Turning off the spooky/horror houses?

[Jjustice]

Heya, I have a young nephew that visits me a lot, and he likes to play house flipper a lot, however I've seen people talk about horror houses and jump scares?
I already turned the roaches into glass whenever he plays, is there an option to toggle off the horror houses or spooky houses that you wouldn't want a 10 year old to play?

If there's not an option, can someone please tell me which houses contain horror, jumpscares and or spooky elements, so I can write them down (and play them myself), so I know which houses he can't buy and flip.
Yes, I'm a responsible adult, I do check on the young kid what he's playing.

Thanks.

[Mónkáy]

Samarta Myers House is the only one i think

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Did you show him how to use the Laptop in your office and then how to buy houses?
lol
House Flippers is very suitable for all ages , the haunted house was just a one off for fun.
Kids will be curious. And the Haunted house will now tweak his interests more than any other if he knows about it. Get him to press F to use the head torch feature.
Make the Haunted House Daytime and Remove Demons
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1599836457

You could also just buy a couple of houses then show him how to use the gate when the game loads.
Press E then those houses you own that are not sold are listed there.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1733678798

[Jjustice]

Originally posted by Mink_Link:

Samarta Myers House is the only one i think

Thanks for the heads up!

@Jaunitta if he gets traumatized under my watch, I'm gonna have a lot of trouble lmao.
He mostly does the missions, but sometimes he wants buy a house and play with it. I have to keep a watchful eye not just so he doesn't see things he shouldn't, but so he doesn't start breaking down my houses.
I might just buy a house or so for him, because with his and my luck he'll buy the haunted house. I didn't even think about the gate thing, next time he's over I'll show him how the gate works.

I'll definitely play the haunted house myself as I'm really curious about it.

Thanks to both of you!

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Been there lol
He sounds like a clever kid this is will be a great training ground for his creativity.
All the Best

[indy-anna]

I can't remember the name of the house I did that looked like you were cleaning up a murder scene. No dead body or outline of one was there though.

[66kerro]

Originally posted by JjustGreg:

Heya, I have a young nephew that visits me a lot, and he likes to play house flipper a lot, however I've seen people talk about horror houses and jump scares?
I already turned the roaches into glass whenever he plays, is there an option to toggle off the horror houses or spooky houses that you wouldn't want a 10 year old to play?

If there's not an option, can someone please tell me which houses contain horror, jumpscares and or spooky elements, so I can write them down (and play them myself), so I know which houses he can't buy and flip.
Yes, I'm a responsible adult, I do check on the young kid what he's playing.

Thanks.

The Samantha Myers house (horror) and the family house (murder) then please not for the child.

[houndrot]

i had no idea there was a house with a jump scare. thats pretty important information to me ;__; thank you for the unintentional heads up!

[SericaRose]

OK. I just bought the Samarta Myers House and started it. You enter the area with only a flashlight and some "mysterious" music that is very different from the regular House Flipper track. There is a weird sort of mask over the fireplace on the first floor and an unpleasant poster in oranges and red and black, but not really too horrible or graphic. Upstairs in a bedroom and young girl in pajamas crawls backward and disappears. Out back behind some trees (back left side) there is a closed coffin that you bury/plant - dig dirt, hit E, cover with dirt. Not really bad for a 10 year-old boy who will probably think it really cool. Girls probably wouldn't like it, but a boy? But nothing graphic at all. Just so you know.

PS SORRY : There is one poster of a famous and really horrible Midieval Painting of, I think, one the the Titians eating a woman. We see only her back but he is holding her like a drumstick or ice pop (depending on where you come from) and has just finished eating her head. It would be really really nice if the devs could just change that for something a bit less disturbing and graphic image on the next update.

[dave's games]

i just don,t buy the samarta myers house it too creepy for me

[Cat Tank]

Originally posted by SericaRose:

PS SORRY : There is one poster of a famous and really horrible Midieval Painting of, I think, one the the Titians eating a woman.

