Games That Interested Me During 2025 Summer Game Fest Day 2 (Part 1)
Wholesome Direct, Women-Led Games Showcase, Latin American Games Showcase, and Southeast Asian Games Showcase
There’s so many showcases on Saturday, but I’m still going to mention the games that personally interested me. As always, I linked to the showcase so you can easily check it out and I’ll try to keep games that already appeared in a previous showcase out so there’s no duplicates.
Wholesome Direct
Demo available
Blow your leaves and your cares away in this chilled out work sim. 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.
Coming August | Demo Available
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.
Coming August 7, 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!
Available Now | 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!
Demo Available
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.
So this is giving me Don’t Starve vibes and it’s coming to the Switch now. Yeah I kinda want this now.
Closed Alpha Coming June 7
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!
Why must co-op games tempt me so.
Coming July 10 | 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.
Out Now | Free!
A meditative experience that invites players to explore the serene beauty of a living, breathing cemetery as it changes with the seasons.
Out Now
Decorate and organize the camper van of your dreams! 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.
Out in Early Access Now
The 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.
I actually played the demo for this a while ago! It’s pretty good.
School’s out, but 11-year-old Milano’s mom needs to go to the hospital and Milano is sent to spend the summer with her uncle. There’s one small problem – her uncle is away on vacation! Left on her own, Milano decides to make the most of her situation by taking up a variety of part-time jobs in town. Over the next 40 days, Milano goes all in – delivering pizzas, nursing sick patients, milking flying cows, and more – to make this summer unforgettable. And maybe she can spruce up her uncle’s place and have some fun while she’s at it.
Out Now
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.
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.
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.
Coming July 24, 2025 | Demo Available
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.
Coming August 21, 2025 | Demo Available
Manage your own discount supermarket! 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?
Demo Available
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.
Another demo I played a long time ago and it was pretty good so far.
Demo Available
Run a meatball restaurant in this high energy comedic cooking game. Meet quirky locals and cook their wild orders, upgrade and customize your restaurant, win thrilling cooking battles, and become the town’s top eatery!
Definitely worth checking out, especially if you played Cooking Mama as a kid like I did. Lowkey hoping this will come to Switch.
Buu finds themselves camping in a mysterious canyon after unexpected troubles. With a lantern in hand, he set off on an adventure, talking to passersby, observing their surroundings, and uncovering the secrets of the full moon night. And don’t forget to fish, enjoy the scenery, and relax at camp!
Demo Available
Help Clawby find unique friends in this wholesome adventure! Collect cute figurines with the help of Clawby to create colorful dioramas in this cozy claw machine game.
Demo Available
One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.
Demo Available
Help Hoshino revive the forgotten summer festival! Turn strangers into neighbors by surfing the NeighborNet, playing minigames, and uncovering some slightly interesting secrets. What kind of quirky people live in Hoshino’s neighborhood? Ho ho… only one way to find out!
I’ve been waiting for the demo to release for this one!
Embark on a whimsical adventure with a capybara pup and a clever crow as they set off to find their way home! Sniff, dig, and explore a vibrant world brimming with wonder, challenges, and heartwarming friendships at every turn.
Anxiety Puppy is a 2D interactive narrative game that focuses on anxiety. In the game, anxiety is personified as a little puppy. Players will explore its story and try to coexist with it. Go find its traces and give it a hug.
Why is the main character me
In MAFATE, play as a mail carrier in the remote Cirque de Mafate in the Indian Ocean. Take photos and deliver letters while exploring this picturesque spot. Help Luna, sent back in time as a camera, touch the locals’ lives and uncover the area’s charm.
Townbox™ is a single player sandbox town building game with an emphasis on creativity and self expression! Take on the role of trainee town planner and expand your teeny-tiny starting island into a bustling town of your own design.
Explore the mysterious Wildwoods as a brave Muri! Solve puzzles, befriend adorable creatures, and cleanse the land and its inhabitants from corruption. Bring back vibrant colors and restore nature’s beauty in this cozy adventure filled with mystery and wondrous discoveries!
Demo Available
Puni the Florist is a cozy flower shop simulation game that highlights creative expressions. Manage the shop, design unique bouquets, and join Puni on a silly, wholesome, and relatable journey of self-discovery.
