For Players Who Love a Little Creativity
Whether you don’t have the money, the time, or the patience to decorate your own home, there’s a whole world of video games that can scratch that itch for you. Sure, not all of them are solely about decoration, but that’s the beautiful thing about video games: They can be whatever kind of game you want them to be. Whether you’re remodeling a house from the ground up or simply adding furniture you find as you move through a broader world, these 20 games allow you to let your creative side run wild.
1. The Sims 4
Perhaps the first pick for any fans of interior design, The Sims 4 is arguably one of the strongest options for lovers of building and decoration. Its build tools let you shape rooms, place furniture, adjust outdoor areas, and create anything from a tiny starter home to a huge mansion. The best part is that you can just cheat for more money if you’re super invested in the decorating side of things.
2. The House Flipper Games
House Flipper and House Flipper 2 ask you to be an architect, cleaner, interior designer, and a real estate agent. While the homes you buy are definitely in need of some TLC, having a say in each part of the home creation process is exactly what some folks adore. While there is a budget, it doesn’t throw a huge curveball into your plans.
3. Hometopia
Hometopia is built around free-form home design, with sandbox building, plenty of decorative options, and the ability to play alone or with friends. It prioritizes home creation in terms of game experience, so players can spend their time on architecture, layout, furniture, and the overall look of each space.
4. Furnish Master
Furnish Master keeps the attention on furnishing apartments, houses, commercial spaces, and outdoor areas. It’s relaxed, but it also includes light economic elements, which gives your room planning and decorating a bit of progression behind all the object placement and material choices.
5. Virtual Cottage 2
Virtual Cottage 2 is more of a cozy productivity companion than a traditional interior design sim, but its customizable cottage fits nicely here. Here, you have the option to completely redecorate a cottage or apartment to your liking. Once you like how it looks, you can use it as a virtual study spot. You can study alone or with others, use built-in focus tools, and even add your own music to the game.
6. Interior Tales
Interior Tales puts you in the role of a decorator in a cozy isometric sim where interiors and reputation grow at an easy pace. Its tidy perspective gives each room a dollhouse-like charm, which suits players who enjoy neat, carefully arranged spaces with a clear style.
7. Unpacking
Unpacking is technically a puzzle game, though it understands domestic space better than plenty of full decorating games. You follow the story of someone’s life through their moves. By the end of the game, you’ll find yourself feeling nostalgic for the items that continued to survive over 20 in-game years.
8. Whisper of the House
Whisper of the House turns cleaning, organizing, moving, and decorating into a gentle town-based experience. You help residents sort out their spaces, collect furniture, and uncover small stories hidden in shelves, keepsakes, clutter, and all the little things people hold onto.
9. Camper Van: Make It Home
Camper Van: Make It Home shrinks interior design down to a rolling home-on-wheels. You solve organization puzzles, decorate the van, and turn a cramped little space into something cozy, practical, and personal. It’s a good option for people who like a little bit of a challenge in their home design.
10. MakeRoom
MakeRoom is a sandbox decorating game where you can design rooms, campers, boats, and gardens. With more than a thousand objects and tools for making custom furniture, it gives players room to make just about anything they desire.
11. Cozy Room Decorator
Cozy Room Decorator is exactly what the title promises: a low-pressure game about making rooms look good. Its isometric setup and drag-and-drop decorating make it easy to arrange furniture without repairs, budgets, quests, or complicated systems getting in the way.
12. Paralives
Paralives brings the design side of life sims back into the spotlight, with building, character creation, and everyday household storytelling. Since it’s in Early Access, it’s still developing, but its flexible home-building tools already make it a natural fit for design-minded life-sim fans.
13. Hotel Renovator
Hotel Renovator takes the decorating fantasy beyond a single home and into a full hospitality project. You renovate a worn-out hotel, place furniture and accessories, and create guest-ready rooms that look inviting enough for someone to actually book.
14. Bear and Breakfast
Bear and Breakfast wraps decorating into a cozy management adventure about a bear running woodland lodgings. You restore rooms, add furniture, host guests, and slowly turn run-down spaces into comfortable, welcoming, warm retreats for forest travellers.
15. Disney Dreamlight Valley
Disney Dreamlight Valley blends quests, character friendships, life-sim routines, and decorating into one bright, collectible world. You can customize your home and village with furniture, buildings, clothing, and themed items inspired by familiar fantasy settings.
16. Palia
Palia gives home design a soft fantasy life-sim setting, with crafting, gathering, exploring, and social play built around it. Its housing plot lets you place furniture, use décor, adjust finishes, and slowly build a home that reflects the routines you enjoy most.
17. Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game
Tales of the Shire turns decorating into part of a peaceful Hobbit life in Bywater. The home fantasy is warm, earthy, and domestic, with cozy details that reflect the elaborate and well-loved world of Tolkien’s pages.
18. Minecraft
Minecraft isn’t a traditional interior design game, but its creative freedom makes it one of the strongest design sandboxes on PC. Blocks, lighting, materials, and clever visual tricks can become houses, bedrooms, furniture illusions, and entire neighborhoods if you have the patience for it.
19. Final Fantasy XIV Online
Final Fantasy XIV Online has a detailed housing scene where players decorate apartments, private rooms, and homes. Larger housing projects do take a bit of commitment, as access depends on in-game availability. However, once you do have a space, you’re free to decorate to your heart’s content.
20. The Elder Scrolls Online
The Elder Scrolls Online lets players own homes across a broad fantasy world and personalize them with furnishings, crafted pieces, collectibles, and themed décor. It’s a strong choice if you want interiors that can feel rustic, noble, gothic, magical, shrine-like, or completely eccentric.
