12 Games Like House Flipper (2026): Clean, Fix, Decorate

Between them, the two House Flipper games carry 131,666 Steam reviews across all languages — 111,676 on the 2018 original and 19,990 on House Flipper 2, both Very Positive when we read the store pages on 11 September 2026. That is a lot of people who have bought a wreck, swept it, patched it, painted it, furnished it and sold it — then wondered what was next.

The problem is that “like House Flipper” means four different things. The loop has stages — buy or receive a space, clear it, repair and clean it, decorate it, hand it over — and almost nothing else keeps all five. The Alchemess team checked every candidate’s price, date, all-language review total and category list against Steam’s own data on 11 September 2026, and ranked them by how much of the loop survives.

How did we choose these games like House Flipper?

There is no single right answer: the loop is five hobbies stapled together and different players fell for different ones. So this is not “best to worst” — it is most of the loop to least of it, and every entry names its stage.

• Loop coverage. How many of the five stages — acquire, clear, repair or clean, decorate, hand over — the game gives you. This sets the order: number 11 is not worse than number 3, it keeps fewer stages.
• The before-and-after. A game earns a place only if it produces a visible transformation you caused.
• PC and Steam only. Every entry has a live Steam page, a US dollar price read on 11 September 2026, and an all-language review total from Valve’s own API. No mobile or console-only titles.
• Players and co-op, from categories, not tags. Multiplayer status comes from Steam’s structured category list, never from user-voted tags, which are frequently wrong.
• Calm by default. No combat, no fail state that can undo an afternoon. A scoring screen is fine; a game over is not, a line our piece on games with no timer or traditional fail state draws in full.
• Still worth buying in 2026. Reviewed by enough people that the score means something, or with a dated store page you can check yourself.

Several were mid-sale the day we read them, which we flag. Treat every figure as “around this, on 11 September 2026”.

The 12 games like House Flipper at a glance

We write about cozy PC games for a living — we make one — and built this the way we build the rest: open every store page, read the structured data, print the all-language number.

1. Train Station Renovation
2. Barn Finders
3. The Tenants
4. House Builder
5. PowerWash Simulator
6. Furnish Master
7. Whisper of the House
8. Winkeltje: The Little Shop
9. Tiny Glade
10. Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator
11. Alchemess: Tidy Up Your Potion Shop!
12. Unpacking

Now let’s review each game in detail.

2,080 bottles are waiting for a shelf

What is Alchemess? A cozy first-person sorting game from Techplay, a two-person studio in Phuket. 2,080 hand-named potions, 26 shelves from Alpha to Omega, a gold Sun shelf and a silver Moon shelf, no timer, no fail state and nothing you can lose, playable alone, in co-op, or as a Sun-vs-Moon race, US$5.99 on Steam and the Epic Games Store from 17 September 2026, with a 10% launch discount.

Wishlist on Steam

Which stage of the House Flipper loop does each game keep?

1. Train Station Renovation

Train Station Renovation by Live Motion Games is the closest structural match on Steam, and no coincidence: Frozen District and PlayWay S.A. are among its publishers, the same family that ships House Flipper.

You arrive at a derelict platform, sort rubbish into the right skips, scrub soot off tiles, repair benches, repaint, furnish the concourse, then hand it back for a score. Steam records it as released 1 October 2020 at US$3.79 on 11 September 2026 — an 80% cut from its US$18.99 list price — with 2,762 reviews across all languages, Very Positive, 2,257 of them positive.

The station setting does what a house cannot: the spaces are enormous, and sorting waste by type makes clearing a puzzle.

Highlights:

• Stage of the loop: all five — acquire a contract, clear, repair and clean, decorate, hand over
• Price: around US$3.79 on 11 September 2026, discounted 80% from US$18.99
• Released: 1 October 2020
• Reviews: 2,762 across all languages, Very Positive
• Players: Single-player

2. Barn Finders

Barn Finders by Duality Games takes the flipping half literally. You bid on storage units and abandoned barns sight-unseen, haul the contents back to your shop, and turn junk into stock.

