Low-Budget Repairs

I really want to give this a positive review but there is just too much wrong with it. - Performance is shockingly, unbearably bad for how simple a game it is. - The fundamental premise that makes the game different (chaos/cheapskate renovation) is not fully realized - Objects thrown out of the window in your house exist permanently in some liminal pocket dimension outside of your window even though this is how you are taught to get things out of the house. - MOST EGREGIOUSLY YOU CANNOT PROPERLY PAINT YOUR HOME WITHOUT HORRIBLE TEXTURE ISSUES. I could forgive every ounce of jank in this game if the most BASIC function of renovation games was well implemented. Every stroke of paint you make on the ceiling will leave a large dark stripe or splotch permanently that shows through all other paint. These marks appear at the beginning and end of every brush stroke, as well as anywhere paint happens to overlap. These mark cannot be removed with anything other than plaster. When you do plaster, you go to paint again and the marks just appear again. If the end goal is to fix up your property, if that is the overall story endpoint, why can you not even do something as simple as painting it? This seems like a HUGE issue considering it ruins any attempt to renovate your property. I personally ran out of steam on this game because of it, and I would've put probably 20 more hours in to it if one of the five updates so far had addressed this issue. I will change my review if the painting issue specifically is resolved, as the rest is acceptable jank for smaller studios. The painting issue is like if you were playing Farming Simulator and then every time you went over a field the marks were just in a random direction, an easily fixable aesthetic issue that really detracts from the enjoyability of the core gameplay loop.