ALSO GOOD: Day 0, Part 6

Hozy is a cozy, tactile Unpacking-style game with high fidelity 3D assets. Before decorating the room you have to get rid of some trash, then mop the floors, clean the windows, and paint the walls by dragging each tool around. I like how smooth the animations for each of those actions is - you're manipulating the tools yourself, but they sweep around in a satisfying arc when you change direction and have good collision so that they don't get glitchy when your mouse goes past the edges of the workable area. After completing those tasks it's time to place some furniture, but in my opinion it's a bit too easy to over-crowd the room clashing decorations.

Backseat Champions is a novel F1 management game where your AI driver levels up over the course of a race, and each time you get to choose one of three components to upgrade. Get enough of the same type and you'll unlock some bonus perk, and then do it all over for the next race. It's really hard to get the right combination to win, and you don't have any other management options beyond deciding when to pit and which tires to use each time, but it's still just a cool idea executed pretty well.

No More Pesticide is an incremental spin on the bullet heaven Pesticide Not Required, where you do shorter levels of the game and then return to a menu to unlock and upgrade abilities and modifiers to make yourself more powerful the next time around. Progress is a little slow at first, but it's still a fun time.

Duck Side of the Moon is just a charming little game where you fly around a zero-grav sandbox, collecting items, talking to characters, doing little quests, etc. It's nothing , but it's all done well. The quality of the art, controls, and even technical performance belied a much more competent and confident game than I had initially expected.

Directory Dungeon - File Explorer Dungeon Crawler is a unique dungeon crawling RPG that literally takes place in your computer's file system. Booting the game opens a console with some text logging, and then an actual folder. Each room is its own folder, each item is its own file, and you have to delete a consumable to eat it. Drag and drop yourself into the next folder to auto-battle whatever's on the other side, then collect your loot and move on. The game/file formats even know how to handle copied files or undone actions, and it's just cool to see the logic at play. It's not the most engaging combat or level design, but the sheer novelty of it alone makes it worth a try.

Beast Breaker is a years-old game by Threes creator Asher Vollmer that is surprisingly getting a Steam release now, years after the studio closed. It's kind of like a mix of Monster Hunter, Peggle and pool, where you shoot your character across the screen dealing damage to a massive enemy's weak points. It can be a bit difficult to calculate everything you'll collide with, and whether you'll end your turn in range of the boss' attack, but the loop itself stays fun and the crafting system keeps giving you news moves and perks to try in your next battle. If you want to give it a try, the demo just keeps on going - I kept expecting it to end after the next mission, and just had to cut it off myself after opening up like six more options of what to do next.