The Steam Summer Sale is always a magical, but overwhelming time. You have a bounty of cozy games that are waiting to be added to your cart, but the volume of games can be a lot to parse through.
So, I’ve done the parsing for you! Not only am I presenting you with 35 games that are part of the Steam Summer Sale, but I’m giving you the best of the best! All of these games have an “overwhelmingly positive” score on Steam, so these are certifiably good games to snag!
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Highly rated cozy games in the Steam Summer Sale
Whisper of the House
Whisper of the House is a puzzle game where you explore a whole town filled with people who need help cleaning and organizing their homes or businesses. Some levels will want you to precisely place things, while others give you the freedom of creativity. You’ll also get to find items and coins around town. The coins can be used at stalls to buy items and those items can be used in decorating your own home. Whisper of the House is 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $11.99 until July 9th.
Love, Ghostie
Love, Ghostie puts you in the passenger seat of the love mobile by making you the matchmaker to a group of housemates. Choose whoever you like and set up dates to see how sparks fly. You can even send gifts in their names to help stoke the flames. There are 12 residents and you’re free to match any of them, meaning you have 66 combinations that each have unique interactions and stories. Love, Ghostie is 45% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $10.99 until July 9th.
STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator
STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator is a life sim where you take on the role of a stock market businessman in 80s Japan. Your decisions affect the market and your life, so invest wisely! Juggle your health, manage your company, play mini-games, side-step or join the yakuza, and more! Do it all with your assistant Amy by your side! Are you ready to test your luck? STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator is 25% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $7.49 until July 9th.
Monster Prom
Monster Prom is a dating sim where you have 3 weeks to lock in a date for prom! There are 6 romanceable options and over 1000 situations to get yourself into with them. If upping your stats and putting on the charm isn’t enough for you, you can turn it into a competition by playing co-op with your friends. See who can snag the affections of a certain character before the others! Monster Prom is 80% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $2.39 until July 9th.
Cats Organized Neatly
Cats Organized Neatly is an organizational puzzle game about placing cats in particular shapes onto a grid so that they all fit perfectly. The game has 80 levels and the cats can be turned in all directions in order to make them all fit within the space given. Cats Organized Neatly is 67% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $0.98 until July 9th.
Sucker for Love: First Date
Sucker for Love: First Date is a visual novel of Lovecraftian horror. You’ll get the chance to court three god-like creatures and enjoy a fully voice-acted interaction. Your decisions matter and will determine the ending you get. All you have to do is perform a few rituals. It’s an easy price to pay for love, right? This game has no horror elements or danger, so rest assured, your time will stay cozy. Sucker for Love: First Date is 60% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $3.99 until July 9th.
KuloNiku: Bowl Up!
KuloNiku: Bowl Up! is a management cooking game where you prepare unique meals for your locals. You’ll be able to upgrade your gear, customize your shop, and prove your merit in Chef battles to become the top chef. Along the way, you can make friends and learn more about your past. KuloNiku: Bowl Up! is 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $8.63 until July 9th.
Lost and Found Co.
Lost and Found Co. is a hidden object adventure game where you help people find things that they’ve lost under the care of the Dragon Goddess, Mei. There are 10 main story levels, but far more requests to play through. You’ll be able to decorate an office later on with found objects. It’s narrative-heavy, so it’s more than just hunting for misplaced items. Lost and Found Co. is 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $14.39 until July 9th.
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. Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts is 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $11.99 until July 9th.
Loddlenaut
Loddlenuat puts you in the shoes of a cleanup specialist who is helping to clean up after your company has left an underwater planet. It’ll be up to you to clean up all the waste and sludge left behind. Explore an open world, unlock special gadgets to help you clean, and meet adorable little creatures known as loddles. I’ve played and enjoyed it; it’s satisfying to watch things get cleaned up over time. Loddlenaut is 66% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $6.79 until July 9th.
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’m playing this game right now and it’s really fun if you enjoy organizing things! Thrifty Business is 10% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $11.69 until July 9th.
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions is a gamified focus tool. At its core, you’re meant to use the productivity tools to help you focus. There’s a to-do list, a pomodoro timer, a journal, and the ability to adjust a playlist of chill beats with atmospheric sounds. However, if you’re like me, you’re using it to collect adorable spirit companions, dressing up your avatar, and decorating several different spaces to make it your own. There are a ton of DLCs and I get excited every time something new comes out. The base game of Spirit City: Lofi Sessions is 50% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $5.99 until July 9th.
