Hometopia

So, they promised the most revolutionary game, with a co-op campaign and a ton of content. They removed the campaign promising a brand new experience, so I bought the game and waited for it. 8 months after they announce the end of the project, they even had the heart to release something to let me and my friend experience the game.

So, the only driving force of this game was creating something in a Sandbox mode to partecipare to contests, now this comes to an end. If you want to play the career you have to downgrade to almost an year old version, and they can do it without any punishment. I've tried to get a refund, or at least a partial refund, but "because I've played more than 2 hours" I cannot receive my money back. Thanks for the legal theft, this is why in 2025 nobody should buy games until they are finished.

Scam false promises and no campaign mode. The only reason i was waiting to play. Shame!

This was never a developed game. The dev kept switching and hiding game-play elements thru beta updates.
Congrats, this game was a classic bait and switch.

Game abandoned, not finished... The devs just forgot to to update the store page to mention it. Do not spend money on this.

I love the preset houses. It's fun to walk around inside and decide how I will decorate each one. I also love that I can look at an actual house plan and design it myself, floor to ceiling, and see what colors and textures I like. Really fun, addictive, and relaxing to play.

It does have its limitations but it is fund for a few 10-15 hours of tooling around.

Had potential, but it is now officially abandoned.

I have never been so hopeful for a game only to have my soul crushed within weeks of buying it. I mean, really? The devs stripped the game down to barely functional so they don't have to mess with it anymore. Great game, wrong people making it.

Abandoned. There has been nothing from the devs since around Christmas of 2024. Features where removed, added then removed again with promises of fixes. Really really wanted this to work out as it was the sims build mode. But you can't even build a house properly. Roofs won't build right and snap properly among other issues. It's a shame as I was really hoping it would work out, but nope. Devs took the money and ran. I tried getting a refund despite the length of ownership and couldn't. (No fault of Valve/Steam as it could become a nightmare later on as if they do it for a few they may be expected to do it more often so I get it.) But I will be watching early access games or any game for that matter with more weary eyes from now on. Seemed promising but a bust. Do not buy.

Paid full price for this only for the game to be killed off a few months later. They should offer refunds.

If you are looking to make more complex buildings you may want to pass your limited to just box shaped rooms you can't have slanted interior ceilings or sunken floors, not even closet doors. If they expand on the build options I would recommend but until then not for me and maybe not for you.

I can't recommend this game in its current state. It was a blast to play with friends when career mode was available but they took it away saying they would "improve it" only to turn around and leave the game.
There is only sandbox mode now and even that is shitty. Roofing sucks, there is still so much missing from the game and half the time things just don't work correctly or at all.
Also don't bother joining the discord because no one answers bug reports or questions anymore its just being spammed with scam links.

This is an amazing game so far. I have built many houses. However, I wish there were more features, as the building options feel a bit limited. For instance, I would love the ability to build on slanted terrain. As someone who loves Victorian-style houses, I find it challenging because it's difficult to create the rounded parts of a house. It feels like every part of the house has to be square, which can be frustrating. This issue extends to the roofs as well—creating a slanted ceiling is tough for me, which makes building attic rooms difficult. There are workarounds, but they require a lot of effort. The stairs are nice, but I wish there were more options. As for the furniture, I would love to see more vintage-style pieces, and larger curved windows would be great too.

Aside from that, the game is fantastic. I haven't found another game that meets my expectations quite like this one.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.
-The Devs ghosted the game, staff publicly quit. They removed the main story/career mode from the game completely just before stopping development. It is honestly a scam that its still up for sale.

Please add more camera controls. The camera angle, whether in walk-through or fly mode, are very rigid and fixed. I want to leave a positive review because of the flexible and intuitive interior design, but the game feels limited and unfinished.

I really want to give this a thumbs up, but I won't. Taking away career mode is a deal breaker.

Promised career mode, initially had a career mode....then they took it away, and now game seems to be dead in the water. No updates since late Dec '24/early Jan '25- and now the ONLY game mode is sandbox. DO NOT buy at full price.

I want to like this so badly but it's too choppy and slow to enjoy. Something about the games on here, they keep turning out to be unplayable. Will request refund for I'm too disappointed to continue trying to play this game.

Ive been waiting for almost a year for the career mode to come back.

