If there's a market in Kansas City where a home simulator stops being a novelty and starts being expected equipment, it's Overland Park. Indian Hills, Hallbrook, and the homes that ring Nicklaus Golf Club are full of people who play enough to feel January acutely — and who already keep up a home that can carry a real room. The question here usually isn't whether to build one. It's where in the house it goes, and whether the house can host it at all without a fight.
That last part splits OP cleanly in two. South of roughly 159th the city is still going up, and a lot of that new construction is framed with the tall basement ceilings a full swing needs — the easiest version of this build we do. North of 119th the homes are older and frequently mid-century, which means a retrofit: we're reading beam soffits, duct runs, and the few inches between the joists and a lifted driver before we promise anything. Thirty years finishing homes on this side of the metro is what lets us tell those apart on the walk-through instead of after demo.