☕ 09/2024: Cozy & Family Friendly Games Celebration Newsletter

Topics: Stardew Valley 1.6 release date for console/mobile, My time at Evershine, best cozy games in October, huge new cozy games announcements and more!

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rokaplay
October 02, 2024

Welcome to issue 09/2024 of our cozy games newsletter. As the 🍂 leaves begin to change and the air gets crisper, we're excited to bring you a carefully curated selection of this month's best cozy games 🫶🏻.

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My Time at Evershine – The Next My Time Tale 😻

🗞️ Cozy Game News Roundup

  • ⏲ My time at … Evershine! this is the name of the third part of ‘My time at ...’ series. The project was announced by the devs on Steam and a new Kickstarter campaign is already running 🤗.

  • 🥳 Stardew Valley: Stardew Valley console & mobile 1.6 update will be released on November 4th, said ConcernedApe on Twitter/X.

  • 🎉 Festival Update: One year after the release of Moonstone Island, the devs are celebrating its birthday with a festival update (Youtube.com) and was released on September 30.

  • 🙃 Fae Farm on PS/Xbox: Fae Farm coming to PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, and Xbox One on October 22 (Gematsu.com).

  • ❤ Final Update: The final update of Wylde Flowers, Magical Creature was released on 5 September!

  • Pokemon Article: The Next Pokémon Game Should Rework Old Critters, Not Just Add Dozens More (Nintendolife.com)

  • ⏱ Delayed: Hobbit Life Sim Tales of the Shire Delayed to Early 2025 (Techraptor.com)

  • 📆 Release Date: The cozy shop-keeper game Trash Goblin has now a release date. The game will be launched on 6 November, according to the developers on reddit post.

💎 Insider-Tip: We had the opportunity to play the demo of Projected Dreams, a game about creating shadows on the wall and solving puzzles, and we can highly recommend it. It truly is a hidden gem that hardly anyone knows about.

Before we begin, we wanted to show you this beautiful game that is still in development, but you can already play the prototype demo. Perfect for the season, isn’t it?

COZY MONTHLY PICKS!

📰 Best Cozy Games released in September

For clarity, we've narrowed the list down and present the top 3 highlights. Follow the Button to see ALL highlights from last month.

Caravan SandWitch (12 Sep, PC, Switch, PS5)

Embark on a journey across vast landscapes in Caravan SandWitch, a captivating narrative-driven exploration adventure.

Exploration, Adventure, Mystery

Tiny Glade (23 Sep, PC)

Tiny Glade is a small relaxing game about doodling castles. Explore gridless building chemistry, and watch the game carefully assemble every brick, pebble and plank. There's no management, combat, or wrong answers.

Building, Relaxing, Sandbox, Nature

The Legend of Zelda™: Echoes of Wisdom for Nintendo (26 Sep, Switch)

Save Hyrule — this time with the wisdom of Princess Zelda!

Zelda brightened up my childhood

COZY UPCOMINGS PICKS

✨ Cozy Games selection in October

Kind Words 2 (7 Oct, PC)

A game about being kind to real people. Send nice letters from your cozy room, go outside and say hi to your neighbors, swap recommendations, dress up for the poetry slam and add your dreams to a sky full of wishes.

Relaxing, Massively Multiplayer, Lo-Fi, Typing

Amber Isle (10 Oct, PC | 31 Oct, Switch)

Welcome to Amber Isle - a quaint, friendly village of prehistoric residents who are in need of a new shopkeep... That’s you! Craft and sell items, upgrade your shop, befriend your Paleofolk neighbours and customise the island to bring the village back to life.

Dinosaurs, Crafting, Management, Exploration, Animal Crossing-like

Europa (11 Oct, PC & Switch)

On the moon Europa, a lush terraformed paradise in Jupiter’s shadow, an android named Zee sets out in search of answers. Run, glide and fly across the landscape, solve mysteries in the ruins of a fallen utopia.

Exploration, Ghibli inspired, Cinematic, WOW

Fruitbus on Steam

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.

Simulation, Cooking, Funny,

Potionomics: Masterwork Edition (22 Oct, Switch, PS, Xbox)

You’ve inherited your uncle’s potion shop—and a huge debt. Better get brewing! Customize your store, hire heroes to gather ingredients, befriend (or romance) fellow vendors to learn new haggling strategies

Dating Sim, Capitalism, Simulation, Crafting

Date Everything! (22 Oct, PC, Switch, PS, Xbox)

Date Everything is a sandbox dating simulator set in the comfort of your own home, featuring 100 fully voice acted datable characters! Let the romance flow between your bed, smoke alarm and… Overwhelming Sense of Existential Dread?

Dating Sim, Comedy

Which game are you most looking forward to in October? Just reply to this email, we look forward to hearing from you.

NEW GEMS

💎 Freshly Announced

ASTROBOTANICA

Discover Earth 300 thousand years ago as an alien biologist. Utilize your expertise in botany to survive, grow plants, harvest crops, compose and brew tonics. Reveal hidden powers of unknown plants & engage with primal humans.

Crafting, Farming, Exploration, Open-World

A Waddleful Life

A sweet little game where you play as a duck raising ducklings.

Quack Quack

Idle Waters

A relaxing idle fishing game that waits for you at the bottom of the screen while you do other things. CATCH, COLLECT and DISPLAY fishes!

Pixelart, Idler, fishing

NEW GEMS

💰 Project we love on Kickstarter

The Witch's Bakery - A Cozy Adventure RPG in Paris!

Live a magical life as a witch-baker in Paris! Manage your store, visit iconic streets and heal people's heart with your croissants!

My Time at Evershine

A high-quality sandbox simulation RPG. Embark on a grand cozy adventure with many memorable characters in the 3rd My Time game!

Super Zoo Story

Super Zoo Story is an immersive pixel-art RPG where you’ll create your very own wildlife resort from the ground up!

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