It’s that magical time of year again when Steam has a MASSIVE sale. The Steam Autumn Sale is in full swing and it has a ton of cozy games on sale!
I know it can be a bit overwhelming to go through the list and make your choices, so I’ve put together a list of 50 cozy games that all boast an “overwhelmingly positive” score on Steam. That means these are certifiably good games based on not just my own opinion, but the opinion of other cozy gamers at large.
This list showcases games from several different genres, so I feel pretty confident in saying that everyone should be able to find at least one game from this list!
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Cozy games in the Steam Autumn Sale
Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi
Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi is a productivity tool that has to-do lists, a Pomodoro timer, a notepad, and lo-fi music with ambient sounds. While it’s designed to help you focus, you have the ability to customize your avatar, decorate your space, and adopt pets to keep you company. If you want to body double, there is a multiplayer feature that allows you to hang out with others so that you’re not alone in your endeavors. Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi is 50% off, making it $2.49.
Kabuto Park
Kabuto Park is primarily a bug collection game, but it has deck-building elements. Spend a month on summer vacation playing as a little girl named Hana. You’ll catch bugs and level them up before picking a team to compete in the Summer Beetle Battles. Each bug you pick will add cards to your deck that can be used during the fight. Build up the best team that you can and become the Summer Beetle Battles Champion! Kabuto Park is 30% off, making it $3.49.
Ropuka’s Idle Island
Ropuka’s Idle Island is an idling game where you play as a small frog who is cutting grass for money. Over time, you’ll be able to use your earnings to buy items that you can decorate your floating island with and dress up your frog in. Along the way, you’ll invest in skills that will make your frog more efficient at cutting grass. Ropuka’s Idle Island is 30% off, making it $2.79.
Maltese’s Fluffy Onsen
Maltese’s Fluffy Onsen is a simulation game where you run a bathhouse for animals. It sits at the bottom of the screen, so you can play and get things done at the same time. Place baths of varying temperatures, build a waiting room, and put down food stalls and vending machines to cater to your customer base. Hire staff to help you keep the floors dry and to restock supplies. Maltese’s Fluffy Onsen is 30% off, making it $4.19.
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. Thrifty Business is 15% off, making it $11.04.
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 35% off, making it $11.69.
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, making it $5.99.
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 25% off, making it $11.24.
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 70% off, making it $4.79.
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 30% off, making it $8.39.
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, making it $0.98.
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 to decorate your own home. Whisper of the House is 20% off, making it $11.99.
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, making it $6.99.
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, making it $6.99.
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, making it $4.99.
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, making it $10.04.
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, making it $3.99.
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, making it $10.39.
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 50% off, making it $9.99.
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. Loddlenaut is 70% off, making it $5.99.
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 about 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, making it $3.99.
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, making it $1.79.
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 20% off, making it $3.99.
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. Beacon Pines is 70% off, making it $5.99.
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 of 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, making it $11.99.
Town to City
Town to City is a city-builder that will have you building up a 19th-century Mediterranean town. With a gridless design, you’re free to place homes and shops wherever you’d like. Even though you have the freedom to build and decorate as you like, you’ll still need to make sure the needs of your town folk are met. Be sure that you’re placing down amenities that they need and invest in research that will allow you to pursue new developments in farming, development, and more! Town to City is 25% off, making it $22.49.
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 60% off, making it $4.79.
Smushi Come Home
Smushi Come Home is an open-world adventure game where you play as a little mushroom lost in the woods, trying to find your way home. You’ll explore different areas of the forest, learn about real mushrooms in a Mycology Journal, and take part in light platforming and puzzle solving. I can’t recommend this game enough; it’s one that I think of fondly and wish I could play for the first time again. I really enjoyed the freedom to explore and decompress in a whimsical little world. Plus, you get to collect different mushroom hats! Smushi Come Home is 60% off, making it $7.99.
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure is an exploration game where you play as Alba, a little girl visiting her grandparents on a Mediterranean island. You’ll wander around taking pictures of wildlife, cleaning up messes, helping animals, and maybe even thwarting a corporate takeover! This game is the definition of freedom for me. I could run in any direction and have something to do. It was so relaxing to just sink into the game with no timers or challenges. Alba: A Wildlife Adventure is 80% off, making it $3.39.
Little Kitty, Big City
Little Kitty, Big City is an exploration adventure game where you take on the role of a cat who has fallen from the window of your home and must find your way back up. The city is full of quests for you to complete and silly hats for you to find. I so enjoyed this game. I love quests, so getting to run around the city completing things was a joy. And it’s even better than when I played because you can customize your cat character! I’m going to have to replay it to make my own kitty. Little Kitty, Big City is 50% off, making it $12.49.
