Estate Agent Simulator Preview | Become the Ultimate Housing Agent

Estate Agent Simulator is a brand new tycoon-type game where you play as an estate agent trying to make it big by purchasing and renting houses that are available in your town. The developers, Kiki Games, state that Estate Agent Simulator is a game that ‘lets you enter the exciting world of the real estate market. You can buy, decorate, advertise, rent, or sell houses. You can also buy vacant land and build houses.‘

This Estate Agent Simulator preview will take a closer look at the features that are currently available in the game, ranging from housing management to money and office developments. Let’s begin.

Estate Agent Simulator is now available on Steam for $8.99 as an Early Access Game. 

Story | Rise to the Top

In Estate Agent Simulator, the players take on the shoes of a real estate agent, who must begin his business from the start with $40,000 in hand, a truck, and a humble office space. Moreover, to accompany our journey, we are also married with a wife, who can provide support to your business and daily life.

Overall, the story is pretty much non-existent except for a few pointers on how the world works and defining who we are playing in Estate Agent Simulator. While not exactly charming, the story is exactly what we can expect in this type of genre, though hopefully, the developers can add some flavors in the story department in the future.

Our Office.

Gameplay | Buy, Sell, Rent

There are a plethora of things you can do in Estate Agent Simulator, ranging from office management, property buying and selling (which includes negotiations as well), participating in Storage Wars, and many more.

For this preview, we will list down three major gameplay elements: Property Empire, Office Management, and Miscellaneous Things, and see their strengths and weaknesses.

Property Empire

As mentioned before, Estate Agent Simulator provides the tools necessary to make us property tycoons fit to rule the housing market in town. 

For starters, we get $40,000 as our initial funding to kickstart our journey as a real estate agent. With these funds, we can purchase several houses as our first investments in the game. However, once you purchase the houses you want, you must do several things before you can lease them to other people.

First, you must clean any dirt that might settle in your house (these range from bugs to wall stains), then you can take a picture of your house for advertising on your website. Finally, you wait in your office and wait for any bystanders to rent your houses for several days. Don’t panic, as these rent times won’t exceed the 30-day mark.

Overall, the property management side of Estate Agent Simulator is very lucrative and fair, with multiple factors that we need to take into account before making a move into the housing market, something that the developers manage to ‘simulate’ the feel of being a real estate agent.

Buying Furniture.

Office Management

Another major aspect of Estate Agent Simulator‘s gameplay is the way we manage our office space. At first, the space we have is very humble, consisting of two workspaces and a humble display area. However, as we progress through the game, where we can earn more money from the houses that we purchased early on, we can upgrade our working space to be more expressive and meaningful.

Moreover, we can manage our rents, economy, and business ventures through our computer, though we can also do that on our tablet, which provides us with a more mobile option to control everything that relates to our empire.

Overall, although some parts of the office are doable through other means, the office management in Estate Agent Simulator remains a crucial mechanic to allow us to interact with potential buyers and keeps us up to date by utilizing the Newspaper, which unfortunately can only be read once we unlock the Skill to do so.

Preparing to Furnish a House.

Miscellaneous Things

In the previous section, we mentioned a Skill that allows us to read the Newspaper. That sounds awful and inconvenient, and that’s exactly one of the problems that fester Estate Agent Simulator. Even meager things that should’ve been accessible since the beginning, like petting your pet, or reading a newspaper to get some updates, are locked behind the Skill system.

Certainly, the Newspaper is a proper mechanic that might seem overpowered if we gain access to it from the beginning. However, reading items should be an inherent ability that we can do from the get-go, and the developers should divide regular readable items and news-related items into two, with the latter being a part of the Skill system. With this in mind, I have to say, that most of the Skills we can gain are game-changing, such as having a lawyer or an assistant to help us manage our estate empire, which reduces our burden as the progress goes on.

In addition to that, we can drive around with our trusty truck or nicer car as long as we can purchase them through the in-game dealer. The truck is one of the most important aspects of Estate Agent Simulator, as it allows you to move furniture around for your purchased houses. The downside of this convenient tool is that we can’t group the furniture in our Inventory and must manually pick them up one by one and then place them in the houses accordingly. It’s doable, however, slightly inconvenient as the time of day sometimes does not allow us to complete furnishing a house in one go.

Driving in Town.

Graphics and Sound | Needs More Polishing

For the final part of this Estate Agent Simulator preview, we will talk about its graphics and sound design, which honestly are decent but can benefit from more polishing down the line.

Let’s start with the graphics department. Some of the in-game visuals are… weird, to say the least. I can’t help but feel that the characters’ key arts are AI-generated, as their facial features and textures scream AI to me. Apart from that, the graphics in this game are decent, though several parts will benefit from an upgrade or polishing, like the cars’ textures. 

Lastly, the sound design in Estate Agent Simulator is good and believable. The vehicles’ sound and interactions also produce the expected sound, and the music, although subdued, feels nice and cozy, fitting for our journey to rise as the top real estate agent in the city.

This preview is possible thanks to the game key provided by Kiki Games.