House Flipper - Luxury DLC Review Summary

Great new items, colors, and beautiful furniture make the DLC a worthy addition, but it feels rushed, unfinished, and bug-riddled, with game-breaking bugs in some locations.

New items and colors are excellent: The DLC adds many new items, colors, and materials like wood textures and tiles. These additions allow for more varied and detailed designs.

DLC is a great addition: Many reviewers consider the Luxury DLC to be excellent or the best DLC for House Flipper. It is fun, worth buying, and worthy of the full price.

Furniture additions are beautiful and plentiful: The DLC adds a huge amount of new furniture with beautiful designs, textures, and colors. Reviewers particularly love the marble countertops, velvet sofas, and diverse styles.

New houses and properties are impressive: The DLC introduces large, luxurious homes, including a yacht, mansions, and industrial lofts. The properties are varied, spacious, and beautifully designed.

Voice acting and story enhance immersion: The addition of voice acting, character portraits, and engaging storylines makes the game more immersive. The quests have backstories and cinematic scenes.

DLC feels unfinished and rushed: Many players feel the DLC lacks polish and attention compared to previous content, with missing details like lights and switches, and sloppy small elements. It does not meet the 'luxury' expectation.

Game-breaking bugs in specific locations: Certain houses and jobs have severe bugs that make them unplayable, such as falling through floors, infinite loading screens, or the game crashing when loading lots. These issues have persisted for months or years without fixes.

DLC riddled with bugs: Many players report that the Luxury DLC is buggy and sometimes completely unplayable, with multiple freezes and crashes. These issues prevent completing jobs and the DLC itself without problems.

Bugs block 100% completion: Numerous bugs prevent finishing jobs and achieving 100% completion, such as phantom dirt, missing tasks, or objects not registering. This is a major source of frustration for completionists.

Furniture restoration limited and buggy: The furniture restoration mechanic is only available during specific jobs and cannot be used in purchased houses, contradicting store descriptions. It is also buggy, with issues like rotation restrictions and inaccessible parts.

Furniture Repair Mechanic: A new refurbish mechanic allows furniture repair. Players can restore furniture for clients.

Decorating and Cleaning Mechanics: Gameplay involves painting, wall coverings, furniture placement, and cleaning. Players renovate and decorate homes.

Inspiration Boards Guidance: Inspiration boards guide the design process. They provide mood boards and color suggestions for furnishing.

Mission Structure Similarities: The mission structure is similar to the HGTV DLC, with separate maps and complete renovations. Completing all jobs unlocks houses for free decoration.

House Buying and Renovation: Players can purchase houses and then renovate and decorate them. This core loop drives the game's progression.

Freezes after Luxury DLC: Multiple reports indicate that the game freezes frequently following the Luxury DLC release, with some freezes lasting up to a minute. This issue appears widespread and severely impacts playability.

Mid-session freezes and stutters: Players experience intermittent freezes, stutters, or hiccups during gameplay, sometimes lasting 2-3 seconds before resuming. These disruptions occur unpredictably and hinder smooth play.

General lack of optimization: Multiple reports cite a general lack of optimization, including poor performance when repairing things and overall unoptimized behavior. This broad issue underlies many performance complaints.

Longer loading times than before: Loading times have become significantly longer than before, and can be quite long. This degradation affects overall pacing and player patience.

Poor graphics despite performance issues: Graphics are not great despite performance issues, with the engine showing age and the game looking barren and plain. Visual quality does not justify the high system demands.

Strong DLC recommendation: Multiple reviewers highly recommend the DLC, especially for fans of the base game. It is considered a fantastic and essential addition.

Game-breaking bugs cause caution: Reviewers report severe bugs, including progress resets and door issues, that make the DLC unplayable. They advise against buying until these are fixed.

Worth buying at full price: Several reviewers consider the DLC worth its full price due to substantial content, new houses, and furniture. It is seen as a valuable addition.

Wait for a sale: Many suggest waiting for a discount before purchasing, as the DLC may not be worth full price for everyone. A good sale makes it an excellent addition.

Recommended for decorating enthusiasts: Reviewers recommend the DLC for players who enjoy renovating and decorating. It offers new houses and furniture for creative expression.

Community fair range: $10.00 - $15.00.

Session length: 2.0h.

Reports indicate early fun, especially in the first hours, but the experience then becomes repetitive and tedious due to grindy jobs, bugs, and reused properties.

Friction: Tedious jobs required to unlock properties for flipping; Bugs; Missing tools and lights; Repetitive reused houses across quests; Questionable voice acting and obnoxious characters; Grindy progression.

Franchise Loyalist: Completes new renovation jobs, collects DLCs, and compares expansions against the base game and prior content. Motivation: To keep playing more House Flipper content and support a franchise they already love. Stance: buy.

Value-Conscious Sale Waiter: Waits for discounts, buys DLC selectively, and judges whether the included items and houses justify the cost. Motivation: To get new House Flipper content without overpaying for a limited or buggy DLC. Stance: sale.

Bug-Frustrated Performance-Sensitive Player: Plays through renovation jobs and notices technical faults, broken object placement, and integration problems that interrupt progress. Motivation: To have a stable, polished renovation experience without crashes, save issues, or performance drops. Stance: no buy.

Monetization: The reviewed feedback concerns paid House Flipper DLCs and focuses on DLC price, discount expectations, regional pricing, content scope, bugs, and access issues. No review provides direct evidence of in-game microtransactions, real-money gacha, loot boxes, paid power, paid convenience, currency obfuscation, or a cash shop. The only monetization-related complaints are about traditional DLC pricing and value, which cannot raise the predatory score above 20.

Luxury DLC content volume praised: Reviewers highlight the Luxury DLC as one of the biggest and most substantial expansions for House Flipper, offering a large volume of furniture and numerous properties. It adds new settings, larger properties, and new renovation possibilities.

Anticipation for future DLCs: Players are looking forward to remaining DLCs, including a Pets DLC and future pet-related content. There is also excitement for House Flipper 2.

Positive comparisons to other DLCs: The Luxury DLC is compared favorably to other House Flipper DLCs like HGTV and Garden, with some calling it the best ever. Each DLC is seen as comparable to a full game in content.

Developer support and communication: Developers are acknowledged for their effort and communication, though some feel they moved on to House Flipper 2 instead of finishing the existing game. They are also busy fixing the Farm DLC and House Flipper 2.

Positive review scores and hours: One reviewer gave a 9/10 score, and another has 180 hours in the base game and is on their second playthrough. Many own all DLCs and have enjoyed them.