Moomintroll: Winter’s Warmth
Moomintroll: Winter’s Warmth is a follow-up to Snufkin: Melody of Moonminvalley. You’ll discover a frost-covered Moonminvalley after waking up early from hibernation, and must work with your neighbors to banish the Lady of Cold’s grip on the land. Overcome challenges, explore the land, and fall into the nostalgia of Moomin. Moomintroll: Winter’s Warmth is 20% off, making it $15.99.
Tukoni: Forest Keepers
Tukoni: Forest Keepers is a puzzle adventure where you play as a Tukoni forest spirit. Autumn is just around the corner and it’s your job to help prepare the forest and its inhabitants for the coming seasonal change. You’ll encounter several different types of puzzles as you help make pillows and blankets. You won’t have to worry about what you need to do because your Notebook will help guide you in the right direction and offer help for solving puzzles if you hit a roadblock. Tukoni: Forest Keepers is 30% off, making it $6.99.
A Webbing Journey
A Webbing Journey is a physics-based game where you embody a spider. However, there is an arachnophobia mode that will turn you into a harmless ball if you have a fear of spiders. You’ll swing around rooms completing quests with no time limits and at your own pace. I’ve played this game and I wasn’t sure I’d enjoy it because of how physics-based it was, but I actually had a really fun time figuring out how to move things with webs. A Webbing Journey is 30% off, making it $6.99.
Leaf it Alone
Leaf it Alone is a relaxing, cleaning sim where you clean up the leaves that have fallen in your yard. You can pick them up by hand or equip a rake and leaf blower. As you progress, you can upgrade your tools to complete the task faster. There’s even a leaderboard in-game if you want to get competitive with it. Leaf it Alone is 20% off, making it $4.79.
Garden Galaxy
Garden Galaxy is a garden-building game that is built by offering coins around the area to a pot that will spit out randomized objects in return. With those objects, you’ll be able to create your own unique garden that won’t ever be the same garden twice. Sell what you don’t like for more coins and try to find all the different items that are available. Galaxy Garden is 50% off, making it $4.99.
Undusted: Letters from the Past
Undusted: Letters from the Past is a cleaning game with an emotional story attached to it. You play as a young girl cleaning up objects from the house you grew up in after your mom dies. You didn’t have the best relationship, so there are hard feelings attached to some of the pieces. There are no time limits, so you can take your time with the story. Undusted: Letters from the Past is 30% off, making it $6.99.
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 40% off, making it $4.79.
Virtual Cottage 2
Virtual Cottage 2 is a life sim that is more of a focus aid rather than a game. Create a cozy cottage using hundreds of items, individualize your avatar, and use built-in productivity tools to achieve your goals. Go it alone or invite your friends to vibe alongside you. Virtual Cottage is 25% off, making it $5.99.
ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs
ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs is a story-driven shop management simulator set in mid-2000s Tokyo. You’ll restore items inspired by beloved and iconic electronics. With a branching storyline, your responses and choices with customers will shape the story. Pull items apart to make repairs and be sure that everything is scrubbed up nicely. While the game has a lot of adjacently named electronics, nostalgic gamers will be excited to learn that this game features iconic Atari consoles, officially licensed for the game. ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs is 20% off, making it $15.99.
Leafy Corner
Leafy Corner is a shop management game where you run a little plant shop. You’ll grow and care for over 100 unique plants and get to watch them grow right in front of you. The customers who come in may need help with requests and some of them may be trickier than others to fulfil. In your downtime, you can decorate your shop to make it a warm and inviting place to visit or even customize your avatar. By completing tasks, your shop will progress and earning reputation will unlock new content. Leafy Corner is 20% off, making it $7.99.
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley is a musical adventure game. You’ll play as Snufkin and protect the valley from the Park Keeper while restoring harmony and balance to the land. It features a gorgeous storybook art style and has over 50 characters and creatures to meet. Delve into the open world and solve musical and environmental puzzles. Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley is 50% off, making it $9.99.
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 seasons and festivals, and buy a VHS or two from the shady salesman out back to become a thriving rental shop. Retro Rewind is 30% off, making it $13.93.
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 30% off, making it $5.59.
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, making it $6.39.
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 navigate multiple storybook worlds. Create a party that resonates with you, decorate your office, help with side quests, find treasures, discover secrets, and even engage in office banter! Escape from Ever After is 35% off, making it $16.24.
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, making it $4.99.
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 25% off, making it $11.24.
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, making it $14.39.
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, making it $2.39.
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, making it $7.49.
Let me know in the comments what you’re getting from the Steam Autumn Sale and, as always, may your gaming sessions be comfy and cozy!
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