Steam Next Fest is here, from the 23rd of February to the 2nd of March, and it’s serving up a fresh batch of cozy demos for our ever-growing wishlists. We’ve done the digging, so you can do the downloading—scouring the festival to bring you 25 of the best cozy demos you can play right now. From magical bakeries in Paris and tranquil restoration sims to quirky record stores and necromantic gardening, this list is packed with warmth, charm, and plenty of heart. Pull up a chair, clear your schedule, and get ready to get cozy.
Collector’s Cove
by VoodooDuck
Set sail for a cozy farming adventure on the high seas with Collector’s Cove. Explore uncharted waters in search of rare crops, elusive fish, and hidden islands. Cultivate your floating farm, fill in your Collector’s Compendium, and customise your ship as you transform it into a home at sea. Strengthen your bond with your companion, unlock new accessories and interactions, and work your way toward becoming a legendary Named Collector.
Release Date: 12 March 2026
Platforms: PlayStation, PC
Kioku: Last Summer
by Lugn Games
Ride your bike, cast your line, and let summer unfold at your own pace in Kioku: Last Summer, a charming adventure set on a vibrant island. You are Asti, a young girl discovering her first summer in a new home. Wander off the path, uncover hidden secrets, and forge friendships that make the island feel like yours.
Spend your days fishing for rare catches, pulling crabs from the shore, and collecting every little win. Open packs to meet Marubï—marble monsters that slam into the arena with a satisfying clack—and build a team you love. Help the locals, earn your place in the community, and watch as new stories, new places, and new little routines open up.
Release Date: 26 March 2026
Platforms: PC
Hozy
by Come On Studio
Bring a forgotten neighbourhood back to life, one room at a time, in Hozy. This relaxing restoration sim lets you clean, paint, and decorate abandoned homes with satisfying, intuitive mechanics. There are no timers, scores, or penalties—just you, your tools, and the simple joy of making spaces beautiful. Wipe windows, repaint walls, and find the perfect spot for furniture as you restore not just houses, but the sense of community that once filled the streets. Slow down and enjoy the little details in this calm, pressure-free experience.
Release Date: 30 March 2026
Platforms: PC, Mac
Belle Citique
by Willis Studios
Construct a cozy society, one building at a time, in Belle Citique—a warmhearted citybuilder where nature meets community. Build the perfect place for your people to live, then sit back and watch them enjoy it. Attract villagers and animals to your little paradise as you expand. New residents bring new ideas, new possibilities, and plenty of compliments. There’s no danger, no disruption—just the calm beauty of nature and the joy of creation.
Combine block-types using an intuitive grid system to build anything you can imagine: parks, plazas, towers, town centres. Unlock new biomes, new blocks, and customize colors and designs.
Release Date: 7 April 2026
Platforms: PC
Moomintroll: Winter’s Warmth
by Hyper Games
In Moomintroll: Winter’s Warmth, wake early from hibernation to find Moominvalley transformed—cloaked in the frosty veil of the Lady of the Cold and utterly silent. Reluctantly stepping into the unknown, he embarks on a winter journey through Nordic-inspired landscapes, from snowy forests to misty mountains. Along the way, he discovers that even in the coldest season, warmth can be found through new friendships and helping those in need. Experience winter for the first time through Moomintroll’s eyes in this gentle tale of courage, community, and unexpected wonder.
Release Date: 28 April 2026
Platforms: PlayStation, Xbox, PC
Dreamstranded
by MagicStone23
Dreamstranded is a cozy adventure of survival, discovery, and choice. Gather resources, craft gear, and build a camp—alone or with villagers you recruit. Tend a peaceful pastoral life, or venture into the wild to face monsters with magic and crafted weapons. Follow clues across a vast world and unravel the mystery of why you drifted here.
Release Date: April 2026
Platforms: PC
Flock Around
by Secret Plan Games
Flock Around is a co-op birdwatching game where you and up to 10 friends explore Goose Lake Sanctuary—a nature sanctuary filled with feathered friends waiting to be photographed. From common robins to rare exotic species, if you can see it, you can snap it. Fill out the park guide book one pose at a time. Explore diverse biomes, use items to lure in shy species, and maybe mess with your friends along the way. Birding is better together.
Release Date: April 2026
Platforms: PC
Fishbowl
by imissmyfriends.studio
Fishbowl is a narrative visual novel about grief, hope, and finding your way back to yourself. Step into the life of Alo, a twenty-one-year-old navigating her first job in a new city while living alone for the first time—and grieving the recent death of her grandmother. When a magical talking fish from her childhood unexpectedly reappears as her companion, Alo begins to unravel the threads of her past, seeing her memories—and herself—in a new light. This intimate story blends slice-of-life with the surreal, exploring what it means to become an adult while still learning to let go.
