The irony of cleaning a virtual house while surrounded in real garbage is not lost on me.

I'm begging for a before and after feature

there's an undo button

As someone who enjoyed the original House Flipper game and put roughly 300 hours into it, I can't in full honesty give a positive recommendation on this sequel in it's current state. While some QoL additions have been a breath of fresh air (such as changing the details on furnishings with the scanner), I'm also getting major EA flashbacks of features intentionally left out in order to sell DLC at a later date.

Why are there also so many missing items that I would expect a base game to have?

- No Before/After shots like the first game had, giving players a sense of accomplishment to see their work from start to finish.
- Why do the walls still look dirty and have uneven paint strokes if I just finished 100% cleaning and re-painting them? There's no reason for the walls to have a crappy texture if I've already done everything possible to upgrade them aside from building new walls entirely.
- Missing Window Shades/Blinds
- Missing Window Curtains
- Missing Full-floor Carpets
- Anything Lawn Care (Every yard is a mess and it's obvious they're planning to add DLC for this again as with the first game.)
- Very little options for furnishings in the store

I also have serious complaints about the hammer (not sledgehammer) used in Assemble mode. Why give us the option to rotate the camera and change our field of view if the hammer doesn't auto-orientate with it? When trying to hammer in pegs, etc. from a different angle than originally, you end up with inverted movements that are very tiresome and annoying when trying to meet a challenge time limit. Not to mention how your head is just shoved into the building field of view, making movement with Ctrl to improve vision extremely painful and giving the player tunnel vision.

I used to play The Sims and haven't touched an EA game in years due to of how they've treated their player base and how much they've gutted from their games to make an extra few pennies. Unless some serious changes are addressed to the noted above, I won't be purchasing any further titles from this line in the future.

pls add before and after

I just want more jobs. I finished them all and I replayed them several times. I want tasks and the craziest jobs. I don't like to come up with ideas and themes on my own.

After 'completion' of the main story in HF2 and having a strong comparison to HF1 I can honestly say what improved and what needs improving for the future of this game.

What improved:

Graphics:
The game is visually pleasing, featuring detailed wood types, walls, and furniture. It runs smoothly even on high settings, with beautiful neighbourhoods and interesting architecture.

Building!
Building in HF2 is a significant improvement from HF1. It's smoother, quicker to create, and easy to undo mistakes. The addition of laying bricks and different roof types enhances the experience, allowing for realistic recreations and quick adjustments. Even if you're not a fan of building, it's worth trying for its user-friendly approach.

Sandbox mode:
A fantastic addition to HF2, fulfilling a need from HF1. The ability to build and playtest different builds is excellent. Creating custom jobs, sharing them on MOD.io, and enjoying the community's astonishing creations make the game better. It's a great way for the community to come together.

Moving doors/windows:
Controversial or not, the ability to easily adjust misplaced windows or doors in HF2 is a welcomed change. Unlike HF1, where mistakes meant buying again, this convenience makes the process less tedious, especially in larger builds.

Placing stuff/Grid snapping and Precise placing:
I love it. Aligning halogen lights flawlessly in HF2 is a breath of fresh air. It's a vast improvement from the frustrating experience in HF1.

Placing wallpapers/tiles:
Much better in HF2 – fewer resources needed, more coverage. It's simple, smooth, and easy. Only frustration comes when reaching high spots without buying scaffolding due to laziness, fykyk.

Store:
Navigating specific items in HF2 is a breeze. Unlike HF1, you don't need specific names of the furniture piece you're after. For example, nightstands and coffee tables are in the same category with sub-categories for easy access.

Customisation:
Choosing colours or patterns for sofas, chairs, or wallpapers in HF2 is fantastic! You can go all out with a zebra print house – literally nobody can stop you.

Improved cleaning:
Cleaning in HF2 takes longer, covering less area, and requiring precise targeting. Yet, it's satisfying, especially spraying and wiping. The Flipper instinct revealing all dirt ensures no stains can hide.

Other:
-HF2's wall-painting tool lets you paint specific patterns without constant fixes. You can paint pixel art on the walls if you want to.
-The Flipper tool allows easy style changes, copying, and duplication. You don't need to re-buy items, just copy and paste style on whatever it is you need.
-Wiring is a standout feature, allowing precise light control. Each light to a different switch, you can get super creative with it.
-The overall beautiful lighting and lush gardens enhance the game's aesthetics and feel.

Now, onto future improvements and additions needed for the game.

Before/After photos:
After my first house flip in HF2, the absence of a before/after feature was disappointing. While it was a DLC in HF1, for HF2, this beloved feature should be part of the base game. It's immensely satisfying to see the changes, and I hope the devs add this in a future update.

Blinds/Curtains:
Or lack of them. Surprisingly, the base game lacks a vital aspect of building/renovating. Having a few basic blinds/curtains with customisation options would be acceptable, but the overall absence is disappointing.

Doors:
The game lacks door variety, offering only a few choices. While customisation is possible, a broader selection beyond the most popular door types would be appreciated.

