Best Virtual Home Designing Games You Can Play Today

Video games were once for a small niche of mostly teenage and young boys during the 80s and 90s. Today, however, an estimated 70 percent of all Americans play video games every year. This ranges from playing little games like Candy Crush on your phone during your commute to spending hundreds of hours playing Skyrim on your PS4. 

One of the best parts and the reason why video games have such wide appeal is that there’s a genre for everyone. Horror games, action games, farming simulators, trivia, puzzle games… the list goes on!

This article in particular is going to go over some of the best virtual house designing games. If you love interior design, decorating, and puzzle games, then these four games are going to be perfect! 

Let’s get started so you can get playing!

Design Home - iOS, Android

Design Home is a mobile game for iOS and Android devices that’s described as equal parts relaxing and challenging. This game has you playing as a color expert and interior designer responsible for designing and decorating homes for your clients. 

The game provides you with daily design challenges to sharpen your design skills. You’ll also get to unlock stages and rewards as you progress including allowing your to change colors as a color consultant, design more room types like bathrooms and kitchens, and unlock more home décor options as well.

The game helps you sharpen your real life design skills since you’ll be designing virtual homes, using real-life brands, and connecting with other players through chat, messaging, and other in-game interactions. 

The best part? The game is completely free to play! You can purchase add-ons in game if you’d like, but you can also have a great experience with this game without paying for a single thing.

The Sims 3 - PC/Mac, iOS, PS3, Xbox360, Android

The Sims is a classic simulation game that isn’t solely dedicated to interior and virtual home design, but a large part of the gameplay is dedicated to design. The Sims 3 has some of the best design gameplay out of all the Sims games, but almost any iteration of the Sims has amazing design options.

For those just getting into design video games, Sims is great because it has preloaded and pre-designed homes. You can go into these pre-made homes and design what you want as you go.

For those of you who want a big more of a challenge and who are also into architecture, the Sims allows you to build and decorate a home from scratch. Simply get a vacant lot for your Sim family instead of a lot with a home on it and get to work! 

There are some amazing Sim home creations that you can find all over the Internet, some of which have tutorials to help you along. Check out one of those here.  

Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Nintendo 3DS

Both Design Home and The Sims are relatively realistic. If you want something a bit more fun and whimsical, Animal Crossing: New Leaf is one of the best. 

This game puts the player in a position as a new villager in an established little town filled with cute little animal townspeople. The twist of this Animal Crossing game is that when you arrive to the town, everyone mistakes you for the mayor! 

This lets you make a lot of custom changes to the town including decorating, creating homes, and building other types of buildings the town needs. You can completely decorate your home and design it to your specific liking all while taking up little quests and tasks to make your town the best it can be.

Home Design Story -  iOS

Home Design Story is a lot like the “Design Home” game we went over earlier. This game lets you create designs and decorate homes for all sorts of clients. You’ll design cozy cabins, huge mansions, rustic farmhouses, and more.

As you get better at fulfilling your clients’ promises, you’ll become more and more successful and well-known. Your task is to become the world’s best designer!

You get to do all of the following:

• Decorate the home with styles that range from vintage to modern
• Paint or change the walls 
• Become successful and unlock new designs, decor items, and more
• Decorate gardens, lawns, and landscapes
• Unlock and progress through story-based levels

You’ll also get some great weekly updates so you’ll never run out of things to do.

Like Design Home, Home Design Story is completely free to play with optional purchases in-app.

4 Cool Careers You Didn't Know Existed

When kids are asked what they want to be when they grow up, they usually shoot for the stars, right? You’ll hear “President” or “Space Cowboy” or “Prince” or “Ice Cream Cone Tester” among other amazing sounding jobs. 

As we get older, we get a little more practical. Ask high school or college students and you’ll get some more “adult” answers: accountant, graphic designer, marketer, etc. 

But are you one of the people who’s a kid at heart? Do you still want to follow the cool careers you dreamed up as a kid? Do you want everyday at your job to be fun instead of just a 9-5 slog?

We completely understand. That’s why we’ve made this post: to show you that cool careers do exist… you just have to search for them. Here are 4 awesome and unique jobs that you didn’t know existed.

1. Color Consultant

You’ve probably heard of interior designers and design experts, but a color consultant is a bit more specific than either of those positions. 

A color consultant, also sometimes called a paint color specialist or simply a color specialist, focuses on creating color palettes and schemes via paint, decor, art, plants, lighting, and more to fit a specific design aesthetic.

This means that color consultants have to not only be experts with understanding color, but they also need to understand different design aesthetics, work with various clients, have interior design knowledge, work with nature (exteriors need color too!), and more.

Color consultants also often work alongside interior designers or are interior designers themselves. These consultants often take all of the work off the plate of their client, including testing colors, buying paint options, consulting with designers, etc.

So if you like color, design, and working with others, color consulting could be for you!

2. Video Game Tester

Do you love playing video games? Most people would say yes to this question, which makes the idea of “video game tester” as a job seem like a dream come true.

But it’s actually more difficult than just playing your favorite games. You need to have immense knowledge about the video game industry, be able to play new games, and be able to stand out in a very competitive industry. 

You also should understand that this job might not always be fun. You’re essentially a software quality control or quality assurance tech that just happens to be testing video games instead of more, well, boring software. You’ll need to make sure the game delivers what it says it does, understand software issues, repeatedly test the same things over and over, and more.

If you have a passion for games, though, then this should all sound amazing. Be sure to invest in some good blue-light filtering glasses and have hobbies away from screens (everyone needs a break sometimes).

3. Certified Ethical Hacker

When you hear the word “hacked”, you probably immediately think of something nefarious. Either people getting their computer hacked and their information stolen or large-scale cyber attacks that release thousands of peoples information to those who wish to steal it.

However, there are skilled computer workers and hackers out there that choose to use their hacking skills for good instead of evil. That’s where certified ethical hackers come in.

These hackers are skilled professionals who know how to hack into systems, find weaknesses, and identify system vulnerabilities so that those things can be strengthened and fixed. Instead of illegally hacking into these systems, government agencies, large companies, and internet servicers will hire certified ethical hackers to legally target them, find problems, and recommend solutions. 

4. Cool Careers: Mermaid

Yes, you read that right. If you so desire, you can be a professional mermaid.

Well, kind of. Half-fish people don’t really exist (that we know of), but there are some humans that make pretty convincing mermaids. These professional mermaids create intricate costumes, dances, and routines that they perform while underwater. This interesting art form could be considered a type of dancer, performer, athlete, and actor all in one.

This career comes with a lot of dedication and training. One mermaid said that she can hold her breath for over 5 minutes all while doing underwater acrobatics. 

Most mermaids were once professional swimmers, scuba divers, and free divers. You have to be very comfortable in water and in peak physical condition to be successful. But if you can do it, it’s very rewarding! That mermaid who can hold her breath for over 5 minutes, for example, says she makes over 6000 dollars per show she does.