Many idle mobile games have been coming out recently, though not all of them have the depth some gamers look for. Fortunately, one recent idle game that has the passion of its creators oozing from every pixel is SWEET HOME – Fragments of Desire.
The core message behind Sweet Home is growing. Every day you become a better person than you were before, and that message is seen clearly from the start when you fill the shoes of young Cha Hyun-soo.
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To ensure you’re able to make the most out of this game, we’re here with this ultimate game guide.
In addition to helping you know what you can expect from Sweet Home when you download and install it, we’ll also go through some of the core gameplay mechanics that are sure to help you in your journey to defeat all the monsters who have been turned because of their dark desires.
Sweet Home – Starting Off
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As soon as you download and install Sweet Home, you’ll be asked to create an account, log in with your existing Google account, or continue as a guest.
While the guest option might sound like it’s the quickest and most convenient, we always recommend players link their game with an account to ensure their saved data doesn’t get lost in the case of anything unpredictable happening.
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Once you’re done making your Sweet Home account, you’ll be asked to set a nickname for yourself. After that, you’ll see a beautifully animated cutscene that will look very similar to manga and Webtoon readers. The cutscene will also establish the overall story of the game.
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With the cutscene complete, you’ll instantly be thrown into the game while fighting monsters of all shapes and sizes in an effort to rid the world of its evil.
The Essence of an Idle Game
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If you’ve played other idle action games like The Era of Overman: Idle RPG then it’s likely that you’ll be familiar with the core concept of SWEET HOME.
The most important thing you have to know about it is that you can press the ‘auto’ button at the bottom right corner of the screen and forget about having to use any of your basic attacks or spells.
That’s because your player will automatically walk towards the nearest enemy and attack them. When his skills are available to use, the game will make him use them without any of your input required.
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So how is this a game, you ask? Well, every time your character defeats an enemy or moves to a further stage, he gets stronger while acquiring skill points and various types of currencies in Sweet Home.
It is your job to efficiently make use of those aforementioned skill points and currencies to ensure your character grows as strong as possible to take out any monster that stands in his way.
Progressing Through the Stages
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Every stage in SWEET HOME – Fragments of Desire is called a challenge. As the name suggests, you have to complete a specific challenge if you want to progress to the next one.
With that being said, the challenge is almost always to defeat a set number of enemies before a given time limit.
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Naturally, that’s much easier said than done, as the enemies continue to get stronger and more difficult to kill. While they start off weak and you can take them down with a single hit, you’ll eventually be spending significantly more time just to take down a single enemy.
Every time you reach a stage that is divisible by five, like five, ten, fifteen, and so on, you have to clear a boss fight.
These boss fights are usually done by tapping the green button at the top right of the screen labeled “Difficult challenge.”
However, if you go a while without pressing the button and have already met the requirements to unlock it then the game might decide to throw you in that challenge regardless of whether you pressed the button or not.
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Failing a challenge has a red “Challenged Failed” screen show up and you have to restart that challenge from the very beginning with no major drawback aside from the time lost.
Defeating All Types of Enemies in Sweet Home
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Now, although SWEET HOME – Fragments of Desire has a bunch of different types of enemies that can be seen by tapping the collection tab at the right of the screen, you only need to know about two categories of enemies.
The first category is where all the regular enemies fall. All of these enemies are pretty much the same in terms of how they attack you and how you take them down.
While they might look different, they’re still regular enemies that you have to defeat in batches before moving on to the difficult challenges.
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Speaking of difficult challenges, every time you’re in a difficult challenge you’ll have to face a single enemy.
The enemies you face in these stages are boss enemies and they’re significantly more difficult to take down in addition to dealing much more damage to you. Boss enemies also have specific types of attack animations that can be taken advantage of.
Strengthening Your Character
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Now that you know what the core objective of Sweet Home is, it’s time to go through how you can achieve it. You have to make your character much stronger than he was when starting off, of course.
Naturally, the first way of doing this is by simply playing the game. You’ll occasionally see a level-up message pop-up on your screen when taking down enemies signifying that your character has grown stronger in terms of base stats.
Aside from that, the game gives players multiple other ways to make their character more powerful and we’ll be going through the most useful ones right here.
Enhancement
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The first and most common method you’ll be using is the enhancement one in Sweet Home. As you defeat enemies and progress in the world, you’ll acquire an insane amount of gold. That gold can then be used to directly increase the stats of your character.
To go to the enhancement screen, you have to tap the enhancement icon at the right of the screen. When you tap it for the first time, you’ll only have the option to enhance your physical attack power. However, with time, you’ll unlock the following stat upgrades:
- Physical Attack Power
- Magic Attack Power
- Health
- Mana
- Critical Damage
- Critical Change
As you level your character up and progress in the game you’ll unlock even more enhancement options to mess around with.
