Apple Arcade has quietly become a haven for cozy gaming! The current Apple Arcade games library is bursting with cozy games that let you farm, decorate, solve puzzles, or just explore at your own pace. Each cozy game on Apple Arcade offers its own kind of meditative calm—but the “coziest” part about it is there are absolutely no ads or microtransactions. In anything. That’s right: In order to be on Apple Arcade, developers have to offer a stripped down version that is just game. No money-making gimmicks or distractions allowed.
To me, that’s what truly makes Apple Arcade cozy. I’m tired of being “sold to” at every opportunity. Sometimes, I just want peace and quite…and a cozy coloring or puzzle game to play on my iPad over tea. Here are the best cozy games on Apple Arcade I recommend trying out.
What is Apple Arcade?
Apple Arcade is a monthly subscription-service that gives you access to hundreds of games on any Apple device: iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. There are no ads in your games if you subscribe. My favorite feature, though, is that you can share your membership with up to five people without any sort of upgrade or price increase. This makes it a pretty obvious wins for iPad kid families and the like.
Apple has done something cool that I haven’t seen before, too. They have completely removed microtransactions from the mobile games on their service. That means zero “tap here to buy more gems” guilt spiral.
The Apple Arcade catalog rotates and grows over time, mixing original exclusives with expanded “+” versions of beloved App Store hits. You download what you want, play as much as you like, and your progress syncs across devices like a quiet little digital butler.
Apple Arcade also has exclusive cozy games available, like:
How Much Does Apple Arcade Cost?
If you are a brand new user, you can claim 1-3 months of Apple Arcade for free.
Paid plans start at $8/99/month for up to 6 people per account.
You can also bundle Apple Arcade with other Apple products in Apple One for a bundle discount. This is only worth it if you are already an Apple TV, Apple Music, etc. subscriber (or if you are interested in becoming one). Other options for your bundle include Apple Fitness+, Apple News+, and iCloud+, which are slightly more streamlined versions of their compatriot apps.
Best Cozy Games on Apple Arcade: My Top Picks
1. Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Hello Kitty Island Adventure is a pastel-drenched, open-world cozy adventure where friendship is both the currency and the quest. You’ll explore eight vibrant regions of Friendship Island, from coral-kissed ocean floors to cloud-perched hideaways, solving light puzzles, gardening rare blooms, fishing for critters, and slowly restoring the island’s warmth alongside over 40 familiar Sanrio faces.
Cooking and crafting become love languages here, as you tailor the perfect gifts for Hello Kitty, Kuromi, Cinnamoroll, and friends, unlocking new storylines, power-ups, and even more reasons to linger. Cabin renovation and avatar customization lean delightfully indulgent, with hundreds of clothing options and furniture sets that let you build a home that feels stitched together from joy itself.
With year-round festivals, weather events, multiplayer hangouts, and 80+ hours of quests, it’s less a quick getaway and more a soft place to land and stay awhile.
What I Love About Hello Kitty Island Adventure:
✔️ Everyone is so cute, it’s a total serotonin boost
✔️ You can pop in and play whenever, no stress
✔️ Quest markers/paths for if you need help
2. MySims
MySims returns in this retro re-release with polished graphics, inviting you back to a toybox-sized town that’s equal parts struggling and sparkling with potential. You move in as the resident fixer-upper, designing everything from flower shops to mad scientist labs, snapping together furniture and buildings like you’re rebuilding the world one brightly colored block at a time.
The townsfolk are cartoonish and charming, from pirate captains to pastry chefs, each with their own wants, quirks, and friendship meters waiting to be filled. Customization is the heartbeat here: your Sim, your storefronts, your hot tubs and jukeboxes, all shaped by patterns, palettes, and treasures you uncover while exploring.
It’s a softer, more storybook cousin to the mainline The Sims series, where creativity matters more than chaos and what you make truly does make the town bloom.
What I Love About My Sims:
✔️ You can move NPCs in and out based on who you like
✔️ It’s all about decoration and customization
✔️ Filled with The Sims silliness and humor
3. Stardew Valley+
Stardew Valley begins with a letter, a handful of rusty tools, and a field so overgrown it feels personal. You plant parsnips, clear stones, fish at sunset, descend into monster-filled mines, and slowly stitch yourself into a town of thirty-some neighbors with birthdays, baggage, and festival traditions that make the seasons feel sacred.
Whether you restore the crumbling community center or side-eye it while Joja looms in fluorescent blue, Stardew Valley is about coaxing life from tired soil and discovering that the quiet work of tending crops, friendships, and maybe even a family can transform a valley and you right along with it.