The loop is buy, clear, clean, repair, price, sell — everything House Flipper does except choosing curtains. Items arrive filthy and broken, you fix them at a workbench, then watch customers haggle. Steam lists it as released 15 June 2020 at US$19.99 as of 11 September 2026, with 4,441 reviews across all languages, Very Positive (3,640 positive).

It is also the funniest game here, in a broad junkyard-comedy register that will either land or not.

Highlights:

• Stage of the loop: acquire, clear, clean, repair, sell — no decorating
• Price: around US$19.99 on 11 September 2026
• Released: 15 June 2020
• Reviews: 4,441 across all languages, Very Positive
• Players: Single-player

3. The Tenants

The Tenants by EndGameLoop Games keeps the renovation and the decoration, then adds the part House Flipper skips: what happens after somebody moves in.

You buy a run-down flat, clean and repair it, furnish it to a brief, then list it — and the tenant who arrives has opinions, neighbours and complaints you have to adjudicate. Released 20 October 2022 at US$19.99 on 11 September 2026, it holds 7,777 reviews across all languages, Mostly Positive, 6,130 positive; the critical ones mostly wanted a renovation game and got a management sim.

Steam Workshop support keeps the furniture catalogue growing.

Highlights:

• Stage of the loop: acquire, clean, repair, decorate, hand over, plus ongoing management
• Price: around US$19.99 on 11 September 2026
• Released: 20 October 2022
• Reviews: 7,777 across all languages, Mostly Positive
• Players: Single-player

4. House Builder

House Builder by FreeMind S.A., published with PlayWay S.A., replaces the flip with construction: you put up the whole structure, foundation to roof tiles, across several historical periods.

Foundations, framing, insulation, bricks, wiring, roofing, then a furnishing pass — building is broken into layers, each one a tactile job. Steam gives 15 January 2024 and US$19.99 on 11 September 2026, with 2,593 reviews across all languages, Mostly Positive (2,072 positive); critical reviews tend to be about pacing rather than the building.

The historical range is something House Flipper never offered, and the before-and-after is different: there is no “before”.

Highlights:

• Stage of the loop: build from nothing, then decorate — no clearing, no selling
• Price: around US$19.99 on 11 September 2026
• Released: 15 January 2024
• Reviews: 2,593 across all languages, Mostly Positive
• Players: Single-player

5. PowerWash Simulator

PowerWash Simulator by FuturLab isolates one stage — the cleaning — and does it better than anything else on Steam. No repairing, no decorating. A lance, a surface, and dirt that comes off in strips.

You take jobs, pick a nozzle and work a van or a fairground ride down to clean, with a percentage counter showing exactly what is left. It released 14 July 2022, costs US$24.99 as of 11 September 2026, and holds 58,739 reviews across all languages, Overwhelmingly Positive — 56,620 positive, the best ratio here.

Its category list includes Online Co-op and Cross-Platform Multiplayer, so a friend on another store can join.

Highlights:

• Stage of the loop: cleaning only, at full depth
• Price: around US$24.99 on 11 September 2026
• Released: 14 July 2022
• Reviews: 58,739 across all languages, Overwhelmingly Positive
• Players: Single-player, Online Co-op, Cross-Platform Multiplayer

6. Furnish Master

Furnish Master by Alex Blintsov is the decorating stage extracted and given its own game — a one-person project, still in Early Access, and the best pure interior tool in this price bracket.

You get empty apartments, houses and commercial spaces plus a large catalogue with free placement, recolouring and no grid. Steam lists it as released into Early Access on 19 February 2024 at US$14.99 on 11 September 2026, with 1,176 reviews across all languages, Very Positive (960 positive).

Steam Workshop support means the catalogue is community-extended and keeps growing after you buy.

