Dressmaker · Cozy sewing simulation
Dressmaker Game
Dressmaker is a cozy single-player sewing simulation: choose fabrics, arrange and cut patterns, sew garments, decorate dresses and create custom outfits for the town's clients.
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Full release on Steam · Build 410 · Store facts checked 2026年9月28日
A dress, from brief to finished
Commission
A client brings a brief
Fabric
Choose the cloth
Pattern
Plan and cut the pieces
Accessory
Decorate the finished dress
- Released
- 2026年9月21日
- Developer
- Cozy Lives
- Publisher
- Free Lives
- Release
- Full release on Steam
- Current platforms
- WindowsmacOS
- Mode
- Single-player
What it is
What is Dressmaker?
Dressmaker takes real dressmaking and turns it into a hands-on simulation. Instead of choosing a finished outfit from a menu, you make dresses out of their parts: you pick the cloth, place pattern pieces on the fabric, cut them out, sew the garment together and finish it before it goes to whoever asked for it.
It is a single-player game played at your own pace. Clients arrive with their own measurements, tastes and occasions, and between those commissions you can design whatever you like — wear it, put it in the shop window, or sell it off the rack.
Every dress runs through the same loop
- Choose fabric
- Plan patterns
- Cut
- Assemble
- Sew
- Decorate
- Deliver or sell
New to the game?Getting started
Gameplay
How does Dressmaker play?
A commission runs from the doorbell to the delivery. Each step below hands off to the guide that covers it in full.
Meet a client
Clients arrive at the shop with a request. Each one has her own measurements, her own taste and a story that advances as you work for her.
Read the brief
The brief is a list of rules — a minimum quality, style scores, sometimes a colour, a fabric type or a number of accessories. Reading it before you cut is the difference between a dress that passes and one that does not.
Measure and plan
The client's measurements set the mannequin. The dress is built on that body, so the size you choose changes what fits and how the fit score lands.
Choose fabric
Fabric decides the colour, the cost and a large part of the dress's style score. It is also the budget: better cloth costs more, and a brief can cap what you can spend.
Cut the patterns
Pattern pieces are arranged on the cloth, rotated to follow the grain, and cut. A piece cut off the grain still sews, but it is marked as a mistake and the dress scores lower.
Assemble and sew
The cut pieces become one dress on the mannequin, then go through the sewing scene. This is the stage where most of the quality score is won or lost.
Decorate
Accessories, trims and pins are added last. They add style of their own, and several commissions ask for a specific kind of decoration by name.
Deliver
The finished dress goes back to the client for a verdict. Passing pays the commission and moves the relationship; the dress can also be sold or displayed instead.
Commissions
Make dresses for the town
Clients bring their own measurements, tastes and occasions. A commission is a brief to satisfy rather than a dress to copy, so how you meet it is still yours to decide.
Characters
Meet the Dressmaker characters
Each client has her own measurements, commissions, preferences and relationship progression — and the patterns she unlocks as the relationship grows.
Two ways to play
Story commissions and creative dressmaking
The game is both things at once, and the page you need depends on which half you are playing.
Story and commissions
The story runs on the people who come to the shop. Each client's commissions arrive in order, and finishing them moves her story forward.
- Client briefs with real requirements
- Character stories, told through the commissions
- Relationships that level up as you deliver
- Progression for the shop and the wardrobe
- Patterns unlocked through relationships
Creative and off-the-rack
Outside the briefs you can make whatever you want. There is no requirement to satisfy and no client waiting, which makes it the place to experiment with a fabric or a silhouette.
- Make your own designs
- Choose your own materials
- Display finished dresses in the shop window
- Sell dresses off the rack
- Experiment without a brief
Content scale
How long is Dressmaker?
These are the developer's own figures from the launch announcement, not something we measured.
≈ 35 hours
Story commissions
The announced length of the story commissions. It does not include off-the-rack dressmaking or the time spent designing for fun.
150+
Dress pieces
450+
Fabrics
350+
Accessories
Those three item counts are announced with a plus sign, so they are a floor rather than a total. Because off-the-rack design is open-ended, real playtime varies a lot from player to player.
Our database
Explore the game database
The numbers here are counted from our own extracted snapshot of the game — the same data behind every calculator, finder and guide on this site. That is why they differ from the announced figures above.
Where to play
Where can you play Dressmaker?
The full release is on Steam for Windows and macOS today. Everything else below is announced or in progress, and each row links to what is actually confirmed.
| Platform | Status | Details | 針影裁夢助手 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam (Windows) | Available | The full release, on sale now | Steam (Windows) |
| macOS | Available | The same full release, on sale now | macOS |
| Steam Deck | Available with caveats | Rated playable; better controller support is still planned | Steam Deck |
| Nintendo Switch | Planned | Announced as planned, with no release date | Nintendo Switch |
| Mobile | Planned | Planned, with no release date and no store listing | Mobile |
Prototype
Full game vs the free prototype
An early prototype is still distributed separately from the Steam release. It is a different build with different mechanics, so it is worth knowing which one a piece of advice came from.
| Prototype | itch.io | Full game |
|---|---|---|
| Store | itch.io | Steam |
| Version | 0.5.5 prototype | Build 410 |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Prototype build | Not listed |
| Price | Name your own price | Paid release |
| Full content | No | Yes |
The prototype is years older than the release and does not carry the current mechanics. Do not read a prototype number as a rule for the full game, and do not expect this site's data to describe it.
Current version
Current Dressmaker version
- Latest public patch
- Build 410
- Released
- 2026年9月24日
- Our game data
- Extracted snapshot Build 25482629
Explore
What can you make?
Four catalogues cover almost everything a dress is made of. Each one is browsable in full, with the numbers the game itself uses.
Patterns
178Bodices, skirts, sleeves and collars, with their panels and variants.
Browse all 178 PatternsAccessories
331Decoration the dress can wear, and the briefs that ask for it.
Browse all 331 Accessories
Already playing?
Already playing Dressmaker?
If you are past the first hour, the four doors below are where the rest of this site starts.
- I need help with a commissionEvery brief, its requirements and a dress that passes it.I want a gameplay guideCutting, sewing, fabric, accessories and the numbers behind them.I need to find an itemSearch every fabric, pattern, accessory, character and commission at once.I'm stuck right nowThe short answers for the moments where the game is not doing what you expect.
FAQ
Dressmaker: the common questions
What is Dressmaker?
A cozy single-player sewing simulation built on real dressmaking: choose fabric, plan and cut patterns, sew the garment, decorate it and deliver it to the client who asked for it.
When was Dressmaker released?
The full release launched on 2026年9月21日. It is a complete release rather than an early-access launch, and the game has been patched since.
Where can I play Dressmaker?
On Steam for WindowsmacOS. The Steam Deck is rated playable, with better controller support still to come.
Is Dressmaker on Switch?
A Switch port has been announced as planned, with no release date. Everything currently confirmed about it is on the Switch page.
Is Dressmaker on mobile?
A mobile port is planned as well, and also undated — no store listing, price or release window has been announced.
How long is Dressmaker?
The developer announced roughly 35 hours of story commissions. That figure excludes off-the-rack dressmaking, and it says nothing about how long you spend designing freely.
Is there a free version?
Yes — an older prototype is still available on itch.io on a name-your-own-price basis. It is a separate build from the Steam release and does not carry the current mechanics.