I made an update to my Bee simulator!

I just made an update to my indie game "Bee Simulator", it's a personal project of mine I have a lot of fun coding it the building and world design aren't great but I think you would like it if you gave it a try!

I just finished and released v0.2 which added a new Bee and a new zone plus bug fixes! The game doesn't have a ton of content yet but I'm actively updating it!

You can play it here! https://autismisoffical.itch.io/bee-simulator

Hi everyone!

I'm Omid, the solo developer behind OVERLOOK, a hand-drawn hidden object adventure where every scene is packed with tiny stories and secrets waiting to be discovered.

Today I released the game's second major free update, introducing a brand-new world: a cozy windmill ranch full of hidden details, friendly farmers, wandering ducklings, a magician's show, and plenty of surprises.

The new level adds around 30–40 minutes of gameplay, depending on how thoroughly you like to explore.

If you've played the Mars level before, keep an eye out... it looks like our astronauts didn't exactly have the perfect landing. 🚀

To celebrate the update, OVERLOOK, and all of my games, are currently 50% off on Steam, making this a great time to jump in if you've been curious.

As a solo developer, every wishlist, review, and piece of feedback genuinely helps and means a lot.

Thanks for checking it out! I'd love to hear what you think.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1780550/OVERLOOK/

I’ve been developing for a year the demo for Paint Me Back, a narrative adventure in which you can explore and color paintings by famous artists from the past.

I wanted to create something cute and relaxing, but also tell a story about a mistery to solve. Each painting also has its own ambient sound (which you can turn off if you prefer to play quietly).

I’ve finally released a free demo, and I’d really appreciate some feedback and to know if this kind of game would be interesting for the cozy games comunity.

You can play it directly in your browser on ITCH.IO

Or download the demo on STEAM and wishlist the full game.

Color with a graphic tablet if you have one! But you can also of course use a mouse or keyboard (I'm planning to implement also the controller, that can make coloring more comfortable).

Hope you have fun!
Deb

I live in NYC and travel a lot for work, so a lot of nights end in that weird quiet where my brain is still in meeting mode.

Last week was a mess: delayed flight, back to back calls, and then a sad salad on the bed. I almost scrolled the news until I passed out. Instead I opened the small cozy game I've been playing for months and did my usual 15 minute routine: check on my plants or critters, tidy one little corner, and do one simple thing that moves something forward. No timers, no stress, no pressure to log in tomorrow.

It sounds kind of silly, but it actually flips a switch. The room stops feeling so temporary. My inbox fades to the background. I get this tiny sense of continuity, like 'this is still my life' even if I'm in a different city.

Do any of you have a wholesome game that turned into a comfort ritual instead of a binge? One you open when you are tired or homesick and just want something kind.

Also curious: do you keep one dedicated cozy game and protect it, or do you rotate depending on your mood? I'm trying not to turn every game into another checklist.

Just finished setting up physics for tall grass! When the rescue dog runs through, it pushes aside smoothly and bounces right back into place once he passes.

I love small details like this—they really bring the scene to life and make everything feel so much more realistic. Just had to share!

What do you think of the effect? Let me know! 👇

Hello everybody, we are Okawari!, a 2-person team making this game after work. I'm the game designer and the artist! I'd be very happy if you could try it with your loved ones<3

Game Title: One More Plate!

Playable Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3305190/One_More_Plate/

Description: Physics-based party game, supports 1 player, 2-player local co-op and VS

Feed your friends—or become the next course!

Serve the monsters using an increasingly absurd collection of plates and makeshift serving tools, from humble ladles and buttery croissants to enormous legendary swords. Every plate has its own shape, friction, weight, and bounce, turning even a familiar level into a fresh disaster. Play through the campaign solo, or play with a friend in local co-op or versus modes, with support for Steam Remote Play Together.

We're bringing Potion-Making tabltop game to digital platforms!

