Hozy Beta Hits Steam: A New Cozy Builder Enters the Scene

If your idea of a good time is organising clutter, scrubbing virtual windows, and placing the perfect lamp under soft light, you might want to fire up Steam today. Hozy, the latest cozy building sim from Come on Games and tinyBuild, has officially entered beta-testing following its Announcement Trailer drop on May 27.

Set in a sleepy hometown filled with dust, memories, and potential, Hozy offers a meditative, low-stakes experience where your only enemy is grime—and your only reward is peace of mind. The game invites players to clean, paint, and decorate abandoned spaces at their own pace, without timers or scores, capturing the pure joy of transformation. It’s available now to send a request for a Beta-test on Steam. Also, there you can read game updates directly from devs.

The genre Hozy joins has been thriving in recent years. Games like The Sims, City Skylines, and the recent hit Tiny Glade have created a corner of gaming focused not on combat or competition, but on calm creativity. These games serve a specific need: slow, thoughtful play that lets you tune out noise and sink into a rhythm. You don’t rush. You don’t lose. You build, tweak, and admire.

Hozy fits into this lineage with its hands-on approach. Whether you're scrubbing stains off the floor or repositioning furniture, every action feels deliberate and personal. The devs describe it as a “micro-dopamine” loop, where even placing a plant or opening a window feels good, and they’re not wrong. Hozy’s world reacts subtly to your touch: trash bags sway, light filters in realistically, and music fills a space like incense. It’s not just relaxing—it’s rewarding.

The beta lets players explore the early chapters of the game’s story: you return home from the city to find your town faded and broken. Piece by piece, room by room, you bring it back to life—not just through design, but through memory. Hozy blends cozy aesthetics with a gentle narrative, focusing not on big drama but on small, human moments: the feel of sunlight on a clean floor, or the sound of the breeze through a newly restored window.

Gameplay is focused on creative flow. There are no penalties, no deadlines, and no pressure. Just you, a toolbox, and a room full of potential. You’ll browse curated décor collections, choose from harmonised colour palettes, and rotate items freely in full 3D space. Its design is without friction.

Here’s how Hozy fits into the broader space of builder and cleaner games:

This mix of titles shows just how much appetite there is for games about restoring order. Whether it’s cleaning dirt, placing objects, or balancing cities, the core appeal is the same: control, creativity, and peace.

Hozy takes it further by offering intuitive lighting and warmth controls, with smooth camera movement and tactile interactions. It borrows from the best of House Flipper, mixes in Sims levels of interior style, and wraps it all in a gentle narrative arc that ties each room to something more emotional.

And while it might not aim for massive complexity, that’s the point. Like Tiny Glade, which recently exploded in popularity thanks to its chill, no-pressure design mechanics, Hozy wants to slow players down. In a market full of intensity and alerts, it’s refreshing to have a game that invites you to breathe.

There’s also a growing possibility that this meditative genre could take over more space in indie gaming. As big-budget studios push for always-online chaos and seasonal grinds, cozy games are proving that low-paced design can drive long-term engagement, especially among adult players looking for decompression. Hozy could be a smart bet in a shifting landscape.

The current beta is free to join for a limited time on Steam. It includes a selection of early missions, access to most design tools, and a slice of the town to restore. Feedback will reportedly help shape the final balance of cleaning mechanics, item placement physics, and progression pacing.

No official release date has been confirmed yet, but the developers are aiming for late 2025. tinyBuild has suggested that updates will roll out based on community testing, so what’s playable now is just the beginning.

If you’ve been craving a calm, tactile experience that turns mess into beauty, the Hozy beta is worth checking out. Fire up the vacuum, rotate the coffee table, and remember—sometimes, peace comes from cleaning one corner at a time.