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Wholesome Direct 2021

Wholesome Direct 2021

Join Wholesome Games on June 12th at 10am PT / 1pm ET for Wholesome Direct, hosted live on YouTube! We'll be showing exclusive footage, developer interviews, and announcements from over 75 uplifting indie games.

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Featured Games(71)

Ooblets

Ooblets

Glumberland

Ooblets is a relaxing and offbeat farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!

AdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
Wytchwood

Wytchwood

Alientrap

Wytchwood is a crafting adventure game set in a land of gothic fables and fairytales. As the old witch of the woods, explore a strange countryside, collect magic ingredients, brew sorcerous spells, and pass judgement upon a capricious cast of characters.

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzleRPGRole-playing (RPG)Simulator
Mythic Ocean

Mythic Ocean

Paralune LLC, Untold Tales

Teach the gods to create a better universe - or mess it all up in Mythic Ocean, a narrative exploration game where your choices shape the fate of the cosmos.

AdventureIndieVisual Novel
Toodee and Topdee

Toodee and Topdee

dietzribi

A cosmic turbulence caused the 2D Platformer and the Top-Down Puzzler dimensions to merge! Switch between Toodee and Topdee and their unique perspectives to overcome hard-as-nails challenges, solve mind-melting puzzles and defeat huge bosses.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatformPuzzle
SkateBIRD

SkateBIRD

Glass Bottom Games

Grind on bendy straws, kickflip over staplers, and carve killer lines through cardboard and sticky tape parks. Above all else, skate birds try their best!

IndieRacingSimulationSimulatorSportSports
Unpacking

Unpacking

Witch Beam, Balor Games

Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. Part block-fitting puzzle, part home decoration, you are invited to create a satisfying living space while learning clues about the life you’re unpacking.

CasualIndiePoint-and-clickPuzzleSimulationSimulator
Letters - a written adventure

Letters - a written adventure

5am Games GmbH, PID Games

Letters is a fun word puzzle game about friendship, growing up and finding your place in life. Follow Sarah, a shy girl from Switzerland, by moving through her pen pal letters and chat messages. Use the power of words to solve riddles, interact with her friends and decide who she will grow up to be.

AdventureIndiePlatformPuzzleVisual Novel
KeyWe

KeyWe

Stonewheat & Sons, Fireshine Games

KeyWe is a cute, co-operative postal puzzler starring Jeff and Debra, two small kiwi birds working in a whimsical post office. They must jump, flap, peck and butt-slam their way across an interactive landscape of levers, bells and buttons to get those messages delivered on time!

CasualIndiePlatformPuzzle
Freshly Frosted

Freshly Frosted

Ty Taylor, Amanda End, Ally Taylor, Josie Brechner, The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild

Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory!

ArcadeCasualIndiePuzzleSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Pupperazzi: The Dog Photography Game

Pupperazzi: The Dog Photography Game

Sundae Month, Kitfox Games

Put your love for pups to the test - we have a bunch of dogs that need their photos taken, doggone it! Photograph and catalogue the finest (and derpiest) dogs to build your career, upgrade your camera, and discover new canines. WOOF.

ActionAdventureCasualIndieSimulator
Garden Story

Garden Story

Picogram, Rose City Games

Embark on a wholesome adventure to save The Grove! Forage resources, combat the invasive Rot, and restore the community. Relax and enjoy the fruits of your labor in this charming action-RPG starring a grape.

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Simulator
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan

Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan

ManaVoid Entertainment, Indie Asylum, Skybound Games

Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a wholesome, creature capture, 2.5D Adventure-Puzzle-Platformer with over 30 hours of gameplay!

AdventureIndiePlatformPuzzleRPGRole-playing (RPG)
TASOMACHI: Behind the Twilight

TASOMACHI: Behind the Twilight

Orbital Express, PLAYISM

Yukumo is a young girl traversing the world in her beloved airship. Upon arriving at a certain town, her airship breaks down. She decides to explore the town to search for parts for repair; however, the town has fallen silent, with no trace of its inhabitants...

ActionAdventurePlatform
RoboCo

RoboCo

Filament Games

RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow!

IndieSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Book of Travels

Book of Travels

Might and Delight

Ready your pack, grab your walking stick and step into a world of mystery. Craft your character and immerse yourself in the enchanted lands of Braided Shore.

