13 Cozy Games Where You Can Garden, Cook, or Craft

ByKristen Wood

If your idea of fun includes pottering around a garden, baking bread, or crafting little treasures, this list is for you. These 13 cozy games bring a sense of calm and creativity to your screen—perfect for rainy days, self-care evenings, or anytime you need a soft escape.

Stardew Valley

A purple building with a clock is surrounded by trees, fences, flower petals, and colorful balloons. Several characters stand outside on green grass.
Stardew Valley | Gameplay Screenshot

Plant crops, raise animals, and become part of a small-town community at your own pace. It’s the ultimate cozy life sim with charm in every pixel.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Two cartoon alpaca characters sit at a decorated wedding table with pink and white flowers and elegant place settings.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons | Gameplay Screenshot

Design your island paradise, grow flowers, and decorate everything from your house to your soul. Pure peaceful joy, one fruit tree at a time.

Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town

A character waters crops with a silver watering can in a farm simulation game, with vegetable plots, a chicken, and a coop visible. Game stats and tools are displayed on the screen.
Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town | Gameplay Screenshot

Fix up an old farm, collect materials, and build your new life from the soil up. It’s relaxing, adorable, and full of friendly faces.

Luma Island

A small, colorful farm at night with a blue-roofed house, garden, cows, crops, barrels, and various glowing lights surrounding the area.
Luma Island | Gameplay Screenshot

Sail away to a dreamy island where you can garden, fish, cook, and decorate your own little cottage. It’s calm, colorful, and full of little discoveries—perfect for anyone who just wants to slow down and enjoy the view.

Garden Galaxy

Isometric illustration of a cozy, fenced yard with stone walls, candles, a cauldron, campfire, yellow tree, jars, and various rustic decor items on grassy terrain.
Garden Galaxy | Gameplay Screenshot

Drop coins, grow tiny gardens, and collect cute surprises with each click. No goals, no rush—just calm, endless creativity.

Cozy Grove

A top-down view of a whimsical, brightly-lit garden scene from a video game, featuring crops, trees, lanterns, and various interactive objects, with a character near the center.
Cozy Grove | Gameplay Screenshot

You’re a Spirit Scout helping ghostly bears move on while foraging, crafting, and decorating a mystical forest island. It’s like Animal Crossing with a storybook soul.

Harvest Moon: Light of Hope

In this serene farming sim, a player tends to a grid-like garden of diverse plants by the river. With a thought bubble displaying a watering can and sunflower, the adventure unfolds alongside a handy map in the bottom right corner.
Harvest Moon: Light of Hope | Gameplay Screenshot

After a storm wrecks your boat, you rebuild your life in a sleepy seaside town. It’s all about farming, friendships, and cozy days.

My Time at Portia

A character in a virtual game rides a horse through a grassy area with wooden buildings, a windmill, and hot air balloons in the background. Reminiscent of games like My Time at Portia, various game status bars are visible at the bottom.
My Time at Portia | Gameplay Screenshot

Rebuild your workshop, befriend townsfolk, and craft everything from furniture to food. It’s colorful, kind, and full of personality.

Sun Haven

A colorful garden scene with trees, mushrooms, a table with food, flower stands, and lanterns. The garden is surrounded by a stone path and has various decorative elements.
Sun Haven | Gameplay Screenshot

Farming, magic, and dragons all live in harmony here. You can grow crops, cast spells, and romance cute NPCs—all while enjoying cozy fantasy vibes.

Dinkum

A character in a cozy video game holding a bug net in a lush garden with plants and a compass on the screen.
Dinkum | Gameplay Screenshot

It’s like Australian Animal Crossing—build a town, raise animals, and explore the outback with friends. Laid-back fun with a splash of adventure.

Disney Dreamlight Valley

In a cozy game, a woman and a man stroll through a lush jungle environment.
Disney Dreamlight Valley | Gameplay Screenshot

Plant pumpkins with Goofy, cook ratatouille with Remy, and clean up the Valley with magic. It’s cozy gameplay wrapped in Disney nostalgia.

Spirittea

Pixel art scene of a forest with a river, trees, shrine, and statues. A character stands near a wooden structure with a dilapidated roof beside the flowing water.
Spirittea | Gameplay Screenshot

You run a bathhouse for spirits while writing and relaxing in a quirky countryside town. Think Spirited Away meets Stardew Valley.

Wylde Flowers

A person tends to a colorful vegetable and flower garden with sunflowers, tomatoes, corn, and strawberries, surrounded by a white picket fence in a game setting.
Wylde Flowers | Gameplay Screenshot

You’re the new girl in town with a secret—you’re also a witch. Grow crops by day and cast spells by moonlight in this wholesome life sim.

Kristen is a writer, photographer, cookbook author and avid cozy gamer. Her work has been featured in various publications including Forbes, The Associated Press, Elle, Pure Wow, Chicago Sun-Times, and Willow & Sage Magazine.

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