The painting is from Francisco Goya (1746-1828), he painted it to his own housewalls a few years before his death (it was later transferred to canvas and now you can see it in Madrid - Prado). The guy on the painting is Cronos from the greek mythology, the god of HARVEST and a Titan (not a Titian, Titian was also a painter - ITA reneissance era, after him was a speical brown color hue named), his mother was Gaia (Earth), his father Uranus (Sky). Gaia persuaded him to castrate Uranus with a sickle (harvesting - sickle), but then Cronos realised that as he overcame his own father, he is predestinated to overcome by his own children (one of it is Zeus himself) (the castration story has many side effects, the birth of Aphrodite for example). Cronos ate his first 5 children (the names i cannot remember, Hades the god of the war was there too), but Rhea (the mother) was able to hide the 6. son: Zeus. Later, Zeus saves his brothers and sisters (he lets his father to disgorge his siblings) and then ... some says that Cronos was imprisoned in Tartarus (not Tartarus Station in Borderlands!), other says he was confined to Nyx, who knows. The whole story has a Roman version, too, with other names (Cronos = Jupiter, Rhea = Ops etc).

Back to Goya. So the painting in the house of S.M. is one of the 14 (?) so called Black Paintings that the old and almost deaf and blind and bitter and and and Goya at his own house walls painted. It was never inteded to be shown in the publicity - and this is why the painting so fantastic is: it is really private. It is the moment when Cronos eats one of his children. It is a picture with MANY interpretations (just as almost every works of Goya). Cronos is also the god of harvest and as so, a harvester of time - and time eats up everything - our understand, our body and so on. Cronos as Saturn is also the god of Melancholy, and melancholy is something that slowly corrodates all was joyful is. All that is born must die. The painting is scary, just as the thought that time and depression devour all of us. A secon opinion is that Cronos can be understood as an allegory of Spain (at this time was Spain in civil war and the State eats up his own children, future whatsoever). AAAAAAnd Rubens (the guy who painted all of those fat puttos and angels in churchs and loved to paint fat women) painted in the 17. Century a similar picture.

Maybe that helps a bit to appreciate the Mastery of the past: all that is born must die. This is a lesson that parents want to hide from children but this is THE lesson that they cannot hide from children: it is almost always the children who bury the parents.

Sorry for the long off-topic and for my broken english.

[AoEnwyr]

I wonder what this game's content rating is, I can't find it anywhere on Steam (could be staring me in the face though). Things like that shouldn't be a surprise, I wasn't even aware there were horror houses in the game until I spotted this

[SericaRose]

Cat Tank: Thank you for all the information on Goya. Still and all I can't quite understand having such gruesome painting in the house. The story of Goya is sad really. Oh, well. And your English is quite good. :)

But I do agree that it would be nice if there was an option for hings like this to not show or be substituted- like the cockroaches.

[kris]

Hi!
If you want to turn off scary things, you can just disable survival DLC and it will remove scary house and guns from the game.
About Goya house - it is actually a replica of Goya's house with Goya's paintings. I'm quite proud of this one - but you are correct, it looks scary (that's why it was added on Halloween.

[SericaRose]

Also I tried to disable the DLC but then the game said that either I had to enable it or start a new game. After 300 hours, ain't doing that. Oh, well.

[AoEnwyr]

Originally posted by Koentjuh:

Originally posted by kris:

Hi!
If you want to turn off scary things, you can just disable survival DLC and it will remove scary house and guns from the game.
About Goya house - it is actually a replica of Goya's house with Goya's paintings. I'm quite proud of this one - but you are correct, it looks scary (that's why it was added on Halloween.

The thing is, new players like myself don't know about it so we don't go look at DLC's and disable them. People buy a game and start playing it and before you know you buy that house..

Maybe an in-game note when you start a new save asking if you would like to disable scary content / cockroaches. Or at least a note that the game may have scary content untill you disable the survival DLC ?

I think that is a relevant point. I play other games that have a lot of violence in them and it doesn't phase me because I know what I am purchasing and made an informed choice. The way this game is advertised and listed on Steam isn't indicative of horror content, regardless of how well it is made or how authentic the replication of the house is. I could imagine some younger players or people who avoid horror content getting a really unpleasant surprise.

I don't know what the rules are on Steam for content labels, but if this were a physical game it would have to carry such warnings on the box. I don't think telling people to disable their DLC (which comes bundled and installed with the base game at time of purchase currently) is good enough.

I'm sure the game devs are proud of their work but this seems to be one of those times where there is a disconnect between studio vision and the player base they have advertised to and attracted. Adding proper descriptions and warnings to the main game page would resolve this issue with minimal effort.