Welcome to Part 2 of our Summer Game Fest 2024 recap where we’ve compiled a list of every cozy indie game launch date, for those who are looking for games of the more wholesome variety!
For more launch date announcements from Summer Game Fest, check out Part 1 of our compilation article here.
1. Duck Detective: The Secret Salami (Out Now)
Solving crime is no walk in the pond in Duck Detective: The Secret Salami. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
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2. Rolling Hills: Make Sushi, Make Friends (Out Now)
Serve up sushi as a robot chef in Rolling Hills, a life sim about running your own restaurant in a cozy village. Make new friends, purchase ingredients, enhance your shop, and improve the lives of your neighbors as you perfect your craft!
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3. Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge (Out Now)
Foster a sanctuary for frogs and restore the biodiversity of the wetlands in Kamaeru, a cozy frog collecting game, where you take pictures of frogs, play mini-games and decorate your habitat. Hop right to it!
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4. The Palace On The Hill (Out Now)
A heartfelt story of ambition, struggle, and friendship told from the perspective of a young boy in fictional 90s rural India. Explore ancient palace ruins, set up your garden, cook Indian food, run errands for quirky characters, and learn about your history by making art.
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5. Star Stuff (Out Now)
Star Stuff is a deceptively cute programming puzzle game. Program and work alongside bots to tackle the most important (and undoubtedly safest) task in the galaxy: fixing a star factory. Ready for your first day on the job?
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6. SunnySide (June 14, 2024)
Find harmony in the Japanese countryside as you help Sparky uncover lost memories in this modern take on the farming and life simulator. Build a thriving homestead, cultivate new relationships, and chase your own happiness in SunnySide.
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7. A Little to the Left: Seeing Stars DLC (June 25, 2024)
The second DLC to the popular puzzle game A Little To The Left, the Seeing Stars expension is all about multiple solutions. Collect up to 100 stars as you discover the logic behind a multitude of ways to tidy up the house. Fold, flap, crush, join, stick, bounce, stack, strum and lovingly smash your way through a huge variety of new interactive items.
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8. SCHiM (July 18, 2024)
SCHiM is a game about jumping from shadow to shadow in a relaxing and lively environment. This 3D platformer takes elements of light, shadow & animation and adds them directly to the gameplay, delivering an experience that you will only find in SCHiM.
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9. Été (July 23, 2024)
Été (summer) is a relaxing painting game set in Montréal. Color the city to explore, create artworks on canvas, collect stamps in your album, decorate your studio, fulfill commissions from your neighbors, and unleash your inner artist!
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10. The Star Named EOS (July 23, 2024)
The Star Named EOS is a story-rich puzzle adventure built around photography. Recreate compositions of past photos to uncover the truth of a family mystery. Experience a harmonious mixture of beautiful hand-drawn art and engaging puzzles on a journey of reminiscence.
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11. Arranger (July 25, 2024)
Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure follows the story of Jemma, a small-town misfit on a journey of self-discovery. Venturing out beyond her stiflingly cozy confines, she finds an inspiring world – but also one ruled by fear, and a strange, immovable ‘static’ force. Can she disrupt a culture of stagnation, and find a place to fit into it?
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12. The Crush House (Aug 9, 2024)
Film and produce 1999’s hottest reality TV show: The Crush House! Select a crush-worthy cast, satisfy voracious audiences and keep the show on air to uncover the sinister secrets behind this darkly comic thirst-person shooter.
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13. SOPA – Tale of the Stolen Potato (Aug 2024)
Miho steps into the pantry to fetch a potato for his grandma and falls into a magical world full of wonders. Meet quirky characters, venture through the depths of South America, and learn the importance of the things we pass along in this unforgettable emotional narrative adventure.
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14. Copycat (Sept 2024)
A narrative-driven game about rejection, belonging and the true meaning of home. It follows the story of a newly adopted shelter cat who becomes the victim of an elaborate plan when a jealous, stray copycat steals her place in the household.
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15. Nova Hearts (Q3 2024)
A mysterious force of power transforms you and other highly attractive people in your area into superheroes and villains! TEXT, DATE and FIGHT your friends and enemies alike.
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16. Slay The Princess: The Pristine Cut (Q3 2024)
You’re on a path in the woods, and at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a Princess. You’re here to slay her. If you don’t, it will be the end of the world. Slay The Princess: The Pristine Cut includes several new chapters, significant expansions to chapters already in the game, and more!
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17. Hidden In My Paradise (Q3 2024)
Find objects, decorate, and complete missions in this cozy hidden-object game where you can create your little paradises! Take the role of Laly the photographer apprentice and with the help of Coronya the fairy find objects, decorate and complete different missions to become the best photographer!
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18. Arco (Q3 2024)
Enter the breathtakingly beautiful world of Arco, a unique tactical action game where your decisions shape the story. Journey through lush forests, sweeping plains, and scorching deserts as you guide four unlikely heroes in their vendetta against the Red Company gang.
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19. Afterlove EP (Oct 2024)
From the creator of Coffee Talk and What Comes After, comes a slice-of-life adventure set in modern Jakarta about love, loss and finding your own way forward. In Afterlove EP, step into the shoes of Rama, a young musician struggling to move on with life after the death of his girlfriend, Cinta.
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20. Fruitbus (Oct 2024)
A journey of flavors and friendships awaits you in your cozy, customisable food truck! Forage for fresh ingredients to create your own menu, then feed tummies and souls with home-cooked meals. Change the world, one apple at a time.
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21. A Date With Death: Beyond The Bet DLC (Dec 9, 2024)
Extend your bet with the Grim Reaper himself and fall in love all over again in A Date with Death – Beyond the Bet! Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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22. Neva (2024)
Experience the moving tale of a young woman and her lifelong bond with a magnificent wolf as they embark on a thrilling adventure through a rapidly dying world.
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23. Pine: A Story of Loss (2024)
Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing. Help him hold on to cherished memories of their life together as he struggles to care for himself and his now empty home. Pine is a single-serving game focused on telling a beautiful, emotional tale.
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Did we miss out any cozy games on your wishlist? Let us know in the comments below!
For even more launch date announcements, read Part 1 where we cover the major 2024 launch date announcements from Summer Game Fest.
