MakeRoom

About MakeRoom

MakeRoom is a single player casual city builder game. It was developed by Kenney and was released on August 7, 2025. It received very positive reviews from players.

Make miniature dioramas using hundreds of objects! Create a compact kitchen, a comfortable living room or a cozy nook to read books - the choice is yours!

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95%Audience ScoreBased on 783 reviews

graphics24 positive mentions

story8 negative mentions

Highly customizable with the ability to create and share custom furniture and items.
Cozy and relaxing gameplay with appealing low-poly visuals and calming music.
Active developer involvement with frequent updates and responsiveness to community feedback.

Controls and camera can be clunky, restrictive, and sometimes frustrating to use, especially on certain platforms like Steam Deck.
Limited number of furniture items and room sizes in base game leading to a lack of content variety.
Lack of convenient features such as undo/redo, multi-selection, object grouping, and UI enhancements affects quality of life.

graphics
64 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
38% positive mentions, 57% neutral mentions, 5% negative mentions
The graphics feature a cozy, charming, and delightfully simplistic low-poly art style that fosters creativity and customization, offering a warm, aesthetically pleasing, and relaxing visual experience. Users appreciate the cute, cottagecore-inspired visuals and the abundant decorative options, which encourage imaginative design without overwhelming detail. While some note the graphics are modest and the item variety could grow, the game's style and smooth performance effectively enhance its soothing, playful atmosphere.
- “Endless hours of designing houses, little rooms, areas, aesthetics, colors.”
- “The simplistic geometric artstyle paired with the number of creative tools to alter the items at our disposal (such as changing the colour, size, and rotation of the items) makes it easy to design and create unique layouts for the room dioramas.”
- “The art style is sweet and just detailed enough to allow you to make rooms with their own unique character, which is a tough balance to strike.”
- “I was excited to play this game and liked the aesthetic, but the lack of items really hurts since that's the main point of a sandbox game that has zero objectives.”
- “And I don't understand what orthographic is supposed to do other than... is it bugged?”
- “The actual gameplay is decent, with really cute visuals and assets, but it just feels not really polished from a player point of view.”
music
60 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
52% positive mentions, 43% neutral mentions, 5% negative mentions
The music in the game is widely praised for its cozy, calming, and relaxing qualities, perfectly complementing the charming visuals and peaceful gameplay. Players appreciate the variety of soothing tracks, ambient sounds, and the ability to customize audio to fit their mood, enhancing the overall cozy and creative experience. Many express a desire for more music tracks or seasonal additions to further enrich the soundtrack.
- “The style is incredible, the music too; in short, everything about this game is amazing, worth every penny.”
- “The music is amazing, the customization is phenomenal, the item list may be limited but with the custom option to build your own furniture the possibilities are endless.”
- “Super cute little decorating game with adorable graphics, comfortable music, and a relaxing vibe that makes it very easy to unwind to.”
- “Also, please work on the music.”
- “I know that music is very subjective, but something that's keeping a certain mood for 5 minutes would greatly help with that players can lose themselves in the fun of this game.”
- “I hope they add color adjustment options like darkening or lightening the colors, plus more music.”
story
40 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
18% positive mentions, 62% neutral mentions, 20% negative mentions
The game features minimal to no traditional story or overarching narrative, focusing instead on creative sandbox gameplay and light quest-style prompts for room decoration. While some players appreciate the open-ended design freedom and use it to imagine their own stories, others find the lack of a structured story mode or deeper quests limiting. Overall, the story aspect is understated, serving mostly as a gentle tutorial or optional guidance rather than a central element.
- “Dungeon masters, storytellers, book authors, comic artists—boy howdy, y'all gonna love this.”
- “I could easily pour hours into a singular room, fine tuning all the unique details and telling a story about the person who lives there.”
- “I like how there's both a "story" mode (similar to House Flipper where you help clients make their rooms) and a creative mode where you can just go wild.”
- “The game does not have any stories, goals, or missions; it's purely design at a relatively small scale - a room.”
- “I really wanted to like this game, but the lack of content and story made the game boring.”
- “Unfortunately, the story mode is very short and simple.”
gameplay
40 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
23% positive mentions, 69% neutral mentions, 8% negative mentions
The gameplay is primarily a relaxing, freeform decorating experience with simple, smooth mechanics that encourage creativity and personal expression. While praised for its cozy vibe, intuitive controls, and versatile furniture-building, it is also viewed as shallow and somewhat unfinished, with limited objectives and minimal challenge, making it more of a casual, low-stakes pastime than a deeply engaging game. Some users find it slightly clunky or tedious, yet the community and recent updates contribute positively to its appeal.
