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Run a small-town dressmaking shop, designing, cutting, sewing, and decorating custom dresses for clients and for sale.
Released 21 Sep 2026
Design Custom Dresses
Cut Fabric Patterns
Sew on a Machine
Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.
Developed by Cozy Lives · Published by Free Lives
You run a dressmaking shop in a town where customers bring requests tied to their tastes and upcoming events. As you take commissions, you meet the townsfolk and learn about their lives through their conversations.
Create each dress from a sketch: choose its style and fabrics, set the customer’s measurements on a mannequin, arrange and cut pattern pieces, then assemble and sew them. Add details such as buttons, bows, lace, and appliqué; fabric choice and pattern placement affect the finished design.
Fulfill clients’ requirements to earn coins and reputation, and sell ready-made dresses from the shop window for extra income. Commissions and sales help expand your available patterns, fabrics, and accessories, giving you more options for later designs.
In this helpfulness-selected sample, players often enjoy the creative range of dress designs and the step-by-step making process, with many describing the experience as relaxing and easy to lose time in. Some also like the town characters and their stories. Common reservations include fiddly pattern and accessory handling, repetitive work, limited clothing types, and the lack of a view of clients wearing the finished dresses.
Choose fabric, arrange and cut out patterns, sew garments and add decorations. Dressmaker is a cozy simulation game where every part of making a dress is under your control.
Whether your pattern is aligned to the grain or cut on bias, how you choose to arrange and cut out your fabric is what appears on the final dress. Take full control over what fabric to use for each panel of your garment.
Feed your fabric through the sewing machine to stitch it together.
Decorate your dress with buttons, bows and appliqué. Add lace trims and other accessories wherever you like with complete creative freedom.
Meet a whole town of people hoping to fill their wardrobes with custom-made dresses tailored specially to important events and their individual tastes. Create dresses to impress them, or display your own designs in your shop window and sell pre-made dresses off of the rack.
Buy from a wide range of fabrics, including cotton, linen, wool, silk and velvet.
Design and colour your dress in your sketchbook, adding fabric samples and appliqué.
Arrange and cut out your dress pattern, preview them on a mannequin and sew them together.
Turn in your dresses to your customers to gain both reputation and coin.
Pet the kitty.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 32 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller required | No |
| Website | Official website |
