It’s December, a month of gift giving, and that’s especially true of the video game industry.

From The Game Awards to Day of the Devs, December is a month packed with delicious new game reveals.

Plenty of those reveals just arrived during the Wholesome Snack 2025 Showcase, delivering updates on the brightest upcoming cosy releases.

A real standout for me was Mandrake from developer Failbetter Games which just dropped a fresh look at the upcoming rural life sim.

Mandrake may be a rural life sim, but it doesn’t follow in the footsteps of titans of the genre like Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing.

Instead, its world is far more akin to that which you’ll find in The Legend of Zelda or the works of acclaimed Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli.

Mandrake is inspired by British history a

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