- Pawsta is part of "Backed By Backers" Steam event! - 14 April 2026
Happy to announce Pawsta is in Backed by BackersA Steam event for crowdfunded games - Backed by Backers - is live 🎉 and I'm happy to announce that Pawsta is part of it 🐭 ✨ We are joining as a game that has an upcoming Kickstarter, which we're super excited about and encourage you to follow! As many of you know, Pawsta is a side project that is worked on in our spare time. We are a small team and are all contributing work without a salary. We look towards Kickstarter as a way of helping to change that and speed up the production of Pawsta!Follow us on Kickstarter 💚 Pressing the "Notify me on launch" button on Kickstarter acts like the Wishlist button here, letting you know when the campaign is live!It also gives us an idea of how many supporters we might have, so we feel more secure about launching our campaign! The more, the better :))We plan to premiere a Steam demo alongside the ca…
- Playtest almost over / Patch updates round-up! - 11 April 2026
Thanks for a wonderful playtest!The response has been so much more supportive and positive than we expected, and we're incredibly heartwarmed by it all! The feedback sent through our form has been filled with so many nice notes and suggestions. Thank you to everyone who took the time to write to us and share your experience! Having the community help shape the game is important to us, and we're excited to improve the game based on what's been said! And, for those who haven't had the chance to play the game, there's still another day left of the playtest. We will probably close it down around lunch on Monday 13th CEST. Now, let's cover some updates that we've added while the playtest has been active!New Dishwasher GraphicsThe dishwashing minigame has long needed a more playful, bubbly feel, and now it finally has it! Lots highlighted this as one of their favourite moments from the playte…
- Join the Pawsta Playtest now! - 13 March 2026
Meep! 🐭 The Pawsta Open Playtest is OUT NOW! 🎉This has been long in the making, so we're super excited to finally share what we've been cooking up with you all! It's this humble indie dev's first time releasing something like this on Steam, so it's been a huge learning curve getting here, but it's been totally worth it! About the PlaytestThis is a playtest version of Pawsta, so it's quite simple & not representative of the full gameIt features a simple pasta cooking loop in the main Italian kitchen that Rigatoni inherits from his Nonna & Nonno, where you can fulfil orders made by cute animal guests by making banching pasta dishes with different sauces and toppingsThe game is currently designed with Mouse & Keyboard support first! Use controllers and Steam Deck at your own risk - we will support them soon!The playtest doesn't currently have a tutorial - if you're stuck, float the curso…
- Foodie Faire & Dev Update! - 19 February 2026
What's cooking?For us, at the moment, it's the Global Foodie Faire! A Steam event hosted by Raw Fury, celebrating lots of cooking games and similar! We're super excited to be a part of this, and, of course, it's great to see that the rather niche cooking game genre is... t h r i v i n g! I'll shout out a few at the end of this update, so please read all the way through! But feel free to check out the event here: It's also so incredibly fun & unexpected to see Pawsta front and centre in the limelight! Thank you so much Raw Fury for hosting
- Happy Shop Keepers Event! - 3 November 2025
Meep! At the moment, Pawsta is proudly participating in the wonderful Shop Keepers Event! It's a super festival which celebrates games where you maintain a restaurant, shop, café or similar! There's lots of super cool games included, and plenty are released & are celebrating their involvement with a discount! And demos too! So please check them out here! Recommend Upcoming Games:When something like this happens, I think it's always nice to shine a light on some other games! So here are a few :)) Burger Bois Burger Bois is food truck game, where you're inventing creative burger recipes to match the random requests of customers! Burger Boys are also our neighbours on Wholesome Games' wonderful Dev Diaries forum, which we recommend checking out! It's a new iniative on their Discord, which we're super excited to be a part of. Burger Bois do a great job in particular of jumping into some beh…
- Quick Update! And playtest in Berlin ✨ - 29 October 2025
Pawsta is coming to Berlin!In just over two weeks, Pawsta is coming to Berlin, so I'm rushing to throw a public demo together for that! Games Ground is a fantastic event, so I'm really excited to be a part of it! The scene there is super exciting, and I've been toying with the idea of maybe moving there at some point - we'll see! But hope to see some of you in Berlin, maybe! Though it will also land us in a good spot to be doing a Steam playtest or demo sometime after! And maybe we will find a Publisher/ Investor to help speedrun the rest of the development! Daily Updates on SocialsTo get ready for Berlin, I've also been posting daily videos on my TikTok, Bluesky, and YouTube accounts to showcase my progress each day!Which is also a big contributing reason to why I've been quiet here... heh.. sorry about that! Some recent videos include adding sfx, playing with fire, and making the dish…
