The actual landscape for finding this stuff
Knitting is a textile craft. It doesn't have gameplay. This question comes up more often than I'd like, usually from people who saw some Tiktok video of someone making a scarf while something like Animal Crossing played on a second screen, and then got confused about what they were actually watching. The confusion makes sense on a surface level. You've got hands on needles, yarn, patterns, rhythm. It looks structured. But there's no controller input, no point system, no progression tree. It's a skill. Not an interactive medium.
Where To Find Knitting Gameplay
If you're looking for videos of people knitting, those exist in abundance. YouTube, Twitch, Instagram. Search "knitting tutorial" or "knitting ASMR" and you'll get hit with thousands of results within seconds. People stream themselves casting on, working cables, finishing sweaters. Some of it is instructional. A lot of it isn't. The ASMR stuff is just ambiance with a side of knitting. If you want actual gameplay adjacent to knitting, you're going to have to bridge two separate things. There's Stardew Valley, where you can fish and farm and craft. There's Animal Crossing, where you can buy sweaters at the Nook's Cranny shop. There's Cozy Grove, which has a similar vibe. None of these simulate the actual process of knitting. They simulate owning something made by knitting. That's a real difference. Now, if you're digging into modding communities, that's where it gets weird. I ran into a mod for Skyrim once called something like "Knitting Master" that added a skill tree for crafting rope and blankets. It was terrible. The animation took forty-five seconds per craft, there was no visual feedback, and the items it produced were worse than anything you'd find in a chest. I spent an afternoon uninstalling it. The developer had responded to one complaint and then vanished from Nexus Mods. That's the state of most niche mods in this space.
There's also the question of pattern generators and knitting apps. Tools like KnitPick or Stitchfiddle let you design sweater patterns on a grid. They're not games. But some people treat them like games because there's a visual reward for filling in the boxes. I use this approach when I'm planning something complicated, like a colorwork yoke. The interface is clunky and the export functions are slow, but it works if you don't need it to be fast. Here's the thing most people don't realize: the satisfaction from knitting comes from the physical repetition and the tangible result. No digital approximation captures that. A game about knitting would either be boring or it'd just be a different genre wearing a wool sweater. The market has tried. Several mobile games have come and gone. They all have the same flaw. They remove the only part that makes knitting worth doing, which is the actual handwork. If you're looking for a video game that simulates fiber arts in a credible way, Horse Haven comes close but it's about horses. Nothing comes close for knitting specifically. The closest you'll get is probably some indie itch.io project that's half-finished and hasn't been updated in two years. I tried one last month. The controls were inverted and the tutorial assumed you already knew how to knit.
So the real answer here is that there is no knitting gameplay. There's knitting content. There's knitting adjacent games. There's knitting apps. But none of those are the same thing, and conflating them is what causes the whole confusion in the first place.
