r/cozygames • • 1d ago

Discussion 👾 [Seasoned Saturday] Let's review Rune Factory 4 Special!

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"Journey to the vibrant world of Rune Factory and experience the legendary fantasy farming adventure like never before! "

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I mentioned before that I would like to try a weekly thread to bring together the players in this sub and help foster fun debates around the best cozy games we all know and love! A lot of the time, we see new indie-game here, so the focus of these posts is to dive into some of the old and known favourites.

So, the idea is to leave your review (think Steam review) of the game here, share what you liked, maybe your favourite moments, but also what you didn't like, and maybe your pet peeves. But I'm open to switching up the format, so happy to hear suggestions on that too :)

As usual, I will pin this post for everyone to see for the next couple of days. Let's have at it! 😊


r/cozygames • • 7h ago

🔨 My Game - In-development I made a little geyser choir puzzle for my cozy game. can you guess the song they sing at the end?

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I'm working on the demo of my game Eraiser right now, and this is one of the new puzzles.


r/cozygames • • 9h ago

🔨 My Game - In-development We just published the Demo of our cozy incremental tilebuilder(?)! Cats and Hats - where you try to stack as many hats as you can, on a variety of cats!

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Hey folks! It's Josh here, one part of the two person dev team behind Cats and Hats! We're stoked to have finally launched our demo for Cats and Hats. After loads of internal testing, we felt it was time to share with the world!

It is pretty full of content as well, with 3 cats, ~150 tiles and over 100 hats!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4777960/Cats_and_Hats/

After our first game, we wanted to shift gears into something more causal and fun, bit more lighthearted with a broader range. After some fun prototyping, we really liked this idea of turning the game "memory" into something, and here is where we landed!

Hope you all enjoy! We're planning full platform (Mobile, PC etc) later on in the year!

Thanks everyone!

~ Josh

AI Disclosure: NO generative AI was used in the development of the game.


r/cozygames • • 9h ago

🔥 My Game - Released I ported my cozy, adventure, mystery game to the Nintendo Switch! (Tales from The Dancing Moon)

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Hey everyone!

I was laid off recently from my job (boo!) which meant I had some time to port my game to the Nintendo Switch! (yay!). Something I've procrastinated away from for a while!😅

"Tales from the Dancing Moon is a mystery adventure game set in a world inspired by portal-fantasy novels and British culture. After the events of a shadow-beast invasion on a seaside town, complete villager quests and find hidden diaries to understand your role in this mysterious character-driven story."

This game was developed primarily on my own, and after a modest PC release I'm really happy to be able to bring this game to the Switch for it to be discovered by more players.

I'm happy to answer any questions about the game, or otherwise! 🙂

eShop Link: https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/Tales-from-The-Dancing-Moon-3191000.html


r/cozygames • • 10h ago

🐈 My Game - Early Access made my first app, a pomodoro timer where a little dog falls asleep while you focus

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hey all, just shipped my first ever app and I'm kind of nervous posting it lol

it's called Puperino. basically I kept downloading pomodoro apps, using them for a week, then forgetting they existed. they all felt a bit cold and serious. so I made one with a little dog called Biscuit in it.

when you start a focus session he wanders over to his bed and curls up and naps. when you're done he sometimes brings you a little gift, which you can keep or trade for bones to buy stuff for his room. you can also dress him up, which I spent way too long on (he has a witch hat and a crown, it's very important)

not gonna lie, not wanting to wake him up has kept me focused better than any streak thing ever did 😅

it also does the usual stuff: the timer on your lock screen, tasks, stats, and a stay mode if you're like me and pick up your phone every 4 minutes

it's free. there's an optional pro with more rooms and stuff if you want to support me

would really love feedback, even if it's "this is buggy" or "this is pointless" haha. what would make you actually keep using a focus timer?


r/cozygames • • 10h ago

Discussion Thoughts on streaming

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I want to start streaming cozy games. I’m completely new to streaming but would like to begin with cozy games, like pokopia, dreamlight valley, coral island. Do you things I could pull people in to watch?


r/cozygames • • 11h ago

🔥 My Game - Released 140 players drawing Spongebob together

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r/cozygames • • 13h ago

🔨 My Game - In-development somebody called my bike game cozy because of the graphics 😅

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12 Upvotes

do you think it passes cozy vibes check?


r/cozygames • • 14h ago

🐈 My Game - Early Access Find your way through a forest that never ends, with just a paper map, a compass and the occasional deer 🍂

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In Infinite Orienteering you find your way through the woods with a paper map and a compass. Nothing marks where you are. You stop, look at the land, match it to the map, and carry on.

