We’re more than halfway through the year, but the cozy games keep coming! August sees many of our favourite cozy farming and life sim games leaving Early Access, from Fields of Mistria, Doloc Town to Starsand Island. There’s also the highly anticipated Capy Castaway, where you and your duo can play as a capybara and a crow to solve puzzles and find your way home. Lou’s Lagoon a cozy exploration-and-crafting adventure. There’s shopkeeping sims, town building, cozy puzzle adventures and so much more happening this month!
Here are all the cozy games coming this August 2026.
Big Walk
by House House
Big Walk is a cooperative multiplayer adventure about teamwork and talking from the creators of Untitled Goose Game. Set out with your friends through a wide-open world full of challenges, puzzles, and discoveries. You’ll need to work together to find your way around, stay in contact using an assortment of tools and toys, and figure out new ways to communicate when you suddenly find yourself speechless.
Adventuring aside, there’s plenty of time to just hang out. Sit and watch the sunset, or steal your friend’s binoculars and kick them into the ocean. Spending time with friends is the best part of a big walk.
Check out our full review here.
Release Date: 4 August 2026
Platforms: PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac
Fields of Mistria
by NPC Studio
Fields of Mistria is finally leaving Early Access this August! If you’re a cozy gamer appreciator, then you’ll definitely have heard of Fields of Mistria. It’s a classic farming and life sim that is said to be the spiritual successor of the most notable games of the genre from the ’90s. But this time with magic. Mistria, an idyllic village tucked between forest and sea, has offered you an overgrown but full-of-potential homestead in exchange for your assistance. Restore the town to its former glory after an earthquake wreaks havoc and strange magic begins to flow through the land.
Find out everything that’s coming to the full launch of Fields of Mistria here.
Release Date: 5 August 2026
Platforms: PC
Mazey Village
by Slappy Inc.
Mazey Village is a cozy town-restoring adventure where a tornado scatters homes, villagers, and their precious belongings. Explore surrounding maps to recover lost items, rebuild homes, and bring warmth and life back to the village. Travel through peaceful forests, snowy paths, forgotten ruins, and cozy hidden areas filled with small stories and secrets. Every region holds lost items, friendly creatures, tiny critters, and small moments waiting to be discovered.
Check out our Mazey Village Early Access review here.
Release Date: 5 August 2026 (Early Access)
Platforms: PC
Lost & Found: A This Bed We Made Story
by Fascinaut
Lost & Found: A This Bed We Made Story is a follow-up standalone story of the narrative-driven mystery This Bed We Made. Set a few years after the events of the original game, the story follows Sophie Roy in 1964 as she begins a new job as a stewardess aboard a transatlantic ship. When passengers’ personal belongings begin mysteriously disappearing, Sophie is drawn back into her snooping ways, leading her into a new investigation filled with secrets and unexpected discoveries.
Lost & Found builds on the elements players loved most about the studio’s first game: snooping through private spaces, uncovering secrets, cleaning up messes, and piecing together the truth through everyday tasks.
Note: You don’t need to own or have played This Bed We Made to enjoy it.
Release Date: 5 August 2026
Platforms: PC
Capy Castaway
by Kitten Cup Studio
Capy Castaway is a cozy exploration adventure where a capybara pup and a clever crow solve puzzles, help lost animals, and explore a mysterious island after a devastating flood. Play solo or with a friend in this relaxing narrative adventure about curiosity, friendship, and finding your way home.
Read more about Capy Castaway here.
Release Date: 6 August 2026
Platforms: PC, Mac
Spiritstead
by Turbo Dog Games
Spiritstead is an easy-going and satisfying city builder. Arrive in a quiet, enchanted land where humans and magical spirits work together. Take charge and put your villagers to work as you create their homes, support their lives, and make your village beautiful along the way.
Overseeing the lives of so many can be hard work, but here you have a magical place full of spirits ready to help. Discover them through interactions with the world as you meet quirky, charming creatures who make each day in your village easier to manage. Collect them all to live alongside your people and create spirit buildings to support them.
Release Date: 6 August 2026
Platforms: PC
Doloc Town
by RedSaw Games Studio
The charming post-apocalyptic farming sim Doloc Town is officially leaving Early Access this month. The full release will introduce a brand-new area to explore, the conclusion of the main story, farming automation, expanded language support, and much more.
