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No matter whether or not you are in search of a thirsty farm sim, a heartfelt narrative, or a chill administration recreation, there isn’t a scarcity of cozy video games headed our method in 2024. We have rounded up 30 of those we’re most excited for, together with a small description of what you possibly can anticipate from them and their respective launch date, if introduced. We’ll you should definitely replace this checklist with launch dates and extra titles as extra are revealed.
Sunnyside
Billing itself as a recreation that “bridges the hole between custom and modernism,” SunnySide is a Japanese-inspired RPG farm sim that sends gamers to rural Japan to are likely to a once-forgotten plot of land. Whereas you should use know-how to keep up a correspondence with mates, store on-line, and analysis new recipes, you may get the prospect to embrace a slower life-style as you are likely to your animals, develop vegetation, and get to know (and even perhaps woo) your neighborhood.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S
Life By You
Have you ever ever wished that The Sims video games have been a bit extra open and fewer reliant on growth packs to maintain issues recent? That is the aim of upcoming simulation Life by You, which states it was designed to be “some of the moddable and open life-simulation video games.” With zero loading screens, practical dialogue, quite a lot of deep creator instruments, and numerous customization choices, Life by You would be a breath of recent air for avid Simmers.
Launch date: March 5, 2024
Platforms: PC
Backyard Life: A Cozy Simulator
Backyard Life might very effectively be probably the most immersive cozy recreation on this checklist, because the first-person simulation recreation focuses much less on RPG mechanics, relationships, and neighborhood, and extra on permitting the participant to really feel like they’re really curating their very own tranquil backyard. With completely attractive visuals (assume wrought iron fences and ivy-covered, glass greenhouses) and a soothing soundtrack, we’re anticipating spending numerous time on this recreation’s charming world.
Launch date: February 22, 2024
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S
Minami Lane
Generally managing a complete metropolis may be overwhelming, so why not give attention to only a single avenue? In Minami Lane, you get the prospect to plan and adorn your personal Japanese-inspired avenue. Handle small outlets and eating places, appeal to villagers, and pet cats as you watch your small avenue develop into a part of a vibrant neighborhood.
Launch date: February 28, 2024
Platforms: PC
Fields of Mistria
With environments paying homage to Hyperlink to the Previous’s Hyrule Kingdom and (swoon-worthy) characters who look recent out of your favourite ’90s anime, Fields of Mistria is already a really visually-distinct entry within the farm sim style. To make issues extra thrilling, developer NPC Studio touts the upcoming recreation as set in a magical world “brimming with potentialities,” romance, and nostalgia. All this plus the power to farm, fish, mine, craft, elevate animals, begin a household, and fend off foes whereas exploring historic ruins makes this one in every of 2024’s most anticipated cozy video games.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC
Moonlight Peaks
Moonlight Peaks is a supernatural farming sim wherein you play as a descendant of none aside from Depend Dracula. As such, your cursed character might be doing a complete lot greater than plucking weeds, tilling soil, and wooing their next-door neighbors (however don’t be concerned, you possibly can nonetheless do all that too). Along with all the standard farm antics, you can forged spells, brew potions, adorn a gothic-style cabin, and comfy as much as the city’s witches, werewolves, and merfolk to search out everlasting love.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC
Chill City
Searching for one thing to fill the Animal Crossing-shaped void in your coronary heart? Chill City seems to be a considerably extra practical model of Animal Crossing, full with fishing, bug catching, cute customization choices, and the power to brighten not solely your personal cozy residence, however the complete city as effectively. Nevertheless, Chill City units itself aside from the Nintendo basic with its inclusion of pets, some really cute animal-vegetable hybrid creatures you possibly can elevate, and an ultra-relaxing lo-fi soundtrack.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC
Want Upon a Llama
Moderately than making an attempt to do all of it, Want Upon a Llama focuses on one facet of the farm sim style: elevating livestock. And due to developer Millionhare Studios’ determination to hone in fairly than overextend, Want Upon a Llama looks like it’ll supply a brand new stage of depth to being a rancher, together with a give attention to genetics that can encourage gamers to find all the assorted colours, patterns, personalities, and breeds their animals are available in. In fact you may nonetheless have the ability to type friendships, discover romance, and adorn your homestead, however capybaras, bunnies, and llamas reign supreme on this upcoming cozy sim.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC
Ova Magica
Described on Steam as “Stardew Valley meets Pokemon,” Ova Magica duties you with not solely tending to a farm whereas immersing your self within the quaint village of Clover City, however elevating and battling cute, Slime Rancher-esque creatures as effectively. With a vibrant artwork type and loads of cute husbandos and waifus up to now, Ova Magica seems to be a vigorous entry within the farming sim style.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S
Everholm
