Home Designer - Living Room

Review

Your friend Hazel has been given an interesting task by her aunt: to refurbish her empty living room. The beauty of it is that Hazel’s aunt has plenty of objects to liquidate, and all proceeds will go towards paying for the new furniture and decorations. What a great idea for two rookies to get involved in the world of home design. Don’t disappoint Hazel’s aunt, as she is looking forward to a brand-spanking new living room.

Home Designer - Living Room is a casual Hidden object game that also includes several mini-games and was developed by Mad Data and published by HH-Games on the 26^th of August 2020 on the Steam platform.

What an enjoyable little game to pass the time, and it seems to go on forever and ever, which is good for replayability. It is very suitable for all ages, and I would encourage people to play with their children as most of the levels are well-suited for youngsters around 6 years old, although some levels that involve words instead of images might be a bit difficult for them. If you are still in the early stages of your life, like me (around 50), you’ll be fine and might enjoy it too!

What I like about this game is that it provides hidden object levels in 15 different ways, which is really good. For example, some levels will show pictures, words or silhouetted objects, in others you will have to memorise the image or objects. You also have several mini-games, where you have to either play a Match 3 (with a couple of modes), pair cards in which the set of cards is face down at the start, find words in a grid of letters, reconstruct puzzles and challenge yourself in a mahjong game. Each of the levels is based on time. So, you have a time gauge that moves down steadily on the normal level of difficulty and slightly faster on the hard difficulty. You’ll receive money after finishing the level and a bit extra if you manage to complete it before the time runs out. In the hidden objects stages, there are two collectables to find for additional cash: a gold coin and the Origaming logo. There are no other ways to gain more cash in the mini-games, except for match 3 games if you detonate a bomb. If you experience some difficulty finding items in the hidden object levels, you still have two hint buttons to help you.

But there are some issues in this game. The first one is the quality of the pictures, which are really below average, which is a bit of a shame. There are not many picture variations, which is not great. To give you an idea, the puzzle mini-game only has one picture for the entire game.

Regarding the decoration of the living room itself, it’s ok. After collecting cash, you can go back to the living room and purchase some goods. There are 17 different areas to decorate, each of which has around 10 items you can select from and varies in value. So ensure you have enough money on hand in case you see an item you want to purchase.

Despite the lack of pictures and average graphics, the game has enough variations to provide good replayability and is fun to play. I play this game on my 4k 32 inches monitor without any issue whatsoever.

Review written by THE CPT FROGGY for Zeepond.com

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