House Flipper
Worth it · Action · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99, a BANGER if it drops to $14.26.
- Length
- 13.2h
- Value
- $1.89/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 560 / AMD R7-260X, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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!
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How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
October 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 77 in the 8 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $14.26. The record reaches that level 56 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Planet Coaster ($11.24, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats House Flipper 2 ($39.99, scores 54).
67 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On a 13.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,715 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 3,957 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.
It came out 8 years ago and 1.3K were still playing it at the last check.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
90% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 13.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
1,311 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
ahem... Honestly, if you told me a few years ago that I'd spend my free time virtually scrubbing toilets and painting walls, I would have laughed. I get enough chores in my actual life. But House Flipper is different. It somehow takes the most boring, exhausting real-world tasks and turns them into pure, unadulterated dopamine. It is easily one of the most relaxing, addictive games I have ever played, and it...
this is a great time killer for me. the hours go by painting and cleaning and installing all kinds of things. worth it totally.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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House Flipper scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/613100/house-flipperThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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