Design Home vs Northgard
Design Home
Design Home is an incredibly realistic-looking, home decoration-themed, simulation game where you get to unleash your creativity as in interior decorator. Featuring tons of stunning 3D furniture and decoration items, which you can purchase using game or premium currencies, the game will have you honing your home design skills in its virtual space, and perhaps even translate what's virtual into your own real-life living room!The controls are really simple to learn and you have multiple options to rotate the objects you are placing. Aside from its free play, you can also challenge yourself by taking on the game's daily Design challenges. The game is very social as well, encouraging players to share their designs with its vibrant and creative community. You might even get some really nice insights and feedback (through a voting system) in return!
In short, Design Home is a brilliant home decor game that is perfect for creative players who just love interior decorating. In some way, you can also use the game as an app to try out different designs before going all out on brand-new furniture for your own home in real-life.
Northgard
Northgard is a rather unique city-builder/strategy game that allows you to lead a group of Northmen to unknown new shores in hopes of making a life there. Like most city-building games, you'll need to help them set up a home, assign your Vikings to perform various roles, ensure there is enough food to feed the entire village, and amass a small army to help defend your territories from other hostile clans. The strategic aspects of the game may not be obvious at first but you'll quickly realize that new territories that you discover (you don't exactly need to conquer it for this to work) will present new strategic opportunities for your clan to expand or grow, be it new sources for food or a nice place to set up a new trading post. There are many victory conditions as well, so it's not always "kill or be killed" in this game.Northgard offers players a single player experience by playing with AIs with various personalities or with their friends online. However, many players have reported that the game does have a somewhat flawed AI-player relationship. Even if you're best buddies with an AI's clan through healthy trading relationships, their clan members will still attack your people, which frankly feels a lot like a betrayal. It'd be nice to have a tutorial as well.
That said though, Northgard is an impressive game especially if you enjoy a bit of city-builder/strategy game like Valhalla Hills.