This indie interior design sim might accidentally make you the landlord who puts the toilet inside the kitchen

Small Spaces, which has a demo out now on Steam, is such a lovely idea for a game. It's not just the focus - this is a game about creating places you might like to live, and specifically, as the name suggests, rather contained ones. It's also the clear-eyed emphasis on how most people actually live in the modern city. In New York, whose real estate market I am a complete expert on thanks to heavily sculpted reality TV "documentaries", apartments are sold by the square foot and space is at an absolute premium. Even a multi-million dollar pad can look a little pokey. Read more

May 15, 2025 - 14:04

This indie interior design sim might accidentally make you the landlord who puts the toilet inside the kitchen

Small Spaces, which has a demo out now on Steam, is such a lovely idea for a game. It's not just the focus - this is a game about creating places you might like to live, and specifically, as the name suggests, rather contained ones. It's also the clear-eyed emphasis on how most people actually live in the modern city. In New York, whose real estate market I am a complete expert on thanks to heavily sculpted reality TV "documentaries", apartments are sold by the square foot and space is at an absolute premium. Even a multi-million dollar pad can look a little pokey.