This week was a bounty for cozy gamers! There are 33 cozy games that are new this week and SIX of them are free to play!
As always, I’ve made sure to highlight games that don’t use Gen AI, so you don’t have to worry about what you’re supporting!
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Cozy games released on May 29th

Richard
Richard is a free-to-play visual novel where you play as George, the new transfer student with big ambitions to be Prom King this year! You’ll help George navigate high school life by conversing with students, keeping good grades, and earning the trust of those around you. All the while, the current popular kid in line for the crown is your roommate! Will you be able to sway favor in such a niche setting?
Cozy games released on June 1st
Arcane Merchant
Arcane Merchant is a shop management simulation game where your goal is to become the wealthiest merchant of the kingdom. You’ll build up your shop, master the art of trading, and explore beyond your four shop walls for rare resources and potential allies. Hire skilled assistants to help out and make your decisions carefully.


Lost in Art: a Miniature Realm
Lost in Art: a Miniature Realm is a point-and-click puzzle game where you’ll explore mythical and historical lands in the 16th and 18th centuries of Ottoman and Persian culture. The land is on the verge of being forgotten, and it’s your job to solve puzzles and mysteries that will bring it back to flourish once more.
Cosy Housing
Cosy Housing is a design game where you’ll build and decorate a house. Build them from the ground up and make every decision about the shape, material, and size of your home. When you’re satisfied, you can decorate and personalize the space with furniture and different paint swatches.


For the Fish in the Bottle
For the Fish in the Bottle is a free-to-play point-and-click puzzle game where you find a mystery fish sealed inside a bottle in the middle of the desert. It seems to want something, so it’ll be up to you to figure out how to help it. Explore a strange, dreamlike world done in greyscale and solve puzzles that stand in your way.
Focus Grove
Focus Grove is a work companion aid that will grow as you complete tasks and make progress. Use productivity tools to help keep yourself organized and watch a little farm grow every time you’ve successfully completed something. Along the way, you’ll discover new animals, cosmetics, and ways to customize your Tree House.


Let’s Cafe
Let’s Cafe is a job simulator where you purchase an old cafe. It’ll be up to you to build your menu, manage the inventory, and take care of customers. Purchase new recipes to keep growing, or play mad scientist and throw things together to see what sticks on a grid system. There are over 200 recipes to discover, a menu you can set your own prices for, and in 1.0, there’s a Twitch integration that will let your viewers run the shop for you.
Castle in the Sands
Castle in the Sands is a visual novel set in a world that is inspired by “One Thousand and One Nights” as well as North African culture. When your brother falls ill, you set off across the desert in search of a doctor who can help him. What you find, instead, is an ancient castle that seems to crumble at mere touch. There are three endings to the game, so your choices matter.


Chef Knight
Chef Knight is an incremental fantasy game where you run through dungeons to collect ingredients from slain monsters. Using the monster parts, you’ll make delicious dishes to feed hungry customers. As you turn a profit, you’ll be able to invest in a skill tree to unlock powerful upgrades that will improve your ability to dismantle enemies and cook meals.
Bloobs Adventure Idle
Bloobs Adventure Idle is an idle game inspired by RuneScape and built for long-term progression. You’ll train 24 different skills, collect over 500 souls, and complete thousands of challenges as you increase your capabilities. You can look forward to progress even when you’re offline and when you’re ready, you can reset progress to earn permanent bonuses that will benefit all future runs.


A Factory Roguelike
A Factory Roguelike is a strategy-based game where automation is the goal. Build up a factory that meets the questionable demand of a box. You’ll use belts, assemblers, and inserters to fill the box with everything it requires and when it’s satisfied, you can pick between one of three boons. Each option will hold five randomized machines that will help you build out further and meet demand more efficiently.
Cozy games released on June 2nd
My Little Cafe Nightmare
My Little Cafe Nightmare is a simulation shopkeeper where you run a cafe for ghostly patrons. Turn a haunted cafe into a sanctuary by restoring, decorating and expanding the shop. Brew up strange coffees, keep hostile anomalies away, and keep your supplies stocked.


