These buyers are presented as typical would-be home owners – a business man, an elderly couple, a few families – but will continue buying up your future homes no matter how many they own. can live) with your renovations, your home instantly goes to an auction to see which of a dozen dedicated buyers place the highest bid. Here too House Flipper offers an abbreviated and less-than-realistic simulation of the housing market. This limited creativity isn’t a deal-breaker, but it results in generic homes, which makes the renovation process feel repetitive.įixing up homes is only half of the house-flipping loop – you also have to sell them. While House Flipper’s tools are serviceable, you won’t be able to truly design your dream home, or incorporate your own creative flourishes beyond the ability to add custom paintings (which I had way too much fun with). Putting up shelves often left me at a loss for what to fill them with, and I found myself gravitating to the same few candles and plants to make rooms feel less barren. You quickly get tired of placing the same doors, desks, and (one!) shower in all of your homes. While House Flipper technically boasts hundreds of unique objects that you can place in your homes, drilling down into specific categories sometimes offers depressingly few options. Your color options are also underwhelming, and you can’t mix your own custom hues. Paint is applied one full-length, vertical strip at a time, preventing you from doing any kind of creative treatment aside from big-top circus stripes. These restrictions put major renovations out of the realm of possibility and make the whole experience feel shallow.Įven if you’re happy with your home’s floorplan, touching up rooms lacks flexibility. The demolition mechanics are limited inside as well you can’t tear down or move any wall that has plumbing fittings, so your bathroom layouts are bound to stay static – unless you want a toilet in your kitchen. You also can’t add or remove windows, or alter outside walls in any way. Despite the real-world emphasis on curb appeal when it comes to selling homes, you can’t perform any landscaping or outdoor improvements to your houses aside from applying a new coat of paint.
I’m not the biggest remodeling show fan, but thanks to my wife’s obsession with HGTV, I’ve watched enough of them to understand the appeal, and House Flipper simply lacks the flexibility to deliver on the dream.
However, it doesn’t take long to realize your renovation options are less expansive than they first appear.
After following the lengthy to-do lists of your previous employers, having the ability to do whatever you please with your new home is exciting. The houses come in a variety of different sizes, prices, and levels of disrepair. You have a little more freedom when it comes to demolishing and building walls and placing furnishings, but you won’t be impressing Chip and Joanna Gaines anytime soon.Īfter you’ve saved up enough money, you can forgo the set jobs and buy your own fixer-upper on the open market. The mechanics for painting, tiling, and mounting appliances are equally simplistic, and don’t leave much room for creativity. Cleaning boils down to clicking on boxes and other litter to make it instantly vanish, or holding in the mouse button to wave your broom in the general vicinity of stains. House Flipper gives you the ability to perform a number of remodeling actions, but the actual gameplay mechanics aren’t very interesting.
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