Pangea Game Studios has announced that the upcoming Cozy Builder will arrive on Steam on October 14.
Announced today from the PAX West show floor, the two-person family studio also confirmed that character creation, one of the most requested features from players of the game’s demo, will be available when the game launches.
Restoring the valley’s earthquake-damaged châteaux means fitting dormers, arches, and gabled roofs together until the building comes back, a modular system that hands players the parts rather than the finished house. Then decorate every room inside, harvest the vineyard, bottle the wine, and put every coin of the profit back into the house. A greenhouse, better curtains, one more shelf of houseplants. The valley never quite runs out of things worth wanting.
Most games in this space start with a blank canvas. Cozy Builder starts with a damaged house. The restoration is modular, assembled from dormers, arches, gabled roofs, and curved glass walls, and there is no single right answer to any of it. Two players given the same ruin will bring it back as two different houses. Then they move in. Players do not step back from a finished model; they walk into it. Interiors and exteriors are both fully decoratable, from kitchen shelves and hanging plants to the ivy climbing the outside wall, and the château becomes somewhere to live rather than something to look at.
Living there is the point, and the valley makes a case for staying. An earthquake left Cozy Vineyard Valley in quiet disrepair, its houses shuttered and its hillsides gone quiet, and watching a collapsed shell turn back into a lived-in home over the course of an afternoon is the game at its most satisfying.
The valley gives something back as well. Grapes and olives come off the sunlit hills, herbs, wildflowers, and rare plants turn up for anyone willing to forage. What players do with a harvest is the second half of the game. Grapes and fruit become wine, jam, and preserves to sell or gift. The making is the pleasure of it rather than the bottle at the end, and what comes out can be kept, shared or sold. There is no combat, no fail state, and no clock anywhere in it.
Cozy Builder also offers players the option to play in co-op, which is where the game tends to surprise people. Players can take on the same valley together, splitting a single house between them or wandering off to build something of their own, now each with a customizable character of their own to do it in.
Cozy Builder releases on PC via Steam on October 14, 2026.