Bus Flipper: Renovator Simulator news & patch notes

Hey, Flippers!

Super excited to finally say that our game's Steam page is live again 🎉

Also, in about a week, we plan to release a reworked update. We’ve worked really hard to make it as enjoyable as it was before, and keep in as much content as possible without violating any copyright rules.

Thank you so much to everyone who stayed with us and supported the project!

Hey, everyone 👋  

We want to be completely honest with you about what happened with the game. 

In a nutshell: after the latest update, the page was removed from Steam due to copyright violations.

We would like to explain. We were making a fan parody, got super carried away and excited about the idea… and went a bit too far with some assets. We got a notice, and we completely agree that it’s on us. 

Right now, everything is in order, the problem has been solved, and we are just waiting for Steam to review everything and restore the page. We put so much heart and time into this update. At the same time we never want to put ourselves, you, or the whole project at risk.

So now we’re working on two things at once: 

• Carefully removing anything that could cause future problems

• Keep as much of the content and the exact vibe that made us fall in love with this idea in the first place

As soon as we finish cleaning everything up and make sure it’s fun and playable. We’ll drop it and make a big announcement.

Thank you so much for sticking with us and supporting the project.

Merry Christmas, wonderful Bus Flippers! 🎄🚍✨

It's that magical time of year, and we wanted to drop in with some extra holiday cheer. Thank you all so much for being part of this journey with us throughout 2025. From the playtests and demo, then launch, and every update since. Your incredible builds, shared stories, helpful feedback, and endless enthusiasm have made developing this game an absolute joy.

Wishing you all a warm, joyful Christmas filled with loved ones, good food, cozy moments, and maybe a little time to flip some buses. May the new year bring you health, happiness, and plenty of inspiration for your next dream conversions!

Here's what's waiting under the tree:

• The iconic Bumblebee legendary city bus – ready for your restoration magic

• 4 new quests packed with fresh stories and collectibles

• The cozy new "Oldy" furniture set

• New Arizona-style map and drive roads

We can't wait to see your holiday-themed campers!

Dive in, share your screenshots, let us know what you think, and as always – happy flipping!

Hey, Flippers! 

Our friends at Grand Casino Simulator have just opened the doors to their Playtest!

If you like sim games, check it out - build and manage your own luxury casino solo or in co-op. Handle hilarious challenges, deal with troublemakers and keep the diligent gamblers happy.🎲

Please, support the developers and share your feedback!

Hello, Flippers!

Second Major Update is finally here! Thank you for playing, leaving your feedback and reporting bugs. As we promised before, we're doing our best to improve the game, so here's another big patch!

Here's what's new:

• New quests

• New perks

• Added Photo Mode

• Added UAZ-452 Bukhanka

• New skins for RVs and buses

• Added Sam's phrases that react to gameplay conditions

• Added sounds to the partitions tool

• Level progression has been rebalanced

• Fixed a bug with changing the home bus where furniture would remain in the same place or would become stuck in the air

• Fixed a bug with disappearing items after selling a bus

• Fixed a bug with giving an experience for all stages when using a fast assembly mechanic

• Fixed a bug where canceling a bus sale would still allow customers to arrive

• Fixed a bug with purchasing licenses without money

• Fixed a bug where you could get stuck in the BOOM arcade machine when pressing ESC

• Fixed a bug where your laptops could be duplicated

Also wanted to take this opportunity to say hi to our friends from Dos Ivánes!

They have just revealed the release date on their game My Wife Threw Out My Card Collection (So I Bought a Dump to Find Them All). A long title, but such a fun little game, where you search for cards and rescue birds.

And for extra karma points, $0.10 from every sold copy of the game will be donated to BirdLife International to help real birds. So go show them some love and try the Demo!

Hope you enjoy the update and go help some birds!

Hey, Flippers!

We wanted to come here and show you some screenshots of UAZ-452 Bukhanka, that will be added in the game with the next update.

We also prepared a new bundle with House Builder 2! Congrats to our dear friends from FreeMind S.A. on the release. If you want to experience a truly amazing building sim in an open world and carefully crafted mechanics — give it a try :)

No more yapping, here are the screenshots 👀

Hey, Flippers!

Major Update 2 launches on October 30th with fresh content and key fixes. Your feedback made this version shine!