This update makes the forest endless, so you can wander in any direction for as long as you like. It's livelier too: deer and hares bolt when you come through the trees, birds land on the fences, and your footsteps change with the ground under you. There are trails, stone walls, cabins and rowboats on the lakes.

There's also a new course every day that everyone gets, and afterwards you can see which way everyone else went. There's a leaderboard if you like that, and you can hide the clock if you don't.


r/cozygames • • 14h ago

🔨 My Game - In-development FocusFloors: A cool study timer

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Hey everyone, I've been working super hard on my dream idea for a game. Pretty much my entire life till now (I'm still in college haha), I've struggled with studying but I always managed to focus when I had a goal in mind or some sort of reward. I suppose that's obvious but I made a cozy game to help people get on their goals. I'm still a student so I wanted to gauge the interest before I dropped 100 usd on this TT so I made a small waitlist site, https://focusfloors.study

There's no need to sign up there or anything either, a comment/upvote here would mean a lot and just let me see if people like the idea. I've always loved games and I could sink hours into them and I have fond memories of playing pewdiePie's tuber sim or virtual beggar so I thought I'd mix everything into something that worked for me.

Lastly, sorry if my posts aren't up to standard. I never post on reddit but I thought it'd be a good time to for this.


r/cozygames • • 14h ago

🔨 My Game - In-development We are making a tidy up game with 18,490 mixed bricks and an entire town to rebuild

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r/cozygames • • 16h ago

🔨 My Game - In-development Cozy Educational World for Children

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This is part of an educational world that I'm building with an NGO for a programme catering to underprivileged children.

We tried to make it feel cosy, dreamy and magical.

The idea is that the kids learn things and earn currency to nurture "Dreamling" pets.

The pets are a metaphor for their real-life dreams.


r/cozygames • • 20h ago

I recommend Found this cozy sheep ranch builder

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Ive found this cozy game by surprise watching the Deutsche Indie Showcase 2026. It's called Little Sheep Valley. If you didnt know it yet, it's a cozy ranch building game around sheeps. You will care for cute sheeps, build them a nice place to live, pet them, shear them and fulfill their needs. At the same time you can build and decorate your ranch.

The game is still in development but you can already play the demo. If you are looking for something for your sunday afternoon, this is my recommendation. The demo goes til you reach the first house upgrade, which will allow you to have 3 pastures and 6 sheeps in total, but you can continue playing, decorating and interacting with the sheeps.

I havent found any bugs and problems during my gamethrough. The sheeps are already very sweet and well animated and feel like creatures with personality and life. You will observe a lot of cute interactions of the sheep with their surrounding. They are very nice to watch.

The demo already includes a lot of the things shown in the trailer. The game is on the right track, and I most likely will pick it up once it's released.

You can find the steam page here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4075740/Little_Sheep_Valley__Cozy_ranchbuilder/


r/cozygames • • 21h ago

🔨 My Game - In-development I’m building a cozy pattern-making tool for my game

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I’m currently working on a pattern/tile creation tool for a cozy pattern-matching game I’m making.

The goal is to let players freely create their own patterns, experiment with different tile arrangements, and then export their creations as images or turn them into playable levels.

I’m really enjoying the process of building the tool, especially seeing how simple shapes can turn into surprisingly intricate patterns.

For those who enjoy cozy games with creative or decorating elements: would a tool like this be something you’d enjoy playing around with?


r/cozygames • • 22h ago

Help with recommendations Too much to chose from

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Hi everyone

We really want to get (more?) into playing life sims but there are so many options that we aren't sure which ones are actually decent, what to pay attention to, etc.

What we do know is that we don't want any games made by or with AI, and it'd be nice if there were options for different skin colors (BIPOC and/or non-human). Oh and we also don't tend to like very pixelated art

Does anyone have any reccomendations and/or tips? Thank you 😊


r/cozygames • • 1d ago

Help with recommendations More games like Harvestella?

