Last month, I did a brief overview of all the new cozy games released in March 2025. Well, I’m at it again! This month we have creature collectors, visual novels, dynamic life sims, and farming game-lites.
I’m loving that the creature battler genre is popping off this year. Last year, we got Palworld, which was largely talked about as “Pokemon with guns.” In my mind, I was thinking: I don’t want guns in Pokemon???? But I am ready for the creature-collecting genre to get an update beyond what Game Freak seems capable of realizing. It doesn’t have to be more violent, in fact I’d prefer that it wasn’t, but I want something fresh and new and exciting! So, KreatureKind and Portal Fantasy have both piqued my interest.
Right now, I’m playing through (reading through?) Hanako’s Flower Shop. I’ll update you more on that when I complete the game!
What cozy games are you playing this month? And what new releases are you currently looking forward to in 2025? Let me know on Bluesky or in the comments below.
1. KreatureKind – Released 29 Apr, 2025
KreatureKind reimagines the deckbuilder formula with a wholesome twist: instead of battling monsters, you debate them. In this story-rich, single-player card game, your words (and your carefully crafted deck) are your strongest weapons. Choose from a diverse cast of characters, each with their own playstyle, and rally magical creatures to your cause in order to save a fading world.
If you love games with heart, strategy, and a fresh take on conflict, KreatureKind is a must-play.
Key Game Features:
- Debate-Based Combat: Convince monsters to join your cause using carefully constructed card decks.
- Seven Unique Characters: Build your team from a diverse, expressive cast with distinct strengths.
- Strategic Deckbuilding: Combine dialogue cards and upgrades to adapt to increasingly tough encounters.
- Narrative-Driven Campaign: Explore themes of empathy, community, and resistance in a magical world at risk.
- Forgiving Roguelite Progression: Keep your unlocks even after failure, making each run a step forward.
2. Hanako’s Flower Shop – Released 25 Apr, 2025
Hanako’s Flower Shop is a heartfelt visual novel about healing, legacy, and the language of flowers. Join Hanako as she takes over her grandfather’s beloved flower shop, crafting bouquets with emotional meaning for each customer. Through every interaction, choice, and floral creation, help Hanako find her voice and bloom in her own time.
Tend to your shop, connect with the townsfolk, and let flowers speak where words fall short in this cozy Steam game.
Key Game Features:
- Language of Flowers: Craft meaningful bouquets with a unique mechanic based on floral symbolism.
- Emotional Visual Novel: A deeply personal coming-of-age story driven by your choices.
- Non-Linear Story Paths: Shape Hanako’s future through meaningful decisions and branching narratives.
- Charming Cast: Meet heartfelt, fully voiced characters with stories that will linger.
- Gorgeous Visuals: Enjoy rich anime-inspired art and delicate animations.
- Themes of Legacy and Growth: Explore Hanako’s struggle to honor the past while forging her own path.
3. Dinkum – Released 22 Apr, 2025
Dinkum takes the best parts of survival sims and life sims, then tosses them into the rugged charm of the Australian outback. What starts as a modest campfire evolves into a thriving, customizable town, all powered by your own hands. Whether you’re farming under the summer sun, fishing in turquoise waters, or fending off wild animals deep in the bush, every day offers a new adventure.
With endless freedom, deep crafting systems, and a world full of charm, Dinkum captures the joy of building something from nothing—and watching it flourish.
Key Game Features:
- Build and Customize Your Town: Shape the landscape, design buildings, and craft a thriving settlement from scratch.
- Farming, Fishing, Hunting, and More: A wide range of activities keeps island life dynamic and rewarding.
- Dynamic Seasons and Weather: Changing environments affect gameplay, from crop growth to creature behavior.
- Explore a Diverse Open World: Journey through deserts, forests, mines, and wild coasts teeming with resources and danger.
- Solo or Co-op Play: Grow your town on your own or team up with friends to share the adventure.
4. Havendock – Released 22 Apr, 2025
Havendock is a cozy colony sim that sets sail on a sea of possibilities. Starting from a single platform in the middle of the ocean, you’ll scavenge, build, and expand your floating settlement into a thriving hub of innovation. As more castaways join your crew, you’ll shape your community with farms, workshops, gadgets—and a touch of mad science.
Float at your own pace or chart a bold course into the unknown. Either way, your ocean utopia is yours to build—one dock at a time.
