Try Before You Buy: These 100+ Cozy Game Demos are Available Right Now

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Master List of Cozy Game Demos

A master list of cozy game demos that you can download and play right now!

Building & Crafting

A Beaver’s Tale: A cozy, adventure RPG where you learn to protect your beaver kits and become a master builder.
An Elaborate History of Chess: A crafting strategy game touring the history of Chess. Build castles, explore dungeons, farm turnips and get checkmated by a tree.
Critter Cove: A deep, open world life sim and town building game set in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. Restore an old town, sail across a mysterious archipelago.
Lou’s Lagoon: Traverse the vibrant Limbo Archipelago in search of your Uncle Lou. Explore the islands, harvest resources, and hone your crafting skills.

Business Management & Shop Keeper

Bathhouse Creatures: Keep your bathtubs clean and filled, serve a cast of whimsical creatures, decorate your bathhouse with your hard earned cash, and be the best bathhouse ever.
Book Bound: A cozy bookshop simulation game. Pick the books you would like to sell and help customers find books they want most.
Cat Cafe Manager: Renovate your restaurant, befriend the local cats and townsfolk, forge lasting friendships, unravel catty mysteries, and build a home for dozens of unique felines.
CraftCraft – Fantasy Merchant Simulator: An RPG merchant sim with hands on crafting. Create a necklace for a mermaid princess or a sword made of dragon blood.
Critter Café: Design and run your own café, care for your critters, uncover the secrets of mysterious portals, and create a wholesome café for all to enjoy.
Deepspace Emporium: Deepspace Emporium is a gritty shopkeeping sim set in the depths of a sprawling space station. Navigate a divided society, balance faction demands, and dodge authorities.
Hotel Galactic: Build and decorate your dream tourist getaway, aid Gustav in his search for redemption, and explore a nostalgic world where bonds with creatures and serene gardens sustain.
Let’s Build a Dungeon: Manage a game studio making the world’s greatest MMORPG. Hire designers, coders, and testers, create a fantasy world, then welcome hundreds of virtual players.
Magic Inn: A charming tavern life simulator. Take on the role of an exiled wizard-turned-innkeeper, overseeing everything from menus, rooms, guests, and staff in a fully magical customizable inn.
Magical Bakery: Experience a life full of magic, challenges, and the joy of creating sweets that will leave a spellbinding impression on your customers.
Magical Delicacy: A magical pixel art platformer. Explore an unfamiliar town and deliver tasty treats to the townsfolk. Cook magical delicacies from your bought and gathered ingredients.
Snacktorio: A factory-cooking simulator where you must satisfy the appetites of unspeakable horrors… with food! Build and manage sprawling networks of machines.
Spiritfarer: A cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife.
Spirittea: The town is crawling with troublesome spirits, and you’re the only one who can see them. You’d better get that old bathhouse up and running, maybe that’ll help them chill out!
Supurr Cat Cafe – Sandwich Rush: With plenty of hungry quirky customers around, you’ll need to upgrade your cafe, find new cats to help you and up your sandwich game to keep them happy!
Tiny Bookshop: Stock your tiny bookshop with different books and items, set up shop in scenic locations, and run your cozy second-hand bookshop while getting to know the locals.
Trash Goblin: A wholesome, cosy shopkeeping game with no time pressure! Uncover and clean trinkets then upcycle them to sell to endless colourful & quirky customers.

City & Community Building

Croakwood: Design and create structures, plan and decorate towns, and explore an ancient forest to guide the growth of a charming community of tiny amphibians.
Dawnfolk: A charmingly dark and minimalist survival city-builder. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows.
Fantastic Haven: Build your shelter to welcome and protect them, explore unique regions, rally neighboring populations to your cause and rehabilitate creatures in their natural environment.
Go-Go Town!: As mayor, it’s up to you to breathe life back into this rundown town. Construct shops, hire staff, automate deliveries with couriers, and attract tourists to town.
Islands & Trains: Craft tiny railway dioramas in a stress-free island sandbox. No rules or timers – just design, build, and enjoy.
Let’s School: Dive into the exhilarating role of a headmaster entrusted to revive your alma mater. Beyond just bricks and mortar, train teachers, recruit students.
Mythmatch: Match items to transform them. Match people to unite them. Rebuild Ithaca, create cute creatures, and defy the gods.
Snacko: Explore, gather, and build up the town from scratch into a place you’ll be proud to call home!

