Top 10 Games for Unleashing Your Inner Interior Designer in 2025

There’s something deliciously primal about claiming a space as your own—no roommates judging your questionable decor choices, no landlords side-eyeing your neon cactus collection. It’s just you, four walls, and the unbridled chaos of creativity. Games have brilliantly hijacked this fantasy, letting players morph digital voids into cozy dens, post-apocalyptic penthouses, or even capitalist shopfronts dripping with psychological manipulation. Who knew arranging virtual sofas could feel like therapy? 😂 But here’s the twist: whether you’re pleasing pixelated villagers or surviving a nuclear winter, interior design in gaming isn’t just about aesthetics—it’s about power, storytelling, and occasionally, defying physics. So grab your digital hammer and let’s remodel some realities!

10 Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Your Island, Your Dictatorship

Ah, Animal Crossing—where Tom Nook’s loan-shark tendencies fund your inner design god. New Horizons cranked this to eleven. Not only do you torture your own home with shell rugs and fossil-themed bathrooms, but the Happy Home Paradise DLC lets you remodel neighbors’ houses too. Imagine: a jock frog demanding a "motivational" gym? Slap down dumbbells and protein-shake wallpaper! A snooty cat craving elegance? Cue golden toilets and monocles. It’s less "design service," more "benevolent tyranny." Why settle for one chaotic paradise when you can colonize an entire archipelago? 🏝️

9 Fallout 4: Glamour in the Glowing Sea

Bethesda’s wasteland isn’t just about radroaches and existential dread; it’s a fixer-upper dream! Sure, settlements need water purifiers and turrets—yawn—but once survival basics are handled? Build a jukebox-bar combo using salvaged fission batteries. DLCs amplify the madness: craft Vault-Tec lounges underground or power-armor display halls. Pro tip: nothing says "post-nuclear chic" like a Deathclaw taxidermy centerpiece. Who needs Feng Shui when you’ve got radioactive Feng Boom? 💥

8 Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: LEGOs for Grown-Ups

Link traded swords for blueprints in Tears of the Kingdom. Hudson Construction’s prefab rooms let you Ultrahand-snap bedrooms, stables, and (yes) seven kitchens into a McMansion. Can’t decide between a library and an armory? Stack ’em vertically! The catch: interiors are pre-decorated. Hate that floral wallpaper in the "study" module? Sell it back and grab a gothic crypt block instead. Because nothing soothes post-Ganon trauma like a house that’s 80% weapon racks. 🗡️

7 Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire: Secret Base Shrine to Arceus

Every trainer’s dream: a clandestine lair filled with Pikachu plushies and lava lamps. Hoenn’s Secret Bases let you burrow into trees or caves, then decorate with absurdity: Blaziken posters, regal trampolines, even Team Magma rugs. Diamond/Pearl’s Underground expanded this, though Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl oddly limited decor to statues. Why? Mystery! Still, cramming a Blastoise fountain into a sandpit never gets old. Is it a base or a Pokémon-themed escape room? 🤔

6 House Flipper 2: Gentrification Simulator

Why watch HGTV when you can be the drama? House Flipper 2 lets you power-wash grime, knock down walls, and install shiplap without real-life back pain. Transform moldy cottages into:

• Minimalist zen dens 🌿

• Neon-drenched 80s arcades

• SpongeBob’s Krusty Krab (yes, really)

The joy? Selling your monstrosity to pixelated buyers. Will they appreciate your avant-garde bathroom-to-kitchen conversion? Probably not—but capitalism cares not for taste!

5 Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale: Capitalist Candyland

Ever wondered why shops feel weirdly calming? Recettear reveals the dark arts: lure customers with strategic decor! Place diamond rings by windows to trigger impulse buys, or use mahogany shelves to attract snooty elves. Decor isn’t vanity—it’s profit-driven psychology. Want to bankrupt adventurers? Make your shop a dopamine trap. After all, who needs morals when you’ve got chandeliers? 💸

4 The Sims 4: Digital Dollhouse Domination

Since 2000, The Sims has let players torture virtual humans with poorly placed fireplaces and stairless lofts. Sims 4? It’s a design playground:

Feature	Chaos Potential
Terrain Tools	Build a house inside a volcano 🌋
Clutter Items	Create "hoarder chic" bedrooms
Pools	With or without ladders (RIP, Bob Pancakes)

Your Sims might starve amid your marble masterpiece, but hey—at least the backsplash matches their existential void!

3 Dragon Quest Builders 2: Architecture for Applause

In a world where NPCs forgot how to build, you’re the Bob Vila of fantasy realms. Builders 2 rewards decor that caters to villagers’ quirks:

• Farmers adore hay bale bars

• Soldiers drool over spike traps

• Lulu the barmaid? Needs pink frills. EVERYWHERE.

Fail, and they’ll sulk. Succeed? They shower you with "Gratitude" (and resources). It’s less "design freedom," more "emotional hostage situation." 🏰

2 Final Fantasy XIV: Housing Savage Mode

Buying an FFXIV house is like winning a lottery—then realizing you must furnish it. Will you craft a scholarly library? Or a Gold Saucer casino with Moogle stripper poles? Choices! Decor ranges from tasteful (Oriental partitions) to unhinged (Halone ice sculptures). Just don’t forget: your neighbors will judge your Chocobo-themed outhouse. 🐤

1 Unpacking: Tetris with Emotional Baggage

Unpacking turns moving into a puzzle: cram diplomas, spatulas, and childhood teddy bears into shoebox apartments. Constraints breed genius—like stacking books under a mattress or hiding ex’s photos behind plants. It’s therapy disguised as organization. After all, isn’t adulthood just figuring out where to put the toaster? 🧩

So—does perfecting virtual spaces make us better real-life decorators? Or just fuel our desire to replace roommates with potted ferns? The future beckons: with VR and AI, will we soon argue with holographic Nooks? Until then, keep building, cramming, and questioning why that pixelated sofa costs 200,000 bells. 🤨