Imagine if the most annoying thing about tiling your bathroom was waiting for a three-second loading bar to fill up. That's all it takes in House Flipper, a satisfying game about being a one-man house-flipping business and one of Steam's top-selling new releases.

If you had told me months ago that a city builder about the remnants of 19th century England trying to survive the next ice age would sell hundreds of thousands of copies in its first week on Steam, I'd have guessed you were hallucinating from hypothermia. But that's exactly what Frostpunk did, and after spending all weekend with the game I'm not surprised.