Design Home vs Stonehearth
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.
Stonehearth
Stonehearth is the game you'll want to play if you enjoy playing Minecraft because you can build your very own city. Although the game is basically a sandbox game like Minecraft, it has a building aspect that's much more similar to Craft the World... except that in Stonehearth, everything's in glorious 3D. In this game, you play as the leader of a small handful of adorable-looking pioneers who are looking for a new place to settle down. There isn't a lot of digging involved in Stonehearth though you still need to get your pioneers to collect resources from the environment or to plant and harvest their own.Like in Craft the World, you'll need to provide shelter for your people and equip them with the necessary equipment so they can fend off attacks during the night. However, when it comes to crafting, Stonehearth has a much more diverse and in-depth crafting system. The building system in this game is also pretty unique though it can be rather restrictive when compared to Minecraft since the most "building" you'll be doing is mainly houses for your villagers. Of course, let's not forget about the game's much better-looking graphics!
In some way, Stonehearth is more of a survival/town-building game than a pure sandbox game like Minecraft. However, it is perfect for players who enjoy having an entire town of minions to order around, and the satisfaction of leading and developing a tribe. For a price tag of $24.99 (on Steam), Stonehearth can be a bit on the costly side, but if this is the sort of game you're into, the game will always be worth the price. You can show your support to the indie developers behind this game as well... so there's that!