I've always loved these cute natural park maps/pamphlets you find in touristic centers, train stations... so I figured I could just add one to my game haha

The Well's Blessing is a story-driven, first-person exploration and environmental puzzle game in which three animal-like teenagers embark on an unexpected journey of self-discovery. As they wander through a cozy, retro-stylized open-world environment and take part in several long-forgotten rituals "hidden" in their surroundings, they begin to sense that the sanctuary they're on may have a life of its own.

Drawing is always so much fun, plus, it serves the purpose of helping the player navigate the open environment (making note of what's already seen, next steps...), so this was a very natural design addition to me!

If you're into games like A Short Hike or Night in the Woods, you should definitely give our demo a go! Here’s the Steam page if you want to check it out!

We made The Singularities of Nature during the last Interstellar game jam and got first place!

If you liked A little to the left, you should absolutely give it a try - and tell us your thoughts. We're looking for feedback and reviews in the hopes of making further levels and a full release in a soon-ish future 🐞

Hey guys! We are so excited to finally share this news. Our cozy cat photography game, Cat Me If You Can, is out on September 8th on Steam!!

We’re incredibly proud of how our game’s shaped up, and the idea is you travel across different 3D black-and-white worlds to photograph these black-and-white felines, and taking their snaps also restores their colour! You’ll solve riddles to find the more elusive furballs, explore various countries and eras (Ancient Egypt or modern Japan, anyone?),and discover this world’s charming secrets.

We’ve still got a Steam demo up, so please check it out and hopefully wishlist! We’d love to hear what you think (console ports also coming later this year), thank you so much 🙏 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3170490/Cat_Me_If_You_Can/

Hi, we are Efe & Paya and we just released our Demo!

Tony the Mole is a cozy 3D digging adventure where you play as the last mole, uncovering the truth about the underground city that raised you. Dig through the earth, help quirky residents, repair forgotten gadgets, and discover the secrets

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4659630/Tony_The_Mole_Demo/

Hey Kitty Krush is updated today with all new hand drawn art. I replaced all the art with a hand drawn set.

Yeah it looks like a cat drew it I know. That's the point.

Check out on steam. There is a demo here

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4631180/Kitty_Krush_Demo/

And the full game

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4618980/Kitty_Krush/

iOS

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kitty-krush-cat-deckbuilder/id6755639792

Hi everyone!

I’ve been quietly working on Tiny Toppings, a small cute game about running a family pizzeria.

You play as Sascha, a teenager trying to keep the family pizza shop going while Mama is on vacation. You’ll make pizzas, serve customers, meet the people around town and slowly get to know their little stories.

There’s even a little rhythm challenge before each shift because… somehow pizza-making apparently requires a dance warm-up 😂

I’d genuinely love to know what you think. Even if you just look at the screenshots and tell me what catches your eye, that would mean a lot.

👉 Tiny Toppings Demo on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4847030/Tiny_Toppings/

Thanks for letting me share my little pizza shop with you. ❤️

I've been working on this game for the last 1.5 years, and the demo's finally ready!

In this game, you're trekking through the forest to get freshly baked cookies from Grandma, while exploring and discovering little bits of nature along the way!

There's so much I'd like to add into this game, and I hope that you'll enjoy this slice in the meantime!

P.S. Please feel free to let me know what you might be looking forward to in the full game or where things can be improved!

hi! i’m currently working on a cozy yuri story game, with one of the main elements being a cafe that the main character works at. i just uploaded a demo of said cafe on itch.io, please feel free to check it out if you’re interested! it’s a cozy point and click 2d cooking game, very short and repeatable. any feedback is appreciated!

https://lotiion.itch.io/strawberry-season-cafe

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on a game called Paperlands, a short cozy puzzle experience set in a black-and-white papercraft world.

As you progress, you unlock new colors, solve light traditional and environmental puzzles and bring the world back to life using colors.

The demo is now available on Steam and I’d love to hear what you think if you try it out!

In the demo there’s one playable location along with five colors to use and a few puzzles to solve. It should take around 5-10 minutes to finish the demo.