Set in a vibrant yet crumbling world, Doloc Town invites players to start from scratch, rebuild civilisation one crop at a time, and uncover the mysteries buried beneath the ruins. Players farm, craft, and build in a post-apocalyptic landscape where acid rain and scorching heat threaten their crops, explore dangerous wilderness with customizable drone companions, and form bonds with the quirky townspeople of a community fighting to survive.
Release Date: 6 August 2026
Platforms: PC
Pigeon: A Love Story
by Wristwork Ltd, Tiny Dragon
Forget Love Island, THIS is unmissable romance of the summer! Get ready to search for your soulmate pigeon, solo or with a friend, across five huge, life-sized cities, filled with a true-to-life number of pigeons. Soar over life-size, to-scale cities in this needle-in-a-haystack simulation. Find one specific pigeon among millions of autonomous birds, team up in multiplayer ‘Coo-op’, or just relax and enjoy the flight in a game about nothing and everything.
Release Date: 6 August 2026
Platforms: PC
ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs
by Mandragora
Run a quaint electronics repair shop in mid-2000s Tokyo. Grow your business by carefully restoring iconic video game consoles, cell phones, music players, and other nostalgic devices. Talk to customers, hear their stories, and see how your decisions impact both their lives and your shop.
Read more about ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs here.
Release Date: 6 August 2026
Platforms: PC
Chop Chop Inc.
by NullRef Entertainment
Build your own furniture empire after getting fired from Furnox Corp. Chop down trees, turn logs into planks, craft furniture, and sell it for profit. Reinvest your money into better tools, new machines and faster production. What begins as manual labour grows into optimised production lines and high-value furniture sets that grant bonus payouts. Unlock new areas, discover new tree types, expand your operation step by step and improve your character with strength and stamina upgrades.
Release Date: 7 August 2026
Platforms: PC
Finding Polka
by Soneka Games
Finding Polka is a heartwarming hide-and-seek adventure by Japanese solo developer Shinnosuke Kumazawa as a heartfelt tribute to his late dog,
Finding Polka is slice-of-life charm and packed with dreamy moments, brought to life in distinctive hand-drawn ballpoint pen artwork. Meet charming characters, lend them a hand to make new friends, and explore a cozy world sketched in ballpoint pen. You don’t need words on this adventure, just smiles and high-fives!
Check out our Finding Polka review here.
Release Date: 11 August 2026
Platforms: PC
Landscape Simulator
by Midnight Game Studios
Landscaper Simulator is a relaxing, hands-on sim where you transform messy outdoor spaces into lush, inviting landscapes. Equip your trusty weed whacker, power up the pressure washer, and roll out your trash vacuum to tidy up homes, parks, gardens, and more. From overgrown grass, stubborn weeds, dirt-covered fences, and littered walkways, each environment offers a new challenge and a chance to make the world a little cleaner, one satisfying task at a time.
Release Date: 11 August 2026
Platforms: PC
Verde
by Antimeta Studio
Verde is a cozy city management game with a focus on nature. Build a small town of seedlets, mysterious seed-like creatures, in this cozy city builder. Build facilities, put up decorations, and help the seedlets thrive. Build houses, fulfil their demands, attract population, and put your own spin on the look of the town with various cute designs, perfect to enjoy while chilling down.
Release Date: 12 August 2026
Platforms: PC
Tukoni: Forest Keepers
by Dream Operator
Tukoni: Forest Keepers is a cute & cozy puzzle adventure made in collaboration with Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula, author and illustrator of the Tukoni books. Play as the forest spirit Tukoni as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, brew fragrant tea and explore a magical world filled with kindness. Autumn is a busy time in the forest, as animals wrap up their matters before taking a winter nap, and forest keepers Tukoni hustle to prepare pillows and blankets of various shapes and forms.
Release Date: 17 August 2026
Platforms: PC
Nimbit Frontier
by Megasploot
Nimbit Frontier is a cozy creature-collecting life sim where you raise adorable little Nimbits, build custom habitats, and explore the shifting Underwild for fragments and rare species. Participate in deep creature care, roguelite action, and a focus on nurturing, discovery, and atmosphere. Raise adorable Nimbits, build cozy custom habitats, and explore the shifting Underwild to uncover rare species and support their conservation.
