House Flipper

House Flipper

Worth it · Action · 2018

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 7 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$24.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$4.9980% offBANGER

Cost per hour▼
$1.89/hr
ReviewsS
94% of 112,791
Critics
67 players 27 higher
Genre rank
Top 2% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 43% off ($14.24) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
13.2h
To 100%
49.8h 3.8x the story
Finish
2% reach the ending
Achievements
96

Price and sales

Sales
79 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$1.99 October 2026
Sale every
42d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
2,468 now
Recent reviews
92% 30 days
Cheaper than
4% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

90% start to 2% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 79 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $14.24. The record reaches that level 58 times.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, WW2 Rebuilder ($4.79, scores 69) and House Builder ($19.99, scores 46) both come in lower.

More about House Flipper

67 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 13.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 3,966 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 13.2 hours. Doing everything runs 50, 3.8 times as long.

The rating rests on 112,791 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 2 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement2% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.89/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds12 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

House Flipper is the game I really wanted from The Sims as a child, where I would start a new game, cheat for infinite money, build and decorate the house of my dreams, and then take away the swimming ladder and start a new game, rinse & repeat, etc. The workshop is what really makes this game shine. So many items are available for free that help flesh out the process. While the QoL of the game and the questionable...
CinnamonEmyRecommendedafter 384h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
I adore this game with all my heart but it has some flaws. It's creative, relaxing, and fun, and as someone super into house modelling and interior design this certainly hits the spot. I only wish instead of the devs squeezing money out of the players with expensive remasters (even with all the dlc discounts I feel it's too much for a better version of the same game) and dating simulators nobody asked for. The game...
Chernobyl_MosquitoRecommendedafter 129h4 found this helpfulRead on Steam
i dont know what the devs put in this game, but it's addicting and i'm never going to get tired of it.
reki1rlRecommendedafter 214h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 560 / AMD R7-260X, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Cite this score

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House Flipper scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/613100/house-flipper
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+27
Critics67
Players94
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 112,791 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperEmpyrean
PublisherFrozen District
GenreAction
Released2018
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements96