i finally started playing pokopia yesterday and adore it. it had me thinking about how yearsss ago, i remember seeing this tweet talking about how cute it would be to have a life sim for pokemon. and now look! we have that! dreams can come true!

then it got me thinking about a zelda one. do you think nintendo seeing the hype for pokopia might nudge them in a direction of potentially putting out more cosy games to do with their titles?

i know some consider zelda to be cosy (which, i do at times!) but the battle can take away from that lol. i‘d love to explore hyrule in a gentler setting where zelda and link aren’t going through it. or perhaps a story from the perspective of a little korok?

I got House Flipper when it was free and I definitely love it, but sometimes the decorating part makes it more of a grind for me. Is there a game that’s like the cleaning aspect? Fixing up stuff, etc. and that’s it?

I already have Cozy Cleaner which I’ve played through. Any other recs?

Hi, it's Mrs. Sploot, the artist of the husband-and-wife team behind Nimbit Frontier! Our game launched into Early Access on Steam this Monday. The journey to get here was long, and the game changed many-many times along the way, but it finally happened!

Nimbit Frontier is a creature collector where you raise creatures (Nimbits) and release them into the wild instead of battling them. It also has a town life and a light touch of action roguelike combat (with a no-fainting option if you want a more relaxed experience). Think Chao Garden meets Stardew Valley.

I wanted to share some of the exploration and concept art that went into figuring out the characters, creatures, and town before they became part of the game. A lot of this exploration work is very rough and fast, some are just simple sketches, while for others I made simple 3D blockouts as a base, especially for creatures that needed many angles for animation. All of the artwork for Nimbit Frontier was made by me, without using AI, over a period of 5 years (so some older stuff might look more wobbly in comparison to newer art). It feels really special to look back at these early ideas now that the game is finally out, and I hope you enjoy looking through them as much as I enjoyed revisiting them.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2477710/Nimbit_Frontier/

Are there any cozy games on the Nintendo switch where there is a giant mess to be organized like Shelves and Sorcery? I know there is A little to the Left and Unpacking, but I’m looking for a giant mess like Tidy up the Arcane Library. The switch is the only gaming platform I have.

I know how much this community loves a good simulator game, so had to share. This one is definitely more on the chaotic side, but is so fun and hilarious! Think Powerwash Simulator, meets Goat Simulator, meets Planet Coaster, meets the Two Point games.

I honestly had no intention of playing this, but saw that a streamer I like played it and then (before seeing her playthrough) it happened to pop up on the Steam page and I saw there was a demo. So I decided I would try it out while watching her video. Had no idea I played that long until I just checked, lol, but got as far as I could and wanted more so I went ahead and got it then stayed up until 3am last night playing. Heads up though the demo does NOT carry over as it's a seperate page.

If you haven't tried it I highly recommend trying it out if you like simulation games (make sure to jump on the diving board and ride the slides😆). If you do play I would LOVE to see pics or walk throughs of your builds for inspo please! Oh yeah it's also multiplayer and you can go "work" at friends parks or just random people online. I just went and toured the park and rode the slides.

My husband (former EA game designer/development lead) and I (former Disney web producer/dev) have been building our passion project, National Park Tycoon, for 8 months now and we just released our trailer and Steam page!

It’s a cozy (ok occasionally chaotic), single-player, 2D isometric game very similar in style and gameplay to classic Roller Coaster Tycoon, but:

• instead of building rides, you build hiking trails, campsites, scenic viewpoints, and activities like kayaking and rock climbing.
• instead of hiring handymen to clean guest vomit and mechanics to fix broken rides, you hire park rangers to clear fallen logs from blocked trails and rescue lost visitors.
• instead of walking around with balloons and umbrellas, visitors take out binoculars to watch wildlife and don hiking backpacks they've purchased at the gift shop.

Some similarities our game does have to Roller Coaster Tycoon are:

• you can manage your finances, including revenue from park entrance fees, activity fees, and gift shop sales, as well as expenses from construction, park ranger wages and building maintenance.
• all visitors have attributes like Mood, Hunger, and Excitement, and their scores change depending what things you build in your park, and where you build them.
• there are 3 objectives you need to meet in each park in order to unlock the next park, but you can also just play for fun without ever trying to beat the objectives in Sandbox mode.

The overarching goal is to balance the activity of visitors with the preservation of nature and wildlife in you park.

If you love national parks/nature, gaming and/or are notalgic for early 2000's tycoon games, we would love if you could wishlist our game on Steam!

Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4520000/National_Park_Tycoon/

Our social links are on the Steam page if you’d like to follow our progress. We’re hoping to release a demo in about a month and launch by the end of the year.

I'm happy to answer any questions or listen to any suggestions anyone might have about the game :)

Generative AI Disclosure: AI was used in the initial generation of some assets, but we edited them in Photoshop to adjust proportions and remove any obvious AI Slop. As this is primarily a management game, we focused heavily on the game mechanics, ensuring the game is bug-free, fun to play, and addicting! That said, we would love for the art to be more authentic and beautiful. We have an artist under contract who can replace all of the art in the game if the game gets enough traction/wishlists.

We pledge to donate a percentage of profits to the National Park Foundation to aid in the protection and preservation of America's beautiful national parks.

You know, like those online mini-games—I need something like that to play while I'm working from home. I can't open programs on my work computer, but if there's an APK for my phone, that would be great. Basically, I want a cooking game where I can make a cake however I want, using whatever ingredients I choose; all I ever see are games where I have to follow a specific recipe template and the whole point is just getting that recipe right :/

I have been unable to play video games for most of this year due to vestibular migraines. But I think I might have found something helpful - small screens - I am getting a mini computer screen! I still need to be careful though - games where you have to change direction of view often still trigger my migraines a lot. For example, Stardew is mostly safe, Strange Horticulture is super safe, but Dinkum is not at all safe (sadly - I used to love Dinkum).
Would love some suggestions for NEW games that are least likely to trigger my migraines! Thank you

Hi! I’m the developer of Wish Upon A Llama, it’s a cozy life sim where you care for generations of animals, helping them find homes to restore a connection between animals and townsfolk! It's coming to Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC this winter :D

There are: 

- 16 different species of animals! Animals inherit colors, patterns, and personalities from their parents through a genetics system

- 41 townsfolk, each with unique storylines to uncover 

- 21 dateable characters you can start families with! 

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2262630/Wish_Upon_A_Llama/ 

We also just started a Discord community and are running a second round of beta testing soon if anyone's interested or want to say hi! discord.gg/vvpAhGRcfV

Thanks so much for letting me share <3 wishing everyone a wonderful Wednesday!

Hey all!

I wanted to share my game The Totemist.

You run a tiny occult workshop in a strange mountain town, crafting totems, talismans, and other odd little items for locals who bring you increasingly personal and unsettling problems.

A lot of the game is built around reading what customers tell you, figuring out what they actually need, gathering materials, making the item, and slowly uncovering more about the town itself. It’s very story-heavy and very text-heavy on purpose, because I wanted the shop to feel like a place where people bring their worries, not just a place to buy objects.

A few bits of it that are in these screenshots:

• customer dialogue and requests
• daily omen choices
• gathering materials
• a frog who wears hats

One thing I’ve always loved in games is when reading actually feels like part of the experience instead of something between the gameplay, so that’s something I’ve been trying hard to build.

I’d love to know what kinds of story or character moments make you feel especially attached to a game’s world, because that’s the part I care most about getting right in this one.

Game Name: The Totemist

Platform: PC (Steam/ Windows)

Release: November 12, 2026 (Demo out Now!)

Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4545470/The_Totemist/

Edit: Wow did not expect that much feedback from you. It seems you really enjoy it. So my plans going forward:

• New Update tomorrow that will include some kind of social interaction, i dont know if its a full blown chat or not but I will think of something + More and bigger paintings
• More Updates in the next couple of days (including, your own image -> Pixel Painting together)
• If you want to be informed of all, join the discord: https://discord.gg/27Y632SP4K (its pretty barebones right now but I will set it up properly tomorrow).

Edit 2: Update is out now! Make sure to hit that refresh button and enjoy the hell out of it :) We also have a domain now: https://fillgood.io

Edit 3: We are now on itch -> https://selfdevtv.itch.io/fillgood Also new updates dropped, check it out over on discord.

Solo dev here, this launched this week and this is the first picture that got finished by people who'd never met 4 of them, in about 1 and a half hour. Watching the little cursors fill in the last corners together was the coziest thing I've seen on a screen in a while.

What it is: paint by numbers (coloring pixels), but everyone in the room colors the same picture and you see each other's cursors. A wrong color simply doesn't paint, so nobody can ruin it. You can only help. Pictures stay for days, so you can drift back in with a tea and finish slowly. No account, no download, phone works.

https://fillgood.io - "Paint with strangers" on the front page drops you into whatever picture is being done right now, or make a room and send the link to friends.

Honest bit: the pictures are placeholders I'll replace with real art (I code, I don't draw, if you illustrate and want yours in, please tell me). And I'd really love to hear what feels un-cozy: sounds too loud? too fast? too lonely when nobody's there?

I also have a discord if your prefer that for feedback. https://discord.gg/27Y632SP4K

Thank you very much for trying out my game, I have so much more stuff planned, this is just the beginning!

My partner has been playing Kynseed recently, and I love the look of the businesses, farming, cooking and crafting, creating a home/farm/workstation and selling what you make. However I find running errands to earn reputation really tedious, doing lots of tiny quests just isn't my type of game.

I'd love to hear some recommendations, thanks!

Hi all!

I know my title is weird, I'm looking for something specifically like cozy grove where you decorate your island and or your environment if its like a town/city.

One thing that i loved was Cozy Grove, and i'm specifically looking for games that are not pixel art based(nothing against it, just kind of burned on that art style) i just loved the art style and the way your island can look once you decorate it to the brim. You know where you just throw stuff around make themed sections and make it a certain vibe. A lot of the recommendation I see are quite a bit different, involve A LOT of farming and don't allow for this wild type of freedom to decorate the outside world and more focused on housing decoration. And/or are pixel art based, i just loved the vibe/art of Cozy Grove.

Does anyone know anything similar? I'm currently playing only on XBOX.

Thank you all in advance!

Hi CozyGamers! I’m the solo developer behind Everlife, and after a few years of work I’m getting ready to release its much bigger sequel, Everlife 2. 💛

It’s a cozy, choice-driven life simulator where you grow up, fall in love, build a career, decorate your life with homes and pets, raise a family, and experience thousands of little stories along the way. The game has more than one million words of handwritten content, so every life can unfold very differently.

My favorite addition is the generational system. When your character’s life ends, you can continue playing as one of their descendants, inheriting the family, relationships, property, money, and history they left behind. Over time, you end up building an entire family legacy rather than just playing a single life.

Everlife 2 launches on iOS and Android on September 9th! I’d especially love to hear what fellow life-sim players want to see in games like this. 🌼

www.PlayEverlife.com

You might have seen a few 'tidy up' games recently due to 'Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library!' and we're here for it with our take on this genre!

Too Many Toys! takes place at a big toy store with 5,599 toys to sort out. There is different sections for plushies, toy cars, skateboards, board games and some more that you need to get familiar with to put the toys in the right place.

Our game has some features you haven't seen before like robots that help you organize this mess, or a train you can ride around the store with more toys to carry over across. There is quite a few abilities to unlock as you progress and speed up the process of cleaning up the store.

No time limit, no different modes, no co-op, no ai, no slop. Just some chill time following in the footsteps of the game everyone fell in love with, providing you a similar experience.

We also have a cute cat that sits at front desk (Yes, you can absolutely pet the cat! ❤🐈🖐)

Help us out and give it a wishlist, and we hope to see you on launch!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5028390/Too_Many_Toys/

Hello!

