Now that the 2025 Wholesome Direct is done, we know the over 60 cozy games featured during the event. While most are headed to PCs, a few console and mobile titles showed up as well. In addition, eight ended up being shadowdrops during the event, among them the Switch and PC games Instants and Squeakross: Home Squeak Home. Quite a few also ended up being playable for the first time, with an array of demos showing up for them on Steam following the presentation. XSEED and Marvelous also announced they would be localizing Milano’s Odd Job Selections for the first time and releasing it on consoles and PCs.

Here is the full list of every one of the cozy games that came up during the Wholesome Direct 2025.

• All Will Rise - on Kickstarter - PC
• Ambroise Niflette & the Gleaned Bell - on Kickstarter - PC
• Anxiety Puppy - Q4 2025 - PC
• The Berlin Apartment - November 2025 - PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC
• Big Hops - 2025 - PC, Demo on Steam
• Camper Van: Make it Home - Out today - Switch and PC
• Capy Castaway - TBD - PC
• Clawsome - 2025 - PC
• Collector’s Cove - TBD - PC, Demo on Steam
• Crescent County - on Kickstarter - PC and Xbox Series X
• Danchi Days - TBD - PC, Demo on Steam
• Discounty - August 21, 2025 - Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC, Demo on Steam
• Dosa Divas - 2026 - Switch, Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC
• Everdeep Aurora - July 10, 2025 - PC, Demo on Steam
• Fireside Feelings - Out today - PC
• Fishbowl - TBD - PS5 and PC
• Gecko Gods - Fall 2025 - PC, Demo on Steam
• Gemporium - August 2025 - PC
• Gourdlets Together - 2025 - PC
• The Great Coffee Caper - TBD - PC, Demo on Steam
• Guardian of Nature Episode 1 - Out today - PC
• Haunted Paws - Alpha on June 7, 2025 - PC, Demo on Steam
• Heidi’s Legacy: Mountains Calling - 2026 - PC
• Hotel Galactic - July 24, 2025 - PC
• Instants - Out today - Switch and PC
• Is This Seat Taken? - August 2025 - Switch and PC
• Islanders: New Shores - July 10, 2025 - Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC
• KuloNiku: Bowl Up - Q3 2025 - PC
• Leaf Blower Co. - 2025 - PC, Demo on Steam
• Let’s Build a Dungeon - TBD - Xbox Series X and PC
• Letters To Arralla - TBD - Demo out now.
• Little Kitty, Big City - Free Content Update Summer 2025 - Switch, PS4, PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X
• Llamalandia - TBD - PC, Demo on Steam
• Luma Island - June 20, 2025 - PC
• Lynked: Banner of the Spark - Out now - PC
• Mafate - TBD - PC, Demo on Steam
• MakeRoom - August 7, 2025 - PC
• Mazey Village - TBD - PC
• Mecha - TBD - PC
• Milano’s Odd Job Selections - 2025 - Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC
• Muri: Wildwoods - 2025 - PC
• Monument Valley 3 - Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC - July 22, 2025
• Omelet You Cook - Out now - PC
• On-Together - TBD - PC
• One Move Away - 2025 - PC, Demo on Steam
• Out and About - Playtest out today - PC, Consoles in 2026
• Outside the Blocks - TBD - PC
• Pawsta - on Kickstarter - PC
• Puni the Florist - TBD - PC
• Seasonala Cemetary - Out today - PC
• Sheepherds - TBD - PC, Demo on Steam
• Shiba Sweet - TBD - PC
• Squeakross: Home Squeak Home - Out today - Switch and PC
• Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar - August 27, 2025 - Switch and PC
• Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game - July 29, 2025 - 
• Tiny Wander - TBD - PC and mobile
• Town to City - TBD - PC
• Townbox - TBD - PC
• Vending Dokan - Early Access out today - PC 
• Week in the Life of Asocial Giraffe - 2025 - Switch, Switch 2, and PC
• Winter Burrow - 2025 - Switch, PC, and Xbox Series X

The Wholesome Direct 2024 roundup included about the same number of cozy games as the 2025 one.

Camper Van: Make It Home, Fireside Feelings, Instants, Omelet You Cook, Out and About, Seasonala Cemetary, and Squeakross: Home Squeak Home are all available on PCs now, with Instants and Squeakross also available on the Switch. 

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Thanks to Jupiter’s various Picross games on Nintendo platforms, nonograms gained quite a bit of notoriety. The puzzles, which involve filling in spaces on a grid to reveal a picture, are essentially a puzzle staple due to the efforts of that developer and other creators. From my time spent with it, I feel like Squeakross: Home Squeak Home attempts to build on that by adding in elements to appeal to the growing cozy game audience.

Squeakross begins with the player creating a mouse avatar. This is the little friend whose home you’ll be decorating, and the character will appear as something of a mascot as you play. The character creator is more robust than I expected, with different ear, eye, mouse, nose, tail, and fur options all available. Since you do see the lil’ critter around quite a bit, I found it a novel touch. 

The puzzles start out very simple and small. You know it’ll be some sort of decorative item, which might help once the design takes shape as a “clue” of sorts. But it’s all really a fairly typical nonogram experience. A grid is presented in front of you on lined paper. It almost feels like building instructions. You fill in boxes that you know meet the criteria based on the numbers above and below for the line, with “cheese” showing up to highlight the spot. You can also tick off boxes that aren’t going to be filled. It’s possible to get a hint, to help you along. 

Now, I was playing an early build. So things aren’t finished, of course. However, I liked the incentive that came from going through a puzzle to get an item, then seeing it rendered in 3D in a mouse’s house. Early items are incredibly basic, such as a plain wooden chair or a cardboard box. But as the size of the puzzles get past 10x10 grids and you get further into the game, there are some really elaborate items as rewards for sussing out the spots to mark. It seems cute!

Squeakross: Home Squeak Home seems like it could be shaping up into a totally fine puzzle game. The preview build features an irable number of nonogram puzzles. The design portion is a cute way to essentially show off and make use of what you unlocked. It’s cute and may motivate people who normally don’t play through these types of puzzles or burn through them quickly to invest a little more time in it.

Squeakross: Home Squeak Home debuts on PCs in 2025. 

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