House Flipper is free to keep on Steam for the next few days

Try out the renovate-'em-up's original incarnation before the remaster comes out.

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You're spoiled for choice these days if you love games about doing chores, which I guess I can't fault you for given the thousands of hours I've spent making numbers go up in various MMOs.

If cozy cleanup games like Unpacking or PowerWash Simulator aren't enough to sate your hunger for affectionately simulated mundanities, you may want to check out House Flipper—it is free for the next few days, after all.

Another reason to claim this is that the remastered version is set to release later this year, and anyone who owns the game will get a discount based on how many DLCs they have.

You can read the price breakdown here, but if you just get the base game that amounts to four dollars off the remaster's $50 price tag.

It's not nothing!

While it certainly appeals to a particular niche, it won't be for everyone.

"There's a definite satisfaction in taking a gross room and making it look nice, and it's pretty cool that you can knock down (and rebuild) walls," said PC Gamer senior editor Christopher Livingston in his impressions of the game back in 2018.

"But I just don't find the act of slowly and mechanically painting and cleaning much fun, especially with the knowledge that my actual house could do with a bit of that." But for free, it can't hurt to try.

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Justin first became enamored with PC gaming when World of Warcraft and Neverwinter Nights 2 rewired his brain as a wide-eyed kid.

As time has passed, he's amassed a hefty backlog of retro shooters, CRPGs, and janky '90s esoterica.

Whether he's extolling the virtues of Shenmue or troubleshooting some fiddly old MMO, it's hard to get his mind off games with more ambition than scruples.

When he's not at his keyboard, he's probably birdwatching or daydreaming about a glorious comeback for real-time with pause combat.

Any day now...

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