RELAXING MATCH 3 GAME. EASY GAMEPLAY WITH CHALLENGING
ROUNDS FROM TIME TO TIME.

INTERFACE IS CLEAN AND SHARP AND FITS MY HD SETUP (1080p).

YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW THE BLUEPRINT/SKETCH GIVEN
IN EACH SESSION IN ORDER TO COMPLETE THE TASK.

SOUNDS FX IS REALLY NICE AND KEEPS YOU PLAYING FOR HOURS.

IT IS A SIMPLE MATCH 3 GAME WITH NO PARTICULAR DIFFICULTY.
YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND GIVE IT A TRY.

6/10 play a Match 3 game to get money so you can buy/choose one of 3 items to put in a house for people well you get a tiny bit of story every time.
a little on the slow side
boxes are slow to fall
takes time to start the level and end it
no timers, turn based. you can play at your own speed, i choose to increase the game speed by 2. made it more enjoyable

Home Designer - Makeover Blast is a free mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as a paid product by the morally bankrupt developers, HH Games. It's a basic match-3 game with a "home decoration" theme that doesn't change much about the fact this is a lazy Bejewelled ripoff.

From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics.

Because this is a mobile app, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the iPhones that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate handicaps and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was an afterthought for the iPhone developers who are to blame for this. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for mobile phones forces upon a game. Once more, mobile devs have made gaming worse for everyone. I didn't spend thousands on building a gaming rig just so I could pretend it's an iPhone.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

Once more we see greedy mobile devs trying to scam PC gamers. On Steam, this is $5 USD, on app stores, it's free. Mobile devs must learn PC gamers are not here to be gouged, and can't be expected to pay a premium for a free mobile game just because it's been lazily dumped on Steam. This is unacceptable disrespect for PC gamers. Because this can be played free elsewhere, and because of the other defects, it's impossible to recommend. Who do they think we are?

This is a frustrating game. There is minimal decorating, because you spend the low money amounts on the hard puzzles. I have played 58 hours and have gotten maybe a piece of furniture. Bummed, could of made way better for the consumer.

I am giving this a lukewarm recommendation.

The basic premise: play match-3 boards to unlock furniture in order to decorate three different rooms.

The match-3 puzzles satisfyingly escalate in difficulty, introducing and then combining gimmicks such as irregular board layouts, breakable crates and canisters, expanding foam, bubble barriers, stacked cups, durable piggy banks, popping toasters, illuminating lightbulbs, and color-coded urns.

Making larger matches spawns powerups on the board that explode in set patterns, and you also have an inventory of one-use tools to help you clear objectives faster.

Tools can be replenished by ranking up your designer prestige, completing 10 levels in a row to unlock a loot box, or spinning a prize wheel every 30 minutes.

The design element of the game is pretty bare bones, though. Each room has a set number of possible items placed in predetermined locations, and there are only three variations of each item to choose from. You are given a suggested plan to follow, but you can keep solving match-3 boards to unlock some of the alternate furniture if you want to play around with different configurations.

The reason I can't full-heartedly recommend it, however (despite the solid match-3 gameplay) is that it is buggy.

First off, those design plans I mentioned that are supposed to show the correct furniture for each room? Not only are some of the pieces depicted the original junk furniture from the "before," but the plan for the last room shows every chair and table variation layered on top of each other like some horrible furniture chimera. Not quite the aesthetic we're going for here.

Secondly, on the selection menu there is a progress meter for each room showing how many total pieces of furniture you've unlocked. All of the maximum values are wrong, displaying 58, 59, and 62 instead of 51, 54, and 57.

Third, when I had it installed on a previous computer, it kept randomly crashing (although to be fair I'm not sure how much of that was the game and how much was that computer dying.)

Lastly, and most egregiously, after unlocking 105 out of a possible 162 pieces of furniture, and playing somewhere around 275-300 match-3 boards, the match-3 functionality broke irreparably. It jumped to, and softlocked in the middle of loading, a "Level 999" with zero moves and a checklist of four objectives at 99 each. I force closed the game, restarted, and tried again, and that time it softlocked on a "Level 999" with 99 moves and zero objectives. It is now impossible for me to play further, or to unlock any of the remaining furniture.

tldr; If you want to play about 15-20 hours of good match-3 without micro-transactions or ads, alongside some very simplistic interior decorating, and don't mind that you won't be able to unlock all the furniture options or earn 100% completion, then give this a shot.

pretty kwl game reminds m of candy crush with the puzzles

I played until the second room. Some levels seem to be designed that you *must* use tools. The blocks drop that they are in a checkboard style pattern so that you never have the chance for two similar blocks beside. Very frustrating.

Just honestly a basic match 3 game that is bland and repetitive, it isn't worth the time of a 9 year old if they didn't put the game down in under 5 minutes. Even if you do play through the whole game it would take an estimate of close to an hour. Not worth it in the slightest.

Doesn't look like much in the beginning. It's a click to match 3.

Simple as that, but it's a pleasure to play.