The game is available on Apple's App Store for iOS and macOS, and also on Android via Google Play, Amazon Appstore, or Huawei AppGallery.

Coins are needed to buy lives and power-ups for puzzle levels or customize the mansion with more than 100,000 design patterns.

To make the game more challenging, obstacle tiles appear on a level board (wafer cookies, carpet, boxes, yellow apples, and cherries encased in jelly, etc.).

[9] In the following years, developers have built a robust framework of recurring events or available for a limited period mini-games such as Flying High, Cake o’clock, Paper Plane Generator, Flint's Adventure, and others.

Leveling up by solving challenges, a player unlocks new chapters of a story and watches how Austin interacts with his parents and childhood friends; he also receives letters from them with bonuses.

[20] The same year, inspired by the game, Russian singer Zemfira composed a song and released a video clip, which was shot in collaboration with Playrix.

[21] The game received mostly positive reviews, although some critics found it less attractive and more challenging than the original Gardenscapes due to lack of bonuses and low coin rewards.

[22] At the beginning of 2020, Facebook advertisements for Homescapes depicted puzzle games where the user had to pull pins in a specific order to prevent a character's death.

These were referred to the UK's Advertising Standards Authority for being misleading and "not representative of the overall gameplay", which generally involves colorful match-3 puzzles.

[13][24] Similar criticism of advertising tactics occurred with Gardenscapes: New Acres and Township, two games also made by Playrix.