- Wholesome Steam Celebration Is Live - 8 August 2025
The Steam Celebration is Live!📢 Yesterday Pawsta joined an incredible lineup of cozy games on Steam for this year's Wholesome Games Celebration! 🥳 We're honoured to be a part of this fantastic event & have already seen a surge in wishlists. We are now at over 7k wishlists, which is incredible! All the support is just so unbelievable & I'd love to extend a huge thank you to Wholesome Games and our new supporters for making a huge difference! You're the best! We'd also like to encourage you all to check out all the new cozy releases & demos featured on the event page, plus wishlist the upcoming ones that catch your eye! New Dishwashing ScreenshotAfter a month working together, me (Harry) & Felicia also pushed to upload a new screenshot showcasing a dishwashing scene to give a preview of the new, completely 3D claymation style that we're pushing for! 🎨 It still needs some polish, and we…
- Pawsta is joining the Wholesome Games Celebration 🎉 - 30 July 2025
Hey again, Pawsta-farians! 👋 Time to check in again! Wholesome Games Celebration 🎉 First up we have some exciting news that our friends at Wholesome Games will again be shining a light on Pawsta again next week! We're so grateful that they're being so supportive of us, it's really an amazing honour! The art is also so much fun: Here are some official details about the event: The Wholesome Games Celebration on Steam will return August 7-14! Now in its third year, this event features world premiere game announcements, new releases, discounts, and demos.Thank you all for the support! 🥰August 7th will also mark exactly two months since Pawsta's Steam page debut! We have received so much support in this time, and it has been a huge source of motivation for the team! Currently. we're standing at over 6,500 wishlists & we hope to gain more as we start translating the Steam page into more la…
- Pawsta 🐭 has over 5000 Wishlists ✨ - 19 June 2025
Woah!🐭💥We got too excited & forgot to post here! But Pawsta reached 5000 wishlists on June 15th! And it only took 9 days! 🤯 Ahhhh!I always set my expectations low, so this was such an amazing surprise! The whole team is so blown away with how many people our goofy game about a mouse making food has resonated with! 🥰 Sincerely, thank you all so much! 💖 Behind the ScenesLet's dive into some behind-the-scenes stuff!Recently, I was sharing how I plan game-making with some other cozy game devs & they thought my process was really clean & cool, so I thought I might as well share some sneak peaks in case it's useful or interesting to anyone here! ✨ Planning set design, branching recipes & minigames I've used sites like Miro in the past, but I eventually discovered that Canva fits my workflow best for quickly making gameplay mock-ups & sharing my vision with the team. The best part is it's…
- Thanks for the warm welcome! - 16 June 2025
Wow! What a warm welcome! 🥰 We're so overwhelmed with the paw-sitive response that our lil' cooking game has gotten in our first week on Steam! Sincerely, thank you all so much for the love & support! It means so much! 🥹Wishlists are stacking up like grated cheese 🧀 In just our first day, we received this many wishlists: 2367! 😮 Honestly, mind-blowing! 🤯 And it's looking like we will hit 5k any day now! 👀So many fun reactions!🐱 Beacuse of the Wholesome Direct, we got so many streamers interacting with Pawsta too! It's been so much fun watching all of them react to Pawsta! Everyone is so quick to want to say the name out loud & it's just so cute! ahhh! 💖 Check out this video if you want a quick dose of cuteness :3Watch on TikTokMight make another sometime; we had so many amazing reactions! Check out Squeakross! 🐀I'd also like to quickly promote another rodent game - Squeakross!…
- Pawsta featured on Wholesome Direct 25! - 7 June 2025
Eeee Pawsta was on Wholesome Direct 25! Today we launched our Steam page along with our feature on this year's Wholesome Direct, which we couldn't be prouder to be a part of! Pawsta actually started as a Wholesome Game Jam project and the original team met on the community discord, so it was incredibly meaningful to be featured! eeee we have been so excited!Not only that, but our lil' mouse, Rigatoni, is part of the official tee, with all sales proceeds going to a fantastic charity! It's so heartwarming to see him there toasting a lil marshmallow! Maybe consider supporting! We're definitely going to buy a few! Another cool thing is Patch magazine is covering the Direct! We've long been fans of this cute monthy mag, and it's amazing to have something like this in 2025. Last year they had a big tick list of all the games, so it's likely Pawsta will show up in something similar! Check out…
