Happy Friday, everyone! We’ve got a great start to our weekend with FORTY-THREE cozy games spanning several different types of genres! They’re all new this past week and from indie developers.
It’s hard to imagine that you won’t find at least one game in this line-up, so go ahead and check it out.
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Cozy games released on April 10th
Fonsermónique’s Culinary Diary
Fonsermónique’s Culinary Diary is a linear narrative game where you play as an anthropomorphic goat named Fonsermónique. Your goal is to make food based on your mother’s cookbook in order to soothe the soul of your life partner. Each time you present food, you’ll be given feedback that can be used for your next recipe. The game has one ending, so no matter what you choose, you’ll experience the true ending.
Val’s Adventures at Scure Manor
Val’s Adventures at Scure Manor is a point-and-click adventure that emulates the feeling of the 90’s era of point-and-click gaming. You’ll play as Val, someone who has been locked out of their home in the early hours of the morning. You’ll be met with puzzles that need solving, quirky characters, and a dangerous enemy that lurks in the shadows.
Intentional Bugs
Intentional Bugs is a creature collector where you will collect bugs over time. They don’t need you to take care of them and they can’t die, but you’ll need to interact with them in order to name and catalog your findings. There are tons of bugs to collect, so see what you can find living inside your computer!
Cozy games released on April 12th
King’s Lynn Leisure Farm
King’s Lynn Leisure Farm is a free-to-play idle farming sim. You’ll be able to collect animals, take care of them, and send them out to work. There are over 30 different animals, each with their own personality and likes. By encouraging bonds between animals, they’ll lay eggs that hatch into vehicles. I don’t know why, but I do know there are 80 different vehicles to collect.
Cozy games released on April 13th
Tap Tap Loot
Tap Tap Loot is an idle game that relies on you typing on your keyboard to progress. You control a cat hero who smashes through enemies in a world under attack. You’ll be able to help him best his enemies while you conquer whatever real-life things are pulling your focus. Play solo or with up to 4 players online co-op so you can get work done with the homies.
Seeds of Calamity
Seeds of Calamity is a farming sim that takes place 20 years after “The Great Calamity”. You’re not playing the hero on a quest to save the world. You’re a humble farmer who tends to their farm, helps their neighbors with quests, and loots resources from a local dungeon, all with your trusty magical spellbook companion.
Loot Loop
Loot Loop is an incremental RPG where you build a party of heroes and send them into dungeons to fight monsters, collect loot, and unlock upgrades. There’s a large skill tree, zero stress, and fast runs. The retro artstyle feels like stepping into a pixelated classic from the 80s.
Cubetory
Cubetory is a factory-building game with automation at its core. Your space is limited, so you’ll need to think about where all your structures will go and use resource patches wisely. Progression is tied to the rate of production and each previous goal is tied to future ones, so your factory will need to stay running efficiently at every stage. Luckily, there are no enemies or timers, so you’re free to plan at your own pace.
Nekokami – The Human Restoration Project
Nekokami – The Human Restoration Project is a world-building adventure in a universe ruled by cats. You play as a time-traveler turned Planetary Architect for Nekokami Co. It’s your job to create worlds to certain specifications. Along the way, you’ll befriend over 40 Kami (cat spirits) and create human settlements and natural habitats.
Cozy games released on April 14th
A Storied Life: Tabitha
A Storied Life: Tabitha is a narrative puzzle game where you are sorting through the items of a deceased loved one to decide what to keep and what to sell. While sorting, you discover a destroyed memoir and set about restoring it. It’s up to you to fill in the blanks based on the items you decide to keep. This is one where I’ve played the demo and I felt like it was a uniquely interesting gameplay setup.
Fishing Inc
Fishing Inc is an incremental fishing game. You’ll catch fish, sell them for money, and use earnings to unlock skills and better gear. You’ll catch a variety of fish across several locations that you can keep note of in your Fish Log.
Teachers. With Love and Passion
Teachers. With Love and Passion is a visual novel dating sim where you play as a teacher at a new school. Despite all your studying to become a teacher, no one prepared you for a lounge full of charming, single teachers! There are 5 love interests, 2 main story arcs, and over 15 endings! Boasting over 100k words and about 10-13 hours of gameplay!
Corner Streamer
Corner Streamer is an idling game that sits at the corner of your desktop. You’ll be able to create an avatar to your liking and watch them stream as you get your own work done. As you play, you’ll be able to upgrade your setup and get sponsors!
