Home Design 3D
It is hard to not recommend this, due to the low price and therefore low expectations. However, there are issues with the program that make things difficult sometimes and can even delete hours of work. The snap function for walls and items can be turned off, but does not seem to really turn off. Even if it is off, walls will want to snap to some nearby wall and you have play a game with creating walls in certain orders to make it work. There is also an issue where a wall, or other item seems to be associated with another item and when you delete one, the other is also deleted. This becomes a much larger issue if a wall is associated with the entire floor to the level you are on. Move a wall to see what a space looks like in a given area, but don’t like it and delete it…..and your entire first floor loses it’s floor. I have not been able to find a trick around this and it forces you to redo the entire floor plan, which it took several hours to get right. The program is fairly easy to learn and has a fair selection of items (though it has a heavy Asian influence for some reason). For the price I would normally recommend this, but given the bug that undoes hours of work I cannot.
– Real player with 181.9 hrs in game
Read More: Best Building Simulation Games.
TL;DR 5/10 a useful conceptualization “game.” Not a real design tool.
As others have mentioned, the very basics of home design are missing from this “game.” Roofing is absent as well as any multi-story possibility 2nd floor? NO! OK, HD3D gives only 1 floor 2D layouts–with a 3D visualizer for ideas. Well, look at the screenshots–there is some value to what the dev has given.
The MOST EGREGIOUS FLAW of this “game” is its most critical job–the ruler. The devs had no idea how to create a ruler. I know 6th grade programmers who would handle this basic job better. The dev just lets you draw a line of any length, then falsely labels it with a measurement rounded to the nearest inch, and pretends that it is good enough. So, with rounding error, you can fit 3+4+6 inches into a foot, because the dev is just playing around too. DEV Hint: create a line-length snap to nearest measurement selection. Nearest Inch. Nearest 1/8 inch. Oh, right. Your menus are tablet garbage. There are no real options anywhere.
– Real player with 67.8 hrs in game
Medieval Machines Builder
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1066390/Chernobyl_1986/
You had the spark for inventing right from the childhood. The time has come to prove yourself as a young ballistic engineer! Your weapons will serve the King and his Kingdom, so be sure to make the most powerful and innovative contraptions possible! Start from scratch and reach for the fame as one of the most renown inventors in the whole Middle Ages in Medieval Machines Builder.
Beginnings are always quite challening, so your very first machine won’t be your opus magnum. There’s a long way for you to go. Starting off with your first job, creating something from scratch might prove itself being a bit difficult. No worries! You can buy a blueprint to base your invention on. They come for a price, but having a firm foundation is always a great start. The more people you know in the city, the more ways to aquire new blueprints will pop up. Not all of them 100% legal, of course. Next step? Gathering and processing resources. Only then you can sit down, relax and use your imagination to create the greatest or most weird looking war machine of all time.
What happens next? You may sell your invention to the Kingdom… or someone else, whoever needs to do a siege in this particular moment. Cash you’ve earned and experience you’ve got will help you grow personally and your next creation might even go for a small fortune. Of course don’t forget to do a small “test drive” before sending it to the buyer! In Middle-Ages return policy might come with your head! And a head is quite useful for Medieval Machines Builder!
Features:
-
Create amazing war machines!
-
Deep simulation and tycoon elements
-
Test your inventions before selling them
-
Let the imagination be your guide
Read More: Best Building Simulation Games.
Furniture World
Furniture World is a unique chance to become a handyman.
Buy, repair and improve furnitures. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!
You can buy an used furniture and repair it.
You can focus on repair and furniture appearance.
Express yourself!
The ultimate goal of the furniture world business is profit. Are you a risk taker?
Do you like to invest? Estimate profit and find the best risk/reward ratio for you.
Improve your workplace. Get better tools.
Deploy new mechanisms and earn cash so you can to increase investment and speed up progress.
What you’ve got at your disposal is a set of tools and paints.
Use them to cut, paint and screw things together, and do whatever is necessary to fit and fix. Have fun!
Read More: Best Building Simulation Games.
Light Up the Holidays
good game
– Real player with 4.4 hrs in game
Love this game. Has a lot of the same and standard building tools for simulators. Love the Christmas fun. Would like to see more decoration options but super Christmasy. 3 Love it and great purchase.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Mini Maker: Make A Thing
A hero thing, a monster thing, a robo thing… in Mini Maker, you can make any ‘thing’! Use an arsenal of plastic limbs, wonky tools, rainbow stickers and googly eyes to assemble creations, please demanding clients, and laugh in the face of perfectionism.
