The thrills, chills, and plaster fills of DIY have come to PC at the moment in House Flipper. The daddification of video video games not fairly being on the level the place we get video games about dads changing fuses or portray the nursery, House Flipper places a small enterprise spin on DIY by having us renovate and fix-up homes for shoppers or so we are able to promote ’em on for large bucks. Knock by way of partitions! Plaster! Paint! Rewire! Refit! Renovate! Tidy! Make your fortune! As a Viscera Cleanup Detail esports skilled, I’m delighted by the thought – although I can’t assist however want this first-person handymaner had been multiplayer and a bit extra dynamic.
So! We’ve arrange as a handyman. At first, we do duties for shoppers–restore this, repaint that–however ultimately save up sufficient to begin shopping for properties to renovate and resell. There are many potential duties to do, although sadly a variety of them come right down to holding a mouse button in the proper spot.
To match a radiator, drop it in place then maintain the mouse to tighten nuts. To paint, maintain the mouse button whereas a curler fills in a pre-defined strip of wall. To mop muck, intention and maintain the mouse button till it’s gone. To choose up garbage, click on and it’ll immediately vanish. It largely continues in the identical manner, although I do take pleasure in clicking and dragging a squeegee to wash streaks throughout home windows.
To be clear, House Flipper doesn’t have the physics and particle-driven nonsense that makes Viscera Cleanup such a beautiful comedy of errors. Walk right into a pot of paint and also you gained’t kick it over or leaving painty footprints. Nothing is lobbed with ha-ha-hilarious penalties.
I’ve performed by way of a couple of House Flipper jobs and yeah, it doesn’t fairly hit the identical spot for me. But I shouldn’t count on it to be the identical. It does allow you to restore and renovate properties, ticking off duties and leaving them fancier and cleaner than earlier than, and that’s nonetheless fairly good. And I suppose you may have a lark making horrible homes.
House Flippers is out now on Steam for £13.94/€15.11/$17.99, a worth which features a 10% launch low cost. It’s developed by Empyrean along with Car Mechanic Simulator devs Red Dot Games, and printed by PlayWay and Frozen District.
