Happy Friday, everyone! I know I’m looking forward to the weekend and the ability to dive into some new cozy games! I’ve got 21 new ones to talk about this week and some of them have been ones I’ve been waiting for for a long time!
Scroll down the list and see if there’s anything that catches your eye and don’t forget to grab the free cozy game!
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Cozy games released on May 18
Thrifty Business
Thrifty Business is a shop management game where you’ll set up your own 90s-inspired thrift store and sort through boxes of items to arrange displays. You’ll be able to customize your shop to reflect your personality and help customers with their requests. As you play, you’ll grow the shop, hold events, and learn more about the townsfolk. I played the demo and had a lot of fun with it!
Let’s Freeze Some Penguins
Let’s Freeze Some Penguins is a Sokoban puzzle game where you’ll play as Walnut the Walrus. You’re on a mission to save your friends from the dreaded Emperor Penguin. The way forward is littered with penguins, but with your Walrus Wind, you can freeze them into ice blocks that you can use to build new paths forward. There are over 50 puzzles to beat and each of them has three medallions to collect.
Potion Portion
Potion Portion is an idle clicker game where you play as a novice witch taking over your grandmother’s old potion shop. It’ll be up to you to get it back in running form by brewing and selling potions. The money you earn lets you learn new magic through a skill tree for various benefits. Fill your potion compendium by gathering all the potions available and if you feel lucky, you might try pulling new potions from the gacha system.
WorldShaper Idle
WorldShaper Idle is an incremental city-builder where you build your own city by placing various tile types. By placing them in specific patterns, you may create new features to add to your growing city. By making these unique tiles, you’ll be rewarded with a base production that often comes with bonuses. There is a whole ecosystem waiting for your discovery. You’ll get introduced to new tiles over time and even when the game is closed, you’ll keep earning so that you have resources to look forward to.
Cozy games released on May 19th
Membrillo Hid My Socks
Membrillo Hid My Socks is a free-to-play point-and-click hidden object game where you try to find the socks that your cat has hidden. Explore your messy room and solve puzzles in order to find the 30 socks that you’re missing. It has 15 achievements to collect and two endings to discover!
Cozy games released on May 20th
Server Farm Idle
Server Farm Idle is an idling game where your goal is to build up an AI computer empire. Starting with just one laptop, you’ll click your way all the way up to a singularity. There are over 30 unique buildings to place, a prestige system, and an actual end to the game. You’re not just clicking into obscurity with this one and along the way, you’ll be able to collect 100 different Steam achievements.
Moonshiner Simulator
Moonshiner Simulator is a job simulator game where you build up a moonshine operation. Start small as you get the hang of mixing brews and perfecting your recipes, so you can grow into a mass distribution network. Upgrade your equipment and hire assistants to help you keep up with growing demand. When you’re not making booze, you can forage the village and forests in search of new ingredients to experiment with. Play solo or build an empire with up to 8 players.
Phonopolis
Phonopolis is a story-driven puzzle adventure set in a hand-painted 3D world made of cardboard. Travel through a dystopian world where loudspeakers dictate the lives around you. You play as Felix, a dustman who has managed to gain awareness. It’s up to you to stop the Leader, who plans to use “the Absolute Tone” that will create mindless worker bees out of the citizens of Phonopolis indefinitely. Tackle environmental puzzles and interact with the cardboard city in interesting ways as you help Felix on his mission.
Sporbs
Sporbs is an incremental game with mining elements, where you take refuge on a planet after a nav-malfunction has dumped you into uncharted space. All around you are energy-dense organisms that you’ll harvest for resources to synthesize fuel cells that you can use to explore and eventually get back home. You can invest in a skill tree that has 170 upgrades and automate systems so that you can progress even when you’re doing other things.
Desktop Nard: Dice Idle
Desktop Nard: Dice Idle is an idle game that sits at the corner of your screen and where everything is controlled with the roll of the die. The dice will automatically roll themselves and the amount that comes up on their faces is the total damage you do to a field of monsters. As you earn income and loot, you’ll be able to upgrade your dice for greater effect and build out a skill tree.
An Incremental Game About Placing Blocks
An Incremental Game About Placing Blocks is a short incremental game where placing blocks down will earn you money. By buying different blocks, you’ll be able to earn more that you can use to invest in a skill tree and work your way toward automation.
