20 cosy games to play on your Steam Deck in 2025

The Steam Deck is now four years old, and it’s one of the best ways to experience cosy games, letting you farm, mine, fish, and explore from anywhere. Dozens of cosy games run smoothly on the device, and in this guide, I’ll cover 20 of the best cosy games to play on your Steam Deck.

The best cosy games on Steam Deck right now

Farming and Life Sims

1. Stardew Valley | Compatibility: Verified

Stardew Valley is the most popular farming sim of all time. Plant crops, raise animals, and build relationships with the locals of Pelican Town while trying to rebuild its community and fend off an evil corporation. Simple, right?

The game runs perfectly on Steam Deck and even supports mods via Linux, including the hugely popular Stardew Valley Expanded, which adds a larger map, more characters, and additional quests.

2. Hello Kitty Island Adventure | Compatibility: Verified

Embark on a tropical adventure with Hello Kitty and friends as you attempt to restore an abandoned island to its former glory. Explore an island with varying biomes, decorate your home, complete quests, and solve puzzles.

3. Disney Dreamlight Valley | Compatibility: Verified

Dive into the magical world of Disney and help the residents of Dreamlight Valley – iconic Disney and Pixar characters – rebuild their home and regain their lost memories. Farm, fish, and mine, all while befriending popular Disney heroes and villains and exploring a gorgeous whimsical world.

4. Fields of Mistria | Compatibility: Verified

A nostalgic 16-bit farming sim, Fields of Mistria is set in the idyllic town of Mistria, which has been struck by an earthquake. Rebuild the town, build the farm of your dreams, care for crops and animals, mine, build friendships and romance with the town’s locals, and learn about the world’s mysterious magic.

Fields of Mistria is in Early Access, so some features like marriage have yet to be added to the game.

5. Fae Farm | Compatibility: Verified

A magical farm sim set in the world of Azoria. Play alone or with up to three friends as you grow and expand your farm, meet charming characters, cook, brew potions, and use magic to help restore the world around you.

6. Coral Island | Compatibility: Verified

Leave the city life of Pokyo behind and start a new life on Coral Island. Create the farm of your dreams by tending and harvesting crops, caring for animals, and building friendships and romances with the island locals. Dive into the ocean, help clean up oil spills, and revitalise the island to its former, natural beauty.

7. My Time at Sandrock | Compatibility: Verified

A sequel to My Time at Portia, Sandrock is set in the desert community of Sandrock. As its fledgling builder, use your skill and tools to gather resources, construct machines, fight strange monsters, and save the town from economic ruin.

8. Dinkum | Compatibility: Playable

Head to an island inspired by the Australian outback and start a new life. Help expand and decorate the local town by gathering resources, farming, mining, fishing, and making friends, either alone or by playing online with real-life friends.

9. Wylde Flowers | Compatibility: Verified

As an up-and-coming witch, you move to a cute rural island to help your grandmother and run the family farm. As you befriend the island locals and expand the farm, you’ll also have to practice your witchcraft, form a tight coven, and unravel a strange local mystery.

Management Sims

10. Bear and Breakfast | Compatibility: Verified

Anthropomorphic bear Hank and his animal friends decide to launch a B+B business in the middle of the woods. Help them manage and expand their business – build and decorate rooms and complete quests to unlock new items and perks – while discovering the mysteries of the forest.

11. Cult of the Lamb | Compatibility: Verified

Repay your debt to a mysterious entity by starting and managing an animal cult and venturing into the land of false prophets to expand your community and destroy the non-believers. Train your flock, decorate your camp, perform rituals, and engage in tough boss battles.

12. Spiritfarer | Compatibility: Verified

As Stella, the ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. Fish, farm, mine, cook, and create lasting memories as you say goodbye to cherished friends while playing alone or in two-player cooperative play.

13. Dave the Diver | Compatibility: Verified

Help Dave and his friends as they uncover the secrets of the mysterious Blue Hole, all while managing, decorating, and running a sushi restaurant at night and diving into the deep ocean to capture fish and uncover mysteries during the day.

14. Potion Craft | Compatibility: Verified

Manage and run an alchemist shop by physically interacting with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. With visuals inspired by medieval manuscripts, you’ll need to grow and harvest ingredients and use them to carefully concoct potions, research and experiment to create new recipes, and sell potions to help loyal customers.

Adventure

15. Stray | Compatibility: Verified

As a lost and lonely cat separated from your family, you embark on an adventure to escape a long-forgotten cybercity. Uncover an ancient mystery, see the world through the eyes of a cat, befriend ancient robots, survive encounters with strange creatures, and, with the help of flying drone B-12, find your way home.

16. Dredge | Compatibility: Verified

As a new fisherman, explore a vast archipelago world and catch fish. Explore various towns and ruins, sell your catch to quirky characters, and complete quests to help island locals and solve their problems, all while surviving the dangers of the night, catching mutated fish, and unravelling a mystery involving five lost relics.

17. Slime Rancher | Compatibility: Playable

Help young rancher Beatrix LeBeau as she sets to build a new life a thousand light years away from Earth on the planet Far, Far Range. Collect colourful slimes, grow crops, harvest resources, and complete daily requests from fellow ranchers to expand your ranch and explore a sprawling, gorgeous world.

18. Little Kitty, Big City | Compatibility: Verified

Your goal is to return home by climbing the city’s largest tower. Explore a vibrant city and befriend a cast of chatty animals as you solve quests, collect hats, take naps in the sun, wreak havoc on unsuspecting townspeople, and amass enough stamina to survive the climb home.

Puzzle

19. Unpacking | Compatibility: Verified

Help characters unpack their belongings across various rooms and learn clues about the life you’re unpacking. With no scores, meters or timers, Unpacking is all about offering you a peaceful and relaxing time by stacking and organising belongings in a new home.

20. A Little to the Left

Sort, stack, and organise household items into pleasing arrangements while stopping a mischievous cat from disrupting you. Solve dozens of puzzles, often with multiple solutions, and enjoy a pastel colour scheme with no timers for one of the most peaceful games of all time.

How to optimise games on Steam Deck

The majority of the games in this list run effortlessly on Steam Deck, but for some, like Disney Dreamlight Valley, you may have to reduce graphical settings or tweak certain options to avoid draining your Steam Deck’s battery and extend playtime.

Many games also support touchscreen controls, which can be handy when playing, and some support Steam Cloud Saves, allowing you to freely swap between playing on PC and your Steam Deck – just remember to switch them on.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this list of recommended cosy games to play on your Steam Deck. Which are you playing? Let me know in the comments, and whether there are any other titles I’ve missed!