Strange Antiquities
Strange Antiquities is a shopkeeper sim where you get hired as the custodian of a shop that deals in occult antiquities. You’ll be responsible for handling the day-to-day needs by carefully examining and cataloguing items, taking care of the shop cat, Jupiter, and helping out customers who come through looking for aid. Your choices matter and if you choose to hinder rather than help, the town will remember it. Strange Antiquities is 33% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $12.05 until July 9th.
Bookshop Simulator
Bookshop Simulator is a simulation game where you run your own bookshop. Order books, stock shelves, earn revenue, and then use those earnings to further upgrade your store! Along the way, you can adopt a cat and collect rare books that yield powerful abilities! If you’re ready for a change of pace, open up more locations and travel between them! Bookshop Simulator is 10% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $14.39 until July 9th.
Strange Horticulture
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game where you play as the owner of a local plant store in Undermere. You’ll get the chance to explore lands in search of new ingredients, grow interesting plants and identify their uses, chat with the locals, and join a coven or a cult. You’ll learn more about the mysteries of the town as you solve puzzles. Strange Horticulture is 66% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $5.43 until July 9th.
Foolish Mortals
Foolish Mortals is a point-and-click adventure full of puzzles and mystery. Explore Bellemore Manor to find a fabled treasure and deal with the fallout of releasing spirits who want the treasure for themselves. Set in 1930s Louisiana with hand-drawn art, you’ll enjoy a mystery that has no deaths, dead ends, or scares. Foolish Mortals is 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $15.99 until July 9th.
Galaxy Burger
Galaxy Burger is a stress-free cooking game where you run a burger joint out in space! Play solo, or with up to 7 friends, as you build up your diner with no time limits. You’re free to take your time and enjoy the process of filling orders from aliens and mecha-cats alike. As you grow, you’ll learn more recipes and be able to upgrade your process. Galaxy Burger is 50% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $5.99 until July 9th.
Slime Rancher
Slime Rancher is an open-world sandbox game where you play as Beatrix LeBeau, a young rancher from Earth who is on a planet 1,000 light-years from home, trying to amass a great fortune in slime ranching. Collect colorful slimes, grow crops, harvest resources, and explore the wilds. With income, you’ll be able to upgrade your vacpack, expand your ranch, and build more corrals to keep even more slimes in. Slime Rancher is 75% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $4.99 until July 9th.
Escape from Ever After
Escape from Ever After is an adventure RPG inspired by Paper Mario. You’ll play as Flynt Buckler, a storybook hero who discovers that fairytales are being used and abused by a real-world megacorporation for cheap labor. Help Flynt as he climbs the ladder of the corporate world to dismantle Ever After Inc., and navigates multiple storybook worlds. Create a party that resonates with you, decorate your office, help with sidequests, find treasures, discover secrets, and even engage in office banter! Escape from Ever After is 25% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $18.74 until July 9th.
Squeakross: Home Squeak Home
Squeakross: Home Squeak Home is a puzzle game where you’ll solve nonograms in the shapes of furniture in order to furnish the home of your rat. There are hundreds of decorations that can be customized by color and you can even create your own rat avatar. With aids like toggling hints, solving a random cell, and using the Logic-Assist system, you don’t have to worry about getting stuck on a difficult puzzle. Squeakross: Home Squeak Home is 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $11.99 until July 9th.
Is This Seat Taken?
Is This Seat Taken? is a logic puzzle where you’ll need to manage the seating chart for multiple people who all have specific requests. It starts easy, but things start getting harder since some issues have an area of effect that you’ll need to work around. Luckily, you can move people around without penalty and there are no timers, so you have the freedom to futz with their placements until everyone is satisfied. Is This Seat Taken? is 30% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $6.99 until July 9th.
Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)
Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) is an outlet more than a game. In it, you can write letters or sentences of anything you want or need to get off your chest and have anonymous words of encouragement received in return. You can even be that nameless voice for someone else in need. Chill out, put good out into the world, and collect some stickers. Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) is 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $3.99 until July 9th.
TOEM: A Photo Adventure
TOEM: A Photo Adventure is an exploration game with photography at its core. You’ll explore a monochrome world and take interesting shots of the things you come across. You’ll solve puzzles through your images, meet quirky characters, and enjoy chill beats to vibe with. TOEM: A Photo Adventure is 90% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $1.79 until July 9th.
Tall Trails
Tall Trails is an exploration platformer where you’ll play as Alp, a li’l golem on a quest to find your purpose. You’ll explore several different islands on your hunt and meet interesting characters who will have requests of you. Collect hats and color schemes to jazz up your golem or invest in badges that will have permanent bonuses for you. As you explore, you’ll find several different gadgets that you can use to help you search every nook and cranny of the islands. Tall Trails is 30% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $6.99 until July 9th.
Beacon Pines
Beacon Pines is an adventure game set within a mysterious book. Help Luka investigate the strange things happening around town by collecting golden charms. Each has a word engraved on it that can alter the story by using it to fill in a blank. This creates a branching storyline where your choices shape the world around you. Can you get to the heart of the mysteries happening in Beacon Pines? Beacon Pines is 70% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $5.99 until July 9th.
Catto’s Post Office
Catto’s Post Office is a short but sweet exploration game where you play as Catto and help him deliver the mail for the day. While you run around town making deliveries, you’ll find a few things to get distracted by and other cats to help. Knock things over, climb in a box, or hit the all-important meow button as you explore and collect achievements. Catto’s Post Office is 25% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $3.74 until July 9th.
Sticky Business
Sticky Business is a simulation game where you run a sticker business. You’ll create stickers, pack orders, and hear customers’ stories. Each sticker is individually designed by you from several different elements. You’ll be able to pick the finish on them and customize the packages for your customers. Sticky Business is 50% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $4.99 until July 9th.
A Short Hike
A Short Hike is an exploration game where you visit your aunt at Hawk Peak Provincial Park. You’ll explore the mountain by hiking, climbing, and soaring your way around. Reach the peak at your own speed and feel free to search for hidden treasures or help out your fellow hikers along the way. A Short Hike is 45% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $4.39 until July 9th.
Cast n Chill
Cast n Chill is an idle (and active) fishing game that will have you dropping a line in rivers, lakes, and oceans. Catch fish, sell your haul, and put your income into upgrading your rods, reels, and various other upgrades. In Active mode, you’ll cast and reel all on your own. In Passive Mode, the game will do it for you while you work on other things. There are over 50 fish to discover and legendary fish to catch. If you don’t want to fish alone, you can play co-op with a friend. Cast n Chill is 33% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $10.04 until July 9th.
Sledding Game
Sledding Game is a multiplayer snowsports hangout game that you can play with others with proximity chat. Sled to reach the bottom before others and earn the most points from tricks or participate in other snowtime activities like snowball fights, making snowmen, roasting s’mores, and more! Create your own little animal character and dress them up to hang out in private lobbies with friends or public lobbies with potential new friends! Sledding Game is 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $6.39 until July 9th.
Tiny Glade
Tiny Glade is a freeform diorama builder where you can build gridlessly and with procedural adaptation. That means that when you adjust whatever you’re building, like, for instance, making a pathway or raising the height on something, the game will automatically adjust the details for you by creating doors or support columns. This leaves you free to build up your towering castles, cozy cottages, or anything else you can dream up. Tiny Glade is 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $11.99 until July 9th.
Berry Bury Berry
Berry Bury Berry is an incremental game about growing berries and tossing them into a hole. You’ll earn money, befriend Berry Buddies, and unlock upgrades for higher tiers of berries. Gain control of the hole, explore an expansive upgrade tree, and experience multiple endings. Berry Bury Berry is 25% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $5.99 until July 9th.
Flock Around
Flock Around is a multiplayer bird-watching game that you can play with up to 10 friends. You’ll explore a nature sanctuary solo or with others and snap pictures of birds to fill out your park guidebook. Find birds of all varieties and catch them in different poses. If you keep a keen eye, you might even find some rare “shiny” birds. As you take pictures, you’ll earn stars that can be used to open up more of the park. Along the way, you’ll be able to buy cosmetics to set you apart from the others! Flock Around is 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $3.99 until July 9th.
Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator
Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator is a shopkeeper game blended with immersive simulation. You’ll manage a video store in the early 90s by renting out movies, selling concessions, and managing returns. Build up a team, enjoy the changing of seasons and festivals, and buy a VHS or two from the shady salesman out back to become a thriving rental shop. Retro Rewind is 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $15.92 until July 9th.
The Artisan of Glimmith
The Artisan of Glimmith is a relaxing puzzle game where you restore the artworks of a kingdom above the clouds by making stained glass pieces. Explore several areas to uncover puzzles and keep your eyes open for hidden paths along the way. The Artisan of Glimmith is 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale, making it $10.39 until July 9th.
Which games are you snagging from the Steam Summer Sale? I’d love to know!
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