Searching for a bit extra thriller in your cozy recreation? Everholm is perhaps simply what the physician ordered. Everholm follows Lilly, a younger woman affected by amnesia who units off on a quest to search out each her reminiscences and her lacking sister. Within the meantime, Lilly chooses to make a house for herself on the unusual island of Everholm, the place she should farm and type friendships with Everfolks to unravel some large secrets and techniques.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC
Farm People
If the very first thing you assume once you see Farm People is, “Hey, that appears type of like a farming sim model of Fortnite,” I might be very inclined to agree with you! However whereas it is perhaps reminiscent visually, it positively has its personal factor going for it. Farm People sees gamers inhabit a tropical island the place they will farm and construct their very own piece of paradise. Based mostly on the updates the crew has shared over on Reddit, it seems like it’ll have an excessive amount of customization and cutesy critters and decor for gamers to select from.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC
Mirthwood
Based mostly on what we have seen of the sport, Mirthwood is perhaps the least “cozy” recreation on this checklist. Nevertheless, it is usually distinctive and some of the thrilling and enchanting, therefore its inclusion. Set in a muted medieval world, Mirthwood touts itself as a fascinating, hand-drawn RPG life sim in which you’ll select your personal backstory and create a peaceable life for your self and your loved ones. Along with farming, buying and selling, and Sims-style relationship constructing, you may as well discover the sport’s massive open world, combat off bandits, battle winter and illness, and embark on quests for epic loot.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC
Healthful: Out and About
With “healthful” within the title, it is protected to say this recreation might be an extraordinarily cozy one. On this 3D journey recreation, you get the prospect to create your personal character to ship off on a foraging journey by way of the woods. When not studying real-world strategies to establish and use wild herbs and flowers, you may even be chargeable for restoring your childhood residence and city after a devastating storm and cooking some tasty recipes.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Change, Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One
Open Roads
Open Roads follows a mom, Opal, and her daughter Tess as they embark on a roadtrip to dig up household secrets and techniques maybe higher left forgotten. Because the pair discover the locations as soon as near-and-dear to Opal’s coronary heart, they’re going to unearth buried reminiscences and uncover extra about each other. Whereas this all would possibly sound a bit of extra emotionally profound and somber than cozy, the sport guarantees “basic street journey vibes as you chill within the automobile en path to your subsequent vacation spot.” Add in lush environments, lovely hand-animated characters, and a star forged of Keri Russell and Kaitlyn Dever, and you’ve got a recreation we’re very excited to play this 12 months.
Launch date: February 22, 2024
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Change, Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One
Critter Cove
It is not typically a comfortable recreation is ready after the top of the world, however right here we’re. In Critter Cove, you’re tasked with making a “cozy post-apocalyptic paradise” on an island city. When not fishing, farming, and crafting, your animal-esque character can sail throughout a mysterious archipelago monitoring down previous relics and remnants of the world earlier than.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC, Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One
Honeycomb: The World Past
Moderately than discover islands or a lush countryside, Honeycomb: The World Past sends adventurers to the far-off planet Sota7, the place they are going to be tasked with cataloging all of the wildlife that inhabit it. As well as, you may get to determine a base, crossbreed vegetation and animals, craft objects, and conduct experiments as you’re employed to outlive on this mysterious planet.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC
Bandle Story: A League of Legends Story
The crew behind Graveyard Keeper teaming up with Riot to create a comfortable farming sim set on the planet of League of Legends shouldn’t be one thing we had on our online game bingo card, however we gotta admit it sounds extraordinarily cool. This cute pixel-art title duties gamers with exploring the Bandlewoods and restoring portals to allow them to reunite with their mates in Bandle Metropolis after a party-gone-wrong leaves them stranded. No matter whether or not you are a League fan in search of extra lore or a newcomer to the collection, it looks like this recreation will make for some cozy firm.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Change
Tales of the Shire
Reality be informed, I don’t know the way it took this lengthy for somebody to make a comfortable recreation set in The Lord of the Rings’ Shire, however I’m thrilled there’s one on the best way. Whereas we do not have a lot info on what this recreation has in retailer for us–just a short teaser that was revealed late final year–we’re already excited for the chances and general tone of the sport.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S
Little Kitty, Massive Metropolis
Untitled Goose Sport meets Oliver And Firm in Little Kitty, Massive Metropolis, the debut recreation from Double Dagger Studio. Billed as a healthful exploration recreation, Little Kitty, Massive Metropolis is all about serving to an cute kitten discover its method again residence after getting misplaced in, effectively, a giant metropolis. You’ll be able to discover, make mates, put on cute costumes, and trigger severe chaos on this colourful journey title.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Change, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S