- “This freedom makes every space feel personal, shaped entirely by taste rather than by mechanical constraints.”
- “Great game, goated gameplay, satisfying graphics, runs smooth on everything (even a baby russet potato).”
- “I love the cozy vibes and the simplicity of the gameplay, and after playing this for 30+ hours I still feel like there is so much creativity I can unlock.”
- “Interacting with objects could be far more pleasant and tactile than it is, given the absence of any other gameplay.”
- “Gameplay is quite shallow, and it would have been nice to have more varied prompts to choose from.”
- “It was cool and fun for the first few minutes, but it just feels really rushed and unfinished; I wish there was more gameplay.”
grinding
12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
25% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 75% negative mentions
Grinding in the game is generally minimal, making it suitable for a relaxed experience, but the tedious item placement, restrictive camera, and lack of cluster selection tools can make decorating and managing rooms frustrating and time-consuming. The gameplay favors detailed work on single rooms over rapid progression, though the cumbersome controls and limited undo functionality hinder smooth creativity.
- “It's really nice if you want to chill and put your mind to work with something not too grindy.”
- “You'll need a second life for grinding.”
- “It's completely chilled out, no grinding, no money, just complete freedom.”
- “☐ you'll need a second life for grinding”
- “However it lacks items - or clusters of items - to create clusters you have to tediously place them all and the layering is objectively frustrating to work with.”
- “The gameplay feels more tedious than fun for me, and there's no real extrinsic motivation.”
emotional
12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The game delivers a wholesome and calming emotional experience, centered around creativity and peaceful room decoration. Players find joy in its simplicity and appreciate the supportive, welcoming community that enhances the emotional connection. Overall, it fosters a soothing, heartfelt atmosphere that resonates widely.
- “This is one of those cute, wholesome games that just calms you.”
- “Developed by Kenney and published by Wholesome Games, the game feels less like a conventional video game and more like a digital creative desk, where the simple joy of arranging spaces becomes the primary source of satisfaction.”
- “A wholesome game that gets your creative juices flowing and is fun for all ages to enjoy.”
atmosphere
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
43% positive mentions, 57% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The atmosphere is consistently described as calm, cozy, and relaxing, enhanced by a soft art style and soothing, atmospheric music. Attention to sound and visual details creates an immersive, "in your own world" feeling that complements the game's creative and customizable environment. Overall, the game excels at delivering a comfortable and inviting ambiance.
- “The atmosphere is calm and soothing, and every little sound and visual detail adds to that cozy, 'in your own world' feeling.”
- “The art style has a softer look to it, and the overall atmosphere is just really comfortable and relaxing.”
- “All in all, I would recommend this game to those that enjoy creating cozy spaces with a comfy OST/soundscape in the background to add to the good vibes atmosphere.”
optimization
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
40% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 60% negative mentions
Optimization receives mixed feedback: while some users find the game runs smoothly and customization intuitive, others report poor Steam Deck optimization and clunky controls despite attempts to adjust settings. Overall, performance is decent but controller integration and platform-specific optimization need improvement.
- “Very chill, runs smoothly for me, and the amount of customization is honestly super intuitive and feels refreshing.”
- “Again, my refund had nothing to do with the game's quality or performance!”
- “Eh - the game says it's Steam Deck verified, but it is absolutely not optimized properly.”
- “I spent 15 minutes going back and forth between the game and the controller settings just trying to make everything less of a hassle... and even then, with 'optimized' controls that I set myself, playing felt like a clunky chore.”
- “There are no timers, no currencies, and no performance metrics judging your creations.”
humor
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
Users find the game's humor charming and enjoyable, especially appreciating the community's creative and funny content, such as amusing pet-related creations like scratching posts and cat shelves.
- “I love watching the community create and share things they've made, funny, useful, cute, and more.”
- “There are dogs and fish, too, but I can't stop laughing at the number of scratching posts and cat shelves.”
monetization
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
The game offers a 3D workshop for creating custom models, adding depth without focusing heavily on traditional monetization. Overall, monetization appears unobtrusive and enhances player creativity.
stability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
The game’s stability is generally solid, but users report occasional issues with the Steam Workshop, where it sometimes fails to load or function properly.