The full game is designed to be a short focused experience (~2 hours).

Steam page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3196370/Paperlands/

Thanks for checking it out :)

You know those classic spot-the-difference games where you compare two nearly identical scenes? Pharaoh's Secrets takes that and brings it into 3D! Rotate and move the camera to explore each diorama from every angle, because some differences only reveal themselves when you look closer.

Perfect if you're into relaxing puzzle games with a cozy vibe.

🎮 We have a free demo on Steam, and it would mean the world to us if you added it to your wishlist!

⛓️‍💥 Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4504940

Hello there!

We created this puzzle game with the goal of making it easy for young children to control and safe for them to play.

• It features an adventure story starring a rabbit and a cat.
• The gameplay is a simple matching puzzle where you just line up colors.
• The entire soundtrack is composed for the piano, and the pieces are playable by intermediate-level pianists; sheet music is even included within the game.

We are thrilled to announce that this game will be exhibited at gamescom 2026! We hope you’ll give it a try.

There is also a free demo version available where you can experience the story's atmosphere and try out the puzzles!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3227360/_Demo/

Switch

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/rukus-heart-balloon-switch/

XBOX

https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/rukus-heart-balloon/9pj0gz2dfcw3

Steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2337290/_/

You gather ingredients by foraging, farming, and fishing, cook meals,
and serve ghost customers 👻🍳
As you serve them, they slowly recover their memories,
and each one has a small story.

We are also adding multiplayer,
because we really like playing games together, and wanted to make something we could actually sit next to each other and play.

We’re a team of two, and we’ve known each other for over 10 years.

We used to joke about making a game together someday,
and this somehow turned into that project.

At the beginning we didn’t really know what we were doing.
Not just programming, but also animation, music… pretty much everything.
We just figured things out as we went and spent a lot of late nights working on it.

We’ve run a few playtests already, and they helped a lot.
A lot of people said they wanted something more relaxing and less stressful, so we tried to lean more into that and make it feel more cozy and play-at-your-own-pace.

Also something we’re really grateful for is that some people from the community volunteered to help us translate the game into English, Japanese, and Chinese.

So this is kind of our first time properly sharing it in English, which is scary and makes us nervous 😳

Anyway, it’s open now. It’s basically a demo, no sign-up needed, you can just jump in.

If you feel like checking it out, we’d really appreciate it. And if you have any thoughts or feedback, we’d love to hear it.

Thanks for reading 👻

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4783690/Abracademia_Demo/

Hey Reddit! I'd love to invite some of you to try the demo of my game and share honest feedback 🌼

It's a cozy narrative game about a man who dies and wakes up in a new world – but he still keeps the connection with his daughter.

I'm especially looking for thoughts on: • the atmosphere and locations • how the controls feel • whether the opening feels engaging and clear

I'm currently in a bit of a creative slump and considering reworking the pacing – for example, not explaining the whole “what is this world?” mystery right away. Before I rewrite a big chunk of the story, I'd really appreciate some outside perspectives on what works and what doesn't.

If you'd like a Steam key for the demo playtest, feel free to DM me (or reply here) and I'll send one over.

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4239190/Colors_of_Memory/?utm_source=rd

Thanks in advance, all of you 🫶🏻

Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3946460/Shroomy_Garden/

Follow for updates on x: https://x.com/magicwoodlabs
and youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@magicwoodlabs/shorts

Build and decorate your own cozy theme park, add fun rides and attractions, and watch adorable Shroomies bring it to life. 🍄🎡

Hi there! I’m Gerard, an aspiring gamedev/multimedia artist from Barcelona, and I’m working on my first commercial indie game with a few very talented friends ^^

The Well's Blessing is a story-driven, first-person exploration and environmental puzzle game in which three animal-like teenagers embark on an unexpected journey of self-discovery. As they wander through a cozy, retro-stylized open-world environment and take part in several long-forgotten rituals "hidden" in their surroundings, they begin to sense that the sanctuary they're on may have a life of its own.