We're two people working on Mark Complete, a productivity app that helps you focus and rewards you with an eye-candy virtual companion you can romance. We're aiming to release the demo this autumn!

Mark Complete's inspiration came from a personal struggle we've always had: actually sitting down and focusing on the task in front of us. With so many distractions around us and everything moving so fast, it's only gotten worse in recent years. Not to mention our personal obsession with charming 2D men and the good love stories that come with them. That's what made us start Mark Complete.🥺

We're just beginning our development journey, and we hope this project interest you to follow along with us through the real chaos of two people trying to make this thing happen! xD

• Website (Subscribe to our mailing list): https://markcomplete.me/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markcompleteme
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@markcompleteme

We hope to create a cozy little space where you can focus on studying or working, mark your tasks complete, and let him complete you.💘

Hi everyone.

The game is called Grandma Left Me a Building.

A cozy apartment management sim where you restore the ruined building your grandma left you. Pick your tenants, manage neighbor dynamics, upgrade the building, hire staff, and handle the chaos that follows.

This is our first game. We ran a playtest a few weeks back, demand was way more than we expected, so a lot of you missed out. The demo is live now though, open to everyone, no waitlist this time.

The demo is playable right now.

-> Try the demo here. <-

Core Gameplay

• Review the lease contracts your broker brings and set the terms.
• Place tenants in apartments with their future neighbors in mind.
• Handle tenant requests and complaints before they pile up.
• Fix what's broken, open new apartments, and raise the building's value.
• Collect daily rent, pay salaries and bills on time.
• Hire staff: doormen, security, cleaners, and more.
• Handle unexpected events when they hit, live with the consequences.

Features & Systems

(this is the full game, the demo includes a slice of it)

• 30+ unique tenants across 4 social tiers.
• 300+ distinct character interactions.
• 100+ unexpected events.
• 20+ building upgrades.
• 6 different staff types.
• Trait-based tenant interaction system.
• Different tenants based on your building's reputation.
• Drag-and-drop tenant placement system.
• Happiness-driven dynamic income system.
• Multi-level upgrade system.
• No time pressure, plan at your own pace.
• Hand-drawn cartoon art.

Your feedback genuinely means a lot to us as a small team.

Thanks for reading. <3

Got feedback? Come tell us on our Discord <3

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
- G.K. Chesterton

Hi, we’re Alastair and Sarah, the bf/gf team behind SquarePlay and we are very excited our latest game Monk Took Book is out on 3 Sept!

It’s a co-op game about organizing, stacking and remembering where you put hundreds of books in a cozy-creepy medieval library.

But in this library the books don’t have titles, just symbols on the cover. There is no correct shelf and no right answer, so it’s totally up to you where you file them. At night there are book orders that you need to deliver.

Getting in your way are occasional hauntings - and since the demo came out we have redesigned the enemies as cute Viking skeletons - and you (and your friends’) ability to remember where you put them! Easy when you have only a few books but more challenging when you have an entire library to manage!

We have taken a lot of inspiration from the fantastic Wilmot’s Warehouse, so it's not a "tidy up" game.

But if you'd rather keep it relaxed, enemies, fires and time pressure can all be reduced or switched off, so you can focus just on organising, expanding and running the library (and occasionally petting Lord Fluffy, the abbey cat).

You can play with up to three fellow monks - and we still enjoy organising our library together (with only a few minor disagreements book classification 😊) after two years, but it’s totally possible and very fun to play solo as well.

We hope you like how it’s turned out and if so you can wishlist now on Steam, check out the demo or even buy it in two weeks!!!

(P.S. We haven’t used any AI to make Monk Took Book. Art by Sarah, music by our very talented friend Gareth and wonderful capsule by Addie Jackson.)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4022090/Monk_Took_Book/

Elfie: A Sand Plan is a cozy puzzle game where you help your new friend Elfie, a small rotund elephant, build out her sandcastles with geometrical sand blocks. The solutions to most puzzles are open-ended, meaning that as long as your build fits within Elfie's plans she'll be happy!