Another game I’ve been waiting for a demo for!
Demo Available
Crash headfirst into this witch-tech open world, drifting and driving on the back of your new motorbroom. Make deliveries, trick out your broom, and race your new friends (and crushes) as the sun sets. Get into gossip, sort your life out, and discover what it means to find home.
Join Rigatoni the mouse 🐭 on the cozy cooking adventure of a lifteime! Cook up claymation-style food from scratch✨ Set off on a globe-trotting adventure and serve cute animal guests!🐱🐰🐶
Omg I remember this being shown last year!
A social chatroom game to work, play games and hang out with your friends. Stay connected while you work, then use breaktimes to chat, chill, chew bubblegum and more!
Women Led Games Showcase
Perfect Tides: Station to Station
Coming January 22, 2026 | Demo Available
A point n’ click sequel to Perfect Tides about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara’s eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex relationships while attempting to find your place in the world.
I was literally thinking that this must be from the Perfect Tide devs!
You can sign up for the Playtest now
Ministry of Order is a narrative logic-puzzler set in a totalitarian 1920s maternity ward. Match babies to parents using a genetics puzzle, shape destinies through branching dialogues, decide your role in a secret plot, and stretch your modest salary to survive.
Demo Available
In a world where the fae-touched fall prey to a sinister killer, only a Faeologist can uncover the truth. A dark academia murder mystery visual novel with supernatural cases, interactive investigation, romanceable characters, and multiple endings, set in the roaring 1920s New York.
I played this demo a while ago, which helped me recognize this game instantly.
Demo Available
Summer Camp is a Narrative Party Game about telling the story of a perfect summer – but the player who leads in the action-packed mini-games seizes control of the narrative!
A short and sweet comedic adventure simulator about eating drywall as a result of interacting with society.
So weird that it got me interested haha
Grave Seasons is a narrative farming sim with a terrifying twist – someone in the town is a supernatural serial killer. Farm, romance, and investigate your way through the unsettling town of Ashenridge.
Grave Seasons! WOOOO
Woodo feels like a 3D coloring book you can touch, a relaxing tale told through handcrafted wooden dioramas. No pressure, just a cozy world that remembers what it felt like to be a child.
You know the feeling of struggling to get out of bed? In A Heavy Morning, you will play as a young girl battling with her own mind. Your only objective? Get out of bed and get to work on time.
Out Now | Demo Available
Clean up ocean waste in this short & relaxing game! Recycle, earn coins and upgrade your boat. Explore new areas. Clean bigger spills and different kinds of waste!
This is also coming soon to consoles
Demo Available
A nostalgic souls-like set in a painted afterlife. Awaken as a doll and seek your beloved. From parries to pistols, tune your build to overcome adversity. Explore dense, interconnected levels full of secrets and shortcuts as you battle pigment-hoarding bosses and seek your lost love.
Demo Available
Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and embrace demise. A new god graced the inhabitants of the forest on that fateful day. Roots Devour is a management strategy game. Drink blood to sustain your existence and seize dominion over the mysterious forest for greater power.
lily’s world XD is a psychological horror game where you investigate a young girl’s computer. Channel your inner 2000s teen as you read her old conversations, customize her blog, and look through her embarrassing selfies. That is, until you find messages addressed to you…
You can sign up for the Playtest now
A hand-drawn 2.5D adventure game about the different ways one can look at things—or choose not to look. About the demons in our minds and the desire to save the world. Well… or at least change it a little… or maybe it’s much simpler to stop being a white crow and just blend in with the crowd?
Coming to Switch on June 12, 2025, Out Now on Steam
Lose yourself in the relaxing solarpunk breeze of Re:Fresh, a 3D exploration-platformer collectathon game where you collect materials to help repair your town after a torrential storm!
Latin American Games Showcase
Out Now
Bubumbu is a short and wholesome puzzle game in which you get to help lost objects find their way back to where they belong, while exploring fully hand-drawn worlds full of quirky characters!