Creature Collection

Beastieball: A turn-based volleyball RPG where you coach a sports team of Beasties. Your Beasties’ relationships grow and change, unlocking new abilities and combo plays.
Bloomtown – A Different Story: A narrative RPG mixing turn-based combat, monster taming and social RPG set in a seemingly pleasant 1960s Americana world.
Bugaboo Pocket: A relaxing, semi-idle pet game starring bugs from land, air and sea! Play as a research scientist living in a cabin with just your bugs and a penpal for company.
Flutter Away: As a butterfly researcher on a five-day camping trip, explore nearby tracks, take photos, meet animal friends, and journal the discoveries found along the way!
Kamaeru – A Frog Refuge: Foster a sanctuary for frogs and restore the biodiversity of the wetlands in Kamaeru, a cozy frog collecting game, where you take pictures of frogs and play mini-games.
Little Friends – Puppy Island: Discover exciting locations, dig up hidden treasures, build and expand your holiday resort, and meet plenty of lovable little friends to care for.
Moonstone Island: A creature-collecting life-sim set in an open world with 100 islands to explore. Make friends, brew potions, collect Spirits, and test your strength in card-based encounters.
Neko Odyssey: Casual adventure game where the main gameplay centers around taking pictures of cats. Cute, pixel art graphics in a 3D setting.
Slime Rancher: A plucky, young rancher sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Comedy & Silliness

Building Relationships: Play as a building as you roll, jump, and wave-dash across a cozy island. Meet eligible structures, romance them, and experience a bizarre, yet oddly familiar story.
FROGGONIT: FROGGONIT was trying to be the best explorer but accidentally covered the island with darkness! Hop into this comedy adventure game full of secrets and help your animal friends.
Manitas Kitchen: A casual cooking game with a dressing of arcade and mini-games. Meet Trexito, a T-Rex with short arms that has one dream: to become the best pizza maker!
Monster Mop Up: Rescue the scared little Ragamuffins from the human world and clean up all evidence of their existence. Mop stains, burn poop, and get rewarded.

Design & Decor

Camper Van – Make it Home: Embark on a journey of self-discovery as you build your own home-on-wheels, using a combination of creative block organization puzzles and relaxing interior design.
Garden Galaxy: Discover, collect and organise to create your own unique garden in this relaxing idle/creative sandbox.
Nom Nom – Cozy Forest Café: A cozy and relaxing decoration and rhythm game where you manage a café and befriend cute animals.
Room In Dream: Discover, collect, and assemble furniture to decorate your little cozy room and surrounding environment in the peaceful land.

Exploration & Platforming

Albatroz: A backpacking adventure RPG that will take you through majestic landscapes in search of your lost sibling.
Caravan SandWitch: Embark on a journey across vast landscapes in Caravan SandWitch, a captivating narrative-driven exploration adventure.
Crescent County: Make deliveries, trick out your broom, and race your new friends (and crushes) as the sun sets in this witch-tech open world.
Europa: Run, glide and fly across Europa’s landscape, solve mysteries in the ruins of a fallen utopia, and discover the story of the last human alive.
Morgan – Metal Detective: A cozy, first person metal detector adventure game, where you reunite residents of the beautiful Cornish island of Glasden with things they have lost.
Paws and Leaves – A Last Tale: Join “Me,” a dying fox finding his memories on his last journey and experience a touching, emotional tale.
Scarlet Deer Inn: An embroidered narrative platformer with an emotional story, an interesting cast of characters, a dark dungeon full of monsters, and a world inspired by Slavic folklore.
Teeto: A 3D adventure platformer where you play as a tiny blob and bunny duo on an extraordinary journey.

Farm & Life Sims

Alpine Lake: Build and decorate your inn to bring joy and prosperity to the community. Farm, cook, and entertain them in your own unique way!
Artisan Story: Tame monsters from the dungeon, tend to your fantasy farm, collect materials and craft recipes, and experience a carefree story rich fantasy life.
Cattails – Wildwood Story: Become a cat in this cozy life sim RPG. You’ll lead your colony into the mysterious Wildwood to hunt prey, harvest herbs, and collect magical treasures.
Cornucopia: A nostalgic 2.5D farm sim with 74 exotic crops, loyal pets bred for amazing genetics, and 34+ marriage candidates.
Critter Crops: Enter the world of Mutter Island as Sylvie, a newfound witch with the ability to grow magical Critters.
Delverium: Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for up to 4 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading ‘Faults’ and restore stability to the land.
Everafter Falls: Farm, fish, forge and fight to restore the peace in an all-new farming adventure. Features split-screen coop, a helpful pet, and a card-eating progression system.
Fae Farm: Escape to the magical life of your dreams in Fae Farm, a farm sim RPG for 1-4 players. Craft, cultivate, and decorate to grow your homestead.
Gaucho and the Grassland: Enjoy the amazing experience of being a Gaucho, a latin cowboy, and take care of your own land.
Grimshire: Manage your farmland, forage the bounty of the wilds, prevent your harvest from rotting away and keep the root cellar full. Can you help bring the community together and survive?
Harvest Island: Living with your family on a remote island, you discover a sinister purpose of your existence. Question everything and fake your blissful farming days.
Little-Known Galaxy: Little-Known Galaxy is a cozy single-player RPG space adventure full of friendly characters, exploration, crafting, and farming.
Moonlight Peaks: Master the art of potions and spells, manage your supernatural farm, and leave your mark on the magical town.
Paleo Pines: Befriend dinos and enlist their help to fix up your ranch and farm crops to create your cozy dino sanctuary.
Ritual of Raven: Ritual of Raven is a story-based farming sim. Enchant Arcana Constructs to grow a magical herb garden, befriend a cute bunch of weirdos, and use your witchy skills.
Sugardew Island: Take care of your animals and your farm, sell your goods to the cute Forest Folk, upgrade the island and fulfill small orders from the Harmony Tree.
Sunrise’s Order: A farm simulation game in which the player is alone on an island, and seeks to become an accomplished small farmer.
Wanderstop: From the creator of The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide comes Wanderstop, a narrative-centric cozy game about change and tea.
Wylde Flowers: Join Tara on a heartfelt journey to become a witch in Wylde Flowers. Farm by day, and cast spells by night as you craft your cottagecore life and bond with your coven.

Interactive Fiction & Visual Novels

A Space for the Unbound: Explore a crumbling town and help friends face their inner demons, which could be the key to stopping reality itself disintegrating.
A Weekend in Puzzleburg: A cozy slice-of-life role-playing game with over 180,000 ways your weekend vacation can play out.
Arcade Spirits: Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred.
Cabernet: Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist.
Cage of Roses: Follow Meike, a young woman from an impoverished noble family, as she’s swept off her feet by the mysterious Magdalena: a vampire who possesses a dark secret.
Coffee Talk Episode 2 – Hibiscus & Butterfly: Meet your customers again in the second episode of the much loved coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator.
despelote: A slice-of-life adventure about childhood and the magical grip soccer held over the people of Quito, Ecuador in 2001.
Eternights: Eternights is a dating action game where you try to make the most out of life during the apocalypse. Monday: Go on a date. Tuesday: Clear dungeon. Friday: Freak out!
Fall of Porcupine: An emotional story about a young doctor who struggles to find his place. Accompany Finley in a lovingly illustrated world and uncover the darkest secrets of Porcupine.
Lake: It’s 1986 and Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks?
Love at The Milky Way Diner: A LGBT-friendly cozy sci-fi cooking/dating sim about making friends, finding love, and running a diner in deep space.
Misgiven: Misgiven is an emotional sci-fi adventure about the lump in your throat. Stranded in a city veiled in toxic fog, take on a stranger’s mask to survive. Find allies as a harbinger of doom.
Monster Prom: You have 3 weeks to get a date for Monster Prom! Go through absurd and funny situations, raise your stats and seduce one of your classmates.
Monster Prom 2 – Monster Camp: Monster Prom 2 – Monster Camp brings you more of the world’s best (and maybe only?) multiplayer dating sim; but in a way you’ve never expected!
Monster Prom 3 – Monster Roadtrip: Embark on a road trip like no other in this co-op narrative survival adventure. And yes: you still can date some hot monsters.
Mythwrecked – Ambrosia Island: You’re shipwrecked on a lost mythical island. As backpacker Alex, you must befriend the forgotten gods of Greek mythology and restore their memories.
Rosewater: A thrilling Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City! Embark on a harrowing journey across the frontier with Harley Leger and her ragtag posse.
SANYA: A playful narrative adventure about the warmth of fleeting childhood memories: about a little boy named Sanya and rescuing a stray puppy.
Soulitaire: Open your own cozy fortune-telling cafe: the Soulitaire! Receive your guests. Listen to their troubles. Lay the cards and divine their future!
Spiral: A third-person narrative exploration game that shares a poetic vision of cognitive degeneration. Help Bernard brave his unravelling mind, reliving his most treasured moments.
Tavern Talk: A cozy visual novel about running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood: Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home.

Match-3 Games & Merge Games

Princess Farmer: A charming visual-novel meets match-3 gameplay, with a host of adorable characters to befriend, mysteries to solve, and fashion to collect.
Spirit Swap – Lofi Beats to Match-3 To: Cast spells, be queer, and crash the biggest concert of the year! Spirit Swap is an action-puzzle meets narrative game set in a lush world of witchy demons.
Teeny Tiny Town: Connect three identical tiles to evolve your city, merge by merge. Watch your metropolis grow from scratch, from ‘aww’ to ‘awesome!’

Mystery & Whodunnit

On Your Tail: A cozy detective adventure where you play as a vacation-bound writer who stumbles upon an idyllic town plagued by an enigmatic thief. Crack the case in this charming seaside town.
Phoenix Springs: Lose yourself in the mystery of Phoenix Springs, a modern point-and-click set in a cryptic neo-noir world.
Spill the Beans: A secret recipe has been stolen and you’re charged with finding the culprit…trouble is, you’re the one whodunnit. Investigate, interrogate and frame the perfect scapegoat.
The Case of the Golden Idol: Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.
The Rise of the Golden Idol: The Award-winning detective saga returns in this standalone sequel. Uncover the truth behind 20 strange cases of crime, death and depravity in the 1970s.

Nature & Fishing

Captain Pawsome: Craft, upgrade, customize, and conquer the high seas. Clean the environment, catch unique fish, and set sail with Captain Pawsome on the relaxing 2D fishing adventure.
Mudborne – Frog Management Sim: Mudborne is a casual nature management sim about discovering and breeding frogs!
Spilled!: Clean up ocean waste in this short & relaxing game! Recycle, earn coins and upgrade your boat. Explore new areas. Clean bigger spills and different kinds of waste!
The Guardian of Nature: A hand-drawn, size-changing adventure. Embark on a magical journey with botanist Henry, use your size-changing ability to explore nature in big and small.

Physics & Movement Fun

A Webbing Journey: Swing around the house, weave crazy structures, play with physics-based objects, and pull off chores with nothing but your webs and your wits.
Golf by the way: A fast-paced real-time mini-golf party game with no stroke count! Play as an actual golfer in real-time and go SMACK your friends’ golf ball or even your friends themselves.
Jumping Jazz Cats: Play, race and hang with your feline friends in this online platformer party game! Sprint, jump, bounce, swing, skid and slide through a collection of mini-games.
Olliefrog Toad Skater: Olliefrog Toad Skater is the amphibian-based skateboarding game where its easy to be steezy!
PlateUp!: Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations.
PowerWash Simulator: Fire up your power washer and blast away every speck of dirt and grime you can find, all with the simple satisfaction of power-washing to a sparkling finish.