Make a thing!
Glue mannequin limbs to robo-parts. Draw on a smiley face. Slap on a few stick-on tattoos to finish it off. Oh, did we mention there’s NO Undo button? Time to roll with the punches!
Make a living!
Fulfill wacky client requests however you can. From six-armed action figures, to fancy meals served from a toilet seat - any request is (unfortunately) possible. Explore their world and defeat your ultimate enemies: perfectionism and good taste.
Fend off haters!
Flying tomatoes, rabid hammers, electrifying eels… Fend off foes in time or ignore them and see what “statement” they leave on your precious thing.
Upgrade your toolbox!
Collect cash for your creations and re-invest it in supplies, tools and workshop upgrades. Expand your inventory or risk ending up making yet another armless Venus de Thingy.
Couch Collab!
Test the limits of your relationships by playing any challenge in 2-player couch co-op mode. Lower your expectations now: you two will be making some butt-ugly things.
Share your creations!
Use the built-in video recorder to share your creations with friends, foes, and the world wide web.
Stonehenge VR SANDBOX
Experienced on the Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality
You can view my gameplay and initial impressions review here: https://youtu.be/P983oWnWdyg
I’m surprised that this app doesn’t have more reviews. It’s a good educational app. You get a nice narrated tour of Stonehenge. I definitely learned some things that I didn’t know before about this ancient monument.
You even have your own sandbox where you can change stuff like the time of day or night, the angle of the sun, fog, or you can change the colors of the stones, or add your own. You can listen to your own music while you just chill. You can even fly around and check it out from different angles. You can add your own decorations such as butterflies or your own campfire.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Stonehenge VR Sandbox is awesome software. Very polished and authentic. Stonehenge is one of those places we think about as a child and were looking forward to trying in VR. This experience was more than I hoped for! It is also one of the experiences which everyone in the family can appreciate. It’s a must to try, especially if you are new to VR and want a superb first experience.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Under Construction: Summer City
Welcome to Summer City! Bright sun, friendly people, and poorly maintained buildings. The people of summer city have hired you, as a contractor to help rebuild their lives. Change, upgrade, modify, design and build the various properties on your journey to restoring Summer City to its glory!
Under Construction is a 3d FPS House Design game where you will take the role of a builder who manually builds, designs, and decorates various properties. Under Construction offers a wide variety of customization options!
Build:
-Build and modify houses on different properties to your own design!
Paint:
-Style your house with full RGB colour selection, texture choice, and support for custom textures.
Furnish:
-Stylize your home with a wide variety of choices. Includes support for custom furniture models.
-Further customize your design by scaling your furniture to fit any space you need.
-Each part of every piece of furniture can be painted separately with its own colour/texture allowing for an even wider variety of options.
Sell:
-Satisfied with your work? Now sell it to the highest bidder. Earn cash from sales to buy more properties, upgrade/design your own home, and unlock more furniture/texture options,
Castle Flipper
i had 9 games on my wish list for the last 6 months and finally one of them came out—Castle Flipper. I love House Flippers and have about 400 hours on it. My first thought was this would be similar, but after reading the numerous negative comments, I realized it wasn’t. There were also complaints that the quests were completed in 10-12 hours and that was also a turn off. However, the Devs responded and explained the concept of building a castle after the quests.
The game was listed for about $5 (i live in a lower priced Country) and after some thought, I decided to give it a try. After all, everyone has different tastes. Boy was I glad. The setting and music are beautiful. I started by completing a couple of tasks and then was told to build my house. It only required a 4X4 floor plan and took no time to build. Then there were 2 new tasks, one of them was to clean up a ship. While that sounded cool, I realized that was the problem those negative reviewers had. They rushed, rushed, rushed. For example, one player I won’t name gave it a bad review saying there was little to do except the quests that took just a few hours. Yet, this player took the time to make a You Tube video of him playing the game. I watched it to pick up some tips. He rushed, rushed, rushed to complete the quests. This isn’t real life where we live in the fast lane. Slow down. Take a breath and enjoy the game. There is no prize for finishing the game quickly. He even commented that it only cost $10 so not worth the time to ask for a refund. What? Not worth the time. It takes less than a minute to ask for a refund on Steam (I know, I’ve refunded over half my games because they were too difficult.) If someone’s one minute of time is worth more than 10 bucks, then I’m in the wrong business.
