There’s nothing better than a juicy new showcase full of upcoming new games for players to wishlist and get excited for! Thankfully, Wholesome Snack has returned for another year and it’s another huge haul of goodness to round out 2024.
In a lot of ways, Wholesome Snack is a tasty treat prior to the chaotic humdrum of The Game Awards certainly relished by Wholesome Games’ reputation in the space. Here’s a list of all 24 games featured at Wholesome Snack:
Capy Castaway
Embark on a whimsical adventure with a capybara pup and a clever crow as they set off to find their way home! Sniff, dig, and explore a vibrant world brimming with wonder, challenges, and heartwarming friendships at every turn.
Tales of Seikyu
Settle into your magical new life in a world of Yokai! Harness your powers of transformation to manage your farm and explore the world, grow bonds with extraordinary islanders, and uncover the secrets of the Seikyu. Adventure, magic and romance await in this enchanting farming life-sim!
Piece by Piece
Relax and play as a little fox who runs a repair shop, fixing, building, painting and reselling all sorts of curious items from a model cat all the way to binoculars. Entrall yourself in the townsfolks stories, battle them in a game of ‘Bear, Fish, Bee’ and grow plants to create pigments for paint to decorate your newly fixed items. Get ready to open up shop soon!
Rusty’s Retirement
Rusty’s Retirement is an idle-farming simulator designed to sit at the bottom of your screen allowing you to work on other tasks while caring for your farm! Plant crops and watch Rusty get to work as he waters, nurtures, and harvests. Use crops to produce clean and energy-efficient biofuel, a vital robot power source. Deploy a team of cute little robots to assist with planting, watering, and harvesting.
Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
When spookiness strikes a luxury campsite, the one and only Duck Detective is summoned to quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery! Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping is a new stand-alone game in the acclaimed Duck Detective series from Happy Broccoli.
Lou’s Lagoon
Traverse the vibrant Limbo Archipelago in search of your Uncle Lou, who mysteriously disappeared and left you his seaplane delivery service. Explore the islands, harvest resources, and hone your crafting skills to complete jobs and grow your business!
Pine A Story of Loss
Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing. Help him hold on to cherished memories of their life together as he struggles to care for himself and his now-empty home. Pine is a single-serving game focused on telling a beautiful, emotional tale
River Towns
Solve puzzles by placing buildings and creating vibrant districts in River Towns. Each district has its own style and shapes, making every level a new challenge. Help to restore and rebuild our River Towns.
Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3
Cast spells, be queer, & crash the biggest concert of the year! Spirit Swap is an action-puzzle game set in a lush, narrative-driven world of witchy demons.
Winter Burrow
Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore their childhood burrow. Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals.
Snufkin: Melody of Moomivalley
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley is a story-rich musical adventure game about Snufkin restoring the valley and helping the quirky and memorable characters and critters who call it home. A series of hideous parks have cropped up in Moominvalley, disrupting the landscape and its harmonious nature. As Snufkin you will distract police officers, pull out signs, and knock over misplaced statues as you vigorously try to restore nature and the inhabitants’ home while putting an end to the industrious Park Keeper’s plans…
Aikyam
Dazzle the hearts of disgruntled villagers with extravagant turn-based battles and rally them against demons in this Bollywood-inspired fantasy RPG!
Little Rocket Lab
Play as Morgan, an aspiring young engineer returning to her childhood town of ‘St Ambrose’ to live with her aunt and help finish building the rocket her mother always dreamed of. Along the way you’ll meet people around the town, forge friendships and research and unlock new mechanical parts to make the most ambitious and efficient contraptions! Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!
Loftia
Welcome to the world of Loftia – a cozy, solarpunk, farming/life/social sim MMO game about working together with others to build a better, more sustainable future.
Star Birds
Star Birds is a cheerful asteroid base-building and resource-management game. Discover and mine countless asteroids, create production networks and guide your colony of spacefaring birds to new interstellar horizons!
Locomoto
Renovate, decorate, and build out a dream train to connect with and bring happiness to the residents of the stations along its lines.
NAIAD
Immerse yourself in a relaxing, minimalist, and colorful exploration adventure. Flow with Naiad across a mysterious river and interact with its fauna and flora to discover little secrets. Enjoy a wholesome experience with an original and dreamy visual style
A Waddle Life
A Waddleful Life is a sweet little game where you play as a duck and raise ducklings. Explore and have fun with your ducklings in the safety of a small, quiet park. Guide them and help them grow from tiny hatchlings to their first flight.
Sky: Children of the Light
Sky: Children of the Light is a peaceful, award-winning MMO from the creators of Journey. Explore a beautifully-animated kingdom across seven realms and create enriching memories with other players in this delightful puzzle-adventure game.
Pinbleton Park
In this solo-developed cozy adventure game, the world of Pinbleton Park becomes one giant pinball table with the aid of the spirits who dwell in the village shrine. Help out your neighbours, gather lost spirits, and craft the world into the perfect pinball table!
Despelote
Despelote is a soccer game about people. Get immersed in the streets and parks of Quito through the eyes and ears of eight-year-old Julián. Dribble, pass and shoot your soccer ball around town, and see what happens when you kick it someone’s way. Feel the city change as Ecuador comes closer than ever to qualifying for the World Cup.
Sugardew Island
: In this cozy farming game, you have to run your own farm shop. Take care of your animals and your farm, sell your goods to the cute Forest Folk, upgrade the island and fulfill small orders from the Harmony Tree to fill the island with life again.
Wylde Society
Step into the elegant heels of Vivian Wylde, witch, socialite and innkeeper, in period drama sim Wylde Society! Build, run and customize your magical boarding house in turn-of-the-century Fairhaven. Host splendid events, expand your witchcraft, and influence the town. Who will you invite for tea?
TOEM 2
Step back into the shoes of a curious photographer and set off on a brand new adventure all about uncovering hidden details, helping friends along the way, and documenting the world’s little wonders in TOEM 2, the sequel to the acclaimed TOEM.
If any cozy game fiends aren’t all that patient, Wholesome Games also has a Humble Bundle partnership featuring 6 games and 1 soundtrack. The full bundle is available now for $33.58, with proceeds being shared with the charity World Central Kitchen.
In last year’s showcase, games such as Europa, Lightyear Frontier, Sky and Duck Detective: Secret Salami were among those shown. There were even some Australian games present – City builder Go-Go Town released earlier this year while narrative-gem Momento have since earned over 100,000 wishlists on Steam. It’s hard to describe just how important these showcase events are for Australian games as they bring our creations to the world stage.
