reference material alone.