Nookmaker
A cozy decorating game about small rooms and slow evenings. Arrange the furniture, play with light and texture, and make a space that finally feels like yours.
Cozy Sim
Steam · PC
Q1 2027
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The Game
What is Nookmaker?
Nookmaker is a cozy decoration and life-sim game for PC, made by Day Trip Games. You take a small, bare room and make it somewhere you'd actually want to sit: pull in a desk, push a rocking chair towards the window, hang a shelf, and keep adjusting until it clicks.
There is no timer counting down and nothing to fail. Nookmaker is built around the quiet part of decorating: the nudging, the swapping, the standing back to look. Warm lamps, soft shadows and a low-poly world that's easy on the eyes make it something to unwind with rather than something to beat.
The name is literal. A nook is a small, snug corner of a room, and Nookmaker is about making them: one reading chair, one lamp, one shelf of well-placed books at a time.
Out Now
The announcement trailer
One minute of lamplight, bookshelves and slow evenings.
How It Plays
Four small pleasures
Everything Nookmaker asks of you fits in an evening.
Arrange freely
No grid to fight and no “correct” layout. Slide a chair a few centimetres left because it simply looks better there, and Nookmaker will let you.
Play with light and texture
Swap a wallpaper, warm up a lamp, let the afternoon sun fall across the floorboards. The mood of a room changes more than the furniture does.
Fill it with things you love
Shelves of paperbacks, a half-finished mug, a guitar leaning where you left it. The clutter is the point; it's what makes a nook yours.
No pressure, ever
No timers, no fail states, no score shouting at you. Nookmaker is happy to sit in the background while you fuss over one bookshelf for twenty minutes.
Screenshots
Rooms from Nookmaker
Work in progress, captured in-engine.
One Click Helps
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Questions
Nookmaker FAQ
What is Nookmaker?
Nookmaker is a cozy decoration and life-sim game for PC. You furnish and style small rooms: arrange the furniture, choose colours and textures, set the lighting, and keep going until the space feels like yours. There are no timers and no fail states.
How do you spell Nookmaker?
Nookmaker is a single word with one capital letter, the N. The name comes from a nook, a small snug corner of a room, and Nookmaker is about making them.
Who is making Nookmaker?
Nookmaker is made by Day Trip Games, an independent one-person studio based in Istanbul. Day Trip Games is both the developer and the publisher.
When is Nookmaker coming out?
Nookmaker is planned for Q1 2027 on Steam, for Windows PC. The coming-soon page is already live, so you can wishlist Nookmaker now and Steam will email you at launch.
Where can I wishlist Nookmaker?
On its Steam store page. Wishlisting is free, and for a small studio it is genuinely the most useful thing you can do.