Dressmaker · Steam sewing simulation
A source-tracked companion for the sewing workflow: read a commission, plan the garment, check the numbers you can see, and follow dated game updates.
Released September 21, 2026 · Sources checked October 18, 2026
What this game is
The store listing and the developer's own material describe the game; everything below stays inside what those sources actually say.
Dressmaker is a sewing and fashion-design simulation from Cozy Lives and Free Lives, released on Steam on September 21, 2026. The loop the official material describes is a commission loop: a customer asks for a garment, you choose a pattern and materials, you sew it, and the finished piece is judged against the request.
That makes the useful reference material narrow and specific. A player wants to know what a commission asked for, what a fabric or accessory costs, which attributes a pattern expects, and whether the finished dress clears the limits. Those are exactly the records this site collects, and each one is published only after a dated source can be attached to it.
Plenty of numbers are still unpublished. Exact fabric costs, accessory attributes, commission budgets and quality thresholds are not restated here until they can be checked, because an invented value is worse than an empty table: it sends a player into a commission with the wrong plan. Where a value is missing, the page says so instead of estimating.
The Dressmaker wiki
Start with the tool, the reference table, or the update log that matches the task in front of you.
Commission records
Each published record holds a budget, the attribute minimums and maximums the customer set, and the date the request was checked.
No commission record is published yet. A request stays internal until its budget and every attribute limit can be traced to a dated source. Publishing an approximate budget would send players into a commission with the wrong plan.
How a record is verifiedA practical starting point
The sequence below organises the task around the fields this site can currently help you check.
Note the commission budget and each minimum or maximum attribute shown in your game before choosing anything.
Compare pattern, fabric and accessory choices. A community guide can explain terminology and workflow, but it cannot supply the numbers your session shows.
Run the values you have verified through the checker. Material stats that are still unknown stay unknown instead of being filled in by guesswork.
Treat a passing result as a check against the values you entered, not as an official game recipe or a guaranteed score.
Core tool
The checker compares a budget and a set of attribute limits with the outfit values you enter. It is deliberately manual: a blank attribute never counts as a pass, and no missing fabric, pattern or accessory value is filled in for you.
Use it after you have read the request in your own session. The result is a check against the values on screen, not an official game formula or a guaranteed score.
Database status
These counts come straight from the published records, so an empty table is visible here rather than hidden behind a loading state.
Cost per unit, attribute effects and the source behind each material record.
Open the table → 0 PUBLISHED RECORDSBodice and skirt records with their base cost and expected fabric.
Open the table → 0 PUBLISHED RECORDSAccessory cost and attribute records, published only with a dated source.
Open the table →Verified data is still growing. The fabric, pattern, accessory and commission collections have no published records yet, so use in-game values or a traceable source for a manual check in the meantime.
Read the source policyDated official notes
These are announcements, not a live game status feed. Check the date and the source link before relying on an older entry.
A large UX and content patch. It overhauls trim and accessory placement, reworks cutting-room and camera controls, confirms fabric discard behind a button, relabels Sell to Sell as off-rack, and changes how colour and fabric-type requirements are calculated, so past dresses can score differently. New content: two skirt variants, three cottons, two laces, four silks and five accessories and trims.
A developer community post about the launch response, which the team says far exceeded expectations. It states the team has about 1.5 programmers, that the developers have been pulled back from Discord chat to keep up with bug reports, and that a new team is being brought up to speed. It is a communication update, not a patch, and it ships no build number.
A small UX patch made sketchbook component names clickable, stopped the mouse wheel rotating cutting-room panels over inventory, added thread-colour selection, added mannequin placement hints, and fixed a tutorial softlock before the bell.
The first post-launch patch fixed the cutting-room tutorial cursor, enabled the back button during the store tutorial, changed customer summoning to the bell, corrected lace tags and failed-commission payouts, fixed a keyhole bodice, and repaired shop buttons on very wide displays.
The developer shared a post-launch community update and confirmed continued development after the launch response.
Cozy Lives and Free Lives released Dressmaker. The official launch notes mention post-launch fixes, new fabrics and accessories, plus planned online challenges, transparent fabrics, and controller support.
Steam achievements
All 32 Steam achievements are transcribed with their icons, completion rates and check date. The three rarest appear below.
Use more than 50m of trim on a single dress.
Steam publishes no description for this achievement.
Complete all the commissions received via pigeon.
Guide library
10 guides cover the whole loop — reading a request, measuring, cutting, assembling and checking the result — without publishing a number that has no source.
Editorial rule
Every record on this site carries one of three states. Verified means the value was read from an official Steam or developer surface and dated. Reported means a community source describes it and the page says so. Unknown means no usable source was found, and the field stays empty.
That last state is the one that matters most. A fabric table with a guessed cost, or a commission page with an approximate budget, looks more complete than an empty one and is far less useful. Where the data is thin, this site says so and points you at the in-game value instead.
Quick answers
The same answers are published as FAQ structured data, so what you read here is what search engines see.
Dressmaker is a sewing and fashion-design simulation released on Steam by Cozy Lives and Free Lives. The official store listing is the primary source for the game description, platform support and current price.
The official Steam listing supports Windows and macOS. The developer has said publicly, in statements reported on September 24 and 28, 2026, that mobile and Nintendo Switch versions are being worked on, but no release date or store page has been announced, so treat console and mobile availability as planned rather than confirmed.
A customer asks for a garment under a budget with minimum or maximum attribute values attached. You read the request, plan a pattern and materials, then check the finished values against those limits.
No. It tests the budget and attribute values you enter. It never invents a fabric cost, a pattern requirement or a commission record that has not been verified against a source.
A record is published only after its values can be traced to a dated source. Unverified numbers stay out of the tables rather than being approximated, so the collections grow as evidence arrives.
No redemption menu or code has been verified in the checked sources. Dressmaker is a single-player Steam release, so new content arrives through game updates rather than through a code box.
Store details, the achievement list and developer announcements come from official Steam and developer surfaces. Each record on this site carries its source type and the date it was checked.
No. Dressmaker Guide is an independent player reference and is not affiliated with Cozy Lives, Free Lives or Valve. The official Steam pages remain the authority for anything that can change.
8 TRACKED SOURCE RECORDS · CHECKED OCTOBER 18, 2026
Official game details, achievements and release notes are kept separate from player-written guides. Each published reference carries its source type, its scope and the date it was checked.
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