Magical Delicacy
Magical Delicacy combines subtle pixel artwork with platforming and cooking to create a singular dish. In it, you play as a younger witch named Flora who should navigate the harbor city of Grat and create a reputation for herself and her small store. When not tending to your apothecary, you additionally get to face off towards rival covens, invent new concoctions, develop vegetation, and get to know Grat’s townsfolk.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S
Mika and the Witch’s Mountain
Should you’ve ever wished Kiki’s Supply Service have been a online game, you may in all probability be extraordinarily within the cute and colourful Mika and the Witch’s Mountain. This fantasy journey recreation follows a younger witch named Mika who’s tasked with delivering packages to the townspeople of a small island. You will achieve rewards primarily based on the situation that packages are delivered in, in addition to be taught extra concerning the city and its residents as you soar by way of the air on broomstick.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S
Tales of Seikyu
Tales of Seikyu is a Japanese-inspired farming sim that sees your farmer assemble a lush protected haven for “legendary creatures from the world of yokai.” Nevertheless, as you restore the once-abandoned farm you inhabit, you may achieve yokai powers of your personal, permitting you to show right into a bull to plow your fields or soar by way of the skies as a raven. You will additionally get the prospect to unveil hidden tales, discover romance, and crew up with mates for a cooperative expertise.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S
Go-Go City
Go-Go City is a cute and colourful metropolis builder the place you play as mayor of a rundown city. As mayor, you may be tasked with developing buildings, hiring workers, and attracting vacationers all whereas navigating the challenges that include working a metropolis. As you construct your city from the bottom up, you can automate and broaden the town, taking it to new heights.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S
Fantasy Life i: The Woman Who Steals Time
The subsequent entry in Degree-5’s Fantasy Life collection, The Woman Who Steals Time, combines time-travel with the collection’ RPG life-simulation formulation to create a singular recreation that duties gamers with build up a ruined island by touring 1,000 years into its previous. As you shuttle between time intervals, you can select an occupation, befriend villagers, and craft new objects as you construct your budding village.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: Nintendo Change
Cozynauts
In Cozynauts, you’re in command of creating your personal colony after the company you’re employed for sends you to a desolate planet in the hunt for new supplies. What begins as a gradual, grueling strategy of gathering sources by hand and upgrading your base turns right into a full-blown operation as you type manufacturing strains, create cozy facilities, and create a real neighborhood. This recreation additionally encompasses a co-op mode, permitting you to fish, dungeoneer, and journey with a buddy as effectively.
Launch date: March 28, 2024
Platforms: PC
Momento
Momento is a relaxing point-and-click recreation the place the objects you grasp on to while doing all your spring cleansing or shifting properties affect the life you in the end lead. From childhood by way of adolescence and maturity, the work, plushies, books, and on a regular basis objects that encompass you go on to form the particular person you’ll change into, taking you thru love, loss, heartbreak, success, and all of life’s ups and downs. Naturally, this recreation has a number of endings and no mistaken solutions, giving gamers numerous freedom to create the life they need.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC
Europa
In Europa, you play as an android named Zee who units out in the hunt for what occurred to the final human. Whereas that may sound like a somber plot, the world Zee explores on Jupiter’s most well-known moon is something however, with lovely vistas, glades, and beautiful remnants of a fallen utopia. In response to its Steam web page, Europa will supply “an intimate story about rising up and humanity’s relationship with nature,” alongside free-flowing motion, hidden risks, and puzzles.
Launch date: April 16, 2024
Platforms: PC
Tiny Glade
Tiny Glade is a beautiful, free-form constructing recreation that gives rest instead of fight, administration, and even narrative. In it, you construct medieval townhomes and castles from the bottom up, forming nice stone barricades, spiraling towers, and stylish archways utilizing intuitive controls with loads of customization choices. It is a low-stakes, enjoyable sandbox recreation that appears best when you’re the sort to spend hours constructing your good home in The Sims.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC
Neva
Neva is the following recreation from developer Nomada Studio, who you would possibly know from its 2018 hit Gris. Very similar to Gris, Neva seems to be an emotionally-charged journey that follows a girl and a curious younger wolf membership who’re certain to 1 one other following “a traumatic encounter with darkish forces.” Because the world falls aside round them, the duo should band collectively and present braveness to prevail by way of the darkness and make it to the opposite facet.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Change, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S
The Gecko God
The Gecko Gods payments itself as a “chill puzzle platformer” that follows a tiny gecko on a mission to avoid wasting their buddy. You will get the prospect to resolve puzzles, discover a mysterious island, and eat bugs as you climb throughout historic ruins and discover what stays of a misplaced civilization.
Launch date: TBA
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S