Unlike other Apple Arcade games, the “+” doesn’t get you anything new here. Stardew Valley doesn’t have ads or in-app purchases, so there is nothing to optimize. You get everything up to 1.6, but no multiplayer.
What I Love About Stardew Valley+:
✔️ Stardew Valley has 100s of hours of content
✔️ One of the best cozy games of all time
✔️ Constantly being updated, even when we beg ConcernedApe to rest
4. Felicity’s Door
Felicity’s Door opens in a toy-strewn dream bedroom where twins Tom and Felicity awaken beside Mi-chan, allegedly the cutest bear in the world and now very much alive. What follows is a rhythm adventure stitched together with original tracks from composers like Shinji Hosoe and Alex Vourtsanis, each song a doorway into a small, tender story about helping souls in need.
You tap and slide across maps designed with true musicality in mind, less about frantic button-mashing and more about feeling the swell of a violin line or the pulse of an electronic beat under your fingertips. The 42-song launch soundtrack spans genres with confident curiosity, inviting you to discover not just a new favorite track but maybe a whole new corner of your musical heart.
Felicity’s Door feels like it was crafted by people who love music first and games second, and it shows in every note.
🍎 Felicity’s Door is an Apple Arcade exclusive game! 🍎
What I Love About Felicity’s Door:
✔️ The songs are diverse and catchy
✔️ Clearly created by music-lovers
✔️ Adorable graphics and characters
5. Disney Coloring World+
Disney Coloring World is a glitter-dusted digital art studio where kids and grown-ups alike can color inside the lines or gleefully rebel against them alongside Elsa, Moana, Mickey, and what feels like the entire Disney vault. With over 2,000 pages and a rainbow arsenal of brushes, crayons, patterns, stamps, and that oddly satisfying Magic Color tool, it turns screen time into something soft, sparkly, and quietly therapeutic.
You can dress princesses in custom outfits, redecorate places like Arendelle, and wander through interactive 3D playsets that feel like sticker books with a pulse. The experience is safe, ad-free, and playable offline, making it just as perfect for a child’s rainy afternoon as it is for an adult unwinding after a long day.
Coloring was never just for kids, and neither was loving Disney, so consider this your official permission slip to pick up the digital glitter pen.
What I Love About Disney Coloring World+:
✔️ The coloring is SO relaxing
✔️ Nostalgia galore, especially sticker books
✔️ Coloring games are ad-nightmares, so playing ad free feels fresh
6. Piffle
Piffle is a candy-colored arcade puzzle adventure where cats roll into battle as tiny, fluffy cannonballs. You line up your shot, release a stream of wide-eyed Piffle Balls, and watch them ricochet across the board, shattering blocks and stacking up satisfyingly sweet combos.
The villainous Doc Block lurks in the background, but the real joy is in collecting and crafting dozens of absurdly cute companions who are equal parts plush toy and precision weapon. With hundreds of levels spread across bright, bouncy worlds, it’s a pick-up-and-play experience that never rushes you, only gently dares you to aim a little better next time.
Piffle understands that sometimes saving the day looks like launching a parade of weaponized kittens at a wall of geometry, and honestly, that feels right.
What I Love About Piffle:
✔️ Simple, mindless, great on-the-go
✔️ The cats are adorable!
✔️ Great for casual audiences
7. PowerWash Simulator
PowerWash Simulator is the unexpectedly transcendent experience of pointing a high pressure hose at something filthy and refusing to stop until it gleams. Set in the perpetually grubby town of Muckingham, you build a humble cleaning business one patio, playground, and suspiciously muddy vehicle at a time, watching layers of grime peel away in hypnotic ribbons.
There is no ticking clock in Career Mode, no looming disaster, just the gentle percussion of water against concrete and the private thrill of turning brown back into bright. Co-op lets friends join your sudsy crusade, and the parade of delightfully odd DLC jobs, from fairytale swamps to sci-fi cityscapes, keeps the dirt deliciously varied.
PowerWash Simulator is $30+ to play elsewhere, so in my opinion, Apple Arcade is the place to experience it at a more accessible cost.
What I Love About PowerWash Simulator
✔️ Legitimately enters me into a Flow state
✔️ I find virtual cleaning fun
✔️ The different settings are so fun and quirky
8. Sneaky Sasquatch
Sneaky Sasquatch features the furry, mischievous life of a Sasquatch living near a lively campground, where raccoons run shops, ducks handle construction, and bears pay you in exchange for snacks. Start small by sneaking around campers, pilfering food, and evading park rangers, but soon you can don human disguises to blend in, get a job, open a bank account, or even join in sports competitions.