Out Now
Axel and Hazel are members of the VY Space Program. When the new enemy dubbed Mad Bunny threatens the project, they must fight, as they uncover a hidden conspiracy… CODE Bunny is a 2D-Action Platformer where combat mechanics and high-speed movement merge together!
Demo Available
Okay, Pedro is AWOL, and you have to get this LAN Party set up at the Game Store for the session later. Connect cables, install software, and solve puzzles all while you and the gang uncover the mystery of your missing friend.
Platformer meets tower defense in this story-rich game inspired by the Costa Rican Día de Las Mascaradas festival. One day, grandma Tita’s kids get possessed by the spirits of the gigantes and begin to wreak havoc upon the land. It’s now up to her pet sloth, Teeko, to save their town.
Demo Available
LURKS WITHIN WALLS is a tense survival horror game that combines modern dungeon-crawling RPG with fast-paced turn-based combat. Explore cursed environments infested with creatures born from the haunted art of Trevor Henderson.
Design your dream space! In this tiny cozy building game, stack and arrange uniquely shaped wooden blocks to craft charming dioramas. Design cozy bakeries, elegant living rooms or quirkiy studios, create beautiful spaces filled with warm and personality.
Demo Available
Monstabox: A turn-based 1v1 battle game mixing strategy & action. Choose monsters, cast spells, roll to attack, and unleash ultimates. Win by securing the Star after KOing your opponent. Play cross-platform & compete worldwide!
Demo Available
Caroline Walker returns in the sequel to the award-winning survival horror classic. Explore the decaying remains of the secluded Villa Hess, use improvised weapons to confront terrifying creatures, and bend the fabric of reality to save your sister from a twisted cult.
Tormented Souls sequel! I knew right away. I really enjoyed Tormented Souls so naturally I’m excited for the sequel.
Out Now
Outlanders is a town-building strategy game, populated by hard-working, charming folk in search of a simpler life. Some just want to survive off the land, others want to create amazing things.
The Shadow Syndicate is a stylized noir stealth-action game set in 1930s Brooklyn. Sneak, fight, and uncover a dark conspiracy using supernatural powers. Explore a vibrant city, play mini-games, and solve mysteries in this thrilling cinematic experience.
Demo Available
Drop, merge, and stack colorful pan dulce to create bigger, tastier treats. Master the art of sweet combos while avoiding a crumbling mess! With charming visuals and simple gameplay, this cozy puzzle adventure celebrates the joy of Mexican baking. Perfect for quick sessions or beating high scores.
Ok, I wasn’t sold on this and is seemed like just another merge game reskin, but it sold me with the added mechanic of actually selling the baked goods.
Shadow Sacrament: The Roots of Evil
Immerse yourself in a grim survival horror game where you investigate the secrets of an ancient monastery, solve intricate puzzles, and face terrifying nightmares that haunt its shadowy halls. Hunt the Haunt.
Embark on a thrilling adventure through a vibrant world teeming with challenges and mysteries. Traverse diverse landscapes, solve intricate puzzles, and engage in epic battles as you unravel the secrets hidden within the land.
In Colorbound, color is more than just hue. As Anku, an Aymara boy with a unique gift, you’ll harness the power of color to shape the environment itself, uncovering hidden paths to navigate challenging and complex puzzles.
A detective-like puzzle game set in a 90s operating system. Rummage through forgotten files, abandoned games and outdated software. Face your fears to find the reason behind a teenager’s disappearance.
Out Now
1983, Alaska… During the Salmon Run, a deadly figure known as The Grizzly Man terrorizes a group of tourists led by Bob, an amnesiac former Man in Black. Survive the journey or become the catch of the day in this breathtaking pixel-art interactive fiction with heart-pounding pace!
Chunky JUMP! is a short horror platformer where you must survive through the night on your BIRD BOY. But beware… the Ghabbit is hunting.
Demo Available
Relive the glory days of the 16 and 32-bit era in Dono’s Tale. A super cute and colorful platformer about a hungry little dragon! Jump, dash, climb, and shoot your way through detailed and colorful worlds in order to get back your precious fruit!
Big Yoshi’s Island vibes
Demo Available
The Trolley Solution is a compilation of point-and-click minigames based on the famous thought experiment originally proposed by Philippa Foot.
