Cozy Games - For the girls who sit down and play farming games

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Dr. Arinsu

Dr. Arinsu

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For the other female kiwis, I wanted to open up discussion on cozy games and ask for recoomendations or shit on cozy games. Though the term is very flexiable. Any games will do as long as its fun.
 
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Stardew Valley is an obvious pick. I haven’t played any of the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons games in ages but I have some nostalgia for A Wonderful Life, and hear SoS is generally the one you want to go for.
Unfortunately cozy games are a genre pretty subject to being full of slop, mainly because they’re easy to make and devs think they can ride off of Stardew’s popularity without realizing what actually made it good. My personal “favorite” is Life in Willowdale, which is basically a cheap farming mobile game (with assets similar to a mobile game) that someone slapped onto the Switch eShop for $40.
 
Grand Duke Snowfall said:
Stardew Valley is an obvious pick. I haven’t played any of the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons games in ages but I have some nostalgia for A Wonderful Life, and hear SoS is generally the one you want to go for.
Unfortunately cozy games are a genre pretty subject to being full of slop, mainly because they’re easy to make and devs think they can ride off of Stardew’s popularity without realizing what actually made it good. My personal “favorite” is Life in Willowdale, which is basically a cheap farming mobile game (with assets similar to a mobile game) that someone slapped onto the Switch eShop for $40.
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The newest SOS makes it to where you have to save in your home which is a pain.
 
The Sims... just kidding!
Animal Crossing New Leaf is the "coziest" game I know. I'm sure the other titles are great but I've never played them.
 
Earthbound and Mother 3 if you ever just want a nice story. It has that sincere atmosphere and one of the best soundtracks. They are RPG games though so IDK if it'd be cozy, but there are romhacks to reduce any difficulty if it's a problem.
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There's also Harvest Moon which is the precursor to Stardew Valley (it's a lot more confusing though since Stardew refines it). Don't skip out on the old animal crossing games for new horizons if you have them, they're all really good and offer different atmospheres.
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My girlfriend is super into Animal Crossing. Our favorite villagers are Lucky, Isabelle, and Daisy along with other cute ones.

The SimCity and Rollercoaster Tycoon games were ones my mother loved as a kid. For another tycoon-ish sim game there is Theme Hospital, one of Bullfrog's best computer games.

The Sims trilogy (just pirate it honestly if you have a computer) is a decent one. I feel like 3 with all dlc and maybe some mods has the best and craziest shit ever on there, ripe for drama and just some soap opera or murder mystery to tune into. They neutered 4 and made it less deep idk why.

My mom loved Farmville on Facebook if y'all remember that, and Hay Day and stuff like that. I wish they had more farm sims that weren't shovelware... Any ladies know some good ones beyond Stardew Valley?

Last one is a free mobile game I love the aesthetic of right now called Cats And Soup. Super cozy game, sadly monetized but pleasant to the eye.
Your phone can probably emulate most old games up to the PS2 generation, even a cheap ass Motorola 2025. You can jump right in, it's a really cool time to be a mobile gamer.
 
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Grand Duke Snowfall said:
Stardew Valley is an obvious pick. I haven’t played any of the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons games in ages but I have some nostalgia for A Wonderful Life, and hear SoS is generally the one you want to go for.
Unfortunately cozy games are a genre pretty subject to being full of slop, mainly because they’re easy to make and devs think they can ride off of Stardew’s popularity without realizing what actually made it good. My personal “favorite” is Life in Willowdale, which is basically a cheap farming mobile game (with assets similar to a mobile game) that someone slapped onto the Switch eShop for $40.
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Most of Switches new games are AI Slop yet they're censoring Dispatch.
 
Cult of the Lamb is pretty cozy. It just added a new DLC that makes it even more so, too.
 
Dredge
It's equally cozy as it is creepy. Take your boat around to different places and catch different species of sea creatures. It can be pretty much entirely cozy if you have a careful playstyle.
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Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
This is a game for actual babies, but it's incredibly cozy. I wish it were longer/had a sequel. You go around a Spanish island documenting wildlife.
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Zoo Tycoon 2
Just perfect. You can do whatever you want in sandbox. You don't even have to make a zoo. I'd often terraform the entire map, make waterfalls or hybrid tank/terrestrial exhibits, place a bunch of compatible, free-roaming animals, and then walk around in 1st person mode enjoying it all.
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I Spy PC Games
I Spy Spooky Mansion, I Spy Treasure Hunt, and I Spy Fantasy are my favorites. Look at pretty pictures and find the items.
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Spore
Especially Creature Stage. There's just something about living the simple life of a creature exploring the world, discovering all the DNA, using the creature creator, and not having to evolve to the next stage until you're ready. You can go the social route and make friends with everyone except the few pre-aggro species. The ambiance is top-tier.
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Breath of the Wild
This game is very cozy, in my opinion. Yes, there's combat, but there's a lot of breathing room in between that consists of exploring the landscape. Once you get powerful, you can just goof around. I loved filling out the Hyrule Compendium. That was probably my favorite part.
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Untitled Goose Game
Goof around as a goose! The setting is an English village and the music is Debussy. It's so quaint and lovely.
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If anyone has similar game recommendations, please let me know. You can probably tell I am a sucker for games where you explore and collect/catalog things, especially games about animals. Collecting all the bugs and fish is my favorite part of any Animal Crossing game.
 
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Roots of Pacha sucked me in recently - its like Stardew but has more open world non-linear gameplay that works for my non-gamer brain. It's a stone age tribe so all the mystical stuff makes sense to my non-fantastical autist brain.
 