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Paralives

Paralives

Alex Massé and team, Paralives Studio

Paralives is a life simulation game about building homes, lives and bonds. Through both hardship and success, where will your story take you?

Early AccessIndieSimulationSimulator
Lake

Lake

Gamious, Whitethorn Games

It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next? It's up to you.

AdventureIndieRole-playing (RPG)Simulator
LEGO® Builder's Journey

LEGO® Builder's Journey

Light Brick Studio, LEGO® Games

LEGO Builder’s Journey is an atmospheric, geometric puzzle game that asks us to sometimes follow the instructions… and sometimes to break the rules.

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzle
Floppy Knights

Floppy Knights

Rose City Games, wiip

Meet the Floppy Knights: tangible projections summoned from floppy disks! Tactics fuse with card game mechanics as Phoebe and Carlton, a brilliant young inventor & her robot-arm bestie, square off in turn-based battles. Select your Knights, hone your deck, and execute your strategy for victory!

AdventureCard & Board GameIndieStrategyTacticalTurn-based strategy (TBS)
Snacko

Snacko

Bluecurse Studios, Armor Games Studios

Driven away by the cost of living, you and your childhood friend set off with the goal to turn things around and start a new life. Explore, gather, and build up the town from scratch into a place you'll be proud to call "home"!

AdventureIndieRPGSimulationSimulator
Dordogne

Dordogne

UN JE NE SAIS QUOI, UMANIMATION, Focus Entertainment

Immerse yourself in a unique narrative experience and explore the thousand summer colors of Dordogne as you revisit your childhood to uncover lost family secrets in this touching formative journey.

AdventureIndie
The Outbound Ghost

The Outbound Ghost

Conradical Games, Radhood

The Outbound Ghost is an adventure RPG about helping ghosts ascend to the afterlife. Battle the past using figments of your personality. Craft badges to earn abilities. Explore a town of troubled spooks and discover life can be tough, even when you're dead.

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Frogsong

Frogsong

Frogteam Games, Bee Braun

A heartfelt adventure in a fantasy world of frogs! Talk to weird and wonderful characters, fight vicious bugs, and explore a vibrant world in this charming action RPG.

ActionAdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
BattleCakes

BattleCakes

Volcano Bean, Volcano Bean

Indulge in a delicious adventure as you choose to battle or befriend your enemies to save the day your way! Personalize your cupcake hero and meet charming friends along the way. Leave the world better off than you found it in this turn-based RPG.

AdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Princess Farmer

Princess Farmer

Samobee Games, Whitethorn Games

Be the magical bunny farmer you've always wanted to be! Princess Farmer is a charming visual-novel meets match-3 gameplay, with a host of adorable characters to befriend, mysteries to solve, and fashion to collect. Smash rocks! Make combos! Win hearts!

ArcadeCasualIndiePuzzleVisual Novel
APICO

APICO

ellraiser, TNgineers, Whitethorn Games

APICO is a laid-back beekeeping sim game about breeding, collecting, & conserving bees! Set in a series of lush environments, APICO uniquely combines resource gathering, biology, and beekeeping minigames, taking ideas from a mix of real-life and fantasy apiculture & floriculture.

AdventureCasualIndieRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
Kitori Academy

Kitori Academy

Cubenary

Kitori Academy is a life simulator where you live the adventures of a wizard apprentice with your spirit companion. Train your magical skills and learn how to brew potions, grow vegetables and catch spells to challenge the curse that lurks in the world.

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
Bear and Breakfast

Bear and Breakfast

Gummy Cat, Armor Games Studios

Bear and Breakfast is a laid-back management adventure game where you build and run a bed and breakfast...but you’re a bear.

AdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulatorStrategy
Button City

Button City

Subliminal, Wings

Button City is a cozy narrative adventure game about a fox and his friends banding together to save their local arcade! Explore a diorama world, play exciting arcade games, complete quirky quests and meet cute animal friends.

AdventureArcadeCasualIndieRole-playing (RPG)Visual Novel
Hoa

Hoa

Skrollcat Studio, PM Studios, inc., CE-Asia

Hoa is a beautiful puzzle-platforming game that features breathtaking hand-painted art, lovely music, and a peaceful, relaxing atmosphere.

