Home Design: Decorate House

Puzzles pay for the makeover

The game runs on a simple exchange. Each match-3 level you complete earns brushes, and brushes are the currency of the renovation: you spend them to repair the house and to decorate it. The puzzle board is where you earn and the mansion is where you spend, so the house only moves forward when the puzzles do. The game calls its puzzles challenging, and every one you finish adds to what you can spend on the house.

A mansion with plenty of ground

This is not one room to spruce up. The house comes with a great many rooms, plus gardens, swimming pools and playgrounds, and new rooms unlock as you go. The game points to a library, a kitchen, a garden, a tennis court and a pool among the spaces waiting for a makeover, and it says more areas are still to come.

Two games in one

What the game sells is the combination. The match-3 half supplies the challenge, and the decorating half gives each win somewhere visible to go. You are cast as the designer the mansion needs, and the work covers repairs as well as decoration. The stated aim is a dream house that ranks as the best manor in town.

A relaxed pace

It describes itself as a relaxing game, and the structure fits that promise: play a level, collect your brushes, spend them on the next improvement, and watch the mansion change a step at a time.