This article is sponsored by Frozen Zone.
House Flipper is all the rage. You only have to look at how it’s seeping into everyone’s hearts via Xbox Game Pass to see that – it’s the culmination of a long line of simulation games that take the complex and make it great. Playing handyman, tightening screws and repairing window frames is a joy and feels like a good, honest day’s work. House Flipper really understands this feeling.
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But House Flipper is a little too close to reality in some ways. It mimics the horrific grind of late capitalism, having to work your way to the top (boo!), and forces you to ride the wheels of capital until you have enough cash in your coffers to buy your own home. That’s all well and good in terms of game goals, but it never sets you free. It never lets you dare to dream. That’s where House Flipper 2 comes in.
The sequel pushes more freedom into your plaster and dusty hands, handing the proverbial keys to your own little slice of heaven. From the start, you can do what you like – Don’t like the idea of a partition wall stepping in and dividing your space? Then patch the lot dimensions and terrain height, remove the walls and put in attractive support beams. We all prefer a more open design, right? You can go a little baroque and use free placement, or follow more of a Kevin McCloud-approved straight line by snapping to a grid.
Need to keep an eye on everything that’s going on? Just switch to the top-down editor and view things from a floor plan POV instead of the now-iconic first-person view of the game.
But the fun doesn’t stop once you’ve finally got the walls up and the eaves in place – developer Frozen District proudly claims it has a catalog of over 1,500 furnishings available, so you can outfit it in the style of your dreams. Home. Do you want Scandinavian minimalism, or some East London bohemian style? The world—or rather, the house—is your oyster.
But what’s the point of putting in all that effort if you don’t have friends around you to show off? Rather than showing your friends your baggage Ikea, £2,100-a-month one-bed sublet, why not show them your real dream home? A detached house with a porch in the heart of America, decorated with flamingo pink furniture and leopard print that would make Elton John blush.
Build the most daring house you dare, then send it to your friends and show off your style. And, as they say, “if you build it, they will come”: anything you build can be used as a template, thrown within an inch of its left, and become your partner’s “task” “. Watch as they work to transform a dilapidated squat into an open-plan living space with perfect natural flow for entertaining. The developers are working with the mod.io platform to make content sharing seamless, easy and fun, just as you would expect from a game launching in 2023.
House Flipper 2 takes the features of the first game and recognizes all the elements of that game while opening the door to more player creativity, better social implementation, and the ability to move from room to room. The process provides more tools that can be used. In this age of home ownership and crafty perfection that’s beyond the reach of many of us (RIP rates), you could do worse than spend a few hours playing House Flipper 2 and enjoy the fantasy.
House Flipper 2 will be released on Steam on December 14th, if you want to build a new house, or annoy someone.
