This text is sponsored by Frozen District.
It’s been about 5 years since the world at giant fell in love with Home Flipper. It was 2018, and every part appeared a lot easier, again then. Even the event group at Empyrean didn’t anticipate the unique sport to search out such a devoted, loyal following because it was giving every part a lick of paint and sanding down the coving within the days main as much as launch.
However Home Flipper – a small indie mission about renovating homes and flipping them for a bit of wedge of money – caught on. Media curiosity whipped up across the sport close to launch, and an enormous group was quickly magnetised to the busywork of creating humble abodes into luxurious pads for the wealthy and well-known. Console ports in 2020 adopted the meteoric success of the 2018 Steam launch, and for 2 years, Home Flippers throughout the globe have been content material with beavering away on their tasks on PC or console.
However now, a brand new age has dawned. Larger, higher homes are right here – with extra supplies and choices than ever for keen owners trying to go away their very own indelible mark on the property ladder. All the things from the visuals to the gameplay has been overhauled, and even the trivialities like quality-of-life particulars have been rethought, refitted, and reinstalled. Home Flipper 2, in each significant approach, is an enchancment of the unique Home Flipper.
Because it was 5 years in the past, the intention in Home Flipper 2 is to buy homes, renovate them, and promote them on, pocketing a beneficiant quantity of internet revenue within the course of. However inside that components, you may let your creativeness run wild; do you wish to make a scandinavian-inspired coastal getaway? Convert your semi-detached suburban home into a preferred native caff? Slap an annex onto your bungalow so granny has someplace to dwell close by? The world is your proverbial oyster in Home Flipper 2 – and also you don’t have to remain hooked up to simply domiciles.
When you’re extra narratively-inclined, you may take pleasure in a peculiar story set between the mountain tops and the infinite sea, within the sleepy little city of Pinnacove. Right here, per the sport itself, is a spot “the place time slows down, and the pleasant residents are able to entrust you with their properties”. Getting every part fitted up-to-scratch right here will enable you uncover peculiar tales and watch slice-of-life anecdotes unfold, offering a surprisingly charming backdrop to all of your hammering and spannering.
Fixing up homes isn’t all demolition and spirit ranges, although; there’s a wealth of different odd jobs you’re going to wish to do to be able to get these habitations inhabitable. Whether or not you attain in your paint curler, your vacuum cleaner, your refuse bag, your sledgehammer, or your cleansing instruments, you’ll by no means be in need of one thing to do when working in your mission.
Every of those instruments works (and feels) higher than they did within the earlier sport, supplying you with extra exact management over their capabilities and permitting you extra utility when every is provided. Portray, particularly, is much less of a chore, due to the power to slap down tape markers so that you just don’t by accident ‘paint over the strains’ and spoil hours of earlier, diligent work.
It helps that every part seems the half in Home Flipper 2. It retains you within the sport, helps safe your thoughts inside the home you’ve been tasked with bringing as much as code. The builders at Empyrean had extra improvement expertise underneath their belts with this sport, and have selected a extra distinct artwork type to be able to make every part really feel extra unified whenever you’re enjoying. The consequence? A extra cohesive in-game asset library, and a greater basis for the huge group to provide extra objects to the sport as time goes on.
Enter Sandbox Mode; a free-for-all mode added into the sport to placate the artistic followers that need free reign to play how they need – for so long as they wish to play. Right here, gamers can use the identical instruments because the builders themselves when making and flipping their homes – it’s deep, it’s granular, and it’s extremely releasing. When you see any home in any trailer for the sport, you can also make it (in the event you observe lengthy sufficient). Simply strive to not lose observe of the time.
Home Flipper 2 launches December 14 on Steam.