In the early 2000s, I was a young mother who spent a lot of her day in a sleep-deprived daze. It was during this phase of life when I was introduced to HGTV and the onslaught of bizarre house-flipping shows. I developed a soft spot for home improvement, especially sketchy home "improvement." I'm a millennial, though, so buying and flipping houses is well beyond my reach.
That's where 2018's House Flipper from Empyrean and Frozen District came into play. The blue-collar job simulator became an outlet for creativity, giving players the keys to their very own homes and arming them with paint rollers and sledgehammers so they could renovate as they (or their customers) saw fit. I initially discovered House Flipper when it came to Xbox Game Pass, and I was instantly in love. I spent untold hours completing design challenges that would pop up in my in-game email inbox and renovating houses again just for fun and to play around with the available decor options.