The game is a delightful mashup of sandbox chaos and structured mini-games—from kart races and surfing challenges to snowball fights, golf, and scuba diving—each with its own quirky twist. Along the way, you’ll nurture friendships with 67 characters, care for a virtual pet dog, and explore side activities like mushroom foraging or collecting dinosaur bones for the museum.
It’s a playful, unpredictable life simulator where being sneaky, social, or just plain silly are all equally valid ways to thrive.
🍎 Sneaky Sasquatch is an Apple Arcade exclusive game! 🍎
What I Love About Sneaky Sasquatch
✔️ It’s incredibly smart, witty, and silly
✔️ Gives me Untitled Goose Game vibes
✔️ Love the sandboxy-ness of doing whatever I want
9. Disney Dreamlight Valley
Disney Dreamlight Valley is a cozy, endlessly charming life-sim adventure where you wander a magical world full of Disney and Pixar friends, old and new. The valley has fallen into disarray after the Forgetting, and it’s up to you to explore, solve puzzles, and restore its light while uncovering the stories of iconic heroes, villains, and everyone in between.
You can garden with WALL•E, cook with Remy, or fish alongside Goofy, all while slowly shaping the Valley into a place that feels uniquely yours. Every corner is brimming with secrets, quests, and whimsical touches—from customizing homes and outfits to snapping magical photos with your favorite characters.
To be honest, Dreamlight Valley is a bit of a microtransaction hell on other platforms. That makes it the perfect fit for Apple arcade, which strips all that BS away and just gives you a temptation-free experience.
What I Love About Disney Dreamlight Valley
✔️ Apple Arcade is THE place to play this game: no microtransactions
✔️ Any game I can chill with WALL•E is a 10/10
✔️ A story rich with 90s-00s childhood nostalgia
10. Cooking Mama: Cuisine!
Cooking Mama: Cuisine! is a delightful, hands-on kitchen simulation that turns your screen into a colorful, bustling cooking playground. Each day brings new ingredients and utensils, letting you experiment with recipes in ways that keep every session fresh and surprising.
As you whip, chop, and stir your way through dishes, you unlock customizations, accessories, and even new variations on familiar recipes. The game also tracks your achievements, saves your progress across devices, and lets you personalize your chef with skin tone options.
Cozy, playful, and endlessly replayable, Cooking Mama: Cuisine! is the perfect recipe for relaxed creativity and culinary fun.
🍎 Cooking Mana: Cuisine! is an Apple Arcade exclusive game! 🍎
What I Love About Cooking Mama: Cuisine!
✔️ One of the best cooking game franchises, bar none
✔️ Cartoon veggies but photo realistic meat makes me chuckle
✔️ I actually learned a bit a about cooking!
11. I Love Hue Too+
I Love Hue Too is a mesmerizing, meditative puzzle game that turns color, light, and shape into a playground for your mind. You move tiles to create harmony out of chromatic chaos, arranging mosaics with an almost tactile satisfaction while training your eye to spot the smallest differences between shades.
The game never rushes you, and its offline-friendly design makes it perfect for bus rides, waiting rooms, or quiet moments at home. It balances a soothing, semi-spiritual calm with subtle brain exercise, letting you unwind while still challenging yourself to beat your own move counts.
With richer palettes, new shapes, and a darker, eye-friendly color scheme, I Love Hue Too feels like both a gentle upgrade and a joyful evolution of the original.
What I Love About I Love Hue Too+
✔️ It made me realize I’m not as bad at color recognition as I thought
✔️ The “you win” ripple at the end of each level is so satisfying
✔️ The tactile satisfaction of tapping shapes into place
12. Wylde Flowers
Wylde Flowers is a cozy, heartfelt adventure that blends farming life with a dash of magic, letting you tend crops by day and cast spells by night. You play as Tara, exploring a charming rural island, meeting a memorable cast of fully voiced characters, and uncovering the mysteries and friendships of Fairhaven.
Between fishing, crafting, and caring for animals, you can also brew potions, control the weather, fly on a broomstick, or even transform into a cat, making each day feel delightfully unpredictable. The story is earnest and emotional, weaving personal growth, community bonds, and light romance into every corner of the island.
I will buy and play Wylde Flowers wherever it is available. I own it on Switch, but was excited to start a brand new file on my Apple arcade account.
What I Love About Wylde Flowers
✔️ Everything: read my Wylde Flowers review
✔️ A fully voice acted farming sim [rare!]
✔️ Heartfelt story about prejudice and belonging
Up Next…
What cozy games on Apple Arcade have you tried? What do you think? Let me know in the comments. I’m always looking for new cozy games on Apple Arcade to play and review for my recommendation lists.
Stay cozy, gamers!
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