Low Budget Repairs certainly explains a lot of my apartment renovations

Gray2RGB recently unveiled their upcoming renovation sim, Low Budget Repairs. In the wake of House Flipper, renovation games are a dime a dozen, but Low Budget Repairs has a unique approach in its astoundingly low standards. It’s coming to PC eventually.

Do you like the satisfaction of a job well done? Too bad, because we’re on a strict budget and time limit here. Low Budget Repairs has you managing your own apartment block in 1990s Poland. You’re going to want to maximize your profits by cutting corners here and there. And everywhere. Dilute paint with water. Throw furniture out the window. Just slap those tiles anywhere. It’s good enough for government work.

This sort of behavior would explain some of the questionable repair work done in… nearly every apartment I’ve moved into. I just moved, and the bathroom door in my new apartment doesn’t shut. Out of all the doors in the apartment to not shut, that’s the one that most requires that functionality. I still need to submit a maintenance request.

Low Budget Repairs, on the other hand,  looks amazing. The trailer is incredible. Some of it seems staged for “vertical slice” effectiveness, but there are some very detailed concepts being shown off. At one point, a window that is too small for its frame is held in place using insulation foam. A leaking pipe gets duct taped with a pan added underneath to catch the water. Later, they cut the bottom of a door out to let a cat in. It all builds into a climax where they lock the switches on a breaker panel in the on position, which knocks out power to the entire neighborhood. That last part seems a little too detailed for something that a player might do, but if this sort of thing is completely commonplace, my mind will be blown. That’s not a phrase I use commonly.

For that matter, a few games that I had concerns that they wouldn’t live up to their concept recently seem to be doing so. I’m still staggered by the level of depth shown by Hollywood Animal’s demo. Maybe my expectations are just too low, which isn’t a problem I could have predicted.

Add this to the list of games I need right now. But while Low Budget Repairs is coming to PC, no release date has been announced.