Housewarming

You've got the keys. Your own flat, for the first time.

For now it's bare concrete, an echo, and the mess the builders left behind. Clear it out, lay the parquet, hang the wallpaper — and then begin the slow work of making a home. Carry in a bed, a rug for the wall, an old tube TV with rabbit-ear antennas. You can't screw a bulb into the sky, so the light in this place you bring in yourself, one warm lamp at a time.

Outside the window it's always November: panel blocks, power lines, a lonely streetlamp, faint snow. Inside, warmth gathers thing by thing.

Housewarming is a short, cozy game about settling in — told as a quiet doomer novella. Each task is a small chapter: a neighbour's aquarium, someone's antenna already taped to your window, a cat who moves in without a lease. Melancholy for a mood, a little nostalgia, a little humour, one small chill that always warms back into light.

Best played in the evening, with the sound on.

Features

- Furnish an isometric flat, tile by tile — PS1 low-poly warmth

- A story told through your chores — every task is a chapter of one quiet novella

- Light is the game: set warm lamps against the cold blue dusk, Hopper-style

- A living window: day, dusk, night, moon and snow — the sky keeps moving

- "Admire" mode with analog film filters (Film / CRT / VHS / 8 mm / Postcard)

- Doomer / post-Soviet mood — tender, not bleak

- Two languages: English and Russian

- Progress saves automatically

Controls

Mouse or touch. Tap an item to pick it up, tap a cell to place it, rotate with R or the button. Plays on desktop and tablet.

Credits

Fonts under the SIL Open Font License. Music made in Suno. Made with love and a little November sadness.