As a former child with unrestricted access to the internet in the 2000s, Habbo Hotel did irreparable damage to my psyche, as I'm sure it did for many other late millennials. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug though, which makes the fact that Habbo Hotel: Origins is heading to Steam all the more enticing.

Origins is essentially Habbo Hotel's answer to WoW Classic—a stripped-back version of the social MMO that's closer to its original browser days than… whatever NFT nonsense it was touting around back when that was a thing. It's described as "Habbo as it was in 2005, lovingly restored," launching last summer as a standalone launcher for PC.

Our own Harvey Randall dove in to try it out when servers went live, writing that Origins felt like "some ancient insect preserved in amber." Of course, it

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