Don’t waste your money on this one. It has potential but it looks like it is abandoned by the publisher. Even after 4 years of development it is not even worth playing. I can’t believe they want $19.99 for this so called house building game while it is still in early access.

I am in love with this game. It is very user friendly and can't wait to do more in the future.

Lots of creative freedom. Some things are limited and it takes a little bit to learn, but they have all the buttons. guides, handbook, etc, (whatever you want to call it) and it helps. Calming, beautiful, and very peaceful for meticulous people who love to create, and who love customization!

Downside, if any, load times for a big build takes a good while. When the build is big, the loading, saving, and quitting takes awhile. Other than that, I will wait for it to load because the creativity, customization, and the peacefulness of it all is fantastic. The music is also superb!

NOTE: Got it on sale from $23 to $12. But even for a $23 game, it's worth it in my opinion!

low key, great game for just building homes! do recommend fro people with a MASSIVE IMAGINATION

Although it isn't perfect, as some things are limited and placement of items can be restrictive, this is a really good game to play. I've only played sandbox mode so far, but I'm hoping to try career mode next. I like that for most of the items, you can customise the appearance - whether that's the material, colour, orientation, etc, it means I can design rooms to my personal taste.

Laggy, and looks horrible. It's bad.

Slow to adapt implementations...

It's pretty reasonable priced, especially if you're in the early stages of remodeling your house and want to mess around with ideas before taking it to a contractor.

I dont like this game because it doesn't support macOS chromeOS and steamOS and I didnt get to play it and stuck on the loading screen for fifty five minutes and I found out only supports Windows.

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i feel like i have some notes. so far i love the game. very easy to understand the gameplay, graphics are solid, and is a good start. the game is in beta now but it has been awhile since the last update has come out. here are my ideas for the nest one
1. more things should be customizable. there is a very good start. most placeable items in the game you can change all or most of colors and patterns. things like windows wallpapers or specific portions of the item cannot be changed. it might seems silly, but if the marketing is how amazing how much you are able to do and should play this game over a game like the sims because of it, i think it should be true. also some of the colors of preset items can be a little off and throw off the color scheme of the whole room.
2. eye dropper tool. there needs to be an eyedropper tool instead of just a duplicate tool. duplicate is incredibly helpful. if you want to place something like dining chairs, you would only have to customize one and copy the rest. however if you want to place something like a gallery wall or matching sofa and loveseat you have to dig through each one of the pages trying to find each one f the swatches used.
3. more. lastly there needs to be more. i understand that the game is still in beta, but seems relatively finished and has gone through several iterations already. there really just needs to be more "stuff" in game. more clutter, more stuff to put on the walls, more diverse terrain, just more things. i understand that a new game like this would take time to get to a level of a game like the sims, but if your marketing is "play this one over that one because its better and you dont even need any packs" i believe it should be true.
i do like the game and have already recommended it to my fellow sims players. i give it a solid 8\10 with changes easy 9.5\10.
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great for creative people

If anywhere you can build a dream home in sandbox mode with full freedom and possibilities, this is the game for you.

So much for '4 years of development', this game has had the least effort put into a game out of all games i've ever played. It's so poorly designed that I will be on the verge of tears just from trying to create a corner on a house's roof - The devs must've somehow (when researching real houses to make the game realistic) not seen that most houses do in fact have corners in their roofs. So instead of doing this easily, you have to stare at snap grid spasms until you can (maybe) build a corner. Not to mention the terrible optimisation, my PC starts to melt just from building one house and saving? It's like these devs were recruited from the street and don't live in a house themselves, you can't even build a diagonal or curved wall. Genuinely, Sims 4 has had 10x more effort put into it, and is a better house building sim than this game.

So glitchy. Lags a lot. Minimal options

Won't load or freezes every time I try to open. Refund denied because I tried to open it for longer than 2 hours meaning total play time was over 2 hours. It sounded like exactly what I was looking for but turns out it wasted not just my time but unfortunately my money as well. I'm still trying to troubleshoot but I would suggest looking for something not so glitched.

