Furnish Master Review Summary

Offers great room design freedom with fun gameplay useful for home planning, but the broken undo, unintuitive controls, and frequent crashes mar the experience.

Great room design freedom: A major highlight is the virtually unrestricted ability to plan and design rooms, houses, and other spaces. This freedom is praised for both creative and practical purposes, like planning real renovations.

Game is pleasant and fun: Players consistently describe the overall experience as enjoyable, fun, and satisfying. The game is seen as a pleasant, relaxing way to pass time.

Useful for home planning: The game is valued for mocking up real room layouts and planning renovations. It helps players visualize spaces for their homes or businesses.

Excellent customization options: Players value the extensive customization, including many options for colors, furniture, and textures. The ability to resize, rotate, and recolor items adds to the creative potential.

Story mode is enjoyable: The story mode is highlighted as fun and entertaining, with engaging quests and mini-games that add variety beyond simple decoration. Some players have completed it and found it satisfying.

Undo function is broken: The undo function frequently fails to revert the last action, sometimes undoing earlier actions or not working at all, causing frustration. This also applies to walls and color changes.

Controls are unintuitive and finicky: A large number of players find the controls difficult to master, feeling finicky, jerky, and unnatural, leading to frustration. This affects overall usability and enjoyment.

Game is severely buggy: Players report the game being unplayable, borderline unplayable, or buggy, with some experiences including crashes and inability to progress. This issue is widespread and critical.

Story mode is flawed: Story mode puzzles are confusing, hard to understand, and lack a restart option, with some players expecting more from this mode.

Grid snapping is problematic: Object placement is hindered by a grid snapping system that is clunky, nonsensical, and hard to align, with disabling it making things worse. This directly impacts building precision.

Sandbox mode prominently featured: Players frequently mention the availability of a sandbox mode for designing rooms or spaces without an end goal, alongside a story mode. The sandbox mode unlocks after completing story mode and offers many customization options.

Core gameplay is room decoration: The game is widely described as a decorating game focused on furnishing and customizing rooms. Gameplay involves placing items, adjusting colors and sizes, and creating ideal spaces.

Interior design and customization tools: Players highlight the ability to place shapes, scale furniture, change colors, and arrange objects to create custom layouts. The game provides extensive customization options for room design.

Room planning and recreation: The game allows players to plan room layouts, modify existing rooms, and even recreate real rooms using dimensions. This feature supports detailed room design and planning.

Story mode with property management: Story mode involves completing jobs, fulfilling client requests, buying properties, and generating income by placing items. This mode adds structure and progression.

Frequent crashes and launch failures: Many players report the game crashes on startup, shows black screens, or fails to open entirely, affecting both game modes. Some specific triggers include entering/exiting rooms, ungrouping items, placing items, and using VSync.

Game lags and stutters: General performance issues such as lag, stuttering, and choppiness are common, even with minimal content on screen. These issues occur from startup and during gameplay, making the experience unpleasant.

Poor optimization on high-end hardware: Users on powerful systems such as RTX 3070 laptops and RX 9070 experience low FPS, frame drops, and severe lag despite high specs. The game's use of Lumen global illumination is criticized for poor visual quality and performance cost.

Controller and mouse input problems: Controller support on Steam Deck is terrible, and mouse controls have sensitivity issues, severe lag, tracking errors, and unregistered clicks. These input problems hinder gameplay and navigation.

Smooth performance on modern systems: Some players report the game runs smoothly on most modern systems with no major bugs or crashes in extended sessions. Good optimization is noted despite detailed environments.

Recommended for decorating fans: Reviewers consistently recommend the game to fans of decorating and interior design games, especially those who enjoy The Sims 4 building. It appeals to both casual decorators and serious virtual designers.

Not recommended currently: A significant number of reviewers do not recommend the game in its current state, citing bugs, major gameplay flaws, and the need for more development. They suggest waiting for updates or fixes before buying.

Good for interior design: The game is praised for interior design and room redesign, making it suitable for visualizing custom rooms, planning renovations, and brainstorming dream spaces. It works for both personal projects and professional use.

Worth the price: Many reviewers find the game worth its money, considering it a good value. However, others explicitly advise waiting for a sale or say it is not worth the current price due to bugs and incomplete features.

Not ready in Early Access: Reviewers note that as an Early Access title, the game is not fully ready, needing more items, development, and fine-tuning. They suggest waiting until it improves or supporting the developer while waiting for updates.

Community fair range: $10.00 - $15.00.

Story completion: 6.5h.

Session length: 0.5h.

Players face rough onboarding—an overwhelming or sparse tutorial, stiff controls, and a click-heavy materials UI—before the fun story puzzles and addictive decorating loop land. A minority never clicks or finds it grows boring, but most evidence points to enjoyment arriving after the early friction is overcome.

Friction: Tutorial is overwhelming or not helpful; Guidance drops off after the first story job; Controls hard to learn; Repainting and material changes require many clicks; Cannot zoom while an item is selected; Story mode is sometimes hard to understand.

Cozy Decor Enthusiast: Casual, laid-back decorating, often while multitasking. Motivation: Relaxation and the joy of arranging spaces. Stance: buy.

Precision Designer: Methodical, using granular controls, expects robust editing options. Motivation: Creating precise, personalized spaces with professional-grade tools. Stance: sale.

Cautious Waiter: They attempt to play but are frustrated by janky controls and missing features. Motivation: They want to enjoy the game but are blocked by current flaws; they hope for fixes. Stance: deep sale.

Steam Deck: The Steam Deck experience for this game is broken for many users. The most critical issues are persistent launch failures (black screens) and a complete inability to start the game for some. Even when launched, controller support is described as terrible, with fiddly and unintuitive controls that make basic tasks, like maneuvering objects or exiting placement modes, frustrating. Some community workarounds exist, but the core experience is not playable without significant tinkering or luck.

Early access status prominent: Many reviewers note the game is in early access, with some mentioning it has been for two years and is not fully ready. There is a general expectation of improvement and future updates.

Developer support and updates: Positive feedback highlights active development, with developers adding content, fixing issues, and listening to community feedback. A supportive Discord server is also mentioned as a resource.

Comparisons to The Sims: The game is often compared to The Sims, especially regarding building and decorating, with some noting it offers more customization but lacks the simulation elements. Feedback suggests it appeals to fans of The Sims' creative aspects.

Potential and future expectations: Many reviewers see great potential in the game and expect it to improve with updates. Some plan to return later to check progress, indicating optimism for the future.

Content requests and suggestions: Players request more furniture, wallpapers, customization options, and additional features like extra floors. Some suggest DLC for more apartments, showing a desire for expanded content.