Highlights:

• Stage of the loop: decorating only, at full depth
• Price: around US$14.99 on 11 September 2026
• Released: 19 February 2024 (Early Access)
• Reviews: 1,176 across all languages, Very Positive
• Players: Single-player

7. Whisper of the House

Whisper of the House by GD Studio is the warmest game here: townspeople ask for help moving, clearing and arranging their rooms, and each job is a small story about whoever lives there.

The work is clear, then organise, then decorate, in a hand-drawn style rather than simulation-grade 3D. Steam records 27 August 2025 and US$14.99 on 11 September 2026, with 5,722 reviews across all languages, Overwhelmingly Positive — 5,548 positive, a ratio almost nothing else here matches.

What it lacks is repair: no walls patched, no floors laid. Our roundup of cozy organizing games on Steam covers this style at length.

Highlights:

• Stage of the loop: clear, organise and decorate — no repair, no selling
• Price: around US$14.99 on 11 September 2026
• Released: 27 August 2025
• Reviews: 5,722 across all languages, Overwhelmingly Positive
• Players: Single-player

8. Winkeltje: The Little Shop

Winkeltje: The Little Shop by Sassybot points the build-and-decorate stage at a medieval shop. You lay out the room, choose the shelving, then live with the commercial consequences.

Shelves, counters, lighting and decoration all affect how customers move and what they buy, so the decorating is not cosmetic — a badly arranged shop sells badly. Steam gives 22 April 2022 and US$14.99 on 11 September 2026, with 1,830 reviews across all languages, Very Positive (1,616 positive).

It is the only entry where decorating and handing over are the same action, repeated daily.

Highlights:

• Stage of the loop: build out and decorate a space, then trade from it
• Price: around US$14.99 on 11 September 2026
• Released: 22 April 2022
• Reviews: 1,830 across all languages, Very Positive
• Players: Single-player

9. Tiny Glade

Tiny Glade by Pounce Light is the smallest idea here and one of the best-reviewed games in the cozy category. You draw a wall, and it builds a believable little castle around it.

There are no resources, no goals and no failure states — you pull paths and raise towers, and the game answers with ivy, thatch, window boxes and sheep. Steam lists 23 September 2024 and US$14.99 as of 11 September 2026, with 24,564 reviews across all languages, Overwhelmingly Positive, 23,903 positive.

It keeps only the creative half of House Flipper, but the before-and-after is instant.

Highlights:

• Stage of the loop: build and decorate only, with no objectives at all
• Price: around US$14.99 on 11 September 2026
• Released: 23 September 2024
• Reviews: 24,564 across all languages, Overwhelmingly Positive
• Players: Single-player

10. Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator

Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator by Chicken Launcher, published by Awaken Realms, moves the cleaning stage outdoors: you restore polluted landscapes rather than kitchens, and the scale is the point.

You pressure-wash, collect rubbish, clear wreckage and watch colour return to a stretch of coast. Steam records 20 December 2022 and US$2.49 on 11 September 2026 — 75% off its US$9.99 list price — with 2,540 reviews across all languages, Very Positive (2,218 positive).

Even at full price it is under ten dollars, the cheapest way to test whether cleaning alone was what you wanted.

Highlights:

• Stage of the loop: cleaning and clearing only, at landscape scale
• Price: around US$2.49 on 11 September 2026, discounted 75% from US$9.99
• Released: 20 December 2022
• Reviews: 2,540 across all languages, Very Positive
• Players: Single-player

11. Alchemess: Tidy Up Your Potion Shop!

Our own potion-shop sorting game sits here rather than higher for a plain reason: it keeps two stages. No renovation, no buying property, no decorating, nothing to sell. You clear a mess and you arrange it.

What it covers runs at scale: 2,080 hand-named bottles in 8 shapes, numbered No 1 to No 2080, heaped on the floor, going back onto 26 shelves from Alpha to Omega plus a gold Sun shelf and a silver Moon shelf. No timer and no fail state. It releases 17 September 2026 at US$5.99 with a 10% launch discount on Windows PC, and has no reviews, because it has not shipped.