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Although it might be tempting to just increase the physical attack power stat and watch as your character decimates everyone in his way, we recommend you try to level everything up equally.
For example, some enemies are resistant to physical attack power which might cause problems for you down the line.
Skills
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Another option that will unlock as you progress in Sweet Home and level up is ‘Skill.’ From the start of the game, you’ll have one specific skill unlocked that will be shown at the bottom right of the screen called Hidden Blade.
However, you’ll notice that it’ll be, well, pretty useless because of its low damage.
By unlocking this skill, you’ll be able to use the skill points you collect by taking down monsters to both level up your existing skills and unlock new ones.
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Now, there are two types of skills in this game. The first are active skills that your character has to use and after using them once they go on cooldown. These skills are shown at the bottom right of the screen and are only in use for a limited amount of time.
The second type of skill in Sweet Home, meanwhile, is passive skill. These skills give permanent buffs to your character and are always active. There’s no need to manually enable them which means they never go on cooldown and can be used indefinitely.
Survival of the Fittest
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While you have many ways to increase your overall power, the fact of the matter is that it’s inevitable that you’ll come across a stage or enemy that you won’t be able to clear. This is where consumable items come in.
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There are two primary types of consumable items in Sweet Home. The first restore your health and range from small potions that replenish up to 10,000 health to large potions that replenish up to 100,000 health. Similarly, there are also mana potions that do the same thing just for mana instead of health.
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Staying on brand with their idle personality, players don’t really need to actually do anything to consume a health or mana potion.
Instead, all they have to do is tap the inventory icon at the right of the screen, tap on the potion they want to equip, and set it to equip. You’ll know an item is equipped when you see it at the bottom of the screen.
Once you have a health or mana potion equipped, you simply have to play the game as you normally would.
The only difference is that once the health or mana bar at the top left of the screen runs out, a potion of the corresponding type will automatically be consumed and the number of potions you have will decrease. Talk about ease of access!
Nothing Like a Good Weapon
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Perhaps even more important than strengthening your character is the quality of the weapon your character is holding in Sweet Home. That’s right, weapons are a core part of the game as they determine the overall damage done by your basic attacks, which are the attacks you’ll be using for the game.
To which weapons you have acquired over the course of your adventure, you simply have to tap the ‘inventory’ option at the left of the screen. Here, you can change, upgrade, and evolve your weapons as you see fit.
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Before you learn how to acquire, level up, or evolve weapons, it’s important to learn how the rarity system works. From worst to best, the rarity of weapons in SWEET HOME are:
- Low Grade
- Normal
- Advanced
- Hero
- Legend
- Monster
- Monster 2
- Transcendent
The higher the rank of the weapon you’re using the higher the damage dealt is likely to be.
How to Get New Weapons
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The main way of getting new weapons is by summoning them. That’s right, SWEET HOME – Fragments of Desire has a gacha system, much like Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail. However, unlike those aforementioned games, the gacha system of this game only extends to unlocking new weapons and items and not new characters.
By tapping the summon option at the right of the screen, players can summon new weapons.
To do so, you need to consume green gems which are a currency you can acquire by doing pretty much anything, may it be clearing stages or completing achievements. Just be sure to go to the mail section to claim all of your unclaimed gems.
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To speed things up, you don’t necessarily have to summon weapons one at a time in Sweet Home. You can also summon them in batches of 10, 30, and even 100 when you reach the required level.
Additionally, you can also potentially acquire new weapons from events that are always ongoing. Be sure to check the events tab every now and then to see if you can potentially acquire a game-changing weapon.
Upgrading Weapons
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Naturally, just acquiring good weapons is the first step to becoming powerful. It’s also important to level those weapons up to a respectable degree to ensure they actually deal the damage you want.
By interacting with the weapon you want to use, you can spend some currency to level it up. If you don’t want to level it up one level at a time, you can always select the max option and just tap the upgrade button once to level that weapon up as many times as you can with your current currency.
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In addition to simply leveling your weapons up to ensure they do more damage, you can also promote or evolve them.
A promoted weapon is promoted to the next rarity, while an evolved weapon is upgraded to the next star.
Regardless of which option you choose, you’ll need to have multiple copies of the weapon you’re trying to evolve or promote, which can be done by getting lucky when summoning.
Conclusion
This concludes the only game guide you’ll need for SWEET HOME – Fragments of Desire.
Remember that since Sweet Home is an idle game, the developers are constantly adding difficulty spikes to the game to ensure your character is never too overpowered.
Therefore, continue to strategically enhance your character and his abilities so you can conquer whatever monster is thrown at you.
If you want to play some similar idle games such as Sweet Home, check out King Or Fail – Castle Takeover and Hype City: Idle Tycoon. The idle mobile game world is ever-expanding and full of so many new games to find!
