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House Builder

FreeMind S.A. · PlayWay S.A. · 2024-01-15

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureCasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 15, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 19, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 15, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Jun 24, 2022 (Xbox One), Jun 24, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S), Oct 16, 2024 (PlayStation 5)

Become a one-man construction crew! Travel around the world and through the ages to build iconic designs! Beware of unpleasant temperatures and dangerous fauna!

House Builder is an Adventure, Casual, Indie, and Simulation game released in 2024, priced at $19.99, with a Mostly Positive sentiment (80% of 2578 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 100,000 .. 200,000.

19
playing now
80%
positive of 2.6k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

19 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 19 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 109 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~14/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 52k–116k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,578 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$7.99-60%
Microsoft Store$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $5.99 at Fanatical (2023-11-07) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 68 of 99 observed days · $2.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
23023020212026Week of 2021-11-01: 230 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

6582026-08-11 17:00 — 27 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 19 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 8 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 34 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 17 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 23 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 65 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 37 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 41 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 59 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 28 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 22 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 55 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 15 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 35 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 37 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 15 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 33 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 57 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 22 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 38 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 55 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 20 players2026-08-26 21:00 — 45 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 58 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 27 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 57 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 43 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 19 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$5.992021-11-112026-08-302021-11-11 — best price $13.492022-06-23 — best price $11.992022-12-13 — best price $14.992023-02-20 — best price $14.992023-04-21 — best price $14.992023-06-11 — best price $11.992023-08-10 — best price $14.992023-10-13 — best price $8.242023-12-06 — best price $6.742024-01-29 — best price $6.742024-04-18 — best price $11.982024-05-22 — best price $12.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-08-15 — best price $19.992024-09-11 — best price $10.002024-10-02 — best price $11.992024-10-30 — best price $12.992024-11-27 — best price $10.992024-12-20 — best price $11.992025-02-02 — best price $19.992025-03-19 — best price $9.992025-05-02 — best price $19.992025-06-28 — best price $19.992025-08-14 — best price $8.992025-09-15 — best price $8.992025-10-09 — best price $9.992025-11-04 — best price $19.992025-11-22 — best price $6.642026-01-18 — best price $19.992026-02-28 — best price $8.992026-03-30 — best price $7.992026-05-02 — best price $16.842026-06-24 — best price $7.992026-08-12 — best price $19.992026-08-30 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
86.7%
earned "Sprinter Beginner"
55.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopCamera ComfortCustom Volume Controls#category_playable_at_your_own_pacePlayable without Timed InputSave Anytime10 DLC

34 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Arabic, Bulgarian, Traditional Chinese, Czech…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,4955%63
PS4 (PlayStation)62467%55
Xbox One (Xbox)59442%54
PS4 (PlayStation)27857%55
Switch (Nintendo)30%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DCasualPuzzleSandboxBuildingRelaxingAdventureEducationSimulationDestruction

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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