ActionAdventureCasualIndiePlatformPuzzleStrategy
Tracks of Thought

Tracks of Thought

Tidbits Play, indie.io

Welcome aboard! A bad case of forgetfulness plagues the passengers - embark on a journey of self-discovery shaped by your own personality. As a lost ladybug, talk to everyone on board and uncover the train’s secret destination in a wholesome, card-based, talk-'em-up RPG!

AdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
Pekoe

Pekoe

Kitten Cup Studio

Blend tea and friendship in the flavourful world of Pekoe, a cozy cat-filled tea-making simulator about taking the time for self-care and connecting with what makes you happy. Build relationships, upgrade your teahouse, and discover new recipes as you work towards creating a place you can call home.

CasualEarly AccessIndieSimulationSimulator
PowerWash Simulator

PowerWash Simulator

FuturLab

Release the Pressure with PowerWash Simulator! Wash away your worries with the soothing sounds of high-pressure water. Fire up your power washer and blast away every speck of dirt and grime you can find, all with the simple satisfaction of power-washing to a sparkling finish.

CasualIndieSimulationSimulator
Fire Tonight

Fire Tonight

Reptoid Games, Way Down Deep

A narrative puzzle game about two people trying to find their way back together in a city on fire.

AdventureIndiePoint-and-clickPuzzleVisual Novel
Hot Pot For One (Endless Mode Now Available)

Hot Pot For One (Endless Mode Now Available)

Rachel Li, Qin Yin

You are alone on a cold, Christmas night, stuck at home, in a foreign country. You get through it by cooking a hot dish intended for six people. A short experience about the bittersweet feeling of making hot pot alone.

IndieSimulationSimulator
Cloud Jumper

Cloud Jumper

Hyper Luminal Games Ltd, Little Nook

Jump into a grand sky-faring adventure as you help Olive find her way home after a fierce storm has pulled her into a wild and wonderful new world in the clouds.

ActionAdventureIndie
Cat Cafe Manager

Cat Cafe Manager

Roost Games, indie.io

Travel to the sleepy village of Caterwaul Way and rebuild your grandmother's cat cafe. Renovate your restaurant, befriend the local cats and townsfolk, forge lasting friendships, unravel catty mysteries, and build a home for dozens of unique felines!

IndieMusicSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Venba

Venba

Visai Games

Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.

AdventureIndiePuzzleSimulatorVisual Novel
Beasts of Maravilla Island

Beasts of Maravilla Island

Banana Bird Studios, LLC, Whitethorn Games

Beasts of Maravilla Island is a 3D adventure game where you take on the role of a young wildlife photographer who traverses Maravilla Island's magical ecosystems to discover extraordinary creatures, learn their behaviors, and, most importantly, photograph their majesty.

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzle
Here Comes Niko!

Here Comes Niko!

Frog Vibes, Gears for Breakfast

Here Comes Niko! is the cozy 3D platformer for tired people! You play as Niko traveling across scenic islands. Make new friends, catch fish, solve puzzles, snag bugs, and more! Oh, Did I mention your boss is a frog?

ActionAdventureIndiePlatformPuzzle
Teacup

Teacup

Smarto Club, Whitethorn Games

Teacup is a short and wholesome narrative adventure game with a focus on exploration and non-linear progression. Help a small and shy frog on her journey to find the ingredients she needs for her tea party!

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzle
Moonshell Island

Moonshell Island

Cheekynauts Entertainment

Grow a crab's clubhouse into a thriving community hub and uproot the island's monster veggie problem in this cozy action adventure.

ActionAdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
The Magnificent Trufflepigs

The Magnificent Trufflepigs

Thunkd, AMC Games

The Magnificent Trufflepigs is a first-person, metal-detecting narrative game. It combines laid-back detecting and exploration with a dramatic story, all set in a beautiful English countryside. It’s a game about trying to find something.

AdventureIndie
Moonglow Bay

Moonglow Bay

Bunnyhug, Coatsink

Embark on a journey as a rookie angler in Moonglow Bay, fulfilling your partner's final wish. Team up with friends, family, and neighbours to hone your fishing skills, nourish relationships, and restore a remote town's fractured community in this slice-of-life fishing RPG!

AdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Woodo

Woodo

Tiny Monks Tales, Daedalic Entertainment

Woodo feels like a 3D coloring book you can touch, a relaxing puzzle-tale told through handcrafted wooden dioramas. A toy for those who never forgot how to be a child.

