House Flipper Remastered Collection Review

Despite owning Frozen Way's original release of House Flipper for years (and having nearly 50 hours on it), I never got to the end due to the lack of cloud saving; after several restarts because I would lose my progress, I gave up. So I was excited to try out the new House Flipper Remastered Collection to finally get through it all and get to experience the DLC! However, due to this, my experience is (technically) from a newcomer's perspective — someone who has never gone far into the game.

In House Flipper Remastered Collection, players start off with just a shack for an office (just like the original experience). The dirty space serves as a good enough spot to take jobs from until they have enough money to kickstart their actual house-flipping career.

Although it starts off small, with assignments to clean up dirty spaces or break walls, it eventually escalates into bigger jobs that require more complex tools. Players accrue enough money to buy a new house, opening up the ability to use their hard-earned cash on a project they can later sell or put up for rent.

My first impression of House Flipper Remastered Collection was that it had some upgrades in terms of presentation, as each job has a voiceover and a character portrait. I didn't personally see much of a difference in the graphics, though that could be due to my bad memory, as I haven't played the original in a long time.

That being said, as I got into the bigger jobs and the DLC content, I was stunned at how beautiful the areas were! I loved the varied backdrops that caught my attention because they made the game feel so alive. Some of them are quite rural areas, others are sprawling outskirt vistas or within cities.

After a few hours, it clicked with me why House Flipper has been a household name: I never ran out of things to do. While I listened to Percy Jackson audiobook, I jumped between decorating my owned lands and helping others with theirs, giddy at the idea of unlocking their plots for myself.

At first, I thought that the DLC was what made the game feel so full, but the truth is that I could've just gone on flipping houses until the end of days. That's not to say the expansions don't add any value to the collection! Quite the contrary.

It was easier to relax and enjoy the experience by jumping into the different features. My original goal was to get a nice house to settle in with a few pets; after exploring the DLC, I ended up wanting a big, beautiful farm where I could host all the animals available!

One of my favourite features is the ability to rent out lots. I never had the guts to sell my houses because I felt so attached to them by the end. Each one would take a handful of hours to spruce up, and there are enough items to keep the ideas varied; I made 1920s-inspired homes, a tiny gothic house, and a nature-filled residence, just to name a few!

House Flipper's highlight is in its freedom of creativity; I revelled in hours and hours of making sure the area looked perfect while obsessing over the tiniest of details! There are some things that could have been better (such as the ability to choose colour from the whole palette rather than being locked down), but the experience was still one of the best in terms of decoration.

That being said, the community expressed a lot of unhappiness over the bugs and performance, but my experience was rather smooth. That's not to say I didn't encounter some issues, though: the first 10 or 15 hours, I didn't experience glitches until I tried playing it on I stopped playing on controller. When using the mouse and keyboard, I couldn't do a 360-degree turn: I could only turn 180 degrees to either side. This made every task difficult and sluggish to complete.

Most of the problems I encountered appeared when I began playing the DLC. While the pets are adorable, they spend most of their time bugging out in hilarious ways, such as sliding across my screen at a neck-breaking speed. If they're not doing that, they're giving me a coronary from stress because they refuse to interact with their water, food, or bed.

However, aside from that and a few visual glitches, such as strobing lights, I didn't find any game-breaking bugs (thankfully!). Despite filling some of the lots to the brim with flowers (I'm obsessed with the gardening DLC), I also didn't have problems with performance. It's just pesky issues like getting soft-locked in the tablet menu and having to restart the game.

Despite all of that, I had an incredible time with House Flipper Remastered Collection. I'm not entirely done with the game, as I plan to 100% it, but I've thoroughly enjoyed my time with it. It's a fantastic title to boot up while doing something like watching TV, a stream, or listening to an audiobook!

If you've not completed the game yet, this is a phenomenal opportunity to jump in and experience everything it offers. However, if you've accrued hundreds of hours in the original and already bought most (if not all) the DLC, then perhaps it's not a priority purchase, though if you own the original entry or some of the DLC, you also get a discount!