Demo Available
Bubblegum Galaxy is a cozy narrative building game about rebuilding the galaxy tile by tile. Discover and design new planets, complete missions, explore your office and befriend your co-workers… all while trying to find out who deleted the galaxy!
Gather your allies. Eliminate Angels. Transform into a Magical Girl. Slay god. Kernel Hearts is a Multiplayer Co-Op Roguelike Action RPG about four magical girls and their attempt to save a world that’s drowning in ashes
Kernel Hearts! I can’t wait for this one to come out.
Southeast Asian Games Showcase
The Tanuki Festival is just a month away, and the shrine is in disrepair. Follow Pon, a well meaning, if a bit lazy Tanuki with a part-time job at the Post Office, as he works to restore the shrine before summer ends. Deliver packages, make friends, and get the shrine ready for the big festival!
Demo Available
Demonschool is a new-style tactics RPG where motion equals action. Defeat big weirdos in between the human and demon worlds as Faye and her misfit companions, while navigating university life on a mysterious island.
Demo Available
We’ve hidden a bunch of cats in a silent comic about a black cat that always blends into the shadows. Can you find them all?🔎🙀
Not gonna lie, I wasn’t interested until it showed that you’ll be able to also color in the hidden object levels.
A Creature-Collector Roguelike Deckbuilder where you build your deck by taming and assembling a team of Montabi. Engage in thrilling turn-based battles, strategically utilizing their unique abilities. Assemble a synergistic team and you just might save the city from evil!
We’re eating good with all these Pokemon-like games.
Demo Available
The story of a Space Traveler and a Cosmic Cat, on their journey across the sea of stars to find their home and save a dying universe from a Galactical Pandemic.
Join Dodo on a heartwarming quest to rebuild the community theater. Make new friends, sing, dance, and play alongside the residents as you come together to prepare for the grand performance.
Demo Available
Manage your own donut café in High Times, and help customers escape from their problems by serving special donuts that affect their emotions. Sometimes they don’t know what they want, so listen to their stories, offer them advice in the form of donuts, and mend broken relationships.
I supported this game on Kickstarter!
An office point-and-click puzzle game mixed with visual novel-style storytelling set in a noir-fabled world. As you are fired from the job, to save yourself from a collapsing dream, it’s time to investigate, discover the black company’s secrets, and take sweet revenge for the money you deserve.
Demo Available
Peek into Southeast Asian politics through a lens darkly. Check ownership for authenticity, listen to stories, decide who should give up their land in the name of PROGRESS!
Another game I played the demo for a while ago! Def check this game out if you want a Papers, Please-esque game.
Demo Available
Kill The Music is a Rhythm Action Roguelite about defeating hordes of enemies with musical instruments.
Demo Available
Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.
I played the demo a while ago for this one too! This one is really unique you have to experience it yourself. Also either I totally missed that you could get the word “cockroach” in Nima’s room or that appears later on.
Out Now on Steam, Coming to Consoles Later
SEDAP! is a co-op cooking-combat adventure that combines the chaos of a collaborative kitchen and the wonders of adventuring into an unexplored world. Embark on an exciting culinary journey, whip up delectable delicacies, and serve your way through a fantastical reimagination of Southeast Asia!
The only thing keeping me from getting this is needing someone else to play with me (and I know there’s a solo mode, but we all know these types of games are made with multiple players).
Demo Available
Something’s deeply wrong with your PC and you’ve become the cursor. Navigate folders like dungeon rooms, delete viruses, and level up with EXEs in this action-packed roguelike.
Anyone else get Pokemon Rangers vibes?
Demo Available
Experience life as a house in this silly adventure game! Play as a building as you roll, jump, and wave-dash across a cozy island. Meet eligible structures, romance them, and experience a bizarre, yet oddly familiar story.. or go fishing instead (though we replaced fish with cars to make more sense)
Nightmare Circus is an action-adventure game where the player takes on the role of a Puppeteer trapped in the Nightmare Realm. Set out on a journey to find his friends and escape the nightmare!
You are 10-year-old Kiet. It is 2005, and your brother is dead. Nothing to do but game.
Yeah that’s the game’s name. I was confused too.
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