Is it just me, or has 2026 been a whirlwind so far? My inbox is filling up with cozy games released in 2026, and I feel like I have hardly covered a fraction of them. There are so many great cozy games coming out so fast, I figured I would put a list together. Use this as your own personal checklist if you are looking for new cozy games to play right now.
What is a Cozy Game?
Here’s what I tend to count as a cozy game:
- Farming and life sims
- Puzzle games
- Casual games
- Point-and-click games
- Visual novels
- Creature collectors
- Exploration & atmospheric
- Dating sims
- Decorating & dress-up
2026 New Cozy Games List [So Far]
Here are some 2026 cozy games that caught my eye so far:
Starsand Island – Stylized farming sim in Early Access
Released: 11 Feb, 2026
Starsand Island is a sun-drenched life sim about trading concrete skylines for capybaras, terrace gardens, and the hush of a Moonlit Forest that practically begs you to linger. In Early Access, it already offers a generous buffet of cozy staples, farming, fishing, crafting, bug catching, dungeon delving, and an almost Sims-level devotion to building and decorating, letting you sculpt a seaside villa carrot by carrot if you so choose.
The island is undeniably beautiful and bursting with things to do, but much like a wide tidal pool, some of its systems feel shallow at this stage, with NPCs who need deeper dialogue roots and progression that can blur into repetition. Still, there is a warm, earnest heart beating beneath the sand, and if the developers can enrich its characters and smooth its rougher edges, this could evolve into something as expansive emotionally as it already is mechanically.
Another Day with You – Cute, casual mini-games galore
Released: 14 Feb, 2026
Another Day with You is a deceptively gentle time management adventure that turns an early arrival into a quiet existential boss fight against the clock. You wander a compact corner of the city filling the hours with arcade cabinets, fishing holes, hide and seek, and suspiciously competitive ducks, all while the game silently tallies whether you are building chemistry or drafting your own unread message.
Every minigame is more than a distraction, it is social ammunition, shaping future conversations and determining whether your date sees you as charmingly prepared or catastrophically winging it. It is colorful, cozy, and lightly cruel in the way only romance can be, reminding you that love is not just about showing up, but about how you spend the waiting.
RoboCo – Sandbox game about designing and building robots
Released: 6 Feb, 2026
RoboCo is a physics sandbox where you play equal parts engineer and babysitter, snapping together jittery metal limbs to serve the delicate, sandwich-craving humans of tomorrow. Its editor is the real star, a toybox of motors, hinges, microcontrollers, and Python hooks that lets you build anything from a polite dinner assistant to a wobbling catastrophe held together by optimism and duct tape logic.
The open-ended challenges feel like science fair projects judged by chaos itself, rewarding creativity while quietly daring you to overcomplicate everything. It is charming, clever, and occasionally shadowed by its own development history, but when the gears catch and your ridiculous creation finally works, it feels like you have personally high-fived the future.
Bento Blocks – An ingredient-cutting puzzle game
Released: 29 Jan, 2026
Bento Blocks is a deceptively serene logic puzzler that asks you to slice ingredients with surgical precision and then quietly judges how efficient you were about it. Across more than 180 levels, it layers new mechanics at a steady, thoughtful pace, turning simple cuts into spatial riddles that feel closer to choreography than cooking.
The hand painted art and live recorded soundtrack wrap everything in a soft, rain-dappled calm, but beneath that coziness is a star system that rewards restraint and exposes every unnecessary flourish. It is bite sized, occasionally inconsistent in difficulty, and deeply satisfying when a perfect no-waste solution clicks into place like the lid snapping shut on a finished lunchbox.
Spring Tales – Cozy puzzle adventure about fixing & organize
Released: 29 Jan, 2026
Spring Tales is a short, cozy puzzle adventure about rebuilding a storm-tossed town in time for a spring festival that feels more symbolic than spectacular. You follow five residents of Blossomdale through stacking, sorting, circuit-fixing, and baking minigames that are woven gently into a story about community and recovery.
The hand-drawn art is bright and inviting, and the puzzles are approachable to the point of near effortlessness, making it feel more like an interactive picture book than a brain-burner. It is sweet and sincere, if occasionally rushed and tonally uneven, best enjoyed as a brief palate cleanser rather than a fully bloomed seasonal epic.
Escape from Ever After – Anti-capitalism satirical adventure RPG
Released: 23 Jan, 2026
Escape from Ever After is a sharply written, Paper Mario–inspired adventure where fairytale heroes clock in at a corporate office and decide they have had quite enough of capitalism. You play as a freshly hired storybook protagonist climbing the corporate ladder from the inside, teaming up with former villains, solving noir-tinged mysteries, and navigating wildly inventive worlds that feel like pop-up books with teeth.
Combat is snappy and strategic, built around timed action commands, stance-shifting enemies, and a flexible badge style system that rewards experimentation without ever feeling bloated. Beneath its cardboard charm and jazzy big-band swagger is a surprisingly earnest story about labor, identity, and reclaiming your narrative, wrapped in humor that actually lands rather than winking at you from a distance.
Nom Nom: Cozy Forest Café – Bake & brew to the beat
Released: 12 Jan, 2026
Nom Nom: Cozy Forest Café is a rhythm-laced café sim that trades stress for sparkle, asking you to bake waffles and brew boba in time with bright, buoyant beats while woodland regulars wait patiently for their treats. The real hook is control, down to the gloss on your chair legs and the icing swirl on a single cookie, with custom art tools that let you stamp your personality onto everything from latte foam to wall décor.
Its daily loop is intentionally gentle and sometimes repetitive, customers order, you tap through a familiar rhythm sequence, you decorate, you cash out, but the absence of pressure feels like design, not deficiency. It is less about mastery and more about mood, a small forest sanctuary where creativity matters more than efficiency and the loudest thing in the room is your own sense of calm.