While the performance and controls are the two biggest problems, there are quite a few more issues here. It’s very clear in every aspect that this game was designed with a Mouse and Keyboard in mind, as using a stick and buttons just feels like it’s emulating that control scheme in the worst way possible. There is an option for gyro, but instead of aiming by tilting your controller it’ll send you back to 2006 and add the option to shake the controller to clean or hammer rather than just pressing ZR. To accomplish anything, you’ll have to essentially fight the game into doing what you want, even moving the camera feels imprecise and suggests where you want to look rather than actually looking there. Oddly enough, the game is a bit better in portable mode, though that doesn’t remedy other issues like the laggy and unintuitive menus. It will also frequently stutter, resulting in you seemingly teleporting a short distance or messing up whatever you’re doing at the time. I could only play about an hour or so of the game at a time before having to take a break due to nausea. The game will never reach a comfortable framerate in any sense of the word. Most obvious is the horrendous performance. The tedium of certain tasks is only the most surface level of the problems with House Flipper on Switch. Though, as I said, this is only to a point there’s only so many times I can press the exact same buttons in the exact same order to install a radiator.
Though that might be precisely what a player might want out of this game I know I found the general game loop to be relaxing to a point, especially when putting on a podcast or some music in the background. It’s a simulator, so you get pretty much exactly what you see on the tin, all tedium and repetition included. You’ll take jobs or purchase homes to flip at the computer in your office, then automatically travel to the lot in the Silent Hill looking neighborhood so you can build or tear down walls, paint, install utilities, purchase and place furniture, and clean up. There’s trash, burn marks, and weird stains everywhere, all of which you’ll have to deal with in whatever job you’re doing, whether the client asked you to or not. There isn’t actually a plot to House Flipper, but that’s what I like to imagine because every single house you visit looks like it survived an apocalypse. No task is too tedious, and no client is too picky. He’ll take any job, from renovating your bedroom to cleaning your garage, to fulfil his goals. In a post-post-apocalyptic world, one man will single handedly restore the housing market by purchasing homes, fixing them up, and selling them for a profit.
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