Very early on in this year’s Wholesome Direct, there’s a trailer that pretty much encapsulates the whole hour-long show. It’s for Pekoe, a game where you play as a cat and you have to build and run your own tea shop. If you were to watch the Direct with a bingo card, that one game would check off a whole bunch of squares. Anthropomorphized animals? Check. Management sim? Check. Puns and wordplay? Check? Tea? Well, duh.
Of course, over the course of Wholesome Direct 2023, there were plenty of other games that would probably also check off a lot of those same boxes. Mind you, with more than 75 games mentioned during the showcase, there was plenty of everything you’d associate with the Wholesome Games movement. While you can watch the full Direct below, some of the highlights:
Of course, that’s just a fraction of the games that were mentioned during the Direct. There are links to everything shown during the showcase on the Wholesome Games website, as well as info on what platforms the games are coming out on (spoiler: lots of these games will be coming out on PC and Switch over the next year or so). You can also head over to the Wholesome Direct Steam page, grab some of the games that are already out, and wishlist those that are still to come.
Join Wholesome Games on June 10th at 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET for Wholesome Direct, hosted live on YouTube! See the future of cozy and uplifting gaming with an hour of exclusive footage and announcements from 70+ amazing indie games!!
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