The design options are plentiful, but there's simply not enough options to make each home feel completely unique after you've played for a while. It'd be nice if your agency could have a reputation, or if you really could design a house specifically for a particular client and then “fail” if you don't design to their needs.

There's no other incentive to buy or flip, other than that's what the game tells you to do. Flipping the homes for profit only means you can buy more expensive homes in the game, but eventually, you'll end up with more money than you could possibly need. There's never been a time I finished a house and no one would buy it one of the buyers always does, and it means nothing if the other buyers reject it. The whole idea of flipping the houses isn't that much of a motivator, really. For the most part, I ignore the buyers and just design the homes I want to make.

For example, the single bachelor “nerd”, Chang Choi, asks for a study space near his bed, which is fine, but the game doesn't trigger for him to buy the house until you delete the bathroom (what?!) and put in some children's toys. It's tricky to design to their specifications, and some of the things they ask for make literally no sense. The buyers are my least favourite part of the game. I compared House Flipper with The Sims in the beginning of this review, but I have to say that I think The Sims 4 (the most recent installation in The Sims game series) had more furniture in its base game than House Flipper does.

There's also just not enough furniture for an interior design game. You can only customise a house so much you can't move windows currently, you can't tear down exterior walls or move the front or back doors, and there's no half-wall option besides a clunky ability to put in inlet walls, which you can only place from the ceiling down.

House flipper steam