Release Date: 17 August 2026 (Early Access)
Platforms: PC
Starsand Island
by Seed Sparkle Lab
Starsand Island is a gorgeous country farming and life sim. It came out earlier this year in February in Early Access and is now getting a full launch this month. It’s an idyllic game and is one of the top ones out there in this genre. Blending gorgeous Studio Ghibli vibes with some Animal Crossing, Sims, and Harvest Moon thrown in. Think of it as a life sim that has everything you’d want in a cozy game in a gorgeous, picturesque setting.
The full launch of the game will include a host of additional features, including online multiplayer, expanded relationship content, and the seasonal Autumn Pumpkin Carnival!
Release Date: 18 August 2026
Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch 2, PC
Vacation Cafe Simulator
by Alice Games
This has been on my wishlist for a while, and it’s finally coming out this month! Vacation Cafe Simulator brings you to sunny Italy where you and your friends can run a beautiful lakeside cafe. Cook authentic cuisine from pasta to pizza and master traditional Italian recipes.
Check out our full review of Vacation Cafe Simulator here.
Release Date: 20 August 2026
Platforms: PC
Cozy Marbles
by Pixel Pea Games
Cozy Marbles is a comfy game about building marble runs. Using a huge range of bits and pieces from charming homes, fairytale realms and starlit spacecraft, fit together the marble course you’ve always wanted to build and play with. Build masterful marble runs and showstopping courses filled with spirals, twists and drops in a world of cozy creativity. And just like those viral marble music videos you may have seen, you can even use marbles to make music!
Release Date: 20 August 2026
Platforms: PC
The Sorting Bureau
by Apelsinka Games
The Sorting Bureau is a cozy sorting game set in a quiet Tokyo workshop. Clients bring you boxes of clutter: buttons, coins, gears, stamps. Sort, match, and piece everything together with satisfying ASMR. Metal clinks. Fabric rustles. Wood thuds. Each item snaps into its container with a satisfying click. The kind of sound you want to hear over and over.
Release Date: 22 August 2026
Platforms: PC
Little Chef: Cozy Cooking
by Julien Truebiger & Hello Erika
Little Chef: Cozy Cooking is officially ready to serve and is coming out of Early Access this August! Little Chef: Cozy Cooking is a short physics-based cooking game full of discovery and playful chaos. Powered by responsive physics, every object in the game has weight, motion, and a personality of its own. By dragging, tossing, and combining ingredients in fun and surprising ways, fill your cookbook with a massive index of recipes, ranging from the gourmet to the gross.
The full launch build adds a new level to the game’s story mode and over 300 unique recipes to discover.
Release Date: 26 August 2026
Platforms: PC, Mac
Gathera
by Catris Games
Gathera is a cozy survival crafting game about gathering, collecting, and slowly building a world of your own. How you grow is up to you. Build a peaceful base, decorate your land, farm, fish, and collect resources at your own pace. Prepare for danger and defend your home from enemy raids. Or focus on production, automation, and technology to make gathering, crafting, and progression more efficient.
Release Date: 26 August 2026 (Early Access)
Platforms: PC
Make My Sandwich
by Owl’s Howls
Make My Sandwich is a cute puzzle game about assembling sandwiches by hand. Read the order cards and drag ingredients onto the board, stacking them carefully layer by layer. Consider your guests’ diets and tastes, pick the perfect drink, and follow all order requirements to clear the level! This is a relaxing puzzle game where every sandwich is a tiny masterpiece crafted specifically for your guest.
Release Date: 26 August 2026
Platforms: PC
Lou’s Lagoon
by Tiny Roar
Lou’s Lagoon is a cozy exploration-and-crafting adventure: fly your seaplane between tropical islands, collect resources with the Swirler, rebuild storm-damaged communities.
Go on this heartfelt adventure across the tropical Limbo archipelago. After receiving a distress call from Uncle Lou, you arrive only to find the islands in disarray and Lou nowhere to be found. Collect resources, help rebuild a community, and unravel the mystery of your uncle’s disappearance. Claim your slice of paradise at Lou’s Lagoon. Build your dream beach hut, add your personal touch, and let the island rhythm take over.
Release Date: 27 August 2026
Platforms: PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PC
