We’re in the double digits on cozy game offerings and two of them are FREE TO PLAY! We all know that Mondays can be a bit of a slog, but the silver lining is a whole heap of cozy games to settle down into after a long day at work!
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Cozy games released on January 12th, 2026
Big Hops
Big Hops is an exploration platforming game where you play as a frog trying to find a way home. Journey through deserts, oceans, and mountain worlds collecting bugs, upgrading your backpack, and meeting new friends. Swing by your tongue, climb, and plant objects like bounce pads, tightropes, and hookshots to make the way easier.
Gamblers Table
Gamblers Table is an automation idler with management elements. Toss coins to earn money and use earnings to buy higher value coins, upgrades, and to hire helpers to automate the process. Unlock talents and make sacrifices to restart your empire with better advantages than in the last game. Not every flip earns money; coins landing on the skull side won’t increase your wealth, but it will increase your fashion! Skull side flips give you skull tokens that can be used in a gacha machine for hats that dress your workers in!
Nom Nom: Cozy Forest Café
Nom Nom: Cozy Forest Café is a shopkeeper sim that runs on a minigame. You open a cafe serving adorable animals with their cafe orders. Make different drinks and food by way of a rhythm game and use your earnings to buy decorations. At the end of the night, fill up the vending machines so that you can earn tokens to use on a furniture gacha machine.
More cozy games!
- Achievement Box – Simulation, Point-and-Click
- SpelBrawl – Word Game, Typing, Roguelite
- wonderking – MMORPG, 2D Platformer, Action, Combat, FREE TO PLAY
- Motarium – Word Game, Puzzle, FREE TO PLAY
- Bubba Yuga – Action-Adventure, Party Game, 2.5D
- Quarantine Zone: The Last Check – Life Simulation, Zombies, Resource Management, Choices Matter
- LAVALAMP – Psychedelic, Walking Sim, Interactive Fiction
- Confidential Killings – A Detective Game – Mystery, Puzzle, Detective, Adventure
Which games are you interested in? I’m obviously making grabby hands at Gamblers Table, and Big Hops is giving me some Super Mario Odyssey vibes, so even though I’m terrible at platformers, I want it.
Weirdly, Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is calling to me even though there are shooter elements because it’s giving very Papers, Please and That’s Not My Neighbor vibes with checking over the humans for signs of zombie infection.
If none of these games light your sun, then you can check out more of the recently released games on Steam in our Cozy Games Today tag.
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