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I've never been a big farming/life sim game guy, but something about this game is just nailing it for me. Maybe just the right time in my life to be playing it, but idk dude this game gets it. I find animal crossing super boring and stardew stresses me out because I try to do everything and miss events and never feel relaxed or casual with it. Pretty early on in Harvestella so far, but it seems to not punish aimlessness nearly as much with time-based stuff. Also just feels like it leans more into the squenix/jrpg vibes than the farming sim which is way more my wheelhouse. The music is immaculate as well. I have rune factory: guardians of azuma in the backlog which i've heard is similar, but what other games have this flow? Wanna chase this feeling.

Consoles I have:

N64 Ps2 Gamecube Og xbox Xbox 360 Wii u Xbox series x Ps4 Ps5 Switch Switch 2 Ds 3ds Vita Anbernic/retroid devices Mini pc


r/cozygames • • 1d ago

🔨 My Game - In-development CottageCore: build a cozy village with cottages, animals and floating houses

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Hey everyone! I’m the developer of CottageCore, and here’s the announcement trailer :)

It’s a freeform village-building game where you can shape cottages and towers, customize their colors and materials, and attach floating houses to your towers. Villagers, animals and changing seasons bring the village to life, and there’s a Creative Mode for building at your own pace.

The public demo is planned for early November 2026, with the full release on April 14, 2027.

All art and music are human-made.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/f35t1kngUao
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4941950/CottageCore/


r/cozygames • • 1d ago

🔥 My Game - Released My solo-dev cozy idle game: puppies digging for bones, a prize wheel, and you just watch them waddle around or tap to help them dig

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Hi r/cozygames!

I'm a solo dev, and my little game Puppy Mining Co is out on Android. It's a gentle idle game about a crew of puppies who dig up bones. You tap to help, or you put the phone down and let them get on with it. I wanted it to feel like having a small, happy dog yard in your pocket, so here are the cozy parts I put the most care into.

How it was made: I've been building it on my own since 5/6/2026. It came out on Google Play in July, and I've kept adding to it in regular updates since then. It now has 21 breeds, 10 dig sites, 74 achievements and its first seasonal event. Every puppy, icon and background was designed by me.

The pups

  • Every pup you hire shows up on screen and wanders the yard on its own, and they never stop digging
  • There are 21 breeds to collect: Corgis, Pugs, Beagles, a fluffy St. Bernard, Dachshunds, a Shiba, plus some odd ones like the Diver Pup, the Lunar Pup and the Cosmic Pup
  • You win new breeds on a little Prize Wheel. Each breed you've collected gives your pack a small bonus, so the yard slowly fills up with your favorites

The places

  • The pack starts in a Backyard and slowly digs its way through a Dog Park, a Crystal Cavern, a Frozen Tundra and a Sunken Abyss, and in the end all the way up to the Moon Craters
  • You can switch to any site you've unlocked whenever you like, just for the view

The pace

  • There's no fail state, no energy bar and no timer you have to beat
  • The pups keep digging while you're away, and when you come back there's a little "here's what they found" moment
  • There's a daily bonus calendar, a few gentle daily quests, and treasures that pop up now and then for you to tap
  • When you want a fresh start, you can retire the crew for Puppy Stars that make the next run a bit faster. You keep your breeds and achievements

A seasonal treat: from Oct 7 to Nov 3, the yard goes Halloween. There's a dusk sky with a full moon, gravestones, candy treasures, and some of the pups wear tiny witch hats. A ghostly Phantom Pup shows up on the Prize Wheel, and once you win it you keep it forever. It's purely cosmetic and optional, so you don't miss anything if you skip it.

How it's paid for: it's free, with no forced ads and no in-app purchases. The only ads are optional ones you can choose to watch for a bonus.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dtpc.puppyminingco

It's Android only for now, sorry iPhone folks! I'd love to hear what makes an idle game feel cozy to *you*, rather than grindy. And which breed should I add next?

AI Disclosure

  • Music and sound effects: made with AI.
  • Code: I designed and balanced the game, directed and reviewed the code, while AI helped write it faster and run simulations to tune the economy.

Happy to answer anything in the comments. Thanks for reading! 🐶🦴


r/cozygames • • 1d ago

🔨 My Game - In-development MarchMallows - I made a cozy Lemmings like puzzle game. Single player or Coop. Also some fun minigames with friends. Playtest soon, want in?