We appreciate the regular updates but there needs to be better priorities like putting basic home building game mechanics in the game first before things are done to the UI, adding pools, Christmas trees, etc. Things like diagonal positioning or really any angled positioning, basement building, roof structures with actual roof joists, attics, different roof pitches, the ability to type in measurements for walls, actual foundation building not some random wood looking squares... the list goes on. This is child's play and in no way a serious home building game like advertised. I can appreciate what people like about it buts its not even at Sims 4 home building levels or anything even close let alone something that's directed toward ONLY home building.

This is in fact a good tool for designing affordable homes.

Other features like Career mode are planned, but right now you can use this very easy to use "game" to build houses and test some ideas that you have for personal use or when dreaming of your future house.

You can't build round walls or complex geometric architecture, but these features cost a lot if you want to build a house in real life, so "affordable" is the key word.

Maybe I am in a minority, but I would prefer for the devs to add o lot of plants and means for designing a garden (and not a career mode), as they've already added some very beautiful lots for us to build on.

Pros:
- very easy to use tool for building affordable houses
- many choices to furnish and decorate
- many beautiful lots to build on
- you can have an idea for a house, open the game, build it in half an hour and get some clues about how a real house would look like, that is in a very short time

Cons:
- the proportions are all over the place, i.e. one sq. meter is more like half of that, but the furniture respects the real proportions (it's the same problem like in SIms 4)

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i'm super enjoying getting accustomed to building in this, it's close enough to the sims to be intuitive to me. it's very straight-forward in its interface, and although it has some quirks that i hope advance in the future (the way walls on different floors, as well as roofs, interact could be better for getting certain visual effects), it's a very visually satisfying game. i like it a lot!

Paid for it...can't play it on any android or PC...worthless

I genuinely love this game. I was looking for a game that's like sims but without the legitimate gameplay, and this hit that spot. My only suggestion is adding more clutter items. There's a lot of great furniture and building choices, but I love to clutter my builds and it's lacking a lot to be desired.

It's good with heaps of potential but far out the roofing is so frustrating! every time everything is going smoothly i get this glitch with pitched roofs where a small section of wall shows through that cant even be selected or edited.

Anyone know a way around this?

This game has been brutaly murdered and is a shell of its former self. I stoped playing June 2024, and when i came back i saw bad reviews. I was confused, but now i see. THEY REMOVED CAREER MODE AND OTHER STUFF TO!!!! this game is back at sqaur 1 and there pretending that they just started. this. is. crimanal.

The game sure looks cool in all the influencer videos they paid to have made.

So many fun-looking videos of doing jobs and making money to build up your portfolio.

It's all fake, they lied in every single one of them. There is no career mode, even now years later. They never added any of it to the actual game they're selling.

I have only a few minutes of playtime, because the game tells you right from the main menu that it's all a lie and there is no game.

And what can we assume when even the developers of the game feel like they have to blatantly lie and have gone so far out of their way to deceive gamers?

It tells us that they know what they're actually capable of making won't sell.

Really enjoy it. As TS fan - and mostly the home building part - this is some improvement in many aspects. My main wish rn would be: PLEASE add the auto-complete feature for flooring and walls. It is a pain in the a__ having to color tile by tile everytime.

I may try it again if you add some key features like diagonal walls and a way to grab chunks of building (rooms or plots) and duplicate it/move it somewhere else.

Just as the description for the game states, I am someone who primarily played SIMS to build houses, and this game, Hometopia, is a fantastic way to build, customize, and create homes. I can tell through a few glitches that it's still in introductory stages, but with a few changes and with all the upcoming plans, I have no doubt that this game will become a favorite for many!

really love this game ! after reading the tutorial it was pretty easy to navigate. im real excited to see what the newer updates have in store !!

I bought this game and i haven't been able to play in career mode. On my screen my career mode says coming soon. only mode i am able to play in is sandbox. I see people online playing career mode. so am i doing something wrong or is the game not ready yet??

I wanted to like the game, I really did. Unfortunately after painstakingly reading through the TOS I found many clauses were repeated, some conflicted with one-another, some were completely unrelated to the game altogether, and the clause about them being allowed to use our voice and likeness for anything they want felt predatory at best. Still, I gave the game a chance and unfortunately wasn't able to go past the tutorial: why? because I can't change the keybinds to accomodate for my AZERTY keyboard, so I suppose if you're european you don't get to play this game. It's truly a shame, because this is exactly the type of game I was looking for, too.