To start off, I do enjoy this game well enough. HOWEVER, I would not recommend others to buy this game. I'll explain: It's a decent way to pass the time, and allows me to think of personal story ideas while I play it. But it is VERY janky and filled with bugs. I'll elaborate more with a list of pros and cons:

Pros:
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• Decent way to pass the time
• Has simple enough controls
• Blueprints give a good bit of leeway when arranging materials
• The skill upgrades are something nice to help speed up the building process
• Unsure if this is intentional, but it is quite easy to move around, even when it comes to scaling rocks and deep pits

Cons:
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• While the materials ragdolling can be funny at first, it quickly becomes irritating when they fly out of the map's boundaries
• The music is extremely limited, so expect to be listening to the same 2 songs on repeat, unless you're in a level with a country-specific track. Even then, it's the same song playing the entire time
• The hint panels and tip pop-ups are extremely irritating, causing you to drop whatever you were holding when they decide to pop up. There is also no option to turn them off, despite the developers saying they would "look into the option to turn them off/on" a year or two ago
• Accidentally picking up materials (that are meant to be picked up by hand) with the crane renders them unusable
• The animations of NPC humans and animals are... subpar. They're also very prone to being bugged out
• The animation of the delivery semi is near non-existent. It looks like they simply rotated the model at certain intervals when it is pulling up to the build location
• Once you place a wall or floor paneling down, you cannot remove it, or place another one over it. It sometimes does not even show up on the surfaces after placing it. You are not able to be precise with the area it covers, either. Actually, I don't think the floor covers even work; I couldn't get them to be placed down on anything, anywhere
• Decorations are not categorized in the slightest, nor is there a bar to pull up and down to quickly scroll through the selections
• Destroying certain objects (such as the rocks blocking the elevator on the "house on the rock" level) is very frustrating, as it often did not register my sledgehammer coming in contact with the model. I had to keep switching to another tool, "using it" for a quick second, then switching back to the sledgehammer before it allowed me to continue breaking the models. It was just a tedious back-and-forth moment that greatly decreased what enjoyment I had

I'm sure there are more cons that I may be forgetting as of this moment, but they definitely outweigh the pros either way.

All in all, despite the hours I've put into it, House Builder is subpar. I'm honestly surprised it has so many positive reviews. This game somehow has a second one, as well as DLC's for this game, despite the base game being as half-baked as it is. So, would I recommend it? No. Would I buy it again? Also no. Will I still play it? Maybe a bit more, but after that... no. Once is fine enough, but I would rather play other house-building and simulator games.

Wanted to like this game so bad, but the stuttering makes me motion sick. The goofy upgrade system, menus, and slot machine sounds... I just can't. Then they want to add a 1+ GB download so that I can hunt pyramids across all the maps? A thinly veiled attempt to arouse excitement for the new DLC.

There isn't another straight up construction/carpentry simulator on the market that I'm aware of (please let me know if there is). I'm not trying to decorate or arrange furniture, like the House Flipper series and similar. Landlord Super is probably the best that I'm aware of as a construction sim, though pretty janky. Bunker Builder - super big let down. This really had the potential. I even tolerated the mud bricks and silly igloo ice block chopping mini game, but I can't play a game if I'm sick. Boo.

The game just does not feel good at all.