Free home design games come in three styles: open decorating games where you style rooms freely, renovation games like House Flipper, and match-3 or word puzzles that lead to decor. Planner 5D is more of a room planner than a game. Four listings mention offline play, while Design Home says it needs a connection.
Some of us scroll house listings for fun. Home design games take that habit one step further: you get the empty room, the sofa you'd never dare and the paint colour your partner vetoed, with no brushes to wash out afterwards.
I looked through the Google Play listings for ten popular decorating games and wrote down the developer, installs, ads and in-app purchases labels, rating and any offline wording. The list isn't ranked.
What surprised me is how many of these are puzzle games underneath. Three of them ask you to match tiles or find words before you get to decorate, which is lovely if you like puzzles and a bit of a detour if you don't.
Every makeover game in one table
| Game | Developer | Google Play installs | Ads / in-app purchases | Offline wording on the listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decor Life - Home Design Game | SayGames Ltd | 100M+ | Contains ads, in-app purchases | No offline claim on the listing |
| My Home - Design Dreams | ZenLife Games Ltd | 100M+ | Contains ads, in-app purchases | No offline claim on the listing |
| Design Home™: House Makeover | Crowdstar Inc | 50M+ | Contains ads, in-app purchases | Says it requires an Internet connection |
| House Flipper: Home Design | PlayWay SA | 50M+ | No ads label, in-app purchases | No offline claim on the listing |
| Planner 5D: AI Home Design | Planner 5D | 50M+ | No ads label, in-app purchases | 'Online / Offline Mode' |
| Home Design Makeover | Storm8 Studios | 10M+ | Contains ads, in-app purchases | 'Offline mode so you can take the game from your home to the sky' |
| Property Brothers Home Design | Storm8 Studios | 10M+ | Contains ads, in-app purchases | 'Design and play on the run with offline mode' |
| Venue - Relaxing Design Games | Superbloom | 5M+ | No ads label, in-app purchases | No offline claim on the listing |
| Home Design : Miss Robins Home | Giraffe Games Limited | 1M+ | No ads label, in-app purchases | No offline claim on the listing |
| Design My Home: Makeover Games | Holy Cow Studio | 1M+ | Contains ads, in-app purchases | 'Free offline home design word search game' |
Room by room through the ten
Decor Life - Home Design Game
A relaxed renovation game where you try furniture and decor ideas again and again on a fresh canvas. It has more than 100M installs, so you're in big company.
My Home - Design Dreams
Design and decorate dream houses while a story unfolds around lifelike characters. It's rated Teen, the only game here that is.
Design Home™: House Makeover
Remodel and decorate rooms and gardens using real home decor brands, which makes it feel close to browsing a catalogue.
House Flipper: Home Design
The mobile edition of the PC game: you run a one-person renovation crew, take orders, clean up, renovate and decorate. It shows no ads label.
Planner 5D: AI Home Design
A floor-plan and 3D room planner with AI design tools, more of a home project tool than a game. Its listing mentions an online and offline mode for the room planner.
Home Design Makeover
Storm8's game has you solve match-3 puzzles to remodel fixer-uppers for clients, in styles such as farmhouse.
Property Brothers Home Design
Also from Storm8, with Drew and Jonathan Scott at your side as you demo, renovate and design spaces for clients.
Venue - Relaxing Design Games
Superbloom's calm game lets you design dreamy rooms and style events, and it pitches itself as a relaxing escape. It shows no Contains ads label.
Home Design : Miss Robins Home
A bright match-3 makeover game where you help a young designer called Miss Robins renovate houses in sunny places. No ads label, but it has in-app purchases.
Design My Home: Makeover Games
Holy Cow Studio mixes home makeovers with word puzzles, crosswords and anagrams, so it suits word fans who like a pretty room.
Free styling, renovation or puzzles first?
Decor Life, My Home, Design Home and Venue are styling games. You pick furniture, colours and finishes, and the fun is in the choosing. House Flipper is different: you're the renovation crew, so there's cleaning and painting before the pretty part.
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Home Design Makeover, Home Design : Miss Robins Home and Design My Home put a puzzle in front of every makeover, either match-3 or words. Planner 5D sits apart from the rest, because it's built for planning real floor plans and 3D rooms rather than playing.
Where the in-app shop comes in
Every game here has in-app purchases. Six also show the Contains ads label, while House Flipper, Planner 5D, Venue and Miss Robins Home don't.
In decorating games the shop often sits right next to the furniture, so it's easy to tap without thinking. If a child is playing, set in-app purchases to need approval in Google Play before they start.
Ratings and who's playing
Nine of the ten are rated Everyone. My Home - Design Dreams is rated Teen, and its listing talks about a heartfelt story with lifelike characters, so have a look at it yourself before passing it to a younger child.
Using a design game to plan your real home
- Measure the room you'd like to change and note where the windows and doors sit.
- Sketch the layout in Planner 5D, which is built for floor plans and 3D rooms.
- Use a styling game such as Decor Life or Venue to try a colour scheme quickly.
- Screenshot the looks you like and compare them a day later with fresh eyes.
- Only then reach for a paint chart.
More calm games for a night in
If the match-3 makeover games are the ones you keep opening, my guide to choosing a puzzle game for relaxation will help you find more of that calm feeling.
For a game on the go that's the complete opposite of a quiet room makeover, Temple Run plays offline too, and it's all running and dodging.
And if decorating the house is part of a family festival, these Diwali games for kids and families to play at home bring everyone off their screens and into the room you've just made lovely.
Frequently asked questions
Are home design games free?
All ten here are free to install on Google Play, and each one has in-app purchases.
Which home design games work offline?
Planner 5D, Home Design Makeover, Property Brothers Home Design and Design My Home mention offline play. Design Home says it needs a connection.
Is there a home design game without ads?
House Flipper, Planner 5D, Venue and Home Design : Miss Robins Home show no Contains ads label.
Can a design game help me plan a real room?
Planner 5D is built for floor plans and 3D rooms, so it's the closest to a real planning tool on this list.
Are home design games okay for children?
Nine are rated Everyone and My Home - Design Dreams is rated Teen. Check the shop settings before a child plays.
Which home design games include puzzles?
Home Design Makeover and Home Design : Miss Robins Home use match-3, and Design My Home uses word puzzles.
