Get ready for a vibrant lineup of artistic, uplifting, and emotionally resonant games from developers of all sizes from around the world
Wholesome Direct 2025
They also have a link to a steam event page with a lot of the games for easy/quick wishlisting! Wholesome Direct 2025
I apologize in advance for my notes, all the games are on the website if you’re interested!
- Leaf Blower Co. - Leaf blower simulator game, like Power Wash Simulator
- Instants - Learn about a family through scrapbooking, figure out the order of events and put pictures in chronological order
- Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar - Another Harvest Moon game; you farm, you meet villagers, enjoy life
- Gourdlets Together - Play as a little vegetable, seems to be another village life sim game
- Luma Island - Farming, fishing, another cozy village game
- Is This Seat Taken? - Puzzle game about meeting little requirements in placing things on the screen, like the old “you need to get five people across a river but you only have one boat AND stacy hates jeff” or whatever
- MakeRoom - Make super cute little diorama setpieces; decorate houses, vans, etc to turn them into nice cozy rooms
- Ambroise Niflette & The Gleaned Bell - Some kind of adventure game?
- Let’s Build a Dungeon - MMO simulation game, you not only build the levels and develop mechanics, but you gotta keep on top of the servers and finances
- Squeakross: Home Squeak Home - Picross with a mouse, you unlock food and furnishings for the mouse
- Monument Valley 3 - Coming to non-phones!
- Big Hops - 3d platformer with a frog!
- Little Kitty, Big City - Free update
- Vending Dokan! Cosy Kiosk - Run a vending machine business, clean them, customize them, stock them with products, unlock more territory
- Winter Burrow - Adventure game, harvest resources, improve your home, meet other mice, survive scary monster attacks, seems like there’s a deeper story
- Tales of the Shire: A “The Lord of the Rings” Game - Villager life sim Hobbit Edition!
- Haunted Paws - Seems like a semi-tongue-in-cheek adventure “horror” game starring two dogs
- patchmagazine.co.uk - A zine filled with cozy games
- Aurora - 2d platformer adventure game, gamebody visual style, fun little minigames to find
- Seasonala Cemetery - Walk around a cemetery across many seasons and times, learn about the people who visit and why
- Camper Van: Make it Home - Customize a camper van with furnishings and trinkets, set up picnics/camp in many locations
- Lynked: Banners of the Spark - Craft, build, battle. Farming, resource gathering, fishing. Go out into the world and fight to save robots.
- Omelet You Cook - Cook meals by dragging and dropping ingedients?
- Milano’s Odd Job Collection - First time outside of Japan, a minigame collection
- Fireside Feelings - Lots of cool and cute animals have chats beside a fire, looks like a very vibes game
- All Will Rise - Narrative cultural deckbuilder, they killed the river and now you gotta get revenge, conspiracy and ecoterrorism
- Gecko Gods - 3d platformer adventure game where you play as a gecko, walk over all the walls and ceilings, solve puzzles
- One Move Away - Cozy 3d puzzle game about trying to pack all your things before a move, learn about the character and the passage of time via the things you pack (like Unpacking!)
- Heidi’s Legacy: Mountains Calling - Taking care of a flock of goats
- Hotel Galactic - Mythical hotel manager simulator, reminds me of Spirited Away, gotta keep your guests happy and develop your rooms
- Wholesome Out and About - Foraging adventure, learng how to identify real plants, how to harvest without killing em, what recipees you can make with the ingredients, and meet with townsfolk and learn more about them
- Discounty - Run a grocery store and explore the city, but there are some deep dark undertones here…
- Islanders: New Shores - An update for Islanders which is a city builder on islands; new buildings, boons, and a new sandbox mode
- Collector’s Cove - Travel the world, find new places to explore, all the while maintaining your boat home stocked with foods and goods. You can also go fishing of course
- Town to City - 3d voxel city builder where you build up from a small town into a big rich city
- fishbowl - Work from home as a video editor, explore grandparent’s items to learn about the past, looks like many little minigames for different tasks
Montage time:
- KuloNiku: Bowl Up - cook up food trays for restaurant patrons, very japan
- A Tiny Wander - 3d adventure game with animals
- Outside the Blocks - super realistic dioramas, houses, glass containers, fog
- Clawsome - claw game with ocean and city and other settings, also place items you gather to build up your town
- The Berlin Apartments - Looks like a heavy narrative, but also take care of your space
- Llamalandia - Be a llama, 3d exploration game with town builder
- Danchi Days - 2d puzzle minigames?
- Sheepherds! - Corral sheep
- The Great Coffee Caper - 2d gameboy aesthetic, explore a world like 2d zelda games, maybe no combat
- Capy Castaway - 3d capybara adventure game
- Anxiety Puppy - Handdrawn looking anxiety trauma game, deal with social anxiety
- Mafate - 3d game where you mess around in a little village
- Townbox - 3d town builder but also you can explore the town and
- Shiba Sweet - Cooking as a shiba, for other animals in town
- Muri: Wildwoods - 3d adventure game resotring nature?
- Puni the Florist - 3d drawn game, put together nice floral bouquets
- Mazey Village - Maze puzzle game where you can move entire parts of the level to solve it
- Mecha - 3d platformer adventure game
- Dosa Divas - We saw it yesterday!
- Letters to Arralla - Get cool mail, unwrap it, discover what’s inside (probably some nice narrative)
- Asocial Giraffe - Some kind of narrative adventure game about
- Gemporium - Clean and polish gems, sell them, discover new ones?
- Crescent County - 3d racing/speed game where you ride an animal?
- Pawsta - Explore the world and cook with a 3d clay aesthetic
- On-Together - 3d adventue game with villager interactions and lots of cool little events
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