Key Game Features:
- Build and Customize a Floating Colony: Design your ocean town from the ground up, resource by resource.
- Welcome Settlers and Automate Tasks: Manage growing needs with smart systems and helpful NPCs.
- Grow Crops, Cook Meals, and Raise Animals: Keep your colony fed and happy with self-sustaining systems.
- Invent High-Tech Gadgets and Gear: Unlock advanced tools like robots, power plants, and submarines.
- Explore Above and Below the Sea: Visit distant islands, dive for resources, and even farm underwater.
5. Portal Fantasy – Released 16 Apr, 2025
Portal Fantasy is a modern pixel-art cozy RPG that brings fresh energy to the creature-collecting genre. Journey through the mysterious Pyli Kingdom as a student at Porble Academy, where your routine quests quickly unravel into a high-stakes adventure full of danger, discovery, and dark secrets.
With deep customization, satisfying progression, and a heartfelt story, Portal Fantasy offers a new portal into nostalgic adventure.
Key Game Features:
- Capture and Fuse Porbles: Collect creatures, evolve them, and unlock hundreds of fusion combinations.
- Strategic Turn-Based Combat: Build synergized teams and master unique passive abilities in battle.
- Explore a Vast, Pixel-Art World: Journey through colorful biomes, towns, ruins, and mysterious dungeons.
- Solve Traps and Platforming Puzzles: Navigate hazards with precision timing, smarts, and reflexes.
- Uncover a Deep Storyline: Unravel a hidden history filled with mystery, betrayal, and ancient power.
6. The Fool’s Apprentice – 14 Apr, 2025
The Fool’s Apprentice is a darkly comedic wizard academy management sim where being a responsible professor means casting the occasional mind-control spell… and accepting that not all apprentices will survive. As Arcanist Tharn, your task is to shape the magical minds of tomorrow—even if that means levitating them into discipline or “accidentally” flinging them through a portal or two. Set in the sun-drenched canal city of Golryon, you’ll juggle research, public opinion, and the ever-present risk of arcane catastrophe.
Construct arcane workstations, manipulate students with magic, and steer the course of a new era: Arcanoscience. Just try not to get imprisoned for arcane malpractice.
Key Game Features:
- Magical Academy Management: Enroll, guide, and occasionally sacrifice your apprentices for the greater good.
- Hands-On Spellcasting: Direct your students with levitation, mind wipes, and portal-flinging precision.
- Narrative-Driven Sim Gameplay: Make choices that influence Golryon’s future and your Conservatory’s fate.
- Customize Your Conservatory: Build eldritch labs, risky machines, and even morally questionable decor.
- Morbidly Funny Tone: Balance public acclaim with unethical research in a world that blends whimsy and dread.
7. Super Mini Mart – Released 15 Apr, 2025
Super Mini Mart is a pastel-hued, feel-good supermarket sim where your job is simple: keep the shelves full, the customers smiling, and the vibes absolutely immaculate. As the proud new owner of a tiny bodega with big dreams, you’ll manage stock, decorate with flair, and grow your store into the heart of a friendly neighborhood—no stress, no corporate nonsense, just chill commerce.
With quirky regulars, upbeat music, and a charming pixel-art aesthetic, Super Mini Mart is a cozy management game that’s all about community, creativity, and perfectly stacked produce.
Key Game Features:
- Wholesome Management Sim: Run your own minimart without deadlines or pressure.
- Charming Clientele: Meet regulars with their own stories and shopping quirks.
- Dynamic Store Customization: Decorate, rearrange, and match your vibe or the season.
- Daily Operations, Your Way: Restock shelves, plan discounts, and keep everything running smooth.
- Cozy Visuals & Soundtrack: Bright pixel graphics and chirpy music for maximum comfort.
8. Lushfoil Photography Sim – 15 Apr, 2025
Lushfoil Photography Sim is a serene exploration game where you travel the world one breathtaking shot at a time. Wander through striking, true-to-life environments rendered in Unreal Engine 5, from misty coastlines to sunlit forests, using a feature-rich DSLR-style camera to capture moments of quiet beauty and artistic precision.
With ambient licensed music and tools to tweak light, weather, and even time, Lushfoil invites you to slow down, look closer, and rediscover the wonder in simply seeing.
Key Game Features:
- Hyperrealistic Landscapes: Explore handcrafted global environments, from mountains to islands.
- Advanced Photography Tools: Adjust exposure, aperture, focus, and more with pro camera settings.