Puzzles & Brainteasers

Arranger – A Role-Puzzling Adventure: Find your way in a world of breezy, thoughtful puzzles, along a charming journey of self-discovery.
Behind the Frame – The Finest Scenery: Guide brush strokes and solve a variety of puzzles to help an aspiring artist complete her masterpiece amid her brusque neighbor’s gaze and his pesky cat.
Bonfire Peaks: Set your belongings on fire on a beautiful, bite-sized puzzler game about closure. Move onwards, move upwards, and leave nothing behind.
Botany Manor: Explore your house and gardens, filled with research, to figure out the ideal habitat of forgotten flora.
Broken Shell: Join Mr. and Mrs. Hermit, an adorable couple, as they navigate through a charming world filled with puzzles, challenges, and heartwarming moments.
Bytebond: Bytebond is an electrifying online & couch co-op puzzle game that challenges you to regain control over an infected CPU.
Chants of Sennaar: Award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages.
Instants: Assemble a chronological puzzle of family photos to piece together their most cherished memories. Uncover the family’s life story as you arrange the pictures in the correct order.
Islands of Insight: Seek out and solve 10,000+ puzzles at your own pace across this sublime puzzle game.
Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo: Use your wits, kindness, and maybe a good whack to gather clues, items, and evidence that will help the residents of Limbo move on.
Lost and Found Co.: Lost and Found Co. is a hidden object adventure in a cozy and immersive world. Join a cast of quirky characters on their epic journey across countless magical locations.
Papertris: Papertris is a fast and exciting arcade puzzle game that combines classic gameplay with fresh new features.
Pro Philosopher 2 – Governments & Grievances: The “Debating Sim” returns! Engage famous philosophers of all stripes, challenge their ideas, and change the world.
Projected Dreams: Drag toys from the shelves and drop them on the table to create a shadow play in this cozy puzzle game set in the 90s.
Prose & Codes: Explore the wonderful world of books through deceptively simple cryptograms. 10% of every purchase benefits Project Gutenberg, an online library of over 60,000 free ebooks.
Ringo’s Roundup: Solve grid-based puzzles, guide Postbunny Ringo’s car through a variety of environments and collect all the scattered envelopes in this cute pathfinding puzzle game!
Rooster: A heartfelt, story-rich casual puzzle adventure celebrating the best of ancient Chinese culture. Explore an exquisitely hand-drawn world with delightful surprises.
Spring Tales: A cozy 2D puzzle adventure game. Help the charming residents of Blossomdale prepare for their spring festival by solving puzzles and rebuilding after a storm.
Squeakross – Home Squeak Home: Solve and transform puzzles into furniture to decorate the perfect home for your rodent friend. Collect hundreds of decorations, accessories and stickers.
STRAND: Face mind-bending puzzles to escape an infinite time loop while uncovering the fate of your crew.
Strange Horticulture: Play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult.
Tidy Backpack: Tidy Backpack is a relaxing puzzle game where you must organize found fantasy loot in your backpack in a tidy way.
Tidy Cauldron: Help 3 messy witches tidy up their chaos! Arrange magical ingredients to fit perfectly within increasingly bigger grids through 115 puzzles in pixel art.
Townframe: A relaxing puzzle game where you recreate towns from people’s memories. Solve riddles by either modifying the buildings or using different tools.
Undusted – Letters from the Past: A casual game in which you clean and restore dirty items. What is her story as she returns to a long-neglected house?

Rhythm & Rhyme

Bits & Bops: Filled with catchy music, snappy gameplay and gorgeous, hand-drawn animation, Bits & Bops is a collection of original rhythm mini-games.
Telegraphist 1920 – Beats of War: A narrative rhythm game set in 1920. Become a telegraphist and tap out life-or-death messages in Morse code.

RPG-Lite Adventures

Dice ‘n Goblins: Dice ‘n Goblins is a cute, turn-based RPG that blends luck and strategy as you battle using dice rolls. Master your skills, chain powerful combos, and overcome the whims of fortune.
Grimoire Groves: Master magic, grow cute plant creatures and discover the mystery of the Rainbow Socks in this cozy, rogue-lite dungeon crawler.
Potion Permit: Moonbury’s residents need healing, and you’re the best chemist around! Diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.
SEDAP! A Culinary Adventure: A co-op cooking-combat adventure that combines the chaos of a collaborative kitchen and the wonders of adventuring into an unexplored world.
The Edge of Allegoria: Turn-based RPG, inspired by classic titles from the golden age of handheld gaming. But make no mistake: This ain’t no f@#%ing kid’s game.

Sandbox Stuff

APICO: A laid-back beekeeping sim game about breeding, collecting, and conserving bees, all set in a series of lush environments.
ROVA: A Cosy Space-Rover Photography Game. Help a new space colony conduct research on large spherical planets, by documenting elements of alien worlds through photography.
Simpler Times: An experiential, interactive meditation that rewards patience and attention with poignant moments that can be replayed like a favorite song.
Solarpunk: Solarpunk is a survival game in a technically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, and craft gadgets.
Under Canopies: Set your own pace as you immerse yourself in activities like building and decorating your cabin, animal husbandry, and crafting delicious meals.

Stay cozy, gamers!

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