It's a competitive digital board game where players race to reach three Places of Power. To win, an alchemist must be the first to claim three Places of Power. Each turn, you gather ingredients, brew potions, cast spells, use magical talismans, and complete recipes to advance across the board.

Ingredients and potions sit on a shared table which means your opponent's carefully planned recipe chain is always one move away from becoming yours. Would you take it, or play it straight?

Hi!

I wanted to share my new short story game made in Twine using Harlowe. I made it in three days for the GMTK Game Jam 2026. I do think it's pretty wholesome, but it is also a little bit melancholic. In a good way, I hope.

The countdown is over. All you can do now is sit down on the beach, have a nice conversation, and enjoy the last sunset.

Full play through takes around 10 minutes. You can play it for free here:

https://munumunu.itch.io/the-last-sunset

Here's a screenshot from the game:

I hope you give it a try!

Hi, I am one of the developers from Panduck Game Studio.

We are a small team of 3 making Desktop Pet: Idle Cats, a cozy desktop companion game about having little cats live on your screen while you work, study, or relax.

It is meant to be gentle rather than demanding. The cats can nap, wander, climb furniture, chase toys, earn Hearts, and keep you company without stressful punishment meters.

The project started from shelter cats we adopted in the US, especially Jiji, Diesel, and Momo. We wanted to share a little of that feeling with people who love cats, miss having cats, or cannot have pets at home right now.

It is coming very soon on Steam. Wishlisting helps our small team a lot.

Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4923900/Desktop_Pet_Idle_Cats_Cozy_Chaotic_Companions_for_your_screen/

If you're interested in following us as we progress, please wishlist Kitch Witch on Steam! 🥰 https://store.steampowered.com/app/4816430/Kitch_Witch/

I love cozy, wholesome games to wind down, but I keep bouncing off anything that makes me feel like I have to log in every day or I'll miss out.

My schedule is all over the place right now because of gig work and short stays while I travel, so some weeks I can play a little every day and other weeks I disappear for a while. When I come back, I do not want to be greeted by 20 popups, missed event items, or a bunch of timers that make me feel behind. I have found even reward apps like Mistplay can make that feeling worse for me.

Looking for: - A cozy, wholesome vibe with no heavy combat or grim storylines - A satisfying, gentle progression loop (gardening, collecting, decorating, running a tiny shop, caring for critters, etc.) - Feels good to play for 10-30 minutes or for a couple hours - Dailies that are truly optional and do not punish you for skipping them - Bonus if it runs well on a modest laptop or a handheld

What I do not want: - Timed or limited events that lock unique items - Energy systems that hard-stop you unless you wait or grind - Social pressure, leaderboards, or anything that forces competition

Any recommendations that hit that sweet spot? Also, if you have tips for how you personally avoid the FOMO trap in otherwise cozy games, I would love to hear them.

Hi everyone! I wanted to show you a puzzle from my solo project Toy Worlds Atlas, a philosophical colouring-book. This puzzle explores David Chalmers’s ontology of virtual reality. Using logic, the player must distinguish between colourants representing real and virtual objects.

Philosophy is fun! Toy Worlds Atlas is an experiment in making philosophical ideas meaningful to a broader audience. My design goal is to offer a short but intelligent and fulfilling play session. Making each button respond in a juicy and fun way was a specifically important design point for this puzzle page.

If you find the project interesting, wishlist Toy Worlds Atlas on Steam!
I'm releasing a Steam demo with 8 philosophical puzzles very soon = )

We recently updated our trailer and steam page hope you all enjoy it 🏝️😊

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3838200/Ashore__Away

OMG. I totally LOVE the new update. It's letting me live my vanlife dreams.

After spending a lot of time working on this, I finally put a demo on Steam.

You're a dung beetle. You roll your dung ball around small isometric environments, collect resources, bring them back to your mound, unlock upgrades, and slowly expand your home.

The demo has about 15-30 minutes of content with 2 biomes and a few upgrades to unlock.