Release Date: April 2026
Platforms: PlayStation, PC
Wax Heads
by Patattie Games
Get your groove back in Wax Heads, a cozy-punk narrative sim about keeping a struggling record store alive. Step behind the counter at Repeater Records and help a cast of quirky, indecisive customers find the perfect album for their soul. Decode clues by browsing handcrafted records, scrolling social media, and digging through local music zines. Debate bands with your lovable coworkers, design gig posters, run lights for local shows, or just slack off when you need a break.
There are no wrong choices—just an emotional, uplifting story about community, musical mysteries, and the underdog spirit trying to keep the music playing.
Release Date: 5 May 2026
Platforms: PC
Coffee Talk Tokyo
by Toge Productions, Chorus Worldwide Games
The coffee is hot, the lo-fi beats are chill, and the night is full of stories. Welcome to Coffee Talk Tokyo, the newest entry in the beloved narrative series set in a late-night café in modern Japan. Behind the counter, you brew drinks for humans and yōkai alike—each carrying stories of love, loss, and second chances. Listen closely. Your dialogue choices shape their journeys, unlocking branching narratives and multiple endings.
Release Date: 21 May 2026
Platforms: PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PC
Cozywood Creek
by Silver Bullet
Cozywood Creek is a gentle idle game that lives quietly at the bottom of your screen—a cozy companion while you work, study, or unwind. Terraform the land, shape riverbanks into sandy shores or mossy forests, and watch as animals arrive naturally. Birds perch, frogs settle, and woodland creatures make themselves at home in the habitats you create.
Release Date: Q2 2026
Platforms: PC
Harvest Cafe
by World of Poly
Harvest Cafe blends open-world adventure with restaurant management, inviting you to live the full farm-to-table dream. Grow vegetables, fruits, and crops. Care for animals to gather milk, eggs, and meat. Then take your harvest to the village centre, where you run your very own restaurant—cooking delicious meals, experimenting with recipes, and serving happy customers.
Explore abandoned harbours, repair old buildings, and revive forgotten shops. Uncover new seeds, rare animals, and valuable materials as you bring the island back to life and attract tourists to your growing community.
Release Date: Q2 2026
Platforms: PC
Under Canopies
by Novemtails
Under Canopies is a cozy open-world sim where stress doesn’t exist, you don’t fight the wild—you become part of it. Build your dream cabin piece by piece, customise every corner with handmade furniture, and create a refuge that reflects your style. Tend your garden, gather plants, and cook over thirty recipes from crops you watered yourself. Explore a vibrant forest full of mysteries, observe rare wildlife, and fill your photo album with discoveries.
Release Date: Q2 2026
Platforms: PC
Delverium
by Sagestone Games
Delverium is a survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players set in a vast procedurally generated world. If you liked Core Keeper, then this is a demo you’ll want to check out. Gather resources, build shelters, tend your farm, and recruit NPCs who bring valuable trading options. Craft everything from food and tools to weapons and armour using a satisfying nested system with expandable inventory. Dungeon crawl into the unknown to uncover the secret of the invading ‘Faults’ and restore stability to the land.
Release Date: Q2 2026
Platforms: PC
Farm to Table
by indieGiant
Farm to Table is a farming and restaurant management sim where you build everything from scratch. Plant and harvest in your backyard, raise animals, cast lines for fresh fish, and use machines to produce even better ingredients. Then step into the kitchen—cook delicious recipes, serve hungry guests, and grow your organic business into a destination worth travelling for.
Release Date: Q2 2026
Platforms: PC
The Ranchers
by The Ranchers
The Ranchers is an open-world country-life sim for 1-4 players. Escape the stress of metropolis life and start fresh on your own plot of land. Raise animals, grow crops, craft machines, and construct the ranch you’ve always wanted—piece by piece, with friends by your side. Explore a gigantic world filled with mines, resources, and dangerous monsters. Reclaim land, expand your property, and prove your skills as a farmer and manager. Earn the respect of villagers, build a name for yourself, and who knows—maybe find love and start a family along the way.
Release Date: Q2 2026 (Early Access)
Platforms: PC
Truckful
by MythicOwl
Deliver goods, uncover secrets, and keep your eyes on the treeline in Truckful, a single-player delivery adventure set in seemingly peaceful countryside. Behind the wheel of your trusty pickup truck, navigate winding roads, dusty lowlands, and small-town streets as you complete errands and quests for the locals.