What's new:

•  Added new perks

•  Added UAZ-452 Bukhanka

•  Added new quests

•  Added sounds to the partitions tool

Fixed:

• Bug with changing the home bus where furniture would remain in the same place or would become stuck in the air

• Bug where canceling a bus sale would still allow customers to arrive

• Bug with purchasing licenses without money

• Bug where you could get stuck in the BOOM arcade machine when pressing ESC

• Bug where your laptops could be duplicated

We're not sitting idle — we're working hard for you. There's still a lot ahead, but we're preparing all sorts of cool stuff. Hope you're excited and waiting with us!

Hey, Flippers!

We have just uploaded a Hotfix for this major update.

Here's the list of changes:

• Motorhome Home bus can now have finishes on it's rear wall

• Added placement locations for some VLG furniture in Tokyo Bus

• Fixed water in the sinks of Betty's second quest

• Fixed an issue with receiving bonuses if the furniture was not fully assembled

• Fixed an issue with the ability to fly when the player sat on chairs

• Fixed an issue where, when selling a finish, items placed on that finish would disappear

• Fixed an issue where when installing a door, the door could disappear

• Fixed an issue where the laptop would disappear forever when selling a bus

See you in the game!

Hey, Flippers!

First, we would like to apologize :(

While working on adding controller and Steamdeck support, we ran into some complications and technical issues we weren’t able to resolve, so this update won’t include it. Also, because of the delay with that, we weren’t able to finish the new layout options.

We know you guys waited for those changes, and we’re very sorry we couldn’t add them this patch. But we’ll continue working on those, and hopefully will add them to the next one.

However, we did work on many other things (and thank god those worked out correctly :D)

So here’s the list of everything new:

• Achievements were added!

• You can now change your "home" bus

• Added 7 new quests

• Added completely new buses - Ural and Street Food

• Ural is available at the Bus Sale

• Added new collectibles

• You can now sell doors

• You can now remove partitions

• Added new items: furniture, hobs, showers, dakimakuras, cubes with letters

• Some localization improvements

• Better plumbing UI

• Fixed bug when player has to put all the furniture again after reload

• Fixed bug with some objects movement possibility

• Fixed an issue where finishes would flicker with a weird checkered texture instead of its own

• Fixed some bugs with placing objects along a wall with different floor heights

• Fixed bug with collectibles interaction button

• Fixed a bug where already mounted objects could not be snapped/placed

• Fixed an issue where facades would change their texture when switching materials

• Fixed an issue where trims would appear in the shop when the player did not have the finishes tool

• Fixed a visual bug where the final screen had too many tasks to fit on it

Thanks everyone for sharing feedback, bugs, and just playing the game itself.

We will continue to improve it.

Hope you enjoy the update!

Hey, flippers!

Unfortunately, we have to move the update from today to 15th of September. We strive to provide the best quality of features possible, so we need to move everything to a later date, to polish everything and give you the best version.

In the meantime, we’ll give you a list of what will be in this major update:

• ACHIEVEMENTS!

• Most of the bugs that we learned about (thanks to our community) have been fixed. Thank you for that!

• Added the ability to replace your home bus with a new one

• Three new major quests and furniture sets — one in the good old Tokyo Bus, the second in Airstream, the third in URAL, as well as many simpler quests

• New decor, taking into account player requests. You didn't ask for it, but we added dakimakura 🌚

• New layout options in purchased buses. Open layouts are still a big problem for us, but we're trying to come up with something

• You can now remove the partition you've installed

• New collectibles have been added!

• Added cooking surfaces and new shower options

• Added a set of letter cubes, you can compose various phrases and words

• Control preset for SteamDeck

Thank you so much for your support, and we hope you understand.

See you on the 15th!

Hey, everyone! Just a small, but very nice update for you.

• Added "Yellow Submarine" Pathmaster with new partitions layout for sale

• Added "Bloody Mary" IWagen for sale

• Added positions for Pathmaster's lamps and those lamps added to the shop

• Minor fixes

Hey, Flippers!

We just updated the game with our first Hotfix, so here's what's new:

• Added Italian language (!)

