Hidden Object: Home Makeover

[b]Hidden Object: Home Makeover[/b] (HOG) [i]Game provided for Curator review[/i] Simple options for this one: Sound on/off, Full-screen and Normal (timed) or Relaxed Mode. [b]Story[/b]: You want to become a designer, and your grandparents - thinking it's a great idea - invite you to come stay at their place and fix it up for designing practice. As you finish each scene, you'll get a handy household tip (they really are very helpful tips!) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1834198248 [b]Gameplay[/b]: I wanted to try this because it looks so much like the original [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89981mQn3qI]Gardenscapes[/url] (which is not available on Steam). [i]Home Makeover[/i] has a LOT of similarities, including the basic premise of holding garage sales to make the money you need to purchase upgrades for your home. I recognize the music from another game, and it is absolutely driving me crazy that I can't remember which one it is! [b]Hidden Object Scenes[/b] (aka garage sales) are your major source of income for the game. They are all randomized junk piles with cookie cutter items that are used on every scene. HOS repeat but the objects will …

There is not really a decoration game and the match-3s are rather poor. You just have to play endless hidden objects, somethimes with a timer (the only interesting feature), afterwards you buy things for the house. That`s it. Not worth full price.

All there is in this game is, the same locations, finding the same objects over and over again. I found this game mind-numbingly boring.

Hidden Object: Home Makeover is a relaxing, goal-driven, hidden object game where you help Emma redecorate her granny's house "down by the river". This will require an enormous amount of money. In fact, it will require so much money, one could simply have bought a new house for the cost of redecorating one room for granny. Fortunately for you, Emma is a sociopath who has turned her granny's invitation to "bring new furniture" to redecorate a spare room into permission to sell all of her grandmother's possessions in order to fund a shopping spree. Emma describes these possessions as "unused items" ... "unused items" like family pets, treasure chests full of doubloons, diamonds the size of a man's fist, a Thanksgiving turkey, and the occasional housefly. Emma's customers range from a Vin Diesel lookalike (with a totally not suspicious hat that simply says "SPORTS") who repeatedly asks for dozens of random tools to fix his wife's pipes, to a 6-year-old boy who on different occasions purchased from Emma a noose, pliers, and a squirrel. This raises the question - are these actual customers and items, or are they Emma's hallucinations? Is grandma even alive or did Emma send herself that…

Simple low key fun, though the English translation of some of the object names could use clarification.

Too basic to be interesting.