Everything Revealed At Wholesome Direct 2025

In an industry often headlined by high-octane blockbuste🐠rs and sprawling RPGs, Wholesome Direct offers a refreshing counterpoint: a celebration of games rooted in empathy, relaxation, and slow, intentional play. Hosted by the Wholesome Games collective, the annual showcase returned for its fifth year with a slate of nearly 40 titles ranging from coming-of-age stories to gentle puzzle adventures.

The event spotlighted both new reveals and surprise launches, with several games dropping on Steam, Switch, and mobile storefronts the same day. Alongside these♍ announcements, Wholesome Games also took the opportunity to shine a light on itඣs own publishing efforts. Below is a comprehensive breakdown of every major announcement, release, and update featured during the presentation.

Major Updates

Even fan favorites n🅠eed a refresh, and a few titles are getting major new content in the months ahead.

Little Kitty, Big City

Little 🔯Kitty, Big City will receive a free summer update across all platforms, a𓆉dding cat customization, a new area, and more story content.

Luma Island: Pirates

Luma Island’s upcoming expansion, Pirates, launches June 20 and introdu🌄ces new professions, min🌼i-games, and a full pirate cove complete with traps and treasure.

World Premieres

These newly revealed titles were introduced.

Gourdlets Together

Gourdlets Together brings multiplayer to Aunty Games’ belove𓄧d cozy universe. Build island♎s, fish, decorate, and vibe with veggie pals online.

Heidi’s Legacy: Mountains Calling

Heid𓆉i’s Legacy: Mountains Calling blends alpine restoration with interactive storytelli🏅ng in a faded mountain village. As someone who’s never met a hiking trail I didn’t romanticize, this one’s calling my name.

Milano’s Odd Job Collection

Milano’s Odd Job Collection lets you take on summer side gigs ranginꦗg from baking to cow-wrangling in a retro-styled pixel world.

On-Together

On-Together is a low-key social sim that lives on your screen’s edge. S𒅌tudy, work, and take cozy breaks with friends i🦩n real time.

Surprise Drops You Can Play Right Now

Wh🌃olesome Direct 2025 also featured a wave of surprise releases that became available immediately following the showcase. Clear your schedule (and your heart), because these are already out.

Camper Van: Make It Home

Among these was Camper Van: Make it Home, a puzzle-driven i🍌nterior design game from Malapata Studio and Wings. You can customize a tiny 🍌home on wheels while unpacking a story of self-discovery and healing.

Fireside Feelings

Fireside Feelings, developed🔴 by Team Empreintes, offers a quiet experience: you create a character, craft your ideal outdoor space, and sit around a campfire sharing and hearing stories from other pla🉐yers.

Instants

Instants, from Endflame, invites you to sort family photographs into albums, building a non-linear narrative inspired by oral storytelling tradit🐓ions.

Omelet You Cook

Omelet You Cook blends roguelike struc♐ture with culinary chaos as you scramble (literally) to create the perfect omelet for a cast of quirky students and teachers, under the scrutiny of a judgmental chicken principal.

Out And About

This one is a plant-identification foraging sim grounded in real-life botaღny.

Seasonala Cemetery

Seasonala Cemetery is a meditative exploration of a living, 🅘time-sensitive cemetery that shifts w🤪ith real-world seasons.

Squeakross: Home Squeak Home

Squeakross: Home Squeak Home puts a cozy spin on Picross-style puzzles,🐻 using them ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚto build furniture and decorate a rodent’s ideal home.

The Guardian of Nature

The Guardian of Nature added a solarpunk flair to the lineup. It blends hand-drawn art wit𒊎h size-changing mechanics to tell an eco-conscious puzzle adventure.

Vending Dokan!: Cozy Kiosk

Vending Dokan!: Cozy Kiosk allows you to build a ven🐟ding machine empire with laid-back idle gameplay.

New Dates, Mark Your Calendars

Some games are worth the wait, anꦦd Wholesome Direct showed plenty of titles to look forward to. Here’s everything with a confirmed release date.

Discounty

Discounty, the tongue-in-cheek supermarket sim from Crinkl🐼e Cut Games, will arrive August 21 on all major platforms, with a demo already available.

Everdeep Aurora

Everdeep Aurora, a comꦐbat-free digging adventure about a kitt🅘en searching for her mother, is set for July 10.

Islanders: New Shores

Isla🍎nders♚: New Shores, a sequel that expands on the original’s minimalist city-building formula, launches the same day as Everdeep Aurora.

Hotel Galactic

Hotel Galactic, a m🧜anagement sim filled♔ with creatures and personal redemption arcs, is coming July 24.

Monument Valley 3

Monument Valley 3, the latest entry in the celebrated series, arrives July 22 and promises another ꦑmind-bending narrative journey.

The Berlin Apartment

The Berlin Apartment, a narrative renovation sim that weaves together past an🎀d present through the objects found in a single apartment, will launch in November 2025. Explorin﷽g someone’s life through the objects in their apartment? This is exactly my kind of storytelling rabbit hole.

Spotlight On Wholesome Games Presents

This year marked a significant push for Wholesome Games’ own publishing arm. They presented th♔ree titles.

Fishbowl

Fishbowl follows 21-year-old Alo as s♏he navigates grief, remote work, and self-discovery in♌ a narrative built from unpacking puzzles and video calls.

Is This Seat Taken?

Is This Seat Ta♊ken? turns social awkwardness into a logic puzzle, as you match finicky personalities to ideal seating arrangements. T🧜his game feels like it was made for anyone who’s ever panicked at a seating chart. So... me. It’s weird, witty, and coming August 2025.