Dressmaker Price and Wishlist

On 7 September 2026, Cozy Lives published “Scalding September Tea” and named the Steam price: $14.99 USD, with regional pricing, and a −10% launch discount. That post is the source this wiki uses. Third-party price trackers that show some other Dressmaker, or a $9.99 game with a different app ID, are not this game. Dressmaker’s Steam ID is 4019220. It is not purchasable until 21 September 2026 unless Steam opens a pre-load that still is not the live shop.

The prototype on itch.io remains name-your-price, including free. Paying on itch.io supports the team; it is not a coupon for the Steam app. Do not harass support for a key because you dropped $5 on 0.5.5.

What $14.99 is meant to cover

The same news post compared the price to an older Free Lives campaign and then listed what Dressmaker is selling:

• About 35 hours of story commissions (off-the-rack extra)
• 150+ dress pieces
• 450+ fabrics
• 350+ accessories, all made in-house
• A promise of more free content and features after launch

That is the value argument. It is not a review score. If 35 hours of sewing is not your genre, wait for a later sale. If it is, the launch discount is a shallow 10% — typical Steam hygiene, not a fire sale. Wishlist emails for 10% are not guaranteed the way 20%+ discounts are; follow the store page if you care about the exact converted price in your region.

Regional pricing

“Regional pricing” means your Steam country currency may not be a naive USD conversion. Taxes, VAT, and Steam’s regional charts all apply. This wiki will not invent a yen or euro figure. Open the Steam store page while logged into the account that will buy the game. Gift-copy rules and family sharing follow Steam’s normal policies; family sharing is listed on the store.

Launch week is a bad time to buy a grey-market key. Official channels are Steam for the full game and itch.io for the prototype. Studio support is support@freelives.net if a purchase goes wrong after the play button exists.

Wishlists: official 200k+, scrapers vary

In July 2026 official news, the team wrote that a pigeon (their words) reported over 200,000 Steam wishlists on the same day they locked 21 September 2026. Earlier, a June press line cited about 60,000 around the Wholesome window, and a June 9 post celebrated 100,000. Those are studio communications at different dates.

Third-party dashboards often estimate far lower. They use models, not Cozy Lives’ private Steamworks graph. This wiki prefers the official claim and will not “correct” it with a scraper. If you cite wishlists, say “official July 2026 news claimed 200k+.” Do not paste a live counter we cannot verify.

Wishlist anyway. It is the only launch reminder that matters, and it is free. Use the button on Steam, not a browser extension that “auto-wishlists” fifty cozy games.

What you should not pay for

• APKs and Android ports. There is no official mobile Dressmaker. Those files are unrelated or worse.
• “Full Steam unlocked” exes. The Steam game is not out. Any full-game cracked zip in September 2026 before the store says otherwise is a scam or malware.
• Key shops with a different title. Other games named DressMaker exist. Check app 4019220, developer Cozy Lives, publisher Free Lives.
• Accounts selling Discord nitro plus a “Dressmaker code.” No.

If a YouTube video overlays a download button that is not itch.io or Steam, close it. The links hub is the allow-list.

Prototype money versus Steam money

Name-your-price on itch.io is optional and present-tense. Steam $14.99 is future-tense until 21 September 2026. You can do both: throw the prototype a few dollars because you already sewed, then buy Steam because you want the 35-hour shop. You can also play the prototype for $0 and still wishlist. Cozy Lives put the zip up as an invitation, not as a paywall.

When the 10% launch discount ends, the USD tag returns to 14.99 unless a seasonal sale says otherwise. Do not expect a 50% cut in week two. Do expect post-launch extras to be described as free in that September post; if that changes, it will be a new official Tea, not a leak on a key forum.

Keep this page beside Steam launch and the Updates Hub. Price is the number. Wishlist is the reminder. Prototype is the free-or-fair rehearsal. Anything else with a shopping cart and the word Dressmaker in the thumbnail is, until proven on Steam or itch.io, someone else’s store.