How do players who really played House Flipper rate it? TrueGG Rating 95.6%

Release date: May 17, 2018 Data as of 2026-10-19 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it about the same as Steam overall. Early impressions are weaker, so the first few hours tend to decide whether it clicks.

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95.6%

▲ +1.7 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 10+ hours (last 180 days) · 2,938 reviews

TrueGG, all time: 96.0%
Steam overall: 94.0%
Japanese, all time: 89.9%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 5.3% of all reviews. Their positive share is 67.7%.

This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).

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Does the rating change the longer people play?

Used for TrueGG Rating (10h+)JapaneseRight: reviews

Positive share by playtime at the time of review (reviews from the last 180 days). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.

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Playtime	Positive	Japanese	Reviews
0–1 h	67.7%	50.0%	464
1–2 h	81.5%	100.0%	249
2–5 h	93.3%	66.7%	1,146
5–10 h	94.6%	100.0%	1,332
10–20 h	95.5%	25.0%	1,381
20–50 h	95.7%	100.0%	958
50–100 h	96.4%	100.0%	333
100–200 h	97.4%	100.0%	151
200+ h	92.2%	—	115

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 10+ hours. 42% had 20+ hours and 9% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

House Flipper has a TrueGG Rating of 95.6%: the positive share among 2,938 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 10+ hours, close to Steam's overall 94.0%. Players who really play it broadly agree with the headline number (all time: 96.0%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 5% of the total, and only 68% of them are positive. Some players bounce off early, but those who get past the opening rate it higher. Steam accepts refund requests within 2 hours of play and 14 days of purchase.

Beyond the first hours, approval is fairly even across playtime.

Negative reviews most often mention boredom, monetization and DLC (more than at launch), and crashes and bugs (less than at launch). Positive reviews praise how fun it feels.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 89.9%, 5.7 points below all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (94.6% adjusted), so Steam's number is not noticeably distorted by key giveaways or throwaway reviews.

All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-19.

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Why it is rated this way

What drives the rating

It is also a game many people bounce off early (early reviews are much less positive than those of players who stuck with it).

− Most mentioned complaints

Boring / repetitive18% of negative reviews (7% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · ongoing since launch
Monetization & DLC12% of negative reviews (8% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · more than at launch
Crashes & bugs10% of negative reviews (4% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · less than at launch · 5 positive reviews say it improved
Updates & developers9% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · less than at launch
Price9% of negative reviews (3% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · less than at launch

+ What players praise

Fun & feel32% of positive reviews (20% of negative)

＋可能＋追加＋事務所＋地味＋リノベーション＋業者＋スキル＋タイル− locked− anything− least− that's− click− can't− boring− behind

Counted from 355 recent negative and 576 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count

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Checking the numbers

Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.

Metric	Positive	Scope
Official Steam rating	94.0%	All time, all languages · 112,444 reviews
Adjusted rating	94.6%	Weighted by trust (95% range 94.3%–95.0%), +0.7pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews	83.4%	All time, Japanese-language reviews (−10.6pt vs overall) · 331 reviews

Show the positive vs negative breakdown

Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.

Condition	Positive reviews	Negative reviews
Under 2 hours played at review	9%	40%
Very short text	42%	28%
Key activated outside Steam	47%	68%
Received for free	43%	64%
Owns very few games	20%	5%
Over 100 reviews written	5%	7%
Average trust (1.0 = full)	0.60	0.53

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 9.2 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-19

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When did the rating change?

Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.

Reviews per month

■ Positive■ Negative

Positive share per month

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Updates and ratings before and after

Date	Announcement	2 months before → after
2026-06-04	House Flipper Remastered Collection - OUT NOW! 🛠️	90% → 94% (+4.0pt)
2026-05-21	🌸 (HF2) Sakura DLC is OUT NOW! (+ Free "Buyers 2.0" Update!)	90% → 92% (+2.4pt)
2026-02-23	The House Flipper Remastered Collection Demo is LIVE on Next Fest!	95% → 90% (−5.1pt)
2025-10-23	📢 House Flipper 2 - Scooby-Doo DLC - OUT NOW! 🦴	94% → 94% (+0.9pt)
2025-09-28	🐶 House Flipper 2 - Pets DLC is on the way! 🐱	93% → 94% (+0.9pt)
2024-11-11	🥗 Dine Out DLC Devlog - 2 weeks until RELEASE! 🎊	94% → 93% (−1.0pt)
2024-07-10	🥩 Dine Out DLC Devlog + Historical Museum Update! 🦕	96% → 94% (−2.1pt)
2024-04-11	🍲 Dine Out DLC: Fresh news!	96% → 96% (−0.2pt)
2024-03-01	Dine Out DLC: A Flipper's Journey of Restaurant Renovation and Design!	95% → 96% (+0.5pt)
2023-12-14	House Flipper 2 - OUT NOW!	95% → 95% (+0.6pt)

Picked automatically from the titles of Steam announcements by the developer (one per month, last 3 years, up to 10). The dotted lines mark those months. Before and after are the positive rates of the two months before and after (excluding the month itself); shown as "—" under 50 reviews or when the two months after are not complete. An update is not necessarily the cause of a change.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