– Real player with 42.9 hrs in game
First off all, I love these kinds of games. Building and maintaining your own settlement is something I can spend many hours on. Saying that you would think I would recommend this game seeing the endgame is based all around that. But sadly I cannot. The idea is there, build your own castle and collect rent. But the way this has been implemented simply isn’t satisfying. The world feels empty and barren, nothing happens beside the occasional ‘clutter everywhere incidents’ that makes you run around all the houses n clean stuff up. The visuals are great but without life within the game you quickly lose the drive to do anything.
– Real player with 13.0 hrs in game
FlowScape
My favorite purchase all year.
If you’re wondering what I’ve been able to do with FlowScape that led to my review, you can take a look at all of my projects here .
I knew the moment I laid eyes on this, I would most likely love it. It exceeded my expectations as a casual design & illustration tool that just about anyone can use. I have spent many hours putting together village & macro background scenes. The Sculpting tool allow you to create mountains, hills, lakes, rivers, as I see fit. The Painting tool allows you to create walkways. I can construct anything from realistic waterfalls to lost ruins with the Transformation tool to manipulate just about any object.
– Real player with 2803.3 hrs in game
Wow, it’s difficult to say in words how impressive and relatively deep this instant gratification “game” is! Marketed as a game, but used by many as a 3D design tool. Oh, it’s not Maya, or Lightwave, or even Bryce or Blender, which is cool because we already have those. This is something different, and special, and FAST, and easy! And for all its limitations, what IS here is a lot deeper and impressive than you might imagine!
I’ve made a nice living from building scenes in 3D software for many decades, and I’ve spent countless hours working with wire-frames and pallets of textures and bump maps and lighting devices, and scratching my head over each new entries' exploration into the 3D modeling' procedures. It doesn’t replace those high-end spreads for many projects, but this WILL be replacing the high-rollers on a few projects and making my life so much easier!
– Real player with 2204.8 hrs in game
Lake Resort Flipper
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1108750/Timerunner/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1489310/NecroCity/
Start your adventure in Lake Resort Flipper by finding a run-down resort that used to be a place filled with happy tourists. Find the perfect place, set a purchase price and take on the challenge. Start with basic repairs, hire staff and consistently improve your management skills. Learn what the entertainment industry is all about and expand into new areas.
Buy a devastated resort and start your renovation with basic repairs, such as: cleaning, repainting walls, repairing utility elements of the building and much more. Watch your funds closely, make sure you plan your spendings wisely. Your limited budget won’t let you hire professional workers every time, sometimes you’ll have to handle some difficult repairs by yourself. Before you start repairing the electrical system make sure you read the instructions on how to connect the wires - safety first! Do as much work as possible by yourself in order to save money and gain vital experience as a real handyman.
When the first guests finally arrive at your resort, you won’t be able to be everywhere at the same time. That’s the time when you’re gonna need to rely more on your staff. Check carefully qualifications and hourly rate of each employee you take onboard. A sophisticated hotel management system will let you monitor all the HR matters - if your employees are satisfied with their positions, when their contracts end, do they expect to get a pay raise? Pay close attention to your employees’ satisfaction, the competition is just waiting to poach your best people.
A nice room with direct access to the beach may not be enough to encourage tourists to choose your resort. You have to invest in a variety of attractions! How about… kayaks, motorboats, jet skis, wakeboarding, water bikes, windsurfing, sauna and many other water and beach activities you can offer to your guests in Lake Resort Flipper! Don’t forget to expand your indoor facilities as well. Offer your guests additional services of a masseur or a trainer and let them spend some time in one of your restaurants and bars.
Remember that Lake Resort Flipper is not only hard work but also heaps of fun! Enjoy the attractions offered by your resort - try motor boats or jet skis by yourself. Your business is your passion, so have fun!
The more money you earn, the more expansion opportunities will become available to you. Manage your resorts wisely in order to maximise their profits. It will allow you to acquire bigger properties that offer a broader range of attractions. The path to building your lake empire will surely be a bumpy ride. Buckle up and hold on tight.