Games Like House Flipper, Sorted by the Part You Liked
The 30-second answer
Updated August 2026. House Flipper is five jobs stapled to one property. You clean it, you knock walls down, you repair and install, you furnish it, you sell it, and then you never see it again. The lists that rank for this query mostly answer with more first-person job sims, Car Detailing Simulator and its cousins, which keep the tools and drop the property.
If you want one purchase and no thinking about it, take House Flipper 2. It keeps all five jobs and improves every one of the tools, which nothing else here does, and that makes it the best single answer to this query for most people. Everything else below is a trade: you name the part of the loop you actually replayed, and you give up the rest.
Two names worth knowing before you spend anything. Landlord’s Super makes you mix the cement and lay the wall brick by brick before anybody moves in. Neighborhoods points the same fixing instinct at a whole street instead of one house.
What House Flipper is, and which part you are shopping for
A renovation game is a job sim built around one property: you buy a run-down place, strip out the filth and the broken parts, rebuild and redecorate it, then either sell it on or keep it. House Flipper is the anchor of that shelf, at $24.99 regular with 111,340 Steam reviews at 94.0% positive (as of August 2026), and it runs on Windows and macOS.
Its store page lists the work as separate jobs: “clean up, paint walls, install heaters, showers, and air conditioners, or even furnish their whole property”, then a “rude approach” where you “knock some walls down”, then buy, repair, remodel and “sell them at a profit”. Five verbs, bundled together and sold as one thing. My own flips pulled them apart fast: two of the five were why I kept loading the game, and the other three were the tax I paid to reach those two. Which two are yours decides everything below.
I am not going to re-explain the pull itself here. Why restoring things in games feels good does that job, and games where you restore a run-down place is the wider shelf if you want the feeling without the first-person tools.
Two more renovation games, and the job-sim shelf
Train Station Renovation is the nearest scenery swap: the same clean, repair and furnish sequence, pointed at derelict platforms and rolling stock instead of houses. Hotel Renovator is a looser match than its name suggests. Its store page has you inherit a neglected hotel, tear out the wallpaper and the flooring, redecorate from a furnishing catalogue and then run the place for guest ratings, with no cleaning tool and no sale at the end, so two of the five verbs above are missing. Neither game is in the table below and neither carries a price, a review score or a platform anywhere on this page, so treat both as leads to check yourself rather than as picks.
The rest of the standard answer is the job-sim shelf: the same first-person verbs, none of the real estate. Those games are a good buy if the tools were the point. If the point was watching one specific room stop being a wreck, they have nothing for you.
Pick by the part you replayed
| The part of House Flipper you replayed | Start here | What you give up |
|---|---|---|
| Blasting grime off a surface until it is clean | PowerWash Simulator | The property. Nothing is yours and nothing gets sold |
| Sorting a mess into an order that finally looks right | A Little to the Left | Three dimensions, and money entirely |
| The empty room at the end, getting furnished | Unpacking | Choice. You place what the boxes happen to contain |
| Making a place look good without fixing anything | Tiny Glade | Jobs, money and goals |
| Someone actually moving in afterwards | The Tenants | Tools. Renovation here is paint, floors and furniture |
| The labour itself, one tool at a time | Landlord’s Super | Speed, polish and a large audience |
| The building as a whole, seen from outside | Project Highrise | Your hands. You never hold anything |
The eleven at a glance
| Game | What it keeps from House Flipper | Regular price (as of August 2026) | Steam reviews (as of August 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|
| House Flipper 2 | All five jobs, with better tools | $39.99 | 19,797 at 87.2% positive |
| House Flipper | All five jobs, and a macOS build | $24.99 | 111,340 at 94.0% positive |
| PowerWash Simulator | The cleaning, on its own | $24.99 | 58,576 at 96.4% positive |
| Cash Cleaner Simulator | The cleaning, with a mystery attached | $19.99 | 7,881 at 92.3% positive |
| A Little to the Left | The tidying, flattened to two dimensions | $14.99 | 18,907 at 91.6% positive |
| Unpacking | Furnishing an empty room | $19.99 | 40,643 at 93.2% positive |
| Tiny Glade | Making a place look good | $14.99 | 24,385 at 97.3% positive |
| The Tenants | The flat, plus the person who moves in | $19.99 | 7,761 at 78.9% positive |
| Landlord’s Super | The labour, at full length | $19.99 | 1,707 at 80.6% positive |
| Project Highrise | The property, seen from outside | $19.99 | 4,811 at 84.9% positive |
| Neighborhoods | Fixing what is already standing | Not announced | Early Access, not out yet, no reviews |
If you want the same loop, done better
House Flipper 2
House Flipper 2 is the correct purchase for anyone who liked all of House Flipper and simply wants more of it. It rebuilds the buy, fix and sell loop with better tools, adds a sandbox mode for building a house from nothing, and lists online and LAN co-op on its store page.