Haul everything from ice-cold fish that demands speed to a fragile grandma’s vase that puts your driving skills to the test. Upgrade your truck’s weight and load capacity to tackle increasingly demanding routes. But beware—beneath the tranquil valleys lies an ancient mystery, and the deeper you drive, the closer you come to unravelling it.
Release Date: 2026
Platforms: PC
Thrifty Business
by Spellgarden Games
Step back into the 90’s and run your very own vintage thrift shop in Thrifty Business, a laid-back management sim about finding magic in pre-loved things. Sort through boxes of clothes, antiques, and toys to uncover hidden treasures, then arrange them into gorgeous nostalgic displays that bring the community together. Befriend your regulars, help fulfil their requests, and expand your store from a simple shop into a warm, welcoming hub for the neighbourhood.
Release Date: 2026
Platforms: PC
Fix and Clerk
by Rere Soulten
You work for a device company, and your job is to verify the paperwork of customers before handing their repaired device to them. Beware of scammers in disguise coming to claim devices that are not theirs. After three years of being jobless, you finally land a junior position at DG Corporations. Your task: verify customer paperwork before handing over their repaired devices. Check IDs, interrogate carefully, and confirm identities—because not everyone is who they claim to be.
Release Date: TBA
Platforms: PC
The Witch’s Bakery
by Sunny Lab
Step into a cozy Parisian dream with The Witch’s Bakery, a 2D Adventure RPG about a joyful witch who heals hearts with magic pastries. Explore iconic streets, manage your shop, and use your unique power to peer into your customers’ hearts. Heal their emotions with enchanted croissants as you build friendships, earn fame, and uncover the stories hidden in the City of Light.
Release Date: TBA 2026
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC
BloomKeeper
by Resonance Interactive
Spread nature and breathe life back into a world of ash in BloomKeeper, a unique guidance adventure where you protect the Pouics—naive, curious little creatures who dream of reawakening a forgotten land. They cannot do it alone. As their Guardian, you must guide them, calm them, and keep them safe from both the scorched environment and their own innocent curiosity. Planting requires strategy: move as a herd, keep your flock compact, and navigate carefully toward the source of the destruction.
Release Date: TBA
Platforms: PC
Greenhearth Necromancer
by Silverstring Media Inc.
Greenhearth Necromancer is a cozy, witchy semi-idle game about caring for plants on both sides of the veil. Step into the shoes of a young necromancer tending their late grandmother’s balcony garden. Lacking her green thumb, you’ll rely on magic to bring plants back to undead life—tending spectral flowers alongside the living. Balance water and fertiliser, ward off pests, cast spells, and brew potions. Let it run as a vibey background companion, or dive into deeper gameplay at your own pace.
Release Date: TBA
Platforms: PC
Animalkind
by Uncommon Games
Forage, frolic, and pilot a giant mech—welcome to Animalkind, a cozy open-world village builder where you play as an intelligent, aww-dorable animal. Choose your creature: a cuddly corgi, an orange tabby with main character energy, or a mischief-loving raccoon. Discover an ancient mech and use your tiny paws to control it—gathering resources, shaping the land, and building your ideal town alongside a growing cast of characters.
Explore the wilderness, recruit new villagers, and expand your home at your own pace. Invite up to three friends to join the fun and build together.
Release Date: TBA
Platforms: PC
The Piper of Dawn
by Bone Nail
In The Piper of Dawn, you’re an alchemist building a one-stop empire. Farm the land, cultivate herbs, and master alchemy. Run your shop, build your workshop, and rise through the ranks of a city divided by mysterious factions—street dwellers, the Silver Key syndicate, and goddess worshipers. Your standing with them determines how long you’ll last. Choose your companion: divine, mystical, magical, or feline. Together, uncover a rich story woven deep into every simulation mechanic.
Release Date: TBA
Platforms: PC
inKONBINI
by Nagai Industries
Step behind the counter of a small-town convenience store and into the lives of a neighbourhood. inKONBINI is a cozy slice-of-life game set in early 1990s Japan, where everyday moments turn into meaningful stories. You are Makoto Hayakawa, a college student spending the summer working at the local konbini. Stock shelves, tidy displays, and settle into a comforting rhythm between tasks. Explore the store and its surroundings, notice tiny details, and connect with regulars whose lives gently intertwine with yours.
Through branching conversations and quiet choices, you shape relationships and uncover the intimate stories of a close-knit community.
Release Date: TBA
Platforms: PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac