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Month	Positive	Negative	Positive
2018-05	1,718	408	80.8%
2018-06	878	322	73.2%
2018-07	672	178	79.1%
2018-08	514	137	79.0%
2018-09	257	57	81.8%
2018-10	240	48	83.3%
2018-11	591	54	91.6%
2018-12	324	69	82.4%
2019-01	306	46	86.9%
2019-02	331	72	82.1%
2019-03	212	44	82.8%
2019-04	205	56	78.5%
2019-05	338	100	77.2%
2019-06	1,053	112	90.4%
2019-07	1,271	95	93.0%
2019-08	186	39	82.7%
2019-09	154	26	85.6%
2019-10	311	55	85.0%
2019-11	1,369	50	96.5%
2019-12	1,468	65	95.8%
2020-01	1,285	78	94.3%
2020-02	1,019	50	95.3%
2020-03	1,178	56	95.5%
2020-04	1,780	87	95.3%
2020-05	1,772	89	95.2%
2020-06	1,371	72	95.0%
2020-07	1,363	76	94.7%
2020-08	893	48	94.9%
2020-09	1,111	51	95.6%
2020-10	928	46	95.3%
2020-11	1,707	75	95.8%
2020-12	1,649	77	95.5%
2021-01	1,722	78	95.7%
2021-02	1,583	56	96.6%
2021-03	1,301	61	95.5%
2021-04	1,659	88	95.0%
2021-05	951	37	96.3%
2021-06	1,056	48	95.7%
2021-07	1,498	64	95.9%
2021-08	1,021	42	96.0%
2021-09	818	35	95.9%
2021-10	1,180	47	96.2%
2021-11	1,257	50	96.2%
2021-12	2,024	106	95.0%
2022-01	1,617	73	95.7%
2022-02	1,072	40	96.4%
2022-03	905	95	90.5%
2022-04	1,199	88	93.2%
2022-05	1,627	81	95.3%
2022-06	1,315	56	95.9%
2022-07	1,814	91	95.2%
2022-08	964	48	95.3%
2022-09	728	29	96.2%
2022-10	715	27	96.4%
2022-11	917	39	95.9%
2022-12	2,021	113	94.7%
2023-01	1,439	77	94.9%
2023-02	746	45	94.3%
2023-03	809	47	94.5%
2023-04	954	45	95.5%
2023-05	603	25	96.0%
2023-06	1,057	74	93.5%
2023-07	1,156	51	95.8%
2023-08	858	53	94.2%
2023-09	720	40	94.7%
2023-10	2,568	159	94.2%
2023-11	1,244	57	95.6%
2023-12	814	39	95.4%
2024-01	637	34	94.9%
2024-02	473	21	95.7%
2024-03	598	24	96.1%
2024-04	468	27	94.5%
2024-05	370	10	97.4%
2024-06	685	37	94.9%
2024-07	751	43	94.6%
2024-08	444	22	95.3%
2024-09	423	37	92.0%
2024-10	448	21	95.5%
2024-11	655	29	95.8%
2024-12	2,146	188	91.9%
2025-01	1,082	64	94.4%
2025-02	570	22	96.3%
2025-03	604	42	93.5%
2025-04	470	33	93.4%
2025-05	398	25	94.1%
2025-06	709	65	91.6%
2025-07	1,510	123	92.5%
2025-08	715	49	93.6%
2025-09	497	35	93.4%
2025-10	464	29	94.1%
2025-11	409	29	93.4%
2025-12	1,034	56	94.9%
2026-01	748	37	95.3%
2026-02	425	34	92.6%
2026-03	421	23	94.8%
2026-04	630	94	87.0%
2026-05	447	29	93.9%
2026-06	515	42	92.5%
2026-07	271	23	92.2%
2026-08	240	11	95.6%
2026-09	412	30	93.2%
2026-10	177	5	97.3%

Show daily data as a table

Day	Positive	Negative
2026-09-19	17	1
2026-09-20	29	1
2026-09-21	14	2
2026-09-22	16	0
2026-09-23	17	1
2026-09-24	19	0
2026-09-25	13	1
2026-09-26	11	0
2026-09-27	15	1
2026-09-28	8	0
2026-09-29	8	0
2026-09-30	11	1
2026-10-01	8	0
2026-10-02	16	0
2026-10-03	10	0
2026-10-04	9	0
2026-10-05	12	1
2026-10-06	10	0
2026-10-07	9	1
2026-10-08	6	0
2026-10-09	13	0
2026-10-10	8	1
2026-10-11	10	1
2026-10-12	11	0
2026-10-13	8	0
2026-10-14	9	0
2026-10-15	9	1
2026-10-16	11	0
2026-10-17	7	0
2026-10-18	11	0

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Recent sentiment

Period	Positive	Reviews
Last 30 days	93.5%	696
Last 180 days	92.3%	6,099
All time	94.0%	112,444
Japanese, last 180 days	64.3%	14

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