2024 was a huge year for cozy gamers, with highly anticipated titles like Bandle Tale, Fields of Mistria, and Tiny Glade releasing! 2025 is shaping up to be even bigger for cozy gamers with new titles like Tales of the Shire and Hawthorn releasing.
If you're looking for a new cozy single-player indie game to play on Steam, there's one for you in this list! Have you already tried all the games on this list?
Here are my 10 top cozy single-player indie PC games of 2024 (in no particular order):
Fields of Mistria
Fields of Mistria is easily one of the best cozy games released in 2024! This farming and life sim is like Stardew Valley combined with Sailor Moon, an easily addicting combination for plenty of cozy gamers. This farming sim released in August 2024 has over 14,000 Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam.
Fields of Mistria is a cozy game like Stardew Valley that's perfect to sink hundreds of hours into while you wait for Haunted Chocolatier! In Fields of Mistria, you can harvest, fish, mine, craft, upgrade your farm, and decorate your home.
Also like in Stardew Valley, there are plenty of mods already created to add new decorations and quality of life changes to the game! Check out the 20 Best Mods for Fields of Mistria.
Tiny Glade
Tiny Glade is a tiny building game that made huge waves when it released in September 2024. This simple but effective medieval building game has over 15,000 Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam and was one of the most streamed cozy games of 2024!
This cozy building game is completely gridless and doesn't require players to manage resources or villagers. Tiny Glade is the epitome of a relaxing Steam game.
Change the season, time of day, and weather to create the perfect ambiance for your medieval build! Fluffy sheep will explore the areas you create. Players can build anything from crumbling ruins to entire castles and villages in this cozy diorama builder! Check out these 10 Autumn-themed Tiny Glade builds to try!
The Garden Path
The Garden Path is more than just a cozy game, it's an invitation to slow down in real life as well. If you love games like Animal Crossing that mimic the real-world 24-hour clock, you need to try The Garden Path!
I've been following this game since it started development, and this cozy slice-of-life sim deserves way more attention. This cozy game was made for busy gamers - enjoy 10-30 minutes of new gameplay every day and unlock new characters and new quests as real time passes.
The Garden Path is a garden and life sim that now features local co-op! You can explore the beautiful watercolor inspired world with a friend and grow your garden together. The Garden Path is available on Steam and released in July 2024.
Cozy Caravan
Cozy Caravan is an adorable cozy game that released in May 2024 with Very Positive reviews on Steam. Your faithful bumblebee Bubba pulls you and your caravan to new villages where you'll meet new friends and complete quests for them!
In Cozy Caravan you'll gather resources and participate in mini-games with local villagers like fishing and rock-skipping. Cozy Caravan also has an amazing soundtrack and was awarded with the Winner for Excellence in Sound Design 2024.
Another Crab's Treasure
Another Crab's Treasure is one of the best single-player indie games to release in 2024. If you're open to trying a game with some challenging boss fights, you need to try Another Crab's Treasure!
In this indie souls-like game, play as a hermit crab trying to track down his shell. While missing your shell, you can pick up replacements like soda cans, bottle caps, and much more. Each object gives you a unique power to help you on your journey.
Another Crab's Treasure released in April 2024 and has over 11,000 Overwhelmingly Positive reviews.
Chef RPG
Chef RPG released in September 2024 with Very Positive reviews on Steam. In this cozy game, restore and operate a restaurant after graduating from culinary school. In this cozy pixelated game like Stardew Valley, spend your mornings gathering ingredients. In the evenings, build your menu and open your restaurant!
This addicting restaurant sim allows you to unlock recipes, build relationships with villagers, and use your restaurant earnings to buy new furniture and build the restaurant of your dreams!
Critter Cove
Critter Cove is an indie life sim and RPG perfect for cozy gamers that love Stardew Valley and Palia. Critter Cove released in September 2024 and has over a thousand Overwhelmingly Positive reviews!
In this cozy game, rebuild an island in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. Farm, restore the town, and sail to nearby islands to collect resources and explore ancient ruins. Critter Cove is an open-world RPG that features farming, mining, crafting, decorating, sailing, and even diving!
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions is a productivity game that helped me be more productive in 2024! This cozy game released in April 2024 and has amassed over 8,000 Overwhelmingly Positive Reviews.
This cozy productivity game lets you create your character and design your dream bedroom. Then you give your character an activity to do and get to work in the real world. You can put on a lofi playlist, use the in-game journal, habit tracker, to-do list, and set timers.
You'll also gradually unlock spirit companions to fill up your Spirit Dex. This beloved game is constantly being worked on and the developers have continued to add new spirits, new outfits and accessories, and new room decorations!
Coffee Caravan
Coffee Caravan is a cozy game perfect for coffee lovers! This cozy game released in May 2024 and has nearly 1,000 Very Positive reviews on Steam. Haul your coffee-shop on wheels from location to location, unlocking new recipes to create as you go!
Coffee Caravan is a charming cozy game with an adorable pastel world and delicious coffee drinks at every turn. The in-game map is procedurally generated, meaning every playthrough will be unique!
This indie developer also created a Tea World and Ice Cream World in game if you prefer crafting matcha lattes or the perfect ice cream sundae!
Until Then
Until Then is a narrative adventure similar to games like Minds Beneath Us and A Space for the Unbound. This cozy game released in July 2024 and has over 5,000 Overwhelmingly Positive reviews.
Follow Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure where memories are unreliable and the world is full of mysteries. This cozy game won the Best Game from the Indie Games Group in the Philippines was a Nominee for the 2024 Nominee at the Indie Game Awards.
If you want to immerse yourself in a beautiful hand-drawn pixel art world with addicting mini-games and a compelling story, you have to try Until Then!
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