This indie demo gives you a tangible collection of your Steam library
A Steam game for every season, and a place for every plastic game box.
Growing up in the suburbs, we had an entire basement with a play area. This was where I did most of my console gaming, and I still have fond memories of attending a midnight launch for a game and coming home with a big box full of that treasured game (and some assorted nerd cruft, like a Super Mario Sunshine spray gun.)
Steam, while it has lots of benefits, has removed the magic in accumulating a huge pile of games. It's convenient to have them there in an archive, but it's just a list of names. Enter BOXROOM, a designer sim that lets you design your own gaming room with posters and paraphernalia of your favorite games. You'll be given copies of your actual Steam library, each in a plastic case that you can open and gaze upon with admiration.
It's a simple but satisfying little concept, and I think there's room for some cool collaborations with developers. For instance, the manuals on the inside of a game case used to be little troves of lore carefully crafted by the developer. I'd love to see some digital guides in these digital plastic cases. Also, I need a bin of shame for all of the weird porn and meme games I've accrued over the years. (Don't judge me, some of them were maliciously gifted to me by rude friends.)
There's a demo now, and BOXROOM will be coming to early access soon. It's a fun little idea, and definitely tempting now that I live in an apartment and not a three-story home. I'm interested to see how this concept develops over early access, and it's a fun take on the saturated genre of cozy house organization games.