Here’s Everything Shown Off at the Wholesome Direct June 2025
The Mix Summer Showcase and Day of the Devs Summer Game Fest have kicked off an amazing week and weekend of big announcements, new trailers, world premieres and much more. Below you’ll find everything that was announced at the Wholesome Direct June 2025, with all Steam pages linked for pages that are live so you can easily wishlist.
Keep an eye out on Saturday June 7th for more news from: Women-Led Games (10AM PT/ 1PM ET), Latin American Games Showcase (11AM PT/ 2PM ET), Southeast Asian Games Showcase (12PM PT/ 3PM ET), Green Games Showcase (1PM PT/ 4PM ET) and Frosty Games Fest (4PM PT / 7PM ET).
Wholesome Direct June 2025
Leaf Blower Co. / Release 2025 / Demo Available
Blow your leaves and your cares away in this chilled out work sim, Leaf Blower Co. Build up your business, buy new tools, and unlock upgrades - all while watching the leaves fly. After all, one man’s trash is another man’s cash.
Instants / Out Today
Assemble a chronological puzzle of family photos to piece together their most cherished memories in Instants. Uncover the family's life story as you arrange the pictures in the correct order within carefully crafted albums. Unleash your creativity and decorate them with multiple scrapbooking tools!
Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar / Release: August 27th / Available for Pre-Order Today
Searching for a peaceful farm life, a fresh mountain breeze, and your own market stall? Look no further than the friendly community of Zephyr Town! Here you’ll grow crops and raise animals, get to know the locals, and sell your wares at the town's bazaar to restore it to its former glory in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar.
Gourdlets Together / Release: 2025
Gourdlets Together is a relaxing multiplayer building and fishing game. Design and decorate your own island, and level up your fishing while you hang out with your friends! Visit your pals’ islands online, and just enjoy Gourd vibes!
Luma Island / Release: June 20th
Travel to Luma Island to go on an epic adventure by yourself or with your friends and family. Build your dream farm, master professions, collect magical Lumas, find treasures and unravel the mysteries of the island.
Is This Seat Taken? / Release: August 2025
Is This Seat Taken? is a logic puzzle game where you play matchmaker for groups of hilariously particular people. Each character has pet peeves that make seating them a delightful challenge. Find the perfect spot for each person to unlock new levels in this cozy, silly, and relatable experience.
MakeRoom / Release: August 7th, 2025
Decorate miniature dioramas, create your own furniture pieces, and fulfill design requests like a cozy room for cats, a moody hideaway for a vampire, and more in MakeRoom!
Ambroise Niflette & the Gleaned Bell / Pledge on Kickstarter
In this stop-motion inspired adventure, play as detective Ambroise Niflette in the thrilling investigation of the search for the stolen bell in a mysterious village in Ambroise Niflette & the Gleaned Bell.
Let’s Build a Dungeon / Release: To Be Announced
Manage a game studio making the world’s greatest MMORPG in Let’s Build a Dungeon. Hire designers, coders, and testers, create a fantasy world, then welcome hundreds of virtual players. If they get bored they will cancel their subscription and your investors will have your head. You can even play the game you create.
Squeakross: Home Squeak Home / Out Today / Demo Available
In Squeakross: Home Squeak Home, solve and transform puzzles into furniture to decorate the perfect home for your rodent friend. Collect hundreds of decorations, accessories and stickers in this cozy game full of charm!
Monument Valley III / Release: July 22nd, 2025 / Demo Available
Set sail for a world-changing adventure as you guide Noor in their quest through a series of mind-bending illusions and atmospheric puzzles in Monument Valley III. Can you unlock the secrets of the mysterious world – and the meaning behind the Sacred Light?
Big Hops / Release: 2025 / Demo Available
Tongue-swing, free climb, and build your own path forward in a new kind of 3D platformer, Big Hops! Plant veggie bounce pads, tightropes, hookshots, and much more. Find a way home through huge Desert, Ocean, and Mountain worlds and collect bugs, upgrade your backpack, and meet animal friends along the way.
Little Kitty, Big City / Free content update this summer
You're a curious little kitty with a big personality, on an adventure to find your way back home in Little Kitty, Big City. Explore the city, make new friends with stray animals, wear delightful hats, and leave more than a little chaos in your wake. After all, isn't that what cats do best?
Vending Dokan! / Out Today in Early Access / Demo Available
Build a vending machine empire in this cozy idle sim, Vending Dokan! Manage staff, decorate locations, and watch your business thrive. Play actively or let it run passively in the background with relaxing music to enjoy while you work or unwind.
Winter Burrow / Release: 2025
Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore their childhood burrow. Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals.
Tales of the Shire / Release: June 29th
Welcome home, Hobbit! Live the cosy life of a Hobbit in the wonderfully serene landscape of the Shire. Discover, decorate, & share in this idyllic corner of Middle-earth. Join friendly Hobbits & familiar faces awaiting your arrival in Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings™ Game.
Haunted Paws / Release: To Be Announced / Play the Closed Alpha
Haunted Paws is a Cozy Coop Horror game where you will play as two Puppies trying to rescue their human friend in a haunted mansion. Create your puppy, explore spooky environments and defeat evil creatures in an action packed adventure!
