These days, decorating in video games has become a true expression of creativity and escapism. Whether you’re picking out the perfect rug in The Sims or designing a pixelated loft in Minecraft, you’re channeling your inner interior designer. And just like in real life, where you can choose between Cassina or Henge furniture, in the digital world, we can create spaces that reflect our aesthetic obsessions. Maybe in a cheaper way!
1. The Sims 4 (PC, Mac, PS4, Xbox One)
If you’ve never spent more than 3 hours in build mode creating your dream kitchen from scratch… are you even playing the game? The Sims 4 is essentially the Hogwarts of digital design magic. Picking furniture styles, changing wall textures, drowning poor unfortunates in the pool (we know you’ve tried!): it’s all part of the experience.
What you can do: Build your dream house from the ground up, room by room. Choose furniture, flooring, wall art, and lighting. Want a mid-century modern loft or a cottage-core greenhouse bathroom? Go wild. The modding community makes the possibilities almost endless.
Why we love it: It’s a creative sandbox with no rules – unless you play with fire. Literally. (Always test your chimneys.)
2. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo Switch)
If your idea of therapy is planting flowers while wearing a kawaii outfit and listening to K.K. Slider play smooth jazz, welcome home. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the cosy design fantasy you didn’t know you needed.
What you can do: Customise your island, your house, your garden – literally everything. Furniture? Seasonally. Wallpaper? Change it daily. Have a vision for a cosy kitchen with a twist? Say no more.
Why we love it: It’s pure comfort, with just enough design options to let your creative side flourish (without ever worrying about budgets or dust).
3. Minecraft with Design Mods (All Platforms)
The original builder’s paradise. Minecraft with design mods is like Lego meets interior design school, except you’re attacked by creepers. But at least you can build walls.
What you can do: Build literally anything, from Hobbit holes to luxury villas and even the Eiffel Tower itself. With mods like Chisel or MrCrayfish’s Furniture Mod, you can decorate interiors with surprising finesse.
Why we love it: It’s infinite. With limitless pixels and textures, you can create anything: the Batcave, Zelda’s Kakariko Village, or your own custom otaku hideaway.
4. House Flipper (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch)
You know that strangely satisfying feeling you get when you tidy up a messy room and transform it? House Flipper is that – on steroids. You buy trashy houses, gut them, renovate, redecorate, and flip them for profit (or aesthetic satisfaction).
-What you can do: Paint, smash, tile, clean, install toilets (yes), and design dreamy interiors. From rundown to Pinterest-worthy, it’s up to you to make it happen.
-Why we love it: There’s something about turning a moldy bathroom into a spa that feels like digital redemption. Plus: power tools.
5. Skyrim with mods (PC, PS4, Xbox One)
Yes, you read that right. Skyrim isn’t all dragons and screaming. At least for me.
What you can do: With the official Hearthfire expansion and tons of user-generated content on Nexus Mods, you can build dream homes on the tundra, decorate ancient castles, or decorate a cosy witch’s cottage in the woods. Bonus: Your home can include weapon racks and enchanted bookshelves. Please don’t throw a fireball in there!
Why it rocks: Epic fantasy meets Pinterest board. Turn your Dovahkiin into a decor queen. Then slay dragons.
Whether you’re a would-be architect or just someone who finds joy in arranging throw pillows after a boss fight, these games offer a creative escape that’s part therapy, part dream building. Me? I once spent three hours picking the perfect chair for my house in Falkreath. What about you? But if you’re trying and having trouble in the real world, you should seek help from the professionals! Companies like Tomassini.com can help you with building your perfect hobbit hole! Would you build the Batcave or a room filled with Snorlax plushies?
Sharon is an avid writer who has a concentration on nonfiction content. She has been treading the writers’ field for more than ten years and hopes to broaden her experience by delving further into book publishing. In her spare time, she enjoys a good read or movie that takes her back in time.
