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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.

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.

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.

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.