Cozy Lives is a Cape Town studio spun out of Free Lives. Its first release, the dressmaking simulation Dressmaker, launched on Steam on September 21, 2026, for PC and Mac.
Cozy Lives is a small Cape Town team spun out of Free Lives, and it makes calm games. The studio announced its first release, Dressmaker, in June 2026 with a trailer. Dressmaker is a craft simulation about running a tailoring shop and making vintage-style clothing. Players choose fabrics, adjust patterns, sew on a vintage machine, and decorate garments to fulfill orders from townspeople. The announcement set a September 2026 release on Steam.
On September 21, 2026, Cozy Lives released Dressmaker on Steam for PC and Mac at 1,923 yen. The game had a 10 percent launch discount to 1,730 yen until September 29. Free Lives published it. The tailoring process as released covers fabric selection with cotton, linen, wool, silk, and velvet, then pattern layout, cutting, machine sewing, and decoration with buttons, ribbons, and appliques. Completed dresses go to customers for reputation and coins, or into a shop window as ready-made stock.
Free Lives said on Steam News on September 22 that the game recouped its development costs within 24 hours of release. Game Spark reported that 96 percent of 1,098 Steam user reviews were positive as of 14:45 on September 23, giving it Overwhelmingly Positive status. The fast cost recovery is a marker of how well that quiet corner of the catalog performs next to the studio's louder action titles.
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Cozy Lives released the dressmaking simulation Dressmaker on Steam on September 21, 2026, for PC and Mac at 1,923 yen, with a 10 percent launch discount to 1,730 yen until September 29. Free Lives published the game. Players act as a town tailor, choosing fabrics such as cotton, linen, wool, silk, and velvet, then working through pattern layout, cutting, machine sewing, and decoration with buttons, ribbons, and appliques. Completed dresses go to customers for reputation and coins, or into a shop window as ready-made stock. Free Lives said on Steam News on September 22 that the game recouped its development costs within 24 hours of release, and Game Spark reported that 96 percent of 1,098 Steam user reviews were positive as of 14:45 on September 23, giving it Overwhelmingly Positive status.
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Cozy Lives revealed Dressmaker, a craft simulation game about running a tailoring shop and making vintage-style clothing, for a September 2026 release on Steam. A trailer accompanied the announcement. Players choose fabrics, adjust patterns, sew on a vintage machine, and decorate garments to fulfill orders from townspeople.