WINSTON-SALEM, JUNE 7, 2025 - During today’s Wholesome Direct, publishing label Wholesome Games Presents and developer Kenney announced that MakeRoom, a cozy sandbox game where players design and build their own dioramas, is set to release on Steam this August 7 during the Wholesome Games Steam Celebration.
Request a review code!In MakeRoom, choose from over 1,000 objects to create cozy dioramas, all of which can be resized and recolored to fit your exact vision. Using MakeRoom’s built-in design tool, you can even create your own furnishings to style your dream home. Whether you’re looking to build a little reading nook or a gorgeous kitchen, you’ll find everything you need to turn your imagination into a digital reality.
Kenney’s prior work includes thousands of free assets for game developers to use thanks to donations from the community. Utilizing this experience, Kenney is giving players the opportunity to craft and design on their own in MakeRoom.
About MakeRoom
In MakeRoom, you can create cozy dioramas! Will you create a compact kitchen, a comfortable living room, or a camper van? Use over 1,000 objects or design your own and arrange them exactly as you'd like, then share a photo with family and friends!
- Extensive catalog - Choose from over 1,000 objects ranging from huge furniture pieces to tiny details. Each of the objects can be placed wherever you wish, and recolored and resized to fit your needs.
- Create your own furniture - Using the built-in designer you can create your very own furniture! It's just as easy as decorating a room and once you're done you can share your creations on the Steam Workshop.
- Objectives and quests - In addition to creating your own dioramas you can also help the inhabitants of MakeRoom Island! They'll ask you to clean their rooms and design them exactly to their specifications. As a reward you'll unlock new objects for your collection.
- Decorate with over 1,000 objects
- Create any type of room; bathrooms, kitchens, camper vans, gardens and more!
- Create your own furniture using the built-in design tool
- Complete objectives and quests to unlock more content
- Take pictures in perspective and orthographic style
- Change the size of any object
- Choose from dozens of ambience options
- Add various effects like smoke and steam
For more information on MakeRoom, visit the Steam page and follow Kenney on Bluesky.
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About Wholesome Games
Wholesome Games is a community that started on Twitter in 2019 when indie game developer Matthew Taylor began curating games according to their feelings of comfort, compassion, and coziness. Since then, the community has grown to nearly 500k members across Twitter, Discord, TikTok, YouTube, and more. Wholesome Games Presents is the platform’s publishing initiative, giving support and opportunities to indie titles including Usagi Shima, Minami Lane, MakeRoom and Is This Seat Taken?. For more information, please visit www.wholesomegames.com.
About Kenney
Kenney is a solo game developer living and working in the Netherlands. He has been creating games (and game assets!) for over a decade, released for free into the public domain and used in thousands of games by students, indie developers, game engines, and AAA studios worldwide. Kenney's next game is MakeRoom, a diorama sim game where players can decorate rooms exactly the way they want. For more information, please visit https://kenney.nl/.
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