What nothing else here has is the full multiplayer set, in its store page categories: online co-op on a six-digit room code, couch co-op, and a Sun vs Moon versus mode.

Highlights:

• Stage of the loop: clear and arrange only — no repair, no decorating, no selling
• Price: US$5.99 at launch, with a 10% launch discount
• Released: 17 September 2026
• Reviews: none — the game is unreleased
• Players: Single-player, Online Co-op, Couch Co-op, Online and Split-Screen PvP

12. Unpacking

Unpacking by Witch Beam keeps the least of the loop and is, by a distance, the most acclaimed game on this page. It is one stage — take things out of boxes, find where they live — repeated across eight moves in one person’s life.

Every object has a correct home and the game tells you gently when you have missed it, but the storytelling is the payload: you learn who this person is from what she owns and what she loses. Steam lists 1 November 2021 and US$19.99 on 11 September 2026, with 40,752 reviews across all languages, Very Positive, 37,995 positive.

There is no cleaning, no repair and no money. Our games like Unpacking roundup is built around this specific thing.

Highlights:

• Stage of the loop: arranging only, inside a narrative
• Price: around US$19.99 on 11 September 2026
• Released: 1 November 2021
• Reviews: 40,752 across all languages, Very Positive
• Players: Single-player

Should you just play House Flipper 2?

Often, yes — worth saying in a roundup of alternatives. House Flipper 2, developed and published by Frozen District, released 14 December 2023 and costs US$39.99 on 11 September 2026, no discount running when we read the page. Its all-language review total is 19,990, Very Positive, 17,456 positive.

Two things separate it from the 2018 original. It has a build mode — you can raise walls and construct a house from scratch, and the store page lists an included level editor. And its category list carries Online Co-op, LAN Co-op and Cross-Platform Multiplayer, where the original’s reads Single-player and nothing else.

The original is the cheaper entry point: by Empyrean, published by Frozen District and PlayWay S.A., released 17 May 2018, US$2.49 on 11 September 2026 at a 90% discount from its US$24.99 list price, on 111,676 all-language reviews rated Very Positive. The House Flipper - Garden DLC — 16 May 2019, US$4.49 at 70% off US$14.99 the same day — adds outdoor landscaping, though its own 894 all-language reviews sit at Mixed.

If you have finished the sequel, the list above is the answer. If you have only played the original, the sequel is the next game rather than an alternative — our cozy organizing games roundup covers it from the organizing angle.

Which of these games like House Flipper have co-op?

Three of the twelve — the question store pages answer least clearly, because Steam’s user tags and its structured categories disagree constantly. From the categories list on each page on 11 September 2026:

• PowerWash Simulator — Online Co-op and Cross-Platform Multiplayer.
• Alchemess — Online Co-op, LAN Co-op, split-screen couch co-op, and online, LAN and split-screen PvP.
• House Flipper 2 itself — Online Co-op, LAN Co-op and Cross-Platform Multiplayer.

Every other entry lists Single-player and nothing else, checked one page at a time. Only one of the twelve lists online co-op, couch co-op and a competitive mode together, and that mode list is on the store page. Outside this list the field is wider — several shelving games shipping in 2026 list online co-op — and our cozy co-op games roundup covers that.

Put it on your list before launch

What is Alchemess? A cozy first-person sorting game from Techplay, a two-person studio in Phuket. 2,080 hand-named potions, 26 shelves from Alpha to Omega, a gold Sun shelf and a silver Moon shelf, no timer, no fail state and nothing you can lose, playable alone, in co-op, or as a Sun-vs-Moon race, US$5.99 on Steam and the Epic Games Store from 17 September 2026, with a 10% launch discount.

Wishlist on Steam

Comparison table: games like House Flipper on Steam

These look interchangeable on a store rail and are not — the stage each covers is the difference between the game you wanted and forty dollars of disappointment. Every figure was read on 11 September 2026 and appears in an entry above.

