House Designer

I wanted a game that would let me design my own house in a fun and creative way, especially since my wife and I are planning to build one.
Overall, the game is quite intuitive. The tools work well, and I quickly got the hang of it without needing any tutorials.
Pros:
• Intuitive and easy to use
• Tools work smoothly and are quick to learn
• Runs well and performs consistently
• 3D interactive experience where you walk inside the house/open doors etc
Cons:
• Lacks depth and variety in decoration options such as wallpapers, stairs and roof styles
• Room and object proportions do not always match real-world scale, making large rooms feel smaller
• No free map editor, limiting creativity to preset maps
• Garage spaces feel small and lack car objects for realistic planning
• Swimming pool options are limited, and rooftop pools seem unavailable
Suggestions for improvement:
• Add more decorative options and building materials
• Introduce a free map or canvas editor
• Include vehicles and proper garage tools
• Allow rooftop pools and more flexible pool placement
• Add an export feature to create basic house plans for sharing with architects or engineers
Overall summary:
The game is good and runs well, it's got quite a smooth and intuitive design experience. However, it lacks the depth and customisation needed to take it to the next level. Maybe with more objects, decorative options, and an export or map editor feature, it could easily become a decent platform for both hobbyists and trainee architects. Even could be a go to platform for architects to show a immersive 3D version of a building.
I think it's a game that has the potential to become more. I would recommend it as it did help my wife and I to get a general feel for what we want to build for our next home.

Would be amazing if they added a way to export the CAD and 3D to softwares like Rhino/AutoCAD. This could become my go to for quick conceptualization. I know its just a game but it could also become a mini BIM software and make things easier for architects who dont want to spend too much time working on CAD softwares for first stage design.
The other thing that would be helfpul is that if they expanded the library even more. But i am pretty sure they will come up with more DLC.
Another thing that would be helpful is to be able to copy and paste rooms so that we can work on multiple floors faster.

A game with potential
The good
The art style and vibe
Creative mode available from the start
Career replayability as the projects seem to change
Good controls with a controller
Runs well even on rather modest hardware
The roofing system is superior to the Sims'
The colour customisation of the furniture
The ability to adjust the time of the day
The bad
The game was clearly designed for controllers, and the mouse and keyboard controls can feel clunky and need some time getting used to
No measuring tool for accurate placement of furniture and other items
Sometimes you need to be in the right category to select an already placed objects, needlessly slowing you down needlessly
Furniture and other items can't be resized leading to some difficult choices
The walls thickness can't be changed
It's hard to make small adjustments to the walls length, minimum movement around 1m
Changing the shape of the house can be difficult and time consuming, as the corners can't be moved directly and the walls can't be subdivided instantly, tip : make another wall or a room to subdivide a wall, it makes it easier to adjust your house
No narrow stairs
No multi selection, have to move items one by one
The ugly
My houses.
My recommendations for the devs
The game has good potential. Most of the frustration players could feel comes from clunky controls with the keyboard and mouse, sizing the items at will would solve many issues, as well as improving the handling of the items such as adding multi selection, a simple measuring tool would help too. The walls need further flexibility in their thickness and length, and the stairs system would need an overhaul.
Those are all fixable issues, and I hope the devs continue working and improving on the game as they have some very solid foundation, the game could have a long life.

I'm finding this game enjoyable and addictive, rather than frustrating which is a good sign! I think there are a few things that could be improved to make it more playable, like the option of shapes that you can drop and re-size rather than building wall by wall. I'm also looking forward to more objects and finishes that I hope will be in a future patch (rather than a DLC). I'd also love corner kitchen cabinets and cabinets with more widths.

Overall it's a fun, creative game and I definitely recommend it for people who like house building games, that are confident in building houses from scratch. I also recommend it for anyone who likes to build houses from real-life floor plans which you can do in the free building mode.

Pros:
Good game for making floorplans, general layouts and somewhat measurements

I've only messed around with the free building mode and one career mode so I haven't delved that deeply into it. I do appreciate how the limitations help one think and figure out what to do with the floorplan.

The background is nice as well.
Icons are useful when marking areas
Ability to walk in the building you have made is very fun

Cons:
General menu jank, tho I feel like it can be easily fixed to quickly shortcut things. It just slows things down when you want to undo something since you cannot CTRL-Z without unselecting an object, doing it, then reselecting what you were building it.

My main gripe is deleting walls which leave the room divided as another room, which is useful when you want an area to be separate but without walls like a kitchen but otherwise, its kind of hard dividing rooms when you're messing around with the bedroom floor plans. You have to merge rooms manually every time after you're done finding a room size or to avoid wall jank and room icons filling up the screen.

I also wish there was a way to toggle off the room icons because I sometimes want to see the build zoomed out. Maybe there is but it blocks the view.

Sometimes when connecting walls, it just doesn't want to stay at 90 degrees and attaches to a wall at an angle even when there is nothing blocking its way or the limit of 1 Meter (walls are limited to be 1 meter before intersecting with another wall) so I delete the walls and redo them and it connects fine.

Things to add:
-Ability to modify the height of walls. You're not able to do this which is fine but when recreating something with specific sizes, it's just not possible.
-Making the grid available at all times (and measurements) and not making it limited to just using it for 1 Meter measurements but also for smaller measurements like .5 or .4.
-Ability to flip furniture: Maybe I haven't seen it or anything but there is no way to flip furniture or stairs, only rotating. So stairs that only have turns, only turn that way.
-Ability to modify window shape
-Compact furniture such as foldable beds, desks and stairs. I want to explore compact spaces and maybe this isn't the game made for that but it is a good genre to delve into. Display shelves in walls and such.
-More roof customization
-Ability to change the time of day when building to see sun position and test the lights.
-Add Plumbing: I want to see how I can control the plumbing or maybe this game only focuses on floorplans but I since heating is a part of the game, I thought it would be a good thing to add as well. Maybe a mode where one can tediously add these things haha.

This is only from the top of my head but sure the dev team has already been working on improvements. I will continue following this game as I see it to be very promising

I really do not understand why people are hating on this game. It's what I always wanted to do in Sims.
Yes, you have relatively limited content, but I'm sure the devs will add more. I'm 6 hours in and just finished a huge 3 bedroom villa and could not be happier about it!

Enjoying it so far. Needs much more items / options though. Hope the devs address this and release more content (hopefully not just as paid expansions).