The Guardian of Nature / First Episode Available on Steam
The Guardian of Nature is a hand-drawn, size-changing adventure. Embark on a magical journey with botanist Henry, use your size-changing ability to explore nature in big and small and solve solarpunk puzzles to put nature back in order.
Everdeep Aurora / Release: July 10th / Demo Available
An ongoing apocalyptic meteor shower has forced the world’s population to settle underground. As Shell, a feline child who awakens to find her mother missing, drill downward from the surface layer through a tile-based underground and discover the Everdeep in Everdeep Aurora.
Seasonala Cemetery / Out Today
Seasonala Cemetery is a meditative experience that invites players to explore the serene beauty of a living, breathing cemetery as it changes with the seasons.
Camper Van: Make It Home / Out Today
Decorate and organize the camper van of your dreams in Camper Van: Make It Home! Embark on a journey of self-discovery as you build your own home-on-wheels, using a combination of creative block organization puzzles and relaxing interior design. Make your heart feel at ease and your camper van feel like home.
Lynked: Banner of the Spark / Release: May 22nd, 2025
Build a bright new world alongside a band of rescued robot buddies in Lynked: Banner of the Spark! In this colorful action RPG, battle waves of enemies in solo or co-op, then return home and use their parts to craft a thriving town. Assemble your crew and grow stronger with each new adventure!
Omelet You Cook / Out Today
Omelet You Cook is a cozy chaotic cooking roguelike. Assemble omelets for quirky students using ingredients from a conveyor belt. Discover wacky combinations to satisfy the ever-demanding Principal Clucker.
Milano’s Odd Job Collection / Release: 2025
Fireside Feelings / Out Today
Share your thoughts and discover those shared by others, in Fireside Feelings. Gather around the welcoming warmth of the campfire and take part in conversations between people separated in space and time. Sometimes, we all need a good talk under the stars.
All Will Rise / Release: 2026 / Follow on Kickstarter
The river is a god, and they killed it in All Will Rise. It’s time for ordinary people to hold them to account. Manage your team. Mix with ecoterrorists and godmen. Build your deck, follow leads and find allies. Make your case, and win the battle for the future.
Gecko Gods / Release: Autumn 2025 / Demo Available
Explore a forgotten land in Gecko Gods, a puzzle-adventure built for curiosity. Climb walls, solve ancient puzzles, and uncover a lost civilization in a world full of hidden paths, quiet secrets, and natural wonder.
One Move Away / Release: 2025 / Demo Available
One Move Away is a cozy, first-person puzzle game where you pack your belongings for another move and embark on a new chapter in life. With each move, you step into the lives of three unique characters, uncovering their personal stories through the items they take with them or leave behind.
Heidi’s Legacy: Mountains Calling / Release: 2026
Heidi's Legacy is a cozy narrative sim where you care for goats, craft mountain goods, and help villagers rebuild their lives. Experience a peaceful pastoral life, inspired by the Heidi novels, celebrating nature, healing, community, and self-discovery.
Hotel Galactic / Release: July 24th, 2025
Hotel Galactic combines cozy management with a heartfelt tale. Build and decorate your dream tourist getaway, aid Gustav in his search for redemption, and explore a nostalgic world where bonds with creatures and serene gardens sustain a thriving colony.
Out and About / Playtest Available Now
Out and About is a cozy foraging adventure about the magic of real-life plants! Identify and gather wild plants and fungi, cook tasty recipes, master herbal remedies, and rebuild your community after a devastating storm.
Discounty / Release: August 21st, 2025 / Demo Available
Manage your own discount supermarket in Discounty! Get caught up in small-town drama, organize and plan your shop's layout, and strike lucrative trade deals as you expand your secretive aunt's business empire. Selling more frozen fries will surely heal this broken community...right?
Islanders: New Shores / Release: July 10th
Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.
Collector’s Cove / Release: Coming Soon / Demo Available
All aboard! Collector’s Cove is a cozy farming adventure on the high seas. Sail with your animal friend to uncharted waters, cultivate your floating farm, and discover new islands, crops and fish on your quest to become a Named Collector!
Town to City / Release: Summer 2025 / Demo Available
Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city in Town to City. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.
Fishbowl / Release: To Be Announced
Fishbowl is a slice of life, coming of age story told over a month. Video call loved ones, work from home, sort through puzzles to rediscover childhood memories, do care tasks and get to know yourself better, one day at a time.
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KuloNiku: Bowl Up / Release: 2025
A Tiny Wander / Release: 2026
Outside the Blocks / Release: To Be Announced / Demo Available
Clawsome / Release: 2026
The Berlin Apartment / Release: November 2025
Llamalandia / Release: 2026 / Demo Available
Danchi Days / Release: 2026 / Demo Available
Sheepherds! / Release: 2025 / Demo Available
The Great Coffee Caper / Release: 2026
Capy Castaway / Release: To Be Announced
Anxiety Puppy / Release: 2025
MAFATE / Release: 2026
Townbox / Release: To Be Announced
Shiba Sweet / Release: 2025
Muri: Wildwoods / Release: 2025
Puni the Florist / Demo Available
Mazey Village / Release: 2026
Mecha / Release: To Be Announced
Letters to Arralla / Release: 2025
A Week in the Life of Asocial Giraffee / Release: 2025
Gemporium / Release: August 2025 / Demo Available
Crescent County / Release: October 2026 / Pledge on Kickstarter
Pawsta / Release: 2026
On-Together / Release: 2025