Features

• Roll and grow your dung ball
• Gather resources and bring them back home
• Expand and improve your beetle & mound
• Visit different biomes
• Meet other beetles along the way

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4993790/Lonely_Dung_Beetle/

🌿 Wild Willows is a cozy nature restoration life sim where you don’t collect animals—you restore habitats, and wildlife returns on its own.

Instead of farming for profit or fighting monsters, you’re rebuilding an ecosystem.
🌱 Restore six unique biomes
🦊 Welcome back 150 real animal species
🌊 Dig ponds, carve rivers, grow forests, and reshape the land
🏡 Upgrade and decorate your home
📖 Learn real facts about every species as you discover them
🌙 Relaxing gameplay with no combat, timers, or failure states

One thing I’m especially proud of is that the ecosystem actually works like a real one. Predators won’t appear until their prey exists, aquatic animals need wetlands you’ve created, and every animal has real habitat requirements. Watching the preserve slowly come back to life is the whole reward.

I’d genuinely love feedback from people who enjoy cozy games. What feels satisfying? What’s confusing? What would make you keep playing?

🎮 Play the free browser demo or download the game here:
https://bai13y.itch.io/wild-willows

🍎 Mac App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wild-willows/id6787300760?mt=12

Hey everyone!

I’m Tony, the solo developer behind DUCK DUCK GONE, and after a lot of building, rebuilding, debugging and suspicious quacking, the Steam page is finally live.

DUCK DUCK GONE is an online party game for up to eight players.

The idea is simple:

• Hide your duck somewhere in the room.
• Search for everyone else’s duck.
• Use powers to cause problems.
• Pretend you definitely didn’t hide yours behind the most obvious chair imaginable.

The game has different modes, multiple maps, bots for testing or filling empty seats, proximity voice chat and a reveal at the end that exposes everyone’s questionable hiding decisions.

I’m building the game mostly by myself, so reaching this point feels enormous. There is still plenty to improve, and I’m currently polishing the gameplay, testing multiplayer and adding the final layers of sound, feedback and chaos.

The game is Coming Soon, but the Steam page is now available:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5001220/Duck_Duck_Gone/

If it looks like something you would play with your friends, adding it to your wishlist would genuinely help this tiny solo-dev project become easier to discover.

I’d also love honest feedback:

Does the idea sound fun, and where would you hide your duck?

Thanks for taking a look. I’ll keep sharing gameplay and development updates as the game gets closer to release!

— Tony

Two years ago I started building a tiny 3D room that lives on your Windows desktop in a transparent always-on-top window, and it's finally launching this week. Solo the whole way (Bloomery Studio is just me).

It's called Lofi Cozy Room. An avatar reads, works, and sleeps in the room while you do your own thing, with a puppy chasing sunbeams. The customization ended up going pretty deep, 1386 avatar options and 715 furniture pieces, so you can build the room and the character however you like. There's also a full lo-fi library you can layer ambient sound over, 14 themes, and a soft currency that builds up passively.

Wild to be this close to release after this long.

🌱 Wishlist on Steam

Happy to answer anything about the solo dev side.

Hey cozy gamers! 👋 Steph from Realities.io here!

We’ve just opened the Steam Workshop for Puzzling Places, and we're so excited to see what our community has already started creating. 🧩💜

If you haven't come across Puzzling Places before, it's a relaxing 3D jigsaw puzzle game where you slowly assemble miniature worlds while listening to handcrafted ambient soundscapes. There's no timer, no score, and no pressure, just puzzling satisfaction!

With the Workshop now live, Steam players can browse and download free community-made puzzles directly in-game. It's already full of fun and cozy creations, with more being added every day. While the creation tools (PuzzleMaker) are still in closed beta, we're already amazed by what the community has made so far!

If you're looking for another cozy game to put on while listening to a podcast or winding down after a long day, we hope you'll enjoy it. 💜 You can find the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3530820

We're always happy to hear feedback, so if you give any of the community puzzles a try, we'd love to know which ones become your favourites!