The Design & Illustration Zone

Creative tools for drawing, layout, image editing, illustration, or visual design.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

ShipShaper: Falconeer Chronicles - ShipShaper is a creative game about the simple joy of designing ships. Nothing more. Nothing less. Export to Bulwark, 3D print, or use in your own games with a free commercial license.
We, Junk Artists - A "collage-and-guess" multiplayer game for up to 6 players. Enjoy collaging ordinary items into outside-the-box "masterpieces," guess each other's creations, and unleash your wild imagination around the campfire. Here, everyone is an artist!
Bookbinding – Dark Cozy Sim - A quiet bookshop. A magical past. A murder and Tarot cards that can twist fate itself. Craft beautiful covers, read between the lines of your customers’ lives, and decide which secrets deserve to stay hidden… including your own.
Puni the Florist - Puni the Florist is a cozy flower shop simulation game that highlights creative expressions. Manage the shop, design unique bouquets, and join Puni on a silly, wholesome, and relatable journey of self-discovery.
Ice Cream Simulator - Run your dream ice cream shop in Ice Cream Simulator! Create delicious ice cream using a variety of ingredients, manage your business, hire staff, decorate your store, handle changing weather and different customers, and enjoy a relaxing first-person simulation experience.
Beauty Store Simulator - Run your own beauty store in Beauty Store Simulator! Manage a variety of cosmetics, fashion items, jewelry, and more. Design your store, keep customers happy, and build a successful beauty empire. Can you become the ultimate beauty mogul?

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Car Detailing Simulator - Players say: Run a detailing shop: wash, vacuum, polish and repaint customer cars, then restore and sell old vehicles. Players like: Relaxing Cleaning · Satisfying Restorations · Car Detailing Theme ·
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Car Detailing Simulator, you get a chance to renew any car and restore its splendor at the request of demanding customers! A nice and well-groomed vehicle can be the pride of every human being! Clean, polish and marvel at your creations in this highly realistic game where every little detail counts!

Lucifer Within Us - Players say: As a digital exorcist in a church-run future, investigate three murders by comparing suspect timelines, evidence, and hidden motives. Players like: Timeline Deduction · Unusual Future Setting · Distinctive Visual Style ·
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Solve 3 increasingly intricate murders by examining the evidence -- find the motive, the means, and the opportunity. Use testimonies of the suspects as evidence by examining every detail for contradictions... and signs of sin. Purify the possessed. Purge the daemons.

Spirit City: Lofi Sessions - Players say: Build a cozy focus room, mix lo-fi music and ambient sounds, manage tasks, and uncover spirits by matching their preferred settings. Players like: Calming Soundscapes · Room Customization · Useful Focus Tools ·
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Spirit City: Lofi Sessions is a gamified focus tool, set to a soothing lofi soundtrack. Discover and collect Spirits, customize your cozy virtual space, and facilitate your real-life tasks with a collection of handy features designed to improve concentration and ease stress.

House Builder - Players say: Travel across regions and eras as a solo builder, gathering materials and following construction steps to raise distinctive homes. Players like: Distinct Building Styles · Relaxing Construction · Learn Building Basics ·
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Become a one-man construction crew! Travel around the world and through the ages to build iconic designs! Beware of unpleasant temperatures and dangerous fauna!

Umurangi Generation - Players say: As a courier in crisis-struck Tauranga, explore levels, complete photo bounties, edit your shots, and deliver parcels. Players like: Environmental Storytelling · Creative Photography · Art And Soundtrack ·
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Umurangi Generation is a first person photography game in the shitty future. Set in Tauranga Aotearoa off the back of an impending crisis you are a courier for the Tauranga Express. Throughout the game you will unlock a variety of lenses and equipment.

House Flipper 2 - Players say: Clean, renovate, decorate, and sell homes in Pinnacove—or demolish them and build from scratch, alone or with friends. Players like: Relaxing Cleanup · Creative Building · Co-op Renovations ·
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Clean your worries away with this relaxing renovation simulator! Buy, fix, sell, and become a local legend. Or grab your power tools and build anything from scratch! With the online 2-4 players co-op mode, you can play both in sandbox and story mode together.

gogh: Focus with Your Avatar - Players say: Build a personalized virtual workspace, customize an avatar, and use focus timers while working alone or alongside others online. Players like: Quiet Work Companionship · Room Customization · Avatar Customization ·
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A cozy multiplayer co-working sandbox with character customization, room building, and productivity tools. Focus, study, work, and relax together with friends and players around the world.

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

Voxelgram - Players say: Carve voxel models from numbered 3D blocks by solving nonogram clues, then complete diorama sets and explore more puzzles. Players like: Relaxing Puzzle Sessions · 3D Nonogram Twist · Large Puzzle Library ·
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Voxelgram is a 3D nonograms game where solving puzzles feels like sculpting in three dimensions. Reveal voxel models as you complete each challenge.

Short Trip - A hand-drawn, interactive illustration about a scenic tramway, windswept mountains and cats with places to be.
Coloring Game: Pixel - New Game in the Coloring Game Collection. If you’re among those who don’t like coloring large images, then this is the game for you. 60 smaller images are sure to attract your attention for 12-14 hours.
Vermillion - VR Painting - Players say: Paint in a virtual oil studio, mixing wet colors, following references, and creating solo or with up to three others. Players like: Realistic Oil Mixing · Beginner-Friendly Tools · Tutorial References ·
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It’s time to discover your inner artist! With Vermillion, you get a fully equipped oil painting studio in your home, without any of the mess. Ready for the unrivaled sense of accomplishment from creating your first painting?

