Real Estate

Players can either purchase or rent real estate. With purchasing you own the property forever. You get to visit it each time you return to the game. In order for a player to enter your property you have to let them in through accepting their invite.

Unlike with character customization, real estate will be more limited. The point of this game is not interior customization, but fantasy fulfillment. Unlike games like Bloxburg the fantasy is much more based on custom characters. The houses and vehicles should be a backdrop for the character, not being unique in their own senses, but customizable enough to not clash with the character.

Because of this most real estate options will have a customizable color/texture pallet, while the non texture changes will be preset areas, like purchasing a secret room behind a bookcase, or converting the bathroom into a master bathroom. These will be quick purchases meant to improve the area without forcing the player to spend too much time getting it ready for their following roleplays.

As games like Bloxburg and Adopt Me are so lucrative though, this may change. But the customization and ensuing socialization are the majority of the game experience for those games. We hope that the other aspects of SHL4 will more than offset the lack of a more fleshed out interior customization system.

It is likely the game will include 2-3 purchasable areas in each map, ranging from condos, to mansions, to suburban homes, to townhomes, to nuclear bunkers, space stations - you name it. The goal will be to have as large a variety as possible so that the player is encouraged to own at least one or two properties in each map.