Exploration:
I recall a dev stream mentioning the freedom to walk around the neighbourhood, allowing us more freedom. However, in the actual game, there's a border restricting exploration, which was disappointing. This was the first thing I checked in the game. Using flight mode in Sandbox is the only way to get close to neighbour houses, walking up to the porch isn't possible.

Items:
In the early stages, limited assets are forgivable, but after completing the game in not a very long time, the lack of variety in assets became apparent. Even with style changes, builds started looking the same. The current content doesn't justify the original price of the game.

Selling houses:
Compared to HF1, HF2 feels like a downgrade in that aspect. In HF1, satisfying specific buyer needs for achievements added depth, with remarks influencing the sale. HF2 lacks this, and I expected more in-depth buyers and unique characters for selling houses.

Paintings:
The lack of pictures in HF2 is a shocker. Buying a picture frame seems pointless when houses have blank frames with no images available. Even a few stock images would be an improvement; currently, it's a significant downgrade.

Conclusion:
I'd recommend House Flipper 2 for its enjoyable story, graphics, and potential for growth. However, I believe essential additions should come through free updates, not just DLCs. Now, I never expect things for free as I know the dev team worked really hard on this game and they deserve a pay for their work, however the current price should warrant more assets and expected features from HF1. I'm excited for future DLCs, hoping for the return of pets, farming, luxury stuff, and a more immersive story. The game is fun and beautiful, but more assets and a deeper storyline are needed.
In short, it offers a lot but also lacks in certain aspects. Kudos to the devs for their hard work on this game. We hope to see more improvement in the upcoming updates!

It's complicated, but it's mostly about content. That's what most of the complaints seem to be about, so let's look at that.

First of all, there are probably 3 main types of House Flipper players. Type 1 is mostly interested in the handyman jobs. Type 2 likes flipping houses. Type 3 likes both.

Personally, I'm a Type 3. I've only flipped about 6 houses so far, but I've completed the jobs, and I even messed around in the creative mode for a few hours. As of now, I have 52.7 hours in the game, and I have a ton of houses left to flip and theoretically endless amounts of time in the creative building/decorating mode, so I don't really think an overall lack of content is a real thing. If you are super fast and do only the jobs, you might be a little disappointed, but that's not really the developer's fault, as there is a lot more to the campaign than just those jobs.

Another type of content people complain about is the lack of items for decorating as compared to the first game. This is kind of true, but not nearly to the extent that people claim. Here's an example of why. I don't know how many sofas are in the first game, but let's say there are 100 different sofas. Now let's guess that there are only 20 different sofas in the second game. What gives?

Well, there are actually two things at play here. Number one is that a lot of those sofas from the first game were added with later DLC, and this game hasn't had any DLC yet. But more than that, there are a whole lot more sofas in this game than first meets the eye due to the high level of customization.

I really should have counted all this stuff before writing this review, but with each sofa, you can choose what type of fabric it has and what the patterns are on the fabric. You can then choose what colors the patterns are. You can also choose what the wood portions of the sofas are (as you could in the old game, as well). But the fabric and colors are brand new to this game, and being able to control those makes any one couch have hundreds if not thousands of possibilities when you include the patterns and the colors. This also holds true for other things like beds and chairs. You can get everything exactly how you want it.

Moving on from the amount of content (I always want more, but think it's fine as is), there are just a ton of quality of life features that I can no longer imagine not having, like copying and pasting styles, duplicating items, etc. The ability to fine tune wood panels is also something that makes decorating a pleasure.

I don't know. Like everyone else, I wish we had a lot more content, some DLC stuff, etc. But I've really just enjoyed the game as is, so for me, I recommend it.

House Flipper 2 is quickly becoming one of my favorite fantasy RPGs. In this series, you play a young "home owner" which is kind of like a mage or wizard except your special power is that you can afford to buy a house(A house is kind of like an apartment but you have space between you and your neighbors, think like a whole building devoted to just your apartment.). Once you buy the house, your quests are to make it livable and clean. Often times this involves things such as picking up trash, painting, and placing furniture. If you succeed, you can then sell the house and buy another house, increasing your powers through the ritual of "Selling" or "Flipping", which let you perform cleaning or painting faster. When you perform a Selling, you sell your House to a new Home Owner and buy a new, bigger home to better show your prowess. The furniture placement, styling, alignment, and controls feel like a huge improvement over the previous iteration.

The game has a few rough edges. Performance needs polish, but I found that disabling dynamic resolution(set it to None) helped immensely and let me keep it at a steady 60 FPS on High Settings with a 1080Ti. Some of the tool-specific controls could use some tweaking - trash bag tossing follows its own novel physics unseen until now, and the window cleaning can get jittery with high DPI mouses, but those more like occasional annoyances rather than show-stoppers.

Overall I would recommend it, it's a fantastic "chilling and listening to an audiobook" style game and can be picked up and set down very quickly, making it great for when you just want to play for 10-20 minutes before going to clean your own kitchen, which you've ignored to clean a virtual kitchen. Alas what a fate of Sisyphus are the dishes.

Just like House Flipper 1, it gives me the illusion of having control over something in my life. Can't wait to sink hundreds of hours into this as a coping mechanism. Also, demolishing walls in this sequel is more satisfying than it was in the first game.