Release date: December 14, 2023
Genre: Simulation, Building, Sandbox
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: None
Add-ons: Supporter Pack DLC included
Version: 1.5.1 (from 10/31/2024)
Description: House Flipper 2 is a game that will give you a unique experience of home renovation and design! In this exciting sequel, you will once again become a home remodeling guru ready to take on challenges in a world of architectural splendor. Do you love doing renovations? Or enjoy putting a room in order? Then House Flipper is what you need.
The game gives you maximum freedom in interior designing. Equip your homes with new styles, realize the most daring design ideas. From classic to modern, from minimalism to eclecticism, you decide what your ideal home will be.
House Flipper 2 expands the horizons for creativity and offers players unique possibilities:
Variety of styles: unlimited possibilities for interior design. You choose the style of your ideal home – be it classic, modern, minimalist or eclectic.
Two game modes: Players can choose between sandbox mode, where they can build their own projects from scratch, and story mode with exciting challenges and renovation projects.
Interactive gameplay and progression system: each successfully completed task not only brings monetary rewards, but also upgrade points that can be spent on skill development.
Visual design: thanks to the Unity engine, the game impresses with its detailed and high-quality graphics.
This version of the game already includes the Supporter Pack, an add-on with exclusive items to decorate the interior of your home, including colorful stickers, a deluxe physical edition of the game in a stylish frame, a sellout statue from the first part and many other unique accessories.
Supporter Pack Features
- Exclusive items for decor: including figurines, special stickers, and a physical edition of the game in an elegant frame.
- An artbook with descriptions of the game’s world, a soundtrack by renowned composers, and a collection of concept graphics.
- Desktop wallpapers and a video of music creation by the Polish orchestra Sinfonia Iuventus.
There are two main modes in the game House Flipper 2. The first is a sandbox, in which you can do whatever you want, from building a mini house to large-scale construction. The second is a story campaign, which allows you to fulfill quest chains, while getting rewards for successful completion of missions. In general, everyone will find something to their liking.
The quests in House Flipper 2 are simple and mostly of the same type:
- Paint the house
- Lay paving tiles
- Successfully place furniture in the room
- Remove construction debris
Each task House Flipper 2 has a backstory, due to which the single passage becomes more exciting and not so boring. About multiplayer the developers did not share plans, but it is possible that the joint playthrough can be added in the near future.
Separately it is worth noting the pumping system and interactive gameplay. Let it not be diverse, but still adds unusual gameplay. Also, in addition to monetary rewards for completing missions are accrued improvement points. At will of the player they can be spent on pumping skills. For example, you can improve the economy of paint consumption or increase the damage from the hammer when destroying walls.
Opportunities and tools are opened in the course of passing House Flipper 2, so in the starting missions can be difficult. But then everything will be much easier and faster.
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.