Verde Is an Upcoming Cozy City Management Game with a Focus on Restoring Nature

When I think of cosy city-builders, games like Gourdlets, Minami Lane, and Town to City come to my mind. These titles present an experience where everything around you turns into a cute little paradise. Adding to that list of mine is the upcoming Verde.

Assemble Entertainment is teaming up with Jakarta-based developer Antimeta Studio to bring Verde to Steam. The game is launching on August 12th, 2026. A casual indie sim with the cosy side of city management.

In Verde, you play as, well, Verde!

She’s a green-fingered student at the Mage Academy who recently joined its struggling Gardening Club. She comes from a town struggling to find clean water. While reading a storybook about another town facing the exact same problem, she’s pulled into the world inside the book.

Your job is to breathe life back into abandoned settlements by restoring forgotten magical gardens and turning them into thriving green communities. Create a sustainable community in the drought-ravaged land of Dewdrop Valley.

One of the cutest parts is the Seedlets. They’re these adorable, enchanted seed-like creatures that make your gardens their home. You build houses for them, make sure their needs are met, and create the right environment so they’re happy.

Once everything’s going well, they’ll wander around your gardens and interact with buildings and with each other. They even produce valuable resources that help your settlement continue growing. So, the core gameplay involves you building facilities, decorating your town, and attracting more population by fulfilling everyone’s demands.

Verde lets you personalise your town with lots of cute designs, interchangeable architectural parts, and different colour options. In Dewdrop Valley, you get to explore three different regions. Each biome introduces its own buildings, mechanics, environmental challenges, and visual style.

Verde includes a story-driven campaign as well as a replayable Sandbox Mode. You can wishlist it on Steam.

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Amrita Sankar

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Amrita has been playing video games since she was a toddler, so writing about games comes naturally to her. Outside of Gamezebo, she has experience in webcomics and social media copywriting.