ULTRATAP
ULTRATAP is an incremental game where you defeat monsters and bosses. As you make your way through enemies, you’ll earn money that you can use to upgrade a skill tree, buy gear, and set up automation. There are over 300 upgrades, 7 progression systems, more than 200 quests, and more!
Pixel Factory
Pixel Factory is a factory-building game where you will build and automate a factory that produces cubes. Starting with clay blocks, you’ll run them through your production lines to turn them into colorfully patterned blocks. As you play, you’ll be able to upgrade buildings to improve speed, expand your production network, and build up complex factory systems.
Cascadou
Cascadou is a deckbuilding roguelike card game where you’ll create chain reactions. By clicking a card, it’ll play the possible Poker hands connected to it. Build up a strategy by earning and using stickers that can be applied to cards for an even greater reward. With over 100 stickers, no two rounds will be the same. And, if you want an added bonus, you can conquer challenges to earn badges, which give permanent power-ups.
Coffee Break Paradise
Coffee Break Paradise is a shop management game where you control a service worker at a cafe. You’ll interact with customers, take orders, and keep everything organized. With profits, you can build and decorate your shop, buy stock, and upgrade equipment.
Cozy games released on April 15th
Cleaning Up!
Cleaning Up! is, unsurprisingly, a game about cleaning up. You’ll tackle huge messes and turn them into clean, comfortable spaces. Clear the mess by throwing away garbage, sweeping, mopping, and even spraying surfaces clean. As you play, you’ll be able to invest in upgrades to help improve your cleaning experience.
shapez 2
shapez 2 is coming out of Early Access, boasting an Overwhelming Postive review score. It’s a factory-building game where you design sprawling multi-level factories and production lines. By investing in your research system, you’ll unlock new buildings, mechanics, and upgrades.
A Tiny Garden
A Tiny Garden is an idle game that sits at the bottom of your computer screen. You’ll grow a sprawling garden complete with pets to keep you company. Sell the products of your farm and animals for profit or use the ingredients to create advanced goods for an even greater return. While you idle, you can build your way to a thriving business.
Simultree
Simultree is an incremental game where you play as a scientist who runs and observes life simulations inside petri dishes. The organisms will yield points by eating fruit and you retrieve those points with a magnifying glass. Points can be used for upgrades, just make sure they don’t die or won’t get anything from them.
Chippu
Chippu is a desktop companion that has productivity tools to help you focus. It has work sessions, reminders, and a to-do list for when you need to get things done. In your downtime, you can care for your Chippu and play with it. Over time, your pet will collect resources that you can use to buy necessities and cosmetics for your tiny friend.
Reliquare
Reliquare is a puzzle exploration game where you explore a mysterious and empty island that is bursting with puzzles based on Sudoku. There are five unique areas on the island and sometimes your solutions will involve environmental elements around you.
Sprite’s Honor!
Sprite’s Honor! is a farming sim where you get shipwrecked on a mysterious island filled with Fae. Local gnomes sabotage your way home and it’s up to you to make repairs! Grow a farm, collect resources, upgrade your production, and fend off the gnomes! Do all that and you’ll be able to sail your way home!
The Peak of Life
The Peak of Life is a strategy life sim where you get to decide every aspect of your character’s life. You’ll get to pick where you live, what courses to take, what job you’ll have, when and where you’ll take a vacation and more! There’s a ton of variability here, as large as creating your own business or as small as making dinner. It’s all entirely your choice, so there’s a lot of replayability in this one.
The Adventures of R.Sole: Nothing, Nowhere, & Not At The Same Time
The Adventures of R.Sole: Nothing, Nowhere, & Not At The Same Time is a comedy sci-fi point and click adventure game. You play an IT guy who is the least qualified to save the day, and yet you’re the one slated to fix things when reality breaks. It features a ton of puzzles, quirky characters, and hand-crafted art and animation.
Electrogical
Electrogical is a puzzle game that blends jigsaw puzzles with the four arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. You’ll combine puzzle pieces with operations in order to find the target number. It features over 250 puzzles, no complicated calculations, and a hint system!
3D Escape Room: Cursed Legacy
3D Escape Room: Cursed Legacy is a puzzle escape room game. You inherit a manor from your grandpa, only to find yourself trapped inside it. It’ll be up to you to explore the rooms and figure out the puzzles they present in order to free yourself. This game is a sequel to 3D Escape Room: Mystic Manor, but it doesn’t appear that you need to have played the first to enjoy this one.
