Squishmallow fanatics will love this new cottagecore exploration game

I would love to see a huge spherical, frog swimming in crystal clear water. Although I won’t be able to experience that feeling firsthand, Puff pals: Island Skies can transport me there. This adorable game allows you to make new friends and explore the world of animals.

We have enormous amphibians and more in Cool WIP, Polygon’s weekly roundup of eye-catching clips and screenshots of works in progress. Each week, the Polygon staff scours the internet for the most interesting games still under construction to give you a sampler of the coolest up-and-coming projects.

This week we have a stealth game featuring a raccoon, a deck builder with sea creatures, an adorable trading sim, and one very wiggly caterpillar.

These animals look like Squishmallows

Developer Fluffnest posted a clip from its dreamlike farming and exploration game Puff Pals: Island Skies. The creatures are downright adorable and look like the popular stuffed toys Squishmallows with their round and plump design. Previous trailers showed off farming and exploring its glowing world, but a new clip showed a friend you might encounter while exploring: a giant frog that’s just vibing. Puff Pals is currently in development, and you can check out everything planned on the game’s Kickstarter page.

Just a roaming trash panda

Christian Sparks is a digital artist and game developer making a game called Snaccoon. Sparks posted a little scene showing a raccoon, lovingly called a “trash panda,” walking through a street. In a developer’s blog, Sparks says that it’s part of an ongoing side project that’s a stealth and exploration game where you play as the critter. The animation looks absolutely adorable and shows the raccoon trotting along the street. You can follow Spark’s work on Twitter.

Fight it out as stunningly designed sea creatures

Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles fuses dice and deck-building mechanics with a roguelike. Little Leo Games created the game with fighters inspired from ocean creatures like crabs and nudibranchs. You’ll be amazed at the character designs. The developer has provided a clip of a gigantic, hammerhead shark confronting an unknown, cloaked Squid. You can find more information on the game on its Steam page.

I’m only traveling by a giant air blimp shaped like a shark from now on

Townseek is a trading sim where you travel around a map to trade with and discover new towns. Whales and Games developed the game’s art style, which makes it look almost like a coloring book. From the looks of it, you can even change which air blimp you use to travel around; however, I’m partial to the shark-shaped one. You can catch updates on the developer’s Twitter account.

Wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle, yeah

It’s been an exciting couple of weeks in terms of procedurally-created creatures. Last week, we saw a game that procedurally fused monsters together. This week we see a procedurally animated caterpillar. A clip from a developer named Joe showed the critter wiggling its way up and around tree branches. Joe’s page is full of other creepy-crawlies, so check out his Twitter page for more of his work.