Cozy games released on May 21st
Coffee Talk Tokyo
Coffee Talk Tokyo is another installment of the Coffee Talk series. You’ll have even more heart-to-heart conversations over a cup of joe, all set in the bustling hub of Tokyo, where yokai and humans alike will come to relax. Listen to your customers and make choices on what you brew for them based on what they tell you. When they’re not right in front of you, you can get to know your customers through the app Tomodachil. By following hashtags, you’ll become privy to hidden posts that may have important clues about your customers.
Hillshade Farm
Hillshade Farm is a farming sim where you inherit a piece of land with a rundown farm on it. It’ll be up to you to take the derelict offering and turn it into a thriving farmland. You’ll need to put thought into growing and tending your garden, keep your animals happy and safe from predators, and source materials to craft more buildings for your land. Anything you don’t need on the farm can be sold at the markets. If you’re looking for a slow-paced farming game that will take time to build up, this one is for you. Fair warning, the game is in Early Access and has a lot of negative reviews due to motion sickness, with no controls to combat that, and a general sense of lagging with unresponsive controls.
Walk The Frog
Walk The Frog is a point-and-click adventure puzzle game where you guide a frog along a path you build with sticky notes. The pieces of paper have different deciptions on them that you can use to make paths and meet other creatures. With a simple drag-and-drop mechanic, you can easily switch around the playing field with no time limits and no stress. There are three different chapters with 18 puzzles between them that you can parse through to guide Froggo home.
Drop and Grow
Drop and Grow is an incremental clicker game where you grow plants by dropping water across a dry landscape to encourage plant growth. By restoring nature, you’ll gather leaves, branches, and other resources that you can use to upgrade yourself in a skill tree.
Burden Street Station
Burden Street Station is a narrative adventure game that takes place in a universe where life’s moments are extracted from mortals and turned into books. You play as a librarian without a story of your own and have given yourself the arduous mission of figuring out the mystery of a missing God. Since you don’t have a story, you’re able to adapt and change yourself to change others. Your choices matter, and how you choose to communicate with others may lead you down the paths you’re looking for or take you down dead-end roads.
The Guardian of Nature
The Guardian of Nature is a hand-drawn point-and-click puzzle adventure game that takes you on a fantastical, size-changing journey. You’ll play as Henry, a Guardian of Nature who sets out on a mission to save The Tree of Life. By changing your size, you’ll be able to search both above and below ground for items that will help you on your journey. Along the way, you’ll solve solarpunk puzzles and fill up the Book of Nature with discoveries.
Long Live My Lady! Tavern Simulator
Long Live My Lady! Tavern Simulator is a job simulator with time management elements where you play as a gnome who runs the only tavern in a dungeon. It used to belong to your landlady, but fell into disrepair after she fell into a deep slumber. Bring it back to its former glory by rebuilding it, cooking food, brewing beer, and helping out the locals who pass through. Just be sure to be attentive to your customers and your slumbering landlady, or they may get fussy. When you’re not tending to the tavern, you can forage for new ingredients.
Alchemist: Journey of the Soul
Alchemist: Journey of the Soul is a first-person adventure game that you can play solo or with up to 4 players. You play as a homonculous, created and summoned by the Alchemist. The only problem is that you don’t have a soul, but the Alchemist promises that the Philosopher’s Stone can grant you one. You’d do anything to make that happen, so you go on an adventure gathering resources to make potions that will give you more abilities and solve intricate puzzles for clues that will lead you to what you’re looking for.
Cozy games released on May 22nd
Bitter Harvest
Bitter Harvest is an atypical farming sim where the farm that you’re promised has been claimed by someone else. With no other options, you only have one job left for you: be the town’s trash collector. Search through the garbage to find items that can be used for crafting and maybe find out a secret or two about your neighbors. Play with honest intentions or use what you’ve learned to your advantage in a rags-to-riches story that you shape with your choices.
Honorable Mention
LEGO® Batman™: Legacy of the Dark Knight isn’t an indie game and I normally wouldn’t highlight such a combat-heavy title, but the LEGO games made by TT Games are undoubtedly a cozy experience. I had so much cozy fun with The Skywalker Saga and I’m told that Legacy of the Dark Knight plays a lot like that one did.
LEGO® Batman™: Legacy of the Dark Knight
LEGO® Batman™: Legacy of the Dark Knight is an open-world action-adventure where you follow Bruce Wayne’s life as he becomes Batman. You’ll forge allies, thwart iconic DC Super-Villains, and become the hero that Gotham deserves. You’ll have the freedom to play other characters with different abilities and if you get the Deluxe edition, you can break out of Arkham as Harley Quinn or The Joker.
I’ve already got my hands on Thrifty Business and The Guardian of Nature. Which cozy games are catching your eye?
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