OddFauna : Secret of the Terrabeast
OddFauna : Secret of the Terrabeast is a base-building creature collector where you play as Astor, a tiny beast that lives in TerraBeast. The world seems a little empty at first, but by foraging, crafting, and terraforming the land, you can change it into a thriving landscape built for the OddFauna that you encounter. Your choices will impact others and your imagination will shape the land.
Ourlands
Ourlands is an island builder with design and creativity at its core. You’ll handcraft an entire island specific to your own interests. There are no timers, no pressure, and no tasks for you to complete. By clicking around inside your islands, you’ll find some new items that you can decorate with. When you’ve got your island the way you like it, you can create a postcard out of it to share with others.


Campsite Hustle! – Management Simulator
Campsite Hustle! – Management Simulator is a job sim with management elements where you’ll be responsible for building a campground for people to come stay and relax at. You’ll also have a convenience store on site to cater to your customers, which you’ll need to keep stocked and clean. Luckily, you can hire staff to help you keep everything running smoothly. Be sure to build facilities like bathrooms and food stalls so that your campers have what they need, and keep your eyes peeled for troublemakers like thieves and rascally raccoons.
My Garage
My Garage is a job simulator game where you run a garage that makes repairs on cars. The goal of the game is to offer a more realistic representation of what goes into car repair. You’ll need to buy specialized tools, parts, and more to meet the needs. The cars have a damage system that will help you identify and mend the problems. On the side, you can search junkyards for parts and complete delivery jobs.


Papa’s Mocharia Deluxe
Papa’s Mocharia Deluxe brings you an updated installment in the Papa’s series. This time, you’ll be serving up coffee and cannolis to hungry customers. The only weird part is that there is a documentary being made at this location, and it turns out you’re the star! You’ll have to do all of this under the watchful eye of a filming crew. You’ll be able to snag a food truck, play mini-games, and earn 90 different Steam achievements as you play.
Fortune Mill
Fortune Mill is an incremental game where you need to pay off a massive debt across several different rooms. Each room has its own gimmick, like throwing darts or turning a profit with only scratch-off tickets. As you play, you’ll be able to invest in upgrades that will help you meet a hefty million-dollar price tag before you can move on. In the next room, you’ll have to make another million, but each room you conquer will boost the previous rooms and offer unique bonuses, creating an ecosystem that sets you up for success.

Cozy games released on June 3rd

Comedian In The Big City
Comedian In The Big City is a free-to-play comedy adventure game where you’ll need to find jokes that will help you win over a crowd. Explore the city or get inspired while you sleep to collect jokes that you can use on Open Mic night. With each successful night, you’ll work your way across the world, and when you’re not sniffing out comedy, you can play some arcade games or place some boxing bets.
Hidden Legends
Hidden Legends is a hidden object game where you’ll look over a magical world with a critical eye to find the objects hidden within it. Explore several different types of levels as you enjoy atmospheric music and colorful graphics. There are more than 2,500 items to find, so if you’re a fan of the hidden object genre, this one may appeal to you.


Slots & Diapers
Slots & Diapers is a silly incremental game where you run a casino of slot machines to turn a profit. But why do the work yourself when you can employ others to do the work for you? Use veteran gamblers to automate the process and get a secondary benefit of earning ‘liquid assets’ otherwise known as ‘crapto-currencies’ that can be used for powerful, limited-time boosters. When you’re ready, you can hit the reset button and start over with bonuses earned on the Perma-Skill tree.
Farm RPG
Farm RPG is a free-to-play farming MMO RPG where you’ll build up a farm, go fishing, craft objects, and explore. The game is menu-based, which means it all happens through clicking options in a menu. The game does include a chat function to play and get to know a community with, so keep that in mind for younger gamers. There’s no limit to gameplay, no ads, and it isn’t built on a competition gameplay model.