- Dynamic Weather & Light: Control fog, rain, and sunlight to perfect your compositions.
- Unlockable Gear & Perspectives: Discover drones, boats, and secret cameras across each location.
- Ethereal Ambient Soundtrack: Licensed global music enhances the meditative experience.
9. Blue Prince – 10 Apr, 2025
Blue Prince is a genre-blending puzzle-strategy game set in the ever-shifting manor of Mt. Holly. Each door you open redraws the path ahead, as you chart your own layout through a mysterious estate of secrets, strategy, and surreal exploration. But with each sunrise, the manor resets—and only your sharpest insights survive the turn of day.
Draft rooms, solve puzzles, and uncover the tangled mystery behind Room 46 in a hauntingly clever labyrinth of logic and lore.
Key Game Features:
- Build Your Own Path: Choose what room lies behind each door in this unique drafting system.
- Puzzle Meets Roguelike: Explore, reset, and try new strategies each day in the ever-changing manor.
- Evolving Estate Blueprint: Earn and unlock permanent upgrades to push further each run.
- Intriguing Narrative Threads: Uncover a mystery of disappearances, deception, and dark family secrets.
- Strategic Item Use: Discover tools with multiple uses to shape your journey and overcome obstacles.
10. Tiny Garden – 8 Apr, 2025
Tiny Garden is a relaxing blend of farming games, puzzles, and creativity—set inside a magical toy passed down through generations. Grow plants, collect cozy furniture, and customize your miniature world at your own pace. With no time limits or scores, it’s a meditative experience that rewards discovery and imagination.
Unfold a quiet story, nurture a lush garden, and let your creativity bloom in this pocket-sized retreat.
Key Game Features:
- Grow and Trade Plants: Cultivate unique flora and swap harvests for whimsical furniture.
- No Pressure Gameplay: No timers, no scores—just gentle, open-ended creativity.
- Tactile Toy Aesthetic: Everything feels handcrafted and charming inside your magical heirloom.
- Hidden Stories to Discover: Uncover past memories and heartfelt letters woven into the world.
- Strategic Garden Planning: Each plant has special mechanics—learn, experiment, and evolve your space.
11. Kitchen Sync: Aloha! – Released 7 Apr, 2025
Kitchen Sync: Aloha! is a cozy, story-rich cooking RPG set on the vibrant Hawaiian island of Maikai. Revive your family’s beloved restaurant, assemble a team of passionate chefs, and serve up delicious Hawaiian cuisine. Build relationships, explore tropical venues, and discover how food brings people together—one plate at a time.
Part management sim, part visual novel, this heartwarming journey blends cooking, community, and connection.
Key Game Features:
- Cook Island Cuisine: Craft dishes like Loco Moco and Spam Musubi with customizable twists.
- Build a Dream Team: Recruit chefs with unique skills and deepen your bonds—romance included.
- Strategic Kitchen Gameplay: Optimize layouts, upgrade appliances, and master each venue.
- Wholesome Storytelling: Follow a heartfelt tale of family, friendship, and culinary dreams.
- Explore and Relax: Fish, hike, and unwind with your crew through island mini-games.
- Flexible Difficulty Options: Play stress-free in Cozy mode or challenge yourself in Hard Boiled.
12. Dice ‘n Goblins – Released 4 Apr, 2025
Dice ‘n Goblins is a turn-based dungeon-crawling RPG where luck meets strategy in dice-driven combat. Play as Gobby, a scrappy goblin trapped in a shifting labyrinth teeming with traps, monsters, and mysterious allies. Collect powerful dice, craft devastating combos, and navigate a world where every roll can turn the tide.
With grid-based exploration, cute storybook visuals, and deep combat customization, this is a dice-rolling adventure with bite.
Key Game Features:
- Strategic Dice Combat: Master dice-based battles and chain tactical combos to outwit enemies.
- Customizable Loadouts: Collect, upgrade, and combine 60+ items to enhance your dice arsenal.
- Charming Dungeon World: Meet quirky characters and explore a mysterious, ever-growing labyrinth.
- Explore Vertically: Navigate 10 layered maps with stairs, traps, swimming, and falling paths.
- Two Endings: Shape your fate through choices and discover multiple narrative outcomes.
- Cute Yet Dangerous: A charming visual style paired with clever, challenging gameplay.
Stay cozy, gamers!
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