Home Sweet Home

Here's an interesting game from shockwave.com.

Home Sweet Home

Design and build rooms based on customer desires. Most of these are riddles you have to figure out before you build. At the beginning there are very few design choices, a couple of floors, walls, etc. They slowly add on as you go--which helps keep the chaos low to start.

As you figure out the customer desire puzzle you pick items to decorate the room. It shows a sketch of the item where you place it. After you finish the room, you have a build crew that come along and build the room. They have a world of problems, from needing tool box items, to hurting themselves, to running out of energy. You have to work hard to keep them on task or you won't meet your construction deadline.

I enjoyed playing this game, it gives you a "house" to play with, so you can make any kind of room you want to. I played around with this a lot, each task you complete for the game gives you more money to play with in your own house.

This is a great way to kill time and work brain muscles. I don't think it's kid friendly because of it's complex play, but that may be because my kids have short attention spans. ;)