Cottagecore Backgrounds - 100 Free Pixel Art Plates, 1280x720

100 cottagecore backgrounds. Free.

Wide 1280 × 720 scene plates for a quiet game — meadows, cottages, gardens, woodland paths, village markets and rooms with the kettle on. Title screens, dialogue backdrops, farming and life-sim locations, establishing shots.

Plates	100 PNGs
Size	1280 × 720, 16:9
Sectors	10 folders, 10 scenes each
Price	Free. No revenue cap, no attribution.

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Nothing living is in them

No people and no animals, in any of the 100 plates — checked, not assumed. The pasture has no sheep in it and the coop has no chickens, deliberately: every scene is an empty set, so you cast it with your own sprites and nothing in the background argues with them. One plate serves a dozen different conversations.

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The signboards are blank on purpose

The market stalls, the shopfronts and the lane signs all hang empty boards. Letter them yourself, in whatever font your UI already uses, and the village becomes yours instead of somebody else's — a bakery, a herbalist, a bait shop, whatever your game actually needs.

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10 sectors, 10 scenes each

They are filed by mood rather than dumped in a heap, so a scene that needs “somewhere indoors and warm” has ten plates that belong to each other.

• Meadows and Hills — wildflower meadows, wheat hills, a lavender path, a poppy field at dusk, a fenced hill pasture
• Cottages and Homes — thatch and gables, a yellow door, stone walls in the rain, a porch swing, a roof shaped like a mushroom
• Gardens and Orchards — a rose arch, herb spirals, apple rows, a glasshouse, a walled garden nobody else knows about
• Forests and Paths — sun through the canopy, mossy steps, a birch grove, a fairy ring, a willow tunnel, leaves underfoot
• Streams and Ponds — a babbling brook, lily pads, a footbridge, a waterfall glade, stepping stones, fireflies over the creek
• Village Markets — cobbles and stalls, a bakery window, a flower cart, a bookshop nook, lantern light down the alley
• Farms and Barns — a red barn, hay bales, the chicken coop, a windmill on the hill, the milking yard at dawn
• Cosy Interiors — a sunlit kitchen nook, a reading window, the fireplace, an attic craft room, a pantry of jars, tea by candlelight
• Seasons and Weather — blossom rain, summer shade, orchard fog, snow in the woods, a rainbow, first frost, rain seen from indoors
• Whimsical Landmarks — a toadstool village, a storybook treehouse, a stone circle, a glowing bridge, a balloon over the hill, a giant teapot

No scene is drawn twice. Every plate inside a folder is a different place, not the same place from another angle.

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Indoors and out, and all four seasons

Two of the ten folders are the ones a cottagecore game usually runs short of. Cosy Interiors is ten full rooms — a sunlit kitchen nook, a reading window, a fireplace, an attic craft room, a pantry of preserves, tea by candlelight — so dialogue does not have to happen outdoors every time. Seasons and Weather is the same countryside in blossom rain, summer shade, orchard fog and snow, so a calendar can turn without the game looking like it stopped in June.

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What people use these for

• Title and menu screens
• Visual novel and dialogue backdrops
• Farming, life-sim, cooking and shopkeeping locations
• Region select, stage select, map nodes
• Chapter breaks, loading screens, establishing shots
• Anywhere a game needs to say where without building it in 3D

1280 × 720 is 16:9, so they sit behind a 720p game at native size and scale cleanly to 1080p and 1440p.

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Licence

Free to download and free to ship. Use them in an unlimited number of projects, commercial or personal. Sell those projects — no revenue cap, no unit cap, no royalty. Modify anything: recolour, crop, composite, paint over. No attribution required — credit is welcome, never necessary.

The one thing you can't do is resell the art itself as an asset pack. Ship the assets in your game; don't ship the assets as your product.

Full terms in LICENSE.txt.