Here's the last couple of months of our work! We love bringing you holiday-themed updates, and this year, our ambitious plan was to put in extra effort to also give you a chance to play House Flipper 2 together with your loved ones just before the Winter Holidays! ????
With this Steam Announcement, we bring you all the info you need about:
- The Winter Update,
- Co-op Open Beta,
- The first House Flipper 2 DLC,
- The Coziest Christmas Community Contest! (and the winners of our previous contest!)
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????️ Let's start with The Winter Update!
New:
• A truly magical Christmas job!
• A very Merry House!
• A snowy environment (available to choose in Architect Mode)!
• Winter fun! There’s something exciting about the snowy atmosphere outside… Can you find it?
• Sled assembly!
• 260 new items:
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• For some reason... rain boots!
• 9 new doors including wardrobe doors, bi-fold doors, a new door frame, and double sliding doors
• 9 new patterns - used for wallpapers and items
• Traditional festive dishes including Yule logs and pierogi
• Presents and wrapping paper :)
• Snowmen and snowballs - give them a throw!
• Greeting cards you can customize with your own pictures
• Resizable fairy lights
• Christmas trees! Choose your baubles, chain, tree top, and fairy light color <3
• Christmas tree stands for the trees
• 14 types of garlands
• Fir branches and mistletoe
• 3 new sculptures
• 2 new pillow sizes!
• 2 new picture frames
• Christmas ornaments and an ornament stand
• Christmas wall decor and a wall decor stand
• Pine cones and orange slices
• Christmas stockings to hang on your fireplace
• 6 cute winter lanterns
• Christmas crackers, figurines, and a nutcracker
• A table runner
• Letter and number balloons - hello 2025!
• Winter sports! Ice skates, sled, ski boots
• 9 adorable night lights
• Blackberry and raspberry bushes
• Holly bushes and a holly tree
• Poinsettia plants
• 20 snowy versions of spruce, maple, and fir trees
• 8 wardrobe pieces for those walk-in wardrobes
• Full-length kitchen cabinets without the oven ;)
• 4 new space-themed posters
• Binoculars and a telescope
• Screwdriver complete with a screwdriver rack
• Construction support post
• 50 broken windows of many different sizes
• A broken balcony door and broken sign
Changes:
• New perk ('Just like dominoes') for tiling in a straight line, along with improvements to this mechanic!
• All lights have a new light mode - RGB.
• Brushed aluminium has expanded its colour palette.
• You can now skip a single line of text messages during the job summary
• Houses requiring completion of specific jobs are now locked with a padlock in the On Sale tab.
• Items on quest lists are now much better organized ;)
Fixes:
• Resolved a bug causing screen blur and game freezing when accessing materials in the store with the Flipper tool, which were unavailable in Story Mode.
• Custom pictures with overly long file paths are now ignored to prevent infinite loading.
Co-op changes:
• First batch of third-person-perspective animations for Story mode.
• A brand new lobby screen.
• Cross-play! Play with friends from other platforms!
• The co-op region is now part of the lobby code.
• You can now see what the other player is buying in the store, before they place the item.
• A pop-up now appears when a connection is rejected due to mismatched cross-play settings between the host and client.
Co-op fixes:
• The client sees quests while playing Custom Jobs in Sandbox mode.
• Trash bags no longer stick to the player (at last).
• Full trash bags cannot be taken from the player holding them.
• Job emails are no longer accessible when playing Custom Jobs in Sandbox mode.
• Windows cannot be opened if they are being cleaned by another player.
???? The Co-op Open Beta is here, and all the House Flipper 2 players are invited!
We feel like that's a BIG one! The Winter Update might be even cooler when flipping together with others! Up to 4-players! Remember you need to own House Flipper 2 in order to join the beta!
To join in, you only have to go to the House Flipper 2 Steam Store Page, find the "Join the HF2 - Co-op Playtest" field, and click the "Request Access" button there:
The access should be granted instantly! Remember that these are the beta tests for the full release of the Co-op Feature, bugs and crashes may be happening!
???? The first House Flipper 2 DLC will be FREE and based around CO-OP!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3363370/House_Flipper_2__Coop_DLC
This DLC will bring a special set of brand-new houses and jobs tailored specifically towards cooperation enthusiasts. Whether you’re on PC or console, with the planned cross-platform support, up to four players will be able to team up in both story and sandbox modes!
We will definitely talk more about this one in the upcoming months. Stay tuned!
???? The Coziest Christmas Community Contest is LIVE!
Just imagine the most Christmassy Christmas ever! Fancy decorations all around, a truly magnificent tree, tons of presents, and festive lights everywhere you look?
Take that and multiply it by 10, that's the clue of this contest!
JOIN HERE!
We're going back to the roots and we prepared a "shell" structure for you to work with. Are you enough of a Christmas enjoyer to impress the developers with an unseen level of Holly Jolly atmosphere?
???? We also picked the winners of the recently finished The Monster Mansion Community Contest!
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It was quite a challenge to go through all the awesome submissions!
Congrats to the winners:
1. Bloodthorn manor
2. The Scholar's Mansion
3. Nightshade Hollow
4. Mary's mansion
5. Coffee Creature's Dwelling
6. Haunted Hill
7. The haunted Sinclair house
8. The Hunted Scrolls of Stonehaven Manor
9. Shadow Hills
10. Baba Yagas hut
We will be creating a separate announcement discussing our picks soon, stay tuned!
???? Remember the the Frozen District Publisher Sale is still ON FIRE!
https://steamcommunity.com/games/1190970/announcements/detail/4471607136529416423???? Last but not least, today is a dev livestream day!
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/frozen_district
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@HouseFlipperGame
Make sure to hop in and say hi! We're so glad to have you on board guys, all the ideas and suggestions we receive help us with choosing the direction of our House Flipper 2 development journey!
Keep in mind that the Canny.io board is up and running, constantly giving us an idea about your requests and feedback.
Have a wonderful holiday season! ????
