Game database

Max Inferno's tidying puzzle game about sorting, stacking and straightening — despite the cat. Over a million copies sold.

Adam Robinson-Yu's gentle exploration adventure about hiking to a mountaintop; winner of the 2020 IGF Grand Prize.

Nintendo's 2020 island life sim for Switch — 49.91 million copies sold, the fastest Switch launch ever recorded at the time.

A top-down adventure in a coloring-book world where you paint on everything — BAFTA Family award winner, music by Lena Raine.

Toge Productions' late-night barista game: listen to fantasy folk's troubles and answer with a warm drink.

Spry Fox's life sim about camping on a haunted island and soothing its ghosts, one real-time day at a time.

Solo-developed Australian-outback life sim by James Bendon; 1.0 in 2025 after selling over a million copies in early access.

Gameloft's life-sim adventure set among Disney and Pixar characters; left early access in December 2023 as a paid game.

Toukana Interactive's meditative hex-tile village builder — a student debut that won Germany's top game awards.

NPC Studio's 90s-anime-styled farming and life-sim RPG; a breakout 2024 early-access hit with 1.0 set for August 2026.

A solo-developed action-RPG about a grape named Concord rebuilding an island community, published by Rose City Games.

MegaWobble's joyful movement adventure about a small alligator making friends — now with a game-sized expansion, In the Dark.

Glumberland's farming and creature-collection game where battles are dance-offs; early access 2020, 1.0 in 2022.

Free-to-play “community sim” MMO of farming, fishing and home-building; over 4 million players by mid-2024.

FuturLab's soothing cleaning sim — blast the grime, watch the sparkle, optionally with friends. 3 million players by late 2022.

Monomi Park's first-person slime-wrangling ranch sim — 5 million copies sold by 2022, with a sequel that hit 1.0 in 2025.

Thunder Lotus's “cozy management game about dying” — ferry spirits, care for them, and let them go. Over a million copies sold.

Open-ended country-life RPG made single-handedly by Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone; released in 2016, 50 million copies sold by 2026.

Pixel Sprout's fantasy farming sim with dragons, skill trees and 8-player co-op; Kickstarted in 2020, 1.0 in 2023.

Free Lives' “reverse city builder”: restore a wasteland to a thriving ecosystem, then pack up and leave no trace.

Pounce Light's gridless castle-doodling toy: no goals, no management — 616,000 copies in its first month.

Witch Beam's zen puzzle game that tells a life story through eight house moves; double BAFTA winner in 2022.

Visai Games' narrative cooking game about an Indian mother in 1980s Canada — IGF Grand Prize and BAFTA Debut Game winner.

Studio Drydock's fully voiced farming-and-witchcraft life sim: tend the farm by day, cast spells by night.