Cozy games released on April 16th
Gecko Gods
Gecko Gods is an adventure puzzle platformer where you, a tiny Gecko, explore a forgotten land. Solve puzzles and sail between islands to uncover remnants of an ancient civilization. With the freedom to explore, you’ll be able to enjoy the adventure at a leisurely pace.
ShantyTown
ShantyTown is a diorama city-building game. You play as a surveyor who builds up and photographs 20 distinct locations. You’re encouraged to fill up every nook and cranny to build sprawling cities filled to the brim with life and personality. Each location offers a different set of objects and space, so each place feels unique.
Medetashi Medetashi
Medetashi Medetashi is a point-and-click puzzle game where you play as a cat with the ability to journey between real life and storybook pages. There are 4 main chapters and one secret chapter to experience and complete puzzles within.
Cozy Sanctuary
Cozy Sanctuary is a farming sim idler where you care for animals that live at the bottom of your screen. Keep them happy by cleaning them and making sure you grow enough food to keep them fed. As you play, you’ll unlock facilities that will help automate tasks.
Wormies
Wormies is a shopkeeper sim where you run your own worm shop. You’ll breed and sell hundreds of different worm variants. As long as you keep them fed and happy, they’ll do all the work in creating new worms. With profits, you can unlock upgrades and decorations. If you’re grossed out, don’t be. These worms look more like cat toys than the real thing. I’m actually pretty excited to grab this one.
Express Car Wash Simulator
Express Car Wash Simulator is an immersive sim game where you run a car wash business. You’ll not only clean the cars, but by expanding your business, you’ll be able to customize them as well! As you grow, you can change out tires and add stickers.
The Day I Became a Bird
The Day I Became a Bird is a narrative adventure game about a young boy named Frank. You’ll join him on his journey as he navigates his feelings for a fellow classmate, Sylvia. Told in a bedtime story style, you’ll enjoy a slice of life look at the innocence of a first love.
Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts
Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts is a design and illustration game where you will create beautiful renderings of medieval book pages. In Story Mode, you can create a character and design pages by request, but if you want pure freedom, you can create to your heart’s content in Sandbox Mode. You’re only limited by your imagination in this game.
Angel Clicker
Angel Clicker is an incremental clicker game with optional rhythm elements. You’ll participate in an office-wide contest between Heaven and Hell for the rights to a pizza party. Place buildings, collect divine resources, somehow get attacked by aliens, and still find time for a date?!
Soko Pirates
Soko Pirates is a Sokoban puzzle game with a hand-drawn pixel art style. You play as a pirate, pushing objects around as you find your path to the treasure chest. Enjoy the game at a relaxed pace with no combat or timers.
Cozy games released on April 17th
Dunk Cookies
Dunk Cookies is an incremental game where you break cookies and dunk them into a swirling vortex of milk. As you play, you’ll be able to use profit in order to upgrade yourself and unlock stats in an expansive skill tree. Enjoy a hand-crafted pixel art style and infinite growth as the numbers climb ever higher.
Venice After Dark
Venice After Dark is a point-and-click adventure game with visual novel elements and hand-drawn art. You’ll play as Aiko, an introverted programmer, and Thea, an intelligent and quirky AI. Together, you’ll solve complex puzzles in Venice inspired by real locations and encounter true historical figures and events. There are three different endings and a bizarre world for you to discover.
The Last Connection
The Last Connection is a narrative-driven game where you play as a Switchboard Operator who connects calls to others. Unfortunately, you’re about to be replaced by a machine. Across your last five days at that job, you’ll glean information that you can use to help your fellow townsfolk. There are branching storylines and multiple endings, so your choices matter.
Dig & Deal
Dig & Deal is a shopkeeper sim where you go out looking for objects that you can sell in your store. Dig up terrain with your special tools, pop the treasures in your shop, and haggle with customers over price. Any profit you earn can be used to upgrade your operation. Along the way, you can design your own shop and complete quests.
Generation Exile
Generation Exile is a turn-based city-builder where you play as the Caretaker on the first and last generation ship. It’s up to you to manage finite resources and to rebuild society inside the vast starship. Restore the ship’s ecosystem, plan ahead, and make choices that will decide the fate of the ship. With procedurally generated NPCs in every game, no two games will be the same.
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