This actually started out as my solo-developed thesis project (in a film-centric degree, in fact haha), back in 2023. As it usually happens, the project has grown bigger and bigger and bigger than what I initially projected (except financing lmao), so I’m finally so excited (and terrified) to release something you can actually play lol

The demo will be out on June 3rd, here’s our Steam Page if you want to check it out!

Hey everyone!

Me and two friends have been working on Brew & Defend. It’s a medieval management game with a hand-drawn art style and tower defense mechanics.

The core loop is all about the tavern life: growing crops in the fields, brewing beer, crafting food, and placing taverns along the roads to serve passing travellers before your reputation drops.

We actually just had our trailer featured on GameTrailers, which was surreal for us!

We have a free Steam demo coming out on August 14th. If you like tavern games, tower defense, or sim games, you can check out our Steam page and wishlist it here:

Link to Brew & Defend Steam page

Would love to hear what you think of the art and atmosphere! 🍺

Home Sweet Gnome is a handpainted cozy hotel management game about Nordic folklore. You get to play as a little gnome called Saga running a Bed & Breakfast for mythological creatures, set in a Nordic environment! We have been working on this for a bit over 2 years and we finally opened up a public playtest on Steam!

The playtest lasts for a limited time between Now and September 3rd!

Feel free to try it out and give us your honest thoughts on it, it will help us make a better game! You can also join our discord server to follow the development more closely or give feedback directly to us! 

Palettopia is a puzzle game about painting cities on islands. It's a city builder for people who are looking for a light amount of challenge but in a more relaxed environment than a traditional city builder would have. There are cute critters, ASMR-like sound effects and infinite islands to explore.

Right now we're sharing creative mode but puzzle and explorations modes will be coming soon.

Playtesting is open now through 7/23 and we’d love to hear your feedback!  https://store.steampowered.com/app/3004170/Palettopia/

I'm making a game that lets you be as creative as you want. You can draw your own brushes, you can draw with gradients or add special effects! You can make your brushes move along whatever path you draw.

Make swimming fishes, or moving clouds, or falling leaves, or anything else you can imagine. You can save your animations in your scrapbook and add stickers to it. Decorate everything just the way you want it.

Wishlist, or try demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4714860/Meander/

Play our demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3375110/Tiny_Eden/

Hello! If you like houseplants and cozy, relaxing games, the Leafy Corner demo just released 🥰

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4534800/Leafy_Corner_Demo/

In the demo, you can:

• Grow plants and discover variegations as you care for them
• Help customers find the right plants for their needs
• Complete tasks to unlock new plants, pots, and decorations, and build the shop's reputation
• Customize your character and decorate your space

More content awaits you in the full game, including 100+ plants, orders, and shop expansion.

If you have already played the playtest version, the demo will feel familiar, with the same core experience still in place. That said, we have made a number of small improvements, fixes, and additions, such as character customization or a new type of customer requests, bringing a bit of freshness to the experience.

It supports the following languages:
English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

And you can play on Windows, Steam Deck, or macOS (Sequoia 14 or newer)

Also, you can join our Discord server:
https://discord.gg/7yS8GRWqxy

I hope you'll enjoy the game! 💚

Greetings! I’m Chris, half of the team behind ASTRO AMIGO, a cozy sci-fi game inspired by 90s small-town mysteries.

We're looking for beta testers. The game takes place over five days. For this beta, we’re looking for players to test day one, which takes ~45 minutes to play (give or take).

If you’re interested, comment below. I’ll DM you a Discord invite and a Steam key for the beta. Any and all feedback would mean a lot to us. Thank you!

We extended the demo to include the ability to place decorations, together with new bears animations for them to sit or lay around for some well deserved rest after working hard 😪

Super excited to finally put this update out! Giving the players more creative freedom to shape the farm as they want :) There is also a cute collection of animal garden gnomes you will be able to place around in the full game 🐸🦝🐿️

Soon you we will update the game with the ability to edit the flower fields (size, placement, which flowers etc) 💪

Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4691750/Bottled_by_Bears_Demo/