Wholesome indie games to make you feel a little bit warm and fuzzy. 🥰 Inspired by Wholesome Games.
“A game about sports, but not always. Various non-sporting pursuits provide variety. Alternate activities like dungeon exploration, stealthy infiltrations and fishing expeditions mean something unexpected waits around every corner. Sometimes it is even sports.”
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Release: Q2 2020
“A pottery-themed creation + simulation game. As an excellent potter in the game, you will participate in base steps of pottery making, making your own works and placing them in the showroom for people to visit and interact with visitors! Get more materials, create more beautiful works and expand your showroom to run an exhibition.”
“In Spirittea you play as a writer who has moved to a small town in the countryside in hopes that the change of scenery will help you finish writing your book. Unfortunately for you, this particular town has been going through some difficult times due to natural disasters, strange accidents and mysterious occurrences.
“After drinking from an ancient teapot you gain the ability to temporarily see into the spirit world only to discover that the town is haunted by a bunch of angry spirits. It is up to you to re-open the old bath house on the mountain where the spirits once rested, and to search high and low to find and convince them to soak their stress away. “
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Release: 2022
A physics-based party game about four cats battling for dominance and mildly wrecking their owner’s house. 🐈
“Build a hive, make some honey! Hive Time is a small, bee themed management/base building sim. Harvest resources, grow your hive, and produce a new Queen before the current one dies.
“Manage different bee roles in a totally scientifically inaccurate depiction of hive dynamics. Send Foragers out to find pollen and nectar, have Builders research new cell types, and ensure you have enough Beesitters to raise the next generation of bees.”
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Release: December 11, 2019
Just thought it would be neat to put together an underwater collection. :-) Thinking of doing some more themed videos.
These are three prototypes created by Bossa Studios that you can play for free and then let them know which one you would like made into a full game.
🦊 Trash Bandits, rush around the city trying to collect as much garbage as quickly as possible, and if your friends are rubbish you can throw them in too
🕊️ Pigeon Simulator, become a sky rat and terrorize the city with your friends
🐟 I am Fish, live the dream and roll your way to the freedom of the ocean just like in Finding Nemo. This fish looks suspiciously like it lives in freshwater, but I’m sure everything will be fine! 👀
developed by Megagon Industries | published by Thunderful Publishing
“Just you and your bike – take it on a thrilling ride down an unspoiled mountain landscape. Make your way through thick forests, narrow trails and wild rivers. Race, jump, slide and try not to crash – all the way from the peak to the valley!”
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Xbox One, PS4
Release: October 23, 2019
developed by Khalil Arafan, Joram van Loenen, & Yoann Turpin
“The player explores a lush beautiful valley. Home of birds. Using an old binocular and journal you set out to spot the surrounding wildlife, discovering the local species and secrets hidden around the hills, rivers, and lakes. Through listening, observation, stealth, and timing the player strives to collect all species and their behaviors. Collect feathers, find nests and eggs. Endure the weather and uncover the hidden secrets of a Norway inspired scenery.”
[Trailer]
Platforms: TBA
Release: TBA
developed by Shin’en Multimedia
“You are just arriving at Monument Island. Want to go swimming? Or rather take a dive into the deep sea? Or do you want to visit the amusement arcade, do some shopping, dance at the beach party? Fancy some surfing? Or will you talk with the strange old tourist and listen what he has to say about these ancient mysterious monuments..”
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Release: November 2019