Game	Which stage of the loop	Price (11 Sep 2026)	Reviews, all languages	Players
Train Station Renovation	All five stages	~US$3.79 (-80%)	2,762, Very Positive	Single-player
Barn Finders	Acquire, clear, clean, repair, sell	~US$19.99	4,441, Very Positive	Single-player
The Tenants	All five, plus management	~US$19.99	7,777, Mostly Positive	Single-player
House Builder	Build, then decorate	~US$19.99	2,593, Mostly Positive	Single-player
PowerWash Simulator	Cleaning only	~US$24.99	58,739, Overwhelmingly Positive	Online co-op
Furnish Master	Decorating only	~US$14.99	1,176, Very Positive	Single-player
Whisper of the House	Clear, organise, decorate	~US$14.99	5,722, Overwhelmingly Positive	Single-player
Winkeltje: The Little Shop	Build out and decorate	~US$14.99	1,830, Very Positive	Single-player
Tiny Glade	Build and decorate only	~US$14.99	24,564, Overwhelmingly Positive	Single-player
Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator	Cleaning, outdoors	~US$2.49 (-75%)	2,540, Very Positive	Single-player
Alchemess	Clear and arrange only	US$5.99 at launch	none — unreleased	Co-op, couch co-op, versus
Unpacking	Arranging only	~US$19.99	40,752, Very Positive	Single-player

What should you play first?

Work backwards from the stage, not the score. If what you replayed House Flipper for was filth coming off a wall, buy PowerWash Simulator and stop reading. If it was the furnishing screen, Furnish Master is the purest version. If it was the whole contract — arrive at a wreck, leave with a finished space and a payment — Train Station Renovation is the closest copy on Steam, and at the price it showed on 11 September 2026, close to free.

And if what you liked was the twenty minutes before the renovation starts, when the room is still full of somebody else’s mess and you carry it out armful by armful, that stage has its own games now — ours is one of them, a potion shop with 2,080 bottles on the floor. The co-op and versus modes are documented if you want detail first.

Tidy the shop yourself on 17 September.

FAQ: games like House Flipper

Are there any games similar to House Flipper? The closest three on PC are Train Station Renovation, which keeps the whole contract loop on derelict stations; Barn Finders, which keeps buy-clear-repair-sell without the decorating; and PowerWash Simulator, which keeps only the cleaning and holds 58,739 all-language Steam reviews, Overwhelmingly Positive as of 11 September 2026.

What game genre is House Flipper? Steam files House Flipper under Casual, Indie and Simulation, the 2018 original also carrying Action, Adventure and Strategy, read 11 September 2026. In practice it is a first-person renovation simulator: a job-based, no-combat sim about repairing, cleaning and furnishing property.

What are some games like House Flipper on Steam, and are any of them multiplayer? Three of the twelve list co-op in Steam’s category data: PowerWash Simulator (online co-op, cross-platform), House Flipper 2 itself (online co-op, LAN co-op, cross-platform), and our own potion-shop entry, which adds couch co-op and a versus mode. For multiplayer games like House Flipper, trust the category list over the user tags.

What are the best games like House Flipper 2 if I want to build rather than renovate? House Builder and Tiny Glade. House Builder takes you from foundation to roof across historical periods for around US$19.99; Tiny Glade drops objectives entirely for around US$14.99, on 24,564 all-language reviews rated Overwhelmingly Positive. Both prices read on 11 September 2026.

How do I choose between all these Steam games like House Flipper? Name the stage you liked before opening a store page: clearing, cleaning, repairing, decorating or selling. Then buy the game covering that stage at full depth rather than one covering all five shallowly. Price is a poor filter: two of the best games like House Flipper PC players can buy were under US$4 on 11 September 2026.

Are any of these cozy games, or are they all work simulators? Both. Games with scoring screens and contract deadlines sit on the simulation side; Tiny Glade, Whisper of the House and Unpacking sit firmly on the cozy side. See what makes a game cozy if the distinction matters.