• Bus purchasing is now endless (we’re still working on improving this system)

• Added Pathmaster bus furniture to the shop

• Added an option to disable “Before and After” photos

• Improved customization properties for specific items

• Fixed bug with handrails in the Pathmaster bus

• Windowed fullscreen mode is now set as default

• Fixed bug where item previews in the shop would freeze and not update

• Fixed bug where sold items would return after coming back home

• Fixed bug where installed surface finishes glitched after returning home

• Fixed bug where items placed in the bus were not spawned during trips

• Fixed bug in the tutorial where the cleaning task wouldn't complete if started during dialogue

• Fixed bug where lamp connection points were incorrectly positioned

• Fixed bug where assembly marker positions were incorrectly positioned

• Fixed the steering wheel in the Citrovan bus

• Fixed bug where furniture and decorations remained after selling a bus

• Fixed bug where surface finishes blocked interaction with objects

• Fixed surface finish zones in the Citrovan bus

• Fixed surface finish zones in the IWagen bus

• Fixed Old Fashion Bed and Children Bed collisions

• Fixed France furniture doors opening inside

• Added finishes zones for Motorhome partitions (we’re still working on improving this system)

• Furniture lamp and Table lamp are now actually electric things

• Fixed controls rebind

• Fixed bug with fps lock

Thank you all for your feedback and suggestions! As we said before, this game will be a community development one, so we listen to everything you guys have to say ❤️

Hey, Flippers!

Thanks everyone for jumping into Bus Flipper this early and for all the feedback and suggestions you leave! We are planning community-based development, so it helps us a ton.

It's our first PC game, and it's so cool to see that you like our game, made by just 3 devs.

What’s coming next:

• Endless mode

For those who just want to relax and renovate. Will make buses on the market respawn, so you’ll never run out.

• Fixing the majority of bugs

We saw the bugs you reported with the floor staying after selling a bus, missing railings and not respawning buses. Will fix everything in the nearest update.

If you want to help us improve:

• Continue to post feedback and suggestions, we are listening! You can also do it in Discord.

• Share your cool (or cursed) builds, we love to see them, and they might spark some ideas.

Thanks again for riding with us, we appreciate you ❤️

Hello Flippers!

We wanted to make a little presentation about what’s waiting for you in the full release of the game, so here’s a rundown.

Firstly, working on buses! You’ll be picking up trash, smashing stuff with a hammer, and wiping away dirt. You can also change surface finishes inside, add partitions, work on electricity and plumbing, and add all sorts of cool decorations. If you’re feeling KOBY – play basketball with those trash bags and earn money for best throws!

You’ll get to complete 9 unique jobs. But if those jobs are about bringing someone else’s vision to life, buying an old rusty bus and fixing it up is your chance to unleash your creativity and make some serious cash.

And how about going on a ride? The road to your clients might take you through some wild places. Driving mode lets you test your creations on the open road. You can test drive all 6 unique buses.

Keep your eyes peeled, and you might stumble across collectible items or even build a retro arcade machine to play on! Level up your character and unlock new decorations for even more variety.

Bus Flipper Simulator is all about creativity, repair mechanics, and expressing yourself.

And if you’re itching to fix up and sell smaller rides, check out Car Dealer Simulator! In that game, you buy, restore, and sell used cars, turning junk into gems. We’re thrilled to share that our games are now available in a bundle, so you can dive into the world of vehicle repair and trading with double the fun.

We’re so happy to announce that after a year of development, many sleepless nights and crunches, Bus Flipper’s full version is finally out!

Thank you so much for all the support, feedback, suggestions, and for simply playing the demo and playtest. It means a lot to us.

Special thanks to all the content creators and streamers, who helped us get recognition, showing our game to their audiences. We’re incredibly grateful that you decided to share our game!

Check out the release trailer we made specially for this occasion:

And of course, have a great time playing! We’re looking forward to your reviews and more feedback. In the meantime, we will continue supporting the game, adding more features, buses and decorations.

We're happy to announce that Bus Flipper will be released 31st of July!

And we prepared a new trailer to announce it and reveal new features. Come watch it.

You'll get your hands on:

• New iconic buses

• Driving mechanic

• Building your own business

• New customization elements

And many more! We will continue to bring new content even after the release, so many more exciting things to come.

So take the red marker, circle the date on your calendar, and come hang out in our Discord while you wait :)

We used to make soulless mobile games. Now we’re building something we actually care about.

We will be on Steam Next Fest JUN 9 - 16, and for that we prepared a big Demo update! A part of it will be a new vehicle we called Citrovan. Take a look below!

Please, support us in this upcoming fest, update the Demo, and leave a review. It really helps us get recognition ❤️

We're excited to announce that the playtest has begun, and you can now test the first version of the game!