Fact sheet
| Developer / Publisher | Noise Harbor |
| Release | October 2026, Steam Early Access |
| Platforms | macOS & Windows (Steam) |
| Price | $14.99 USD — pay once; no ads, no in-app purchases, no timers |
| Steam page | store.steampowered.com/app/4836960 |
| Website | cozyburg.com |
| Press contact | contact@cozyburg.com |
| Social | YouTube @CozyBurg · Bluesky @cozyburg.bsky.social |
The one-paragraph pitch
Make it beautiful. Then make it work. Cozy Burg is a cozy hex town builder. You get a small hand of tiles — a terrain, a zone, a road — and you simply place them. Anyone can play it the minute they touch it, and nothing about it is ever in a hurry. But underneath the calm there's a real simulation running, and the prettier you make the town, the better it does. In the developer's words: "I grew up on SimCity and fell for Dorfromantik as an adult. Cozy Burg is my try at the best of both."
The full founder story (good for features): cozyburg.com/why
What makes it different
- The traffic is real. Every car is somebody going somewhere. They follow the car ahead, queue up at junctions, and take a better route when one opens. A traffic lens tints every road green, amber or red by load.
- Fixing it is the best part. Upgrade the road, cut a second path, plan zones so people live near their jobs, draw bus lines stop by stop, run ferries across open water. Get it right and you can watch the backup melt away.
- The game rewards cozy areas. Pretty streets fill their homes faster and hold more people and jobs per zone. Keep nature all around, or the people won't come.
- A world you earn. Reward chests hold landmarks — a lighthouse, a ski resort with a working chairlift, a stadium that fills on match day, a castle, an airport, a cathedral — plus terrain styles to repaint one tile or a whole valley.
- A soundtrack that composes itself. The score is generated live by the game while you play. Nothing sampled, no loops.
- No clock, no race. Nothing is timed; the only pressure is the tiles left in your hand.
Also worth knowing
A Creative mode ships with everything unlocked from the first click. Town services (police, fire, a hospital) arrive as the town grows. Saves live on a shelf of postcards, one painted map per town.
Screenshots (click for 1280px; 1920px originals in the art pack)
Trailer
Watch on the Steam page. Watch on YouTube
About Noise Harbor
Noise Harbor is a solo indie studio. Cozy Burg is its first title: a city builder built on the belief that a town should be a nice place to live before it's a spreadsheet — and that watching your own little world go about its day is the reward.
Review keys available on request — via Keymailer or the press contact above.