It runs on Windows only, so a Mac rules it out. It is the most expensive thing here, fifteen dollars clear of the next one. And at 87.2% positive it scores below the 94.0% of the 2018 original (as of August 2026), which is unusual for a sequel this much prettier.
House Flipper
If your computer is a Mac, the 2018 original is your only route to the full five-job loop. It ships for Windows and macOS while the sequel skips the Mac, and it is cheaper. The tools are older and the houses are smaller. It also carries the largest review sample here, nearly double the next one, so you are buying a very well understood game.
If you were there for the cleaning
PowerWash Simulator
PowerWash Simulator is the pick if the moment you replayed was dirt visibly leaving a surface. You blast grime off one filthy thing after another, build a power-washing business out of it, unlock nozzles and extensions, and bring a friend along in online co-op.
There is no property, no furniture and no sale. One verb, extended to a whole game, and only Tiny Glade scores higher on this page. Unpacking vs PowerWash Simulator puts the two of them head to head if you are torn.
Cash Cleaner Simulator
“Check it, clean it, sort it, ship it” is the whole loop, and Cash Cleaner Simulator earns its place when the scrubbing was the point but a clean surface on its own did not hold you. An underworld contact sends a job, and you feed physically simulated piles of banknotes through washing machines and counting machines, order equipment upgrades off a phone, and turn up secrets hidden around the lab.
You never leave that lab. No houses, no clients standing in a doorway, no property ladder.
If you were there for the placing and the tidying
A Little to the Left
A Little to the Left is the cheapest way to test whether the satisfaction you are chasing comes from order alone. It is sorting, stacking and organising household objects into arrangements that finally look right, across a hundred-odd small messes, with a cat that undoes your work and a hint system you control.
No money, no property, no first-person hands. Only Tiny Glade matches it for price.
Unpacking
If the part you replayed was the finished, furnished room and not the labour that got it there, Unpacking is the closest thing to it anyone has made. It is a zen puzzle game about pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home, eight house moves long, with no timers, meters or scores, telling a whole life through the objects one person keeps.
The furniture is not yours to choose. That constraint is what makes the game work, and it is also what will frustrate a House Flipper player who wanted the catalogue. It is one of only two games in the table with a Linux build.
Tiny Glade
Tiny Glade is for the player who liked making a place look good and resented every minute spent holding a mop. You drag out a wall and the game grows the ivy, the beams and the columns around it: a small diorama builder for whimsical castles, cozy cottages and romantic ruins, with no management, no combat and no goals.
Nothing in it is broken, so no repair work exists, and money never enters the game at all. It carries the highest review score in the table, and at $14.99 (as of August 2026) it ties A Little to the Left for the cheapest.
If you wanted somebody to move in
The Tenants
The Tenants is the pick if what bothered you about House Flipper was that nobody ever moved into the house you just fixed. It runs three jobs at once: choose who you do business with, design the apartments and give them a polished look, then reinvest the profit, with annoyed neighbours and police involvement when it goes wrong.
The renovation is thinner than House Flipper’s, closer to paint, floors and furniture than a full toolkit, and it carries the lowest review score of the ten released games in the table. Games like The Tenants goes deeper into the corner where somebody actually lives in what you built.