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzle
Soup Pot

Soup Pot

Chikon Club, Chryse

Cook freely with Soup Pot! Make food with a wide range of locally sourced or supermarket ingredients in traditional kitchens. Discover and learn about more than 100 recipes while streaming your cooking on Cookbook, the in-game social media platform.

CasualIndieSimulationSimulator
The Garden Path

The Garden Path

carrotcake, Mooncat Games

A slice-of-life sim about the joy of gardening, designed to be picked up and played in short and sweet bites. Whether you’re fishing, growing, trading, or making new vegetable friends, a wonderful and wistful adventure awaits when wandering The Garden Path.

AdventureIndieSimulationSimulator
Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To

Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To

Soft Not Weak, LLC

Cast spells, be queer, and crash the biggest concert of the year! Spirit Swap is an action-puzzle meets narrative game set in a lush world of witchy demons.

Card & Board GameCasualIndiePuzzleRole-playing (RPG)Visual Novel
Co-Open

Co-Open

lowpolis

Co-open is a game about a kid's first time buying groceries on their own. Looks like it's time to explore and have some fun! The products available in the local cooperatively run store are community-selected, trying to suit everybody's needs. You might not find everything you're expecting, but maybe there will be something that surprises you! Check the information on product price tags to make sure you only pick fresh local produce, call your grandmother for a suggestion, or just go with whatever catches your eye! Just try not to feed the store cats off the shelves. Please. They are fed regularly. You can get your ice cream and veggies in a few minutes to rush back home sooner — or stray away from the shelves and find yourself a part of a drawing class in the rooftop park, or an underground snowskate hangout! Don't be scared to check things out. Looks like your neighbor friend is also shopping today! But could you meet anybody else? What if it's a very (very) big crow, or a mysterious vent dweller? Maybe you will even have some meaningful mementos after your adventures! In the end, grandma will always come to pick you up. What will she say about your shopping trip — or, more importantly, about your product picks?

AdventureSimulator
Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery

Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery

Silver Lining Studio, Akupara Games, Akatsuki Taiwan Inc.

Guide brush strokes and solve a variety of puzzles to help an aspiring artist complete her masterpiece amid her brusque neighbor’s gaze and his pesky cat. As her painting starts to take shape, uncover an emotional tale of chance and artistry revealed behind unrelated yet familiar moments.

AdventureCasualIndiePoint-and-clickPuzzle
Fossil Corner

Fossil Corner

Brady Soglin

You're a retired paleontologist. Collect fossils and solve puzzles in the calm of your old garage!

CasualIndiePuzzleSimulationSimulator
Alekon

Alekon

The Alekon Company

Photograph dozens of whimsical creatures, solving puzzles to get them to strike collectable poses! Then befriend them through unique quests and minigames, from snowflake design, to tuning and playing crystal harps, to organizing parties!

AdventureArcadeIndiePuzzle
A Walk With Yiayia

A Walk With Yiayia

Trent Garlipp

A Walk with Yiayia is a heartfelt solo-developed, bite-sized adventure game about taking your Greek grandmother on a walk after she's lost her confidence from a scary fall. Connect through engaging conversations, explore a relaxing environment, and complete microquests in this thoughtful adventure.

AdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulatorVisual Novel
Gecko Gods

Gecko Gods

Inresin, Super Rare Originals, Gamersky Games

Explore a forgotten land in Gecko Gods, a puzzle-adventure as a tiny gecko. Climb walls, solve ancient puzzles and uncover a lost civilisation in a world full of hidden paths, quiet secrets and natural wonder.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatformPuzzle
Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography

Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography

Autumn Pioneer

Shashingo is an edutainment game that teaches you Japanese through virtual photography. With your trusty camera, take photographs of the fictional streets of Japan to capture new words and images as fully translated flash cards!

CasualIndieSimulationSimulator
We Are OFK

We Are OFK

OFK

Start a virtual indie band in this behind-the-music comedy. Date, dance, skate, and run for your life across 5 episodes and interactive music videos, in a heartfelt story of what you risk to chase your dreams. All episodes out now!

AdventureIndieMusicPoint-and-clickSimulatorVisual Novel
Bird Problems

Bird Problems

Lithic Entertainment Inc.