Tiny Catcher
Tiny Catcher is a free-to-play fishing game that sits at the bottom of your screen. Each fish has a point value that is based on size and weight. With earned points, you can buy avatar customization in the shop. As you play, you’ll fill up a Fishpedia to keep track of not only the fish you catch, but the point values that they offer.
Cozy games released on June 4th
Fish & Hike
Fish & Hike is a fishing game with exploration elements, where you play as a dog who is a renowned cartographer, Doctor Shiberson. You’re on a mission to collect ancient artifacts said to be hidden near the site of four legendary golden fish. When you’re not out fishing, you’ll roam the valley to uncover mysteries and make discoveries. There is crafting, gathering, and stress-free combat along the way, as well as a progression system that will help you upgrade your gear.


You Know The Drill
You Know The Drill is an incremental mining game where you dig underground to harvest ores. By collecting resources, you’ll be able to upgrade your mining gear for greater effect and a heavier return. It’s a pretty straightforward game that should appeal to those looking for a chill time with simple mechanics.
House Flipper Remastered Collection
House Flipper Remastered Collection is a revitalization of the original House Flipper game, where you’d buy up houses, fix them up, and flip them for profit. In this new collection, you’ll be able to enjoy the base game as well as all the DLC that was previously released for it. It promises better graphics, voice acting, and new content. Not only will you be returning to a beloved franchise, but you’ll meet new characters, experience six new jobs, and get to play with over 800 new items!


Swan Song
Swan Song is a puzzle game that is set inside a magical music box. Each puzzle will have you placing musical notes of different shapes and sizes that will program how the box will play. There are 9 chapters of story to play through with 108 puzzles across them. It features original music, secret levels to find, and the promise of more content in the form of free updates to look forward to.
Snacktorio
Snacktorio is a factory-cooking game with automation at its core. You’ll build up a food production factory to feed beasts that are threatening to consume the world. Take orders from hungry monsters and make sure they’re fed to keep the peace. To make things easier for yourself, automate your kitchens with mixers, ovens, boilers, and more! Just be mindful of the ingredients you use, as they use real-world physics: milk curdles, meat spoils, dough takes time to rise, etc.


PetDoctor
PetDoctor is a free-to-play job simulator with management elements where you’ll run a vet clinic. You’ll build the clinic, hire staff, and take care of animals that come through your doors in need of help. As you play, you’ll make upgrades, diagnose and care for animals, and eventually take your humble clinic into a thriving hub where people bring their pets for the best care.
Gachamon
Gachamon is an idle clicker game with creature-collecting elements. It sits at the bottom of your screen so you can actively click your way to progress or work on other things as it idles in the background, making progress on its own. You’ll be able to collect 100 unique characters, each generating coins that you use to fund your gacha spins.

Cozy games released on June 5th

My Isekai Hotel
My Isekai Hotel is a job simulator where you die and awake in a new world! Like every good isekai story, you’re destined for greatness. Yours comes in the form of managing an otherworldly hotel. Starting small, you’ll slowly expand into a thriving hub for weary travelers and guests. You’ll gather resources for expansion, play mini-games, unlock new skills, and get to know some of your regulars.
Phone Flipper Simulator
Phone Flipper Simulator is a job and life simulator where you run a second-hand phone shop. You’ll start in the slums and slowly work your way to the top. You have the choice to work honestly or make shady deals to propel yourself into success. Managing yourself is a big part of gameplay because there are multiple endings waiting for you that range from drowning in debt to becoming the big shot in town. You’ll be responsible for taking phones, restoring them, and flipping them for a profit. Just be prepared with a silver tongue because your customers will likely push back on the price you’re asking.


Tiny Town Market Simulator
Tiny Town Market Simulator is a shopkeeper sim where you run a shop in a tiny town of toys that has come to life. You’ll grow crops, raise animals, and use the output from them to craft handmade goods. As you play, you’ll be able to afford upgrades and expansions that will help you improve efficiency. Start with a humble stall and take it into a thriving supermarket.
That’s all the games I have for you guys this week. Let me know if you found anything that caught your attention.