Wholesome Games dropped Wholesome Snack: The Game Awards Edition 2025 this week, highlighting over 20 cute and cozy indie games, from typing adventures to life sims, hidden objects, and even post-apocalyptic survival.
Navigate over to the Wholesome Snack 2025 Steam page to expand your wishlist, and discover free demos.
Cozy game fans should also check out the new Wholesome Snack 2025 Showcase Bundle on Humble. The bundle features nine highly-rated cozy indie games, including the recently released On Your Tail. Plus, purchasing the bundle helps support the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The minimum purchase is $12, but consumers can choose to donate more.
Here is a quick rundown of all the new games from the Wholesome Snack: The Game Awards Edition 2025 showcase!
Bits & Bops
A cute rhythm game that combines hand-drawn 2D animation with catchy original music and over 20 mini-games. It’s out now on Steam, with console releases to follow.
Release: Out now on Steam!
Thrifty Business
A management sim where you run your the coziest, 90s-inspired thrift store in town. Customize the shelves, flooring, wallpaper, and more as you satisfy requests and host events.
Release: 2026
Lost and Found Co.
A hidden object game inspired by Where’s Waldo, starring a duck-turned-human on a quest to help people recover lost items and memories.
Release: Feb. 11, 2026
B-e-e-t-l-e: Be Right Back
A cute crocodile searches for their lost beetle in this typing adventure that uses the keyboard to solve different puzzle and challenges.
Release: TBA
Wylde Society
Wylde Society is a 3D period drama life sim starring Vivan Wylde, a young witch socialite in the town of Fairhaven.
Release: TBA
Moomintroll: Winter’s Warmth
A cozy point and click adventure inspired by the Moomin stories by author Tove Jansson, the Moomintroll explores his harsh Nordic valley in the dead of winter.
Release: TBA
Verdant
In a post-apocalyptic 1980s world, a young man named Sprout has the magical powers of life and death in the palm of his hands, and he’ll need them to survive, gather resources, craft gear, and shape his unique future.
Release: TBA
Spirit Crossing
Currently available via Early Access on Android and iOS mobile devices via Netflix (and coming soon to Steam), Spirit Crossing is a co-op life sim with charming 2D animation, from the developers of Cozy Grove.
Release: 2026
Travel Pack
A narrative game inspired by board games, players travel across a tiny world of terrain tiles and dice rolls, meeting fellow travelers and scoring points.
Release: 2026
Mirage Miracle Quest
A classic turn-based JRPG starring a magical girl, er, magical cat exorcist named Mirage. Mirage Miracle Quest infuses turn-based combat with cards and deckbuilding as Mirage gathers allies and battles evil spirits.
Release: TBA
Cozy Caravan
Become a traveling cook and merchant in the adorably anthropomorphic world of Cozy Caravan. Travel the world cooking meals, sharing your goods, and participating in local events and minigames across Harvestvale.
Release: Jan. 8, 2026
Fishbowl
A coming-of-age visual novel starring a young woman who works as a video editor, as she rediscovers her own childhood through her late grandmother.
Release: April 2026
Find Your Words
Created by two dads, Find Your Words is a youthful adventure game set at summer camp, where you learn new symbols to communicate via pictures.
Release: 2026
Arcane Eats
One of my most anticipated indie games of 2026 is this roguelike deckbuilder themed around food competition in a fun fantasy world.
Release: 2026
CatchMaker
A 3D bug-collecting adventure with a surprise dating twist: catch bugs and match them together for romance!
Release: 2026
Pandemonium Merge
A physics-based cooking game where players need to combine their ingredients just right within their sizzling skillet over an outdoor campfire.
Release: TBA
Zitifono
A 3D island-based adventure game where you explore an archipelago, and meet its friendly denizens, with your very own motorboat.
Release: TBA
Coffee Talk Tokyo
A coffee shop visual novel set in Japan, where humans freely mingle with yokai, featuring the return of Lo-fi Beats composer AJ from Coffee Talk.
Release: March 5, 2026
Mandrake
Mandrake is a farming sim-RPG from the developers of Sunless Seas, set in a fantasy world that combines druidic magic and gardening.
Release: TBA
ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs
A sim-puzzle adventure set in 2000s-era Tokyo, where players run an electronics repair shop where they fix and restore familiar devices such as consoles, music players, and cell phones.
Release: 2026
D-topia
Published by Annapurna Interactive, D-topia is a sci-fi adventure puzzle game where you solve logic puzzles to keep the residents of D-topia happy.
Release: 2026
Look for the next Wholesome Games showcase in the Wholesome Direct, schedule for Summer 2026.