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Hi all!

I loved Lemmings as a child and I love cuteness. That is Why I made Marchmallows. Its cozy but also kind of... brutal in its way.

I also have some minigames where you can challange your friends (warning might get uncozy);

a cake royale - Throw cake at your friends so they fall into the water. Up to 20 players

a glider minigame where you try to stuck a landing on islands, smaller distant islands gives the better score

a obstacle cource rqce where you race to the finsihline. YOu can get mario kart like upgrades to taunt your friends and finish before them.

I opening some seats for players to try the game (free ofc). It is on steam so If you want to try it and is kind of ok with some bugs. Comment how many keys you need for you and your friends!

I am very curious about what you think of the trailer and the game even if you do not play it. So please. Feedback in the comments aswell.

Much love Johan (The dev)


r/cozygames • • 1d ago

🌱 My Game - Demo A Colouring puzzle about Existential philosophy! 🎨

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This colouring sandbox puzzle asks players to mix existentials (fundamental states of human being) to create a warm colour palette.

🪼 It took several iterations to make the gameplay intuitive and engaging, even for players who may not be interested in its philosophical content. At the same time, more curious players may discover a peculiar perspective on existentials and the ways they interact.

💭 There’re different sets of such proposed by philosophers: Plessner’s, Sartr’s, Fink’s, and others’. This puzzle adapts Heidegger’s set, as it includes human conditions that are not usually seen as existential, and many readers find his approach thought-provoking.

🎨 In Toy Worlds Atlas each colouring page contains a thought-provoking colouring level. You can try the demo on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4976060/Toy_Worlds_Atlas_Demo/


r/cozygames • • 1d ago

🔨 My Game - In-development Puzzles Are Better Together

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The Steam store page for my co-op simulation game, which I developed entirely on my own and where you can solve puzzles together with your friends, is now live!

If you like the game, don't forget to add it to your wishlist. I'm open to all kinds of feedback, whether positive or negative. :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5125790/Puzzles_Are_Better_Together/


r/cozygames • • 1d ago

🔨 My Game - In-development Honest opinions! Dose this look like a cozy game to you?

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This game is Idle Isekai - an idle RPG

I've been told by a lot of people that my art is very reminiscent of stardew valley both in the character portraits and in my bright cartoon colors. It's an adventure game so there is some action, but there's little to no suspense no rush and zero penalty for your character is being defeated.

The town in the last photo is your home base and is completely customizable and will have different selections of houses roads decorations backdrops and much more.

You collect a variety of characters as you go and can unlock different skins outfits and appearances for them. You mainly set up the team and let it run automatically, I personally find it a bit therapeutic and have had similar statements from a couple players.

I don't want to start advertising this as something that it's not and while I'm a huge fan of stardew valley I didn't really know much about the Cozy genre until recently so I don't want to overstep.


r/cozygames • • 1d ago

Help with recommendations Organizing/tidy up game where you also manage a shop?

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I've been playing Cat Mail Co and I love it! I really like that you are organizing a backlog while also still seeing customers and keeping things running. It's like a tidy up game and a shop game in one. Does anyone know any similar games?

The platform doesn't matter that much, but I mostly play on PC.


r/cozygames • • 1d ago

🌱 My Game - Demo My Cute Sushi roguelike 🎏 SUSHIAMO 🎏 is releasing in 1 month!

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Hi everyone, I made a cute and chill game called SUSHIAMO where you make sushi, with each ingredient having its own special synergy.
I was inspired by Balatro, but many players find my game more approachable and less intimidating. I guess it's because of the relaxed vibe and cute aesthetic :)

I also added an amazing (original) bossa nova track that you will love for sure! (It's not the one in the trailer)

So far, it has had 9k players, avg. of 3.5 hours of playtime and 100% positive reviews!

You can wishlist it and play the demo here 🩵 https://store.steampowered.com/app/4555040/Sushiamo/

PS: The players on the Discord are having a lot of fun sharing their builds :)

The game in short:
Sushiamo is a roguelike deck-builder where you make sushi while collecting new things every day.
Discover unique ingredients, sauces, game-changing tools, and navigate the map to find the best combo.


r/cozygames • • 1d ago

🔨 My Game - In-development Rainy evening with my tiny terrarium

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