Whether it be through buying a house, upgrades, decoration, or placing each brick yourself, creating a house is relaxing for many players out there. Updated August 5, 2021, by Sam Hallahan: Building a home for yourself is comforting, satisfying, and something more games should - and have been - include as time goes on. Building your own house in a video game is like having a second vacation home that you can disappear to at any time, and many games give great opportunities to make something special.
Many games allow you to choose a house, but some games take it a few steps further and include tools for players to manually build walls, a roof, accessories, and manage the size of it all. These elements have expanded over the years, and one of the most popular implementations of life management in video games has boiled down to building a shelter for your character. However, more RPGs over the years have been implementing more simulation-style elements to further immerse players into the game, while also not alienating players who aren’t quite into the slow burn satisfaction and fun of Animal Crossing. Life-simulation video games tend to cross the line between fun and work, which has definitely divided gamers as to whether it's for them.
