The cozy decorating game Hozy is my new Steam gaming obsession

The latest Unpacking-alike has me firmly in its grasp I fell into a routine soon after starting Hozy, the cozy decorating game from Cone On Studio. After cleaning up a location and emptying boxes that do their best to shame Mary Poppins' bottomless carpetbag, I'd step away for a bit. Dropping several dozen pieces of furniture in a small space is overwhelming, and I needed time to think about what to do with it. I thought about Hozy when I was making dinner. And bathing the dog. And before I went to sleep. Basically, any moment I wasn't occupied thinking about something else, I thought about Hozy. I don't even think about The Sims that much when I'm in the middle of a build. Hozy has a way of getting under your skin, though. That process immediately starts when you enter a new location. Everywhere begins as a mess. The woodblock is filthy. The parquet is busted. And the windows? Lord have mercy. Cleanup is mandatory before the furniture even appears, and Hozy strikes a nice balance between the onerous monotony of House Flipper 2's cleaning process (where you must pick up every individual piece of trash) and PowerWash Simulator's single-minded focus on jets of water. You scoop up gar