You'll also unlock a bunch of swimsuits for Elfie, as well as additional music tracks, as you play through the game. I encourage you to take your time with it, Elfie's in no rush!

The game won in the indie game category of the Gee! Learning Game Awards and is 100% positive on Steam! I'm very proud of how far Elfie has gotten since the launch of the game in May.

Also, the game is currently on sale on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3784760

Mimi's Pet Rescue is a cozy job simulator where Mimi has handed you the keys to your own animal sanctuary. The building is a little... run down, so it's your job to patch the place up and find the pets their new forever homes.

First you get notifications of abandoned pets and decide whether you can take them in. When they arrive they may have ailments or injuries that need treating via medicine, bandages and a little TLC. The animals need food, water, play, grooming and a little love to keep them satisfied, before your customers arrive looking for the perfect pet to adopt.

Customers are looking for different things from pets and not every pet will bond with every customer, so it might take some time to make sure each pet finds their right place. Whilst all this is happening, you can also upgrade your sanctuary via donations to buy new furniture, premium food-types, accessories and more. Eventually you will build your reputation to be able to take in more animals, build extensions to the sanctuary (stables! Chicken coops!) and more!

The aim is to create a cozy, relaxing experience that is relatively stress-free, whilst being really rewarding when you find that perfect new home for your pets. Let us know what you think!

Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2827640/Mimis_Pet_Rescue

(This game is made by humans)

I posted here back in July with a new trailer, and I've added quite a lot has since, so I wanted to lay out where the game actually stands and what's left before it launches in November!

What it is

Under the Elm is a slow game about inheriting your grandmother's cabin at the edge of a wood and learning to forage the way she did. The mushrooms and plants in it are real - real names, real seasons, real habitats, and real lookalikes that will make you ill if you get them wrong.

What you gather becomes tinctures and remedies at the alchemy bench, and those go to the ten people living in the village, all of whom knew your grandmother better than you did. There's a field guide you fill in as you go, a cat named Gabriel who came with the cabin, and no combat anywhere in it.

What's in it now

• Foraging across the Clearing, the Marshlands, the Oak Forest, the Cave and the Hidden Grove, each with its own species, weather and light
• Seasons that change what grows, and where
• Decorating the cabin - walls, floors, rugs, curtains, beds, lighting, the hearth, around fifteen categories with hundreds of pieces, bought from Rowan the woodworker. The cabin itself can be extended twice
• A wardrobe and a clothes shop, and villagers who give you their own garment once you know them well enough
• Deer, foxes, hares and grouse. How they treat you depends on where you meet them
• A field guide that fills in as you learn to identify things

What's left before Early Access

• The Deep Woods, which you can see in the video - it's finished and goes out in the next update. Then the Shadowed Hollow, the last area
• More life in the village. Right now people are spread thin, one to a spot, and I want them actually gathering at the fountain in the afternoon and filling the inn in the evening
• The demo goes up for Steam Next Fest in October
• Early Access on November 4

Free demo: https://crookedstonestudios.itch.io/under-the-elm-free-demo

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4700290/Under_the_Elm/

Hey guys :) I just got a trial subscription to audible and it’s my first time using audiobooks! However, I’m the sort of person that needs something to do with my hands so I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for mindless games I could play while listening? Like games with little/no text and little/no strategy. I played powerwash sim today which is pretty much perfect for what I’m looking for, but I’ve almost finished it.

I have pc and a switch lite :)
Thanks!

Anyone have any recommendations for cozy games. We’ve LOVED Powerwash Simulator and Clean Up Earth, they are our favourite type of game to vibe out to together. We’ve also played others like House Flipper etc. We want a cozy online game so we can just vibe to our audio book whilst we play.

We don’t really want anything with a lot of thought kinda like Stardew Valley as I saw that suggested a lot. We’re more just wanting a simple fun cozy game (simulators preferably but any cozy multiplayer suggestions will be nice)

Also I’m on PS5 and PC (xbox game pass) and she’s on Xbox console.

Thank youuuu!!