A sitcom narrative game about an awkward and anxious canary trying to make friends and drink cold drinks.

CasualIndie
Recolit

Recolit

Image Labo, Marudice, yokaze

Your spaceship crashes, and you find yourself in a dark town that looks just like any other, but that has something different about it. Its people go about their daily lives as if nothing was off, even though the sky above their heads is always black.

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzle
A Little to the Left

A Little to the Left

Max Inferno, Secret Mode

A Little to the Left is a cozy puzzle game that has you sort, stack, and organize household items into pleasing arrangements while you keep an eye out for a mischievous cat with an inclination for chaos. Check out this playful and intuitive puzzler with 100+ satisfying messes to tidy.

CasualIndiePuzzle
Yokai Inn

Yokai Inn

You are forced to take shelter in an abandoned inn, and the place springs to life with otherworldly patrons as soon as the sun sets! Immerse yourself in unique activities like maintaining the furnace and sweeping floors, or classic ones like farming, fishing, cooking, mining, and crafting in order to grow and expand your inn. Yokai Inn is a slice-of-life sim game, inspired by titles such as Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing, that is currently in the early stages of development.

Simulator
Please Be Happy

Please Be Happy

Studio Élan, Studio Elan, Stellar Artificer Games

A comfy yuri VN about the foxgirl Miho and her quest to find the person who's most important to her. This emotional visual novel features two different heroines to choose from, and a story that will make you both laugh and cry!

AdventureCasualIndieSimulatorVisual Novel
Witchy Life Story

Witchy Life Story

Sundew Studios

You have two weeks to save the harvest festival! Tend your garden and collect plants for spells and rituals to help the villagers of Flora. After all, if magic isn't for solving everyday problems, what’s the point of a village witch anyway? A cozy story filled with chaos, friendship, and romance!

AdventureIndieSimulationSimulatorVisual Novel
Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist

Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist

Flamebait Games

Embark on your struggling artist adventure. Draw and sell art to cheeky critics to reclaim your lost art career. Explore the endearing art-starved town of Phénix and show them you're a true artist!

AdventureCasualIndiePoint-and-clickSimulationSimulator
Sally

Sally

Lucid Tales

Sally is a life-sim game about community and belonging. Embark on a grand journey aboard a magic flying ship. Navigate daily life as a kid with a diverse crew unique to every game. Craft, cook, farm, build and explore the skies as you become who you want to be amongst your found family.

AdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
Luna's Fishing Garden

Luna's Fishing Garden

Coldwild Games, illufinch

Luna's Fishing Garden is a short, cozy fishing and building game. Catch fish, trade it in and create the garden of your dreams by planting new trees, placing water objects and bringing animals to the archipelago.

AdventureCasualIndiePlatformSimulator
Amber Isle

Amber Isle

Ambertail Games, Team17

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 and welcome even more prehistoric pals!

AdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
Clawfish

Clawfish

David Czarnowski, davidczar

Clawfish is a fishing claw machine game. Visit an isolated train station with a fishing arcade. Explore the dock, play the machines, and take some time to relax by the water.

AdventureArcadeCasualIndieSimulator
Kotodama Diary

Kotodama Diary

Ske6

Kotodama Diary is a simple, entertaining game that lets you have fun with bizarre characters that evolve depending on your choices! There are more than 100 different species of these weird characters, known as the "kotodummies". And, maybe, you'll find that the words you chose tell you something about yourself...

Simulator
KreatureKind

KreatureKind

Valiant Game Studio, Aurora Punks

Magic will disappear forever, unless you save it! In this wholesome and approachable card game, you debate monsters, recruit friends, and start a world-changing movement. Balance your team and your decks carefully, and use your debate skills to convince fantastical opponents to join your side!

AdventureCard & Board GameIndieStrategy
Seasonspree

Seasonspree

Kitewing Studio

A game about nurturing friendships and celebrating the changing of seasons, where you play as Sunny, a cute little tanuki with the ability to control the flow of time just by walking around.

AdventureIndiePuzzle
Loddlenaut

Loddlenaut

Moon Lagoon, Secret Mode

Play as an interstellar custodian sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. Pick up trash, explore the vibrant waters, and take care of axolotl-like alien creatures!

AdventureCasualIndie