A Little to the Left, pure organization ASMR, is a perfect fit for Game Pass

polygon.com:

Cozy organizational influencers are exhausting. Their posts depict a fantasy world where people can spend hours per day placing objects in drawers or labeling mason jars. Yet I can’t stop watching their videos when they show up on my feeds. There’s something satisfying about putting things in their correct place. Plus, the acoustics are excellent. I’m particularly fond of the little taps objects make when you place them on a hard surface, and the sound of drawers closing. I don’t know what it is; it’s just pleasing to my brain.

That doesn’t mean I’m going to do what the influencers want me to do. Do I need multiple plastic containers for utensils? What about a dozen mason jars to clog up my pantry? I’m not spending hundreds of dollars on Amazon or Temu. Thankfully, A Little to the Left,now on Xbox Game Pass, takes the sensation of watching people stack pencils or sort tape on Instagram and puts it in your hands — albeit without forcing you to dedicate your life to it.

I first checked out A Little to the Left back at Summer Game Fest in 2022, where a very short demo was available for media. Thankfully, it was extremely easy to hop into the demo, since the concept and controls are so simple. Each level gives you a small organization puzzle to solve, and once you’re done, it’ll move you on to the next. Each puzzle usually only takes a few minutes to complete, although some can take longer if there are multiple organization solutions you want to discover.

The game doesn’t give you a ton of direction as you go; rather, it trusts you to look at the objects in front of you and figure out how to best sort them. (We’ve all done some degree of organizing, right? We know what works.) The most basic puzzles involve sorting books by color or jars by size, although others can get more complicated. Some of the more frustrating puzzles involve arranging pieces of paper so that the lines on them connect, or trying to deduce a pattern that connects the objects on screen. In one