Genre: renovation simulator, sandbox, building
Developer: Frozen District, Empyrean
Publisher: Frozen District, PlayWay S.A.
Platform: PC (Windows)
Interface Language: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
Multiplayer: up to 4 players (Co-op DLC)
Add-ons: Supporter Pack, Co-op DLC, Scooby-Doo DLC, Sakura DLC
Version: 1.12.1.0 (May 23, 2026)
About this game
House Flipper 2 picks up where the 2018 original left off and moves the work to Pinnacove — a small town where almost every house is waiting for a new owner. Frozen District has transformed the game, changing the lighting and object physics, adding freely reconfigurable walls, and customizable floor plans. The jump in interior detail and tool variety is obvious from the very first job.
The story campaign throws renovation jobs at you from local residents: restore an abandoned cottage, clean up after a flood, prepare a family home for new owners. Alongside it sits a sandbox mode with no hard rules, where you can build and decorate however you want.
House Flipper 2 expands the renovation toolkit compared to the first game:
- Free remodeling — knock down walls and build new ones, change floor plans, add windows and openings between rooms.
- Thousands of catalog items — furniture, appliances, finishing materials, lighting, decor. Categories filter by job style, from classic to Japanese minimalism.
- Renovation tools — roller, putty knife, hammer, drill. Each has its own material cost and work animation.
- Clients with personality — buyers arrive with a specific budget, theme and preferences. The final result is scored against the brief.
- Resale and auctions — the updated Buyer System 2.0 shows live reactions from bidders and gives a final evaluation of the job.
- Co-op for up to four players — shared project, shared budget, tasks split by rooms and tools.
Every major Frozen District patch adds quests, tools and items, so House Flipper 2 version 1.12 feels noticeably different from the launch build.
House Flipper 2 runs on two core modes. Sandbox gives you full freedom — anything from a tiny cabin to a large multi-story build. The story campaign is structured around quest chains that pay out money and upgrade points on completion.
Core jobs in House Flipper 2 follow a simple template:
- Clean out construction debris and old furniture.
- Paint walls and ceilings.
- Lay paving tiles and tidy up the yard.
- Place furniture and decor to match the client’s plan.
Each mission ships with a short backstory — letters from residents, notes left on walls, small neighborhood subplots — which keeps a solo playthrough from feeling repetitive.
Upgrade points spend across separate skill branches. You can cut paint consumption, speed up finishing work or raise hammer damage when knocking down walls. Tools unlock gradually, so the first missions are tougher than the rest — by mid-campaign, renovations move noticeably faster.
After Co-op DLC, a shared mode with up to four players became available, with a common budget and shared jobs. After Sakura DLC, the available themes grew further — Japanese interiors with tatami and shoji screens now sit alongside the standard suburban work.
Four expansions have shipped for House Flipper 2. All of them are included in this build:
- Supporter Pack — launch edition for early backers. Artbook, soundtrack, wallpapers, a set of in-game decor and a figurine of the Flipper from the first game.
- Co-op DLC — free expansion that unlocks shared story and sandbox play for up to four players. Released in May 2025.
- Scooby-Doo DLC — crossover with the Mystery Inc. gang. Paranormal-flavored jobs, themed interiors and guest appearances from the cartoon. Released in October 2025.
- Sakura DLC — Japanese expansion and the headline addition of this build. Released on May 21, 2026.
Sakura DLC in detail
Sakura DLC moves the work to a Japanese countryside setting with a springtime view of Mt. Fuji. Frozen District added more than 600 themed items, five new jobs (a cozy tearoom, an abandoned primary school, an onsen and other locations), five Japanese houses to renovate and five new buyers with traditional architecture in mind. The pack introduces sliding paper walls and windows, three new wooden assemblies, fresh collectibles and its own achievement set.
The DLC ships alongside the free 1.12 update, which adds more than 100 new items to the in-game shop, opens empty plots in Story Mode and rebuilds resale around Buyer System 2.0 with live feedback from buyers during the auction.
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 first generation / Intel Core i5 seventh generation
- RAM: 8 GB
- Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 580 4 GB / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
- Disk space: 7 GB of available space
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit)
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 third generation / Intel Core i5 tenth generation
- RAM: 16 GB
- Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 5700XT 8 GB / NVIDIA RTX 2070 8 GB
- Disk space: 7 GB of available disk space
Reviews
I appreciate several features like the extensive color choices for items, the ability to copy items and their colors, change colors without repurchasing, and the addition of small decorative items and plant pots. I also enjoy the feature of adding personal photos to frames, the convenience of moving tables without displacing items on them, and the minimalistic HUD.
On the downside, I find certain aspects lacking or frustrating, such as the absence of curtains/blinds making houses look odd, the tedious painting process despite upgrades, and the desire for a sensitivity option for the paint roller. I suggest improvements like disabling the night/day cycle, making items transparent when placing flooring for easier decoration, and the ability to turn off the grid which disrupts the visual experience. Despite these criticisms, I’m optimistic about future updates and am gradually warming up to the game’s smooth, cartoonish style as I delve deeper into custom builds.
House Flipper 2 maintains the core concept of its predecessor, enhancing building and cleaning satisfaction. However, it falls short with less base content than the original, missing features such as curtains and a variety of building options, alongside some areas lacking character and bugs, including a notable save issue related to cloud saving. The removal of the problem-solving mini-game for furniture assembly, replaced with one for a discount, detracts from the gameplay experience, although the sense of satisfaction after large projects remains.
The game introduces fewer building projects with limited options, and house flipping unlocks only after completing a 10-hour story mode, without the promised feature of building houses from scratch. Despite these drawbacks, House Flipper 2 offers about 20-30 hours of engaging gameplay but may not retain interest until new DLC is released, slightly diminishing its appeal compared to the original.
I like this game, and it is very satisfying, but i do wish that there was a bit more life to the game. You kinda just feel like you’re the only person on earth, apart from the phone calls. Even if it were just cars sometimes driving down the street, or people roaming on the beach, not even anyone the player needs to interact with, just purely to make it a bit more lively in the game.
Even if we could adopt pets, that would be better than nothing. Hopefully that could be a free update rather than a pricey DLC.
House Flipper’s sequel is a fantastic improvement over its predecessor, offering a diverse range of buildings to renovate with extensive furnishing options. The game features enhanced graphics, including better lighting, enriching the overall experience. It also introduces engaging storytelling, improved mechanics with nicer animations, and a new sandbox mode for custom house creation. A must-play for fans of the first game.

