Pixel Art Academy: Learn Mode - Learn how to draw pixel art with a video game! Start from zero and develop real art skills in a relaxing way. Complete interactive tutorials, draw pixel art sprites, and play the games you create. Everyone can do this!
VRM Posing Desktop - Accelerate the creation of 3D models! This is a highly functional posing tool for Vtubers, 3D modelers, and illustrators to use.Make your VRM character take various poses using poses you created or others' poses.Various useful functions are available.
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Feb 27, 2022
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The Aquarium does not dance Special Edition - Navigate your way through an aquarium overrun by gruesome creatures known as creepies and unravel its hidden mysteries. With each riddle you solve, you’ll find yourself one step closer to uncovering the chilling truth of Bianca Aquarium. Your choices affect the outcome of the game, so choose wisely.
Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love - Welcome back to your childhood town! The Full HD Remaster of Karigurashi Ren’ai: Living on Borrowed Love perfectly preserves ASa Project's signature blend of comedy and heartwarming charm while offering a stunning new visual experience.

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Virtual Cottage - Players say: Set a real-world task and timer in a small desktop cottage, then focus alongside lo-fi music, ambient sounds, and shifting light. Players like: Focus Timer · Task Checklist · Calming Ambience ·
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Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

Monument Valley - Players say: Guide Ida through surreal monuments, shifting perspective and architecture to reveal impossible paths in a quiet puzzle adventure. Players like: Geometric Visual Design · Perspective-Based Puzzles · Calming Music ·
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Embark on a journey of forgiveness through impossible environments and illusionary puzzles. Experience this meditative and calming puzzle game by manipulating monuments and creating evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.

Tiny Glade - Players say: Build a grid-free medieval diorama, shaping cottages, castles and paths as the game adapts their details—without goals or combat. Players like: Calming Creative Play · Charming Visuals · Responsive Building Details ·
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Tiny Glade is a small diorama builder where you doodle whimsical castles, cozy cottages & romantic ruins. Explore gridless building chemistry as the game adorns your glades with procedural detail. No management, combat or goals: just kick back and turn forgotten meadows into lovable dioramas.

SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator - Players say: In 2130, paint a space studio from canvas to walls, fill client commissions, and earn credits to expand and decorate it. Players like: Creative Freedom · Varied Paint Tools · Relaxing Experimentation ·
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A unique artist sim game with realistic paint mixing, physics and numerous painting tools. Upgrade and customize your studio, complete tasks, sell and expose art, buy instruments and get famous!

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Oct 13, 2022
97% 👍
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Coloring Game 2 - Players say: Color numbered pixels to reveal illustrated images, using individual coloring or a fill tool while tracking progress on each picture. Players like: Relaxing Coloring · Simple Pixel Art · Satisfying Completions ·
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Coloring Game 2 is a sequel of the existing color-by-number game which so many users have liked. The sequel features new options and images.

MateEngine - Players say: Keep a customizable 3D VRM companion on your desktop: watch it react to your cursor, respond to touch, and dance to music. Players like: Custom Models & Mods · Music-Synced Dancing · Cute Animated Reactions ·
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MateEngine is a lightweight desktop companion app with full custom VRM model support. Bring 3D anime-style characters to life on your screen with idle animations, drag and dance features, and low resource usage and open-source.

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Bladesong - Players say: As a swordsmith in a fortress sheltering a ruined world, shape blades to order and navigate a choice-driven text adventure. Players like: Engaging Story · Custom Sword Design · Rich Worldbuilding ·
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The ultimate swordmaking game. Forge unique weapons with freeform blade shaping and modular hilts, perfectly balanced to your customers’ needs. Master the art of smithing and uncover the secrets of Eren Keep, a last haven of a dying world – or so they say.

Coloring Game 3 - Players say: Fill numbered sections in pixel-art pictures, choosing between two difficulty modes as each image gradually takes shape. Players like: Relaxing Coloring · Enjoyable Pixel Art · Varied Difficulty ·
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Coloring Game 3 is a new paint-by-number game which has already won hearts of numerous players. Now the game offers new difficulty modes.

Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist - Players say: As a vanished artist rebuilding a career in Phénix, paint commissions and sell your work while exploring the town. Players like: Creative Drawing · Varied Art Tools · Relaxing Play ·
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Embark on your struggling artist adventure. Draw and sell art to cheeky critics to reclaim your lost art career. Explore the endearing art-starved town of Phénix and show them you're a true artist!

House Flipper - Players say: Take renovation jobs, clean and rebuild rundown homes, then furnish, buy, and sell properties for profit. Players like: Relaxing Renovation · Visible Makeovers · Creative Home Design ·
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House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!

MakeRoom - Players say: Design miniature rooms, gardens, boats, and campers, customizing objects or crafting furniture in a freeform diorama sandbox. Players like: Custom Furniture · Creative Freedom · Relaxing Atmosphere ·
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Build rooms, gardens, and camper vans with 1,100+ objects and the ability to make your own furniture from scratch. Learn with gentle design requests, then relax and create at your own pace.