House Flipper 2’s sandbox mode basically looks like The Sims build mode in first person

I’ll admit I passed on the original House Flipper craze because I’m not one for job sim games. But I really like to build and decorate houses, which, it turns out, House Flipper 2 is totally prepared to support. House Flipper dev Frozen District has already announced that the sequel would have a sandbox mode, but now it’s been shown off in a new trailer. I’m all in this time.

In the original game, your goal was of course to come into a house and fix it up by demoing walls, cleaning up trash, and rolling on a more charming color of paint. Sandbox mode lets you ignore all responsibility and simply build from scratch. You can edit the lot dimensions and terrain heights, use free-placement or snap to the grid, and switch to a top-down editor instead of the usual first-person perspective. Frozen District also references its 1,500-piece catalog of furniture and the ability to share your houses with the community.

The sharing bit is mostly so you can build custom flipping quests to share with your friends, I gather. The trailer shows off how your build can denote walls and items that should be changed and also a rather detailed “Trash Generator” for littering the property with your exact specification of moss, cans, broken tiles, and other debris. It’s not a flip if you aren’t bending over for hundreds of cans, apparently.