Landlord’s Super
Landlord’s Super is the buy when the labour itself was the point, because no other game on this page makes the work take as long as the work takes. Order supplies. Mix your own cement. Assemble scaffolding to reach high places. Build walls brick by brick. That list comes straight off the store page.
You take a dodgy loan, restore a property in open-world 1980s Britain, move the locals in, attend to their grievances, then celebrate with a pint. Weather, seasons and the time of day all constrain what you can get done, and the police are around. It is slow on purpose and it is rough, and with 1,707 reviews (as of August 2026) it has the smallest audience of any released game here. Windows only.
Project Highrise
Project Highrise is worth buying when the property mattered more to you than the paint roller ever did. It is a skyscraper construction and management sim where you fill a tower with offices, shops and apartments, and your job is keeping the tenants happy enough to pay the rent on time.
You never hold a tool and there is no first-person view. It shipped in 2016 and it looks its age, though it is one of the few things here that still runs on a Mac.
Neighborhoods
Neighborhoods is the one to wishlist and wait on, because the unit of repair is a whole street: the houses, the rents, and whether anyone can afford to stay on it. Its store page calls it “a cozy city sim where you shape streets to help people thrive” and says the team is “reimagining the city builder as a city fixer”, with residents who need to “live somewhere they can afford, and afford to stay long enough to put down roots”.
Steam files it under Early Access and it has not launched into it yet, with no release date and no price announced (as of August 2026), and Windows is the only platform listed, so there is nothing to score.
Where most people land
A wrong pick here is cheap. Of the ten released games in the table, every one except House Flipper 2 has a regular price of $24.99 or less (as of August 2026), and seven sit at or under $19.99, so testing which verb you were actually chasing costs about the same as one bad takeaway.
The pattern that survives all eleven entries: the verbs travel and the building does not. Cleaning, sorting, furnishing and decorating each exist somewhere above as a complete, polished game with a high score attached. Owning a run-down building, fixing it, and then living with what you made is the rare thing, and the three games that offer it are the lowest scoring entry, the slowest one, and the one that has not come out.
One from us, sitting beside the list
Grandma Left Me a Building sits next to this list rather than on it, and it starts where a flip ends. You inherit the building instead of buying it. It is a hand-drawn 2D apartment management sim where you restore the run-down building your grandmother left you, find tenants, collect rent, hire staff and upgrade the place. The cast runs to a midnight guitar-shredding elf, a philosophy-lecturing yeti and an opera singer who bursts into an aria in the elevator.
It is unreleased, so there is nothing to compare against the review numbers above and nothing to score. It is due in November 2026 (as of August 2026) for Windows and macOS on Steam. If the shelf interests you more than our corner of it, best apartment building management games is a better door than this paragraph.
Quick answers
Is House Flipper 2 the best game like House Flipper? Yes, for most people leaving the first game, because it is the only title here that keeps the whole loop and improves the tools. One exception matters: it is Windows only, so a Mac sends you back to the original.
Are there renovation games where you keep the house instead of selling it? Yes, three of them here. The Tenants puts renters in the flat you fixed, Landlord’s Super has you restore a property and move the locals in, and Neighborhoods scales the same idea up to a street, though it is an Early Access game that has not launched yet. The Tenants and Landlord’s Super are both rougher purchases than House Flipper 2.
How many of these run on macOS? Five of the eleven in the table: House Flipper, A Little to the Left, Unpacking, Tiny Glade and Project Highrise. Unpacking and Tiny Glade are the only two with a Linux build. The other six, including House Flipper 2, are Windows only.
What is the cheapest way to find out which part I liked? $14.99, twice. A Little to the Left answers whether you were chasing order, and Tiny Glade answers whether you were chasing the look of a finished place. Between them they cost less than House Flipper 2 and settle the question before you spend more.
Every price, review count, score and release date on this page was read off the Steam store on 20 August 2026 and will drift. Regular prices are quoted throughout, so anything discounted when you look will read lower than the figure here.