Nameless One said:
Earthbound and Mother 3 if you ever just want a nice story. It has that sincere atmosphere and one of the best soundtracks. They are RPG games though so IDK if it'd be cozy, but there are romhacks to reduce any difficulty if it's a problem.
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There's also Harvest Moon which is the precursor to Stardew Valley (it's a lot more confusing though since Stardew refines it). Don't skip out on the old animal crossing games for new horizons if you have them, they're all really good and offer different atmospheres.
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My girlfriend is super into Animal Crossing. Our favorite villagers are Lucky, Isabelle, and Daisy along with other cute ones.

The SimCity and Rollercoaster Tycoon games were ones my mother loved as a kid. For another tycoon-ish sim game there is Theme Hospital, one of Bullfrog's best computer games.

The Sims trilogy (just pirate it honestly if you have a computer) is a decent one. I feel like 3 with all dlc and maybe some mods has the best and craziest shit ever on there, ripe for drama and just some soap opera or murder mystery to tune into. They neutered 4 and made it less deep idk why.

My mom loved Farmville on Facebook if y'all remember that, and Hay Day and stuff like that. I wish they had more farm sims that weren't shovelware... Any ladies know some good ones beyond Stardew Valley?

Last one is a free mobile game I love the aesthetic of right now called Cats And Soup. Super cozy game, sadly monetized but pleasant to the eye.
Your phone can probably emulate most old games up to the PS2 generation, even a cheap ass Motorola 2025. You can jump right in, it's a really cool time to be a mobile gamer.
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Would she be interested in Tomodachi Life? It's a Life Sim and to me is a cozy game.
 
Dr. Arinsu said:
Would she be interested in Tomodachi Life? It's a Life Sim and to me is a cozy game.
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She loves tomadachi life and is gonna buy the sequel day one lol I forgot about that one. That's another one for the list.

Tunic looks really chill but I never got around to it.

I also recommend the Zelda series, my gf loves it too and they're usually cozy. Minish Cap is my favorite 2d game, but it has some obtuse design decisions that hold it back for me.
 
Nameless One said:
She loves tomadachi life and is gonna buy the sequel day one lol I forgot about that one. That's another one for the list.
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Yeah I recently put 5$ at gamestop towards it, I might return next month to put down 25$ more. So I can pay the rest when the time comes. I preordered ANCH when Covid hit and got a preorder bonus which was basically a poster. I think it's somwhere in my closet. But the preorder bonus is pretty interesting. This besides Grand Bazaar was one of the only Nintendo Switch 2 games I will be buying this year. I debated on Splatoon 3, but I realized I don't like competitive games.

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Grand Duke Snowfall said:
Stardew Valley is an obvious pick.
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It's very stressful to me. Finding NPCs (I know there are mods for this), remembering shit, getting to places on time, gift routines, birthdays, events, shitty (i.e. sunny) weather, "will I have enough money", greenhouse bundles, etc. And then, when the greenhouse is done, I play through the winter and get bored.

My go-to cozy game is/was Kingdom: Two Crowns ("was" because I had the brilliant idea to stop following "common wisdom" advice and got so much better at the game it's not challenging anymore).
 
I want to say Planet Zoo because I like watching the animals but I get so pissed off at how shitty it is to build anything in that game that cozy isn't happening.

I love Sims 2 but you can make huge cozy neighbourhoods with connected families in Sims 3, I definitely wasted a lot of my youth in coastal rainy fishing towns.

Pokemon Snap, the og and the Switch one, are nice.
 
I am here because I remember this game in my Steam Library for all of you who is into Mobile Games, Kairosoft had ported majority of their F2P Games onto PC awhile back. The biggest one would be Dream House Days DX as it's one of my favorite Mobile Games, on steam it's on sale for 4$
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It's one of the most Cozy Games there is, you can go on forever and ever and watch your town grow and grow. Basically it's Sims 4 minus the gay shit. But you watch over it. Hopefully anyone is interested in this. There's also others as well.
 
Not sure if it counts as a "Cozy Game" but I just remembered that I had Sensei! I Like You So Much! on Steam, it's basically a game where you can cultivate your own fandom, has a pretty good character creator too. So you too can make cute ita bags of your self insert or OC and that one anime guy you like a lot!
 
Big fan of cozy games so here's a small list for those looking for Steam stuff

Cats & Cups -flash game style restaurant and cafe sim
Recettear - Run your own store in a fantasy town and hire adventurers to collect items
Coffee Talk - Cafe style narrative game but also has endless cafe mode
Coral Island - Stardew Valley style game
My Time at Portia/Sandrock - Stardew Valley style game
Potion Craft - Alchemist Simulator lots of bargaining
Potionomics - Alchemy and bargaining simulator but with relationship building
Reka - Not finished yet but is worth keeping an eye on. Play as a slavic witch learning from Baba Yaga while adventuring in an open world also lets you personalize your workshop.
Rune Factory - Harvest Moon meets JRPG, If you can get your hands on it Frontier lets you bully a girl into losing weight so you can marry her lol.
Tavern Talk - D&D style Tavern roleplay lets you post quests for visitors
Travellers Rest - Run your own Tavern and grow your ingredients.
VA - 11 Hall-A - cyberpunk style Bar simulator
Haven - fun couch co-op for couples. RPG with your characters making a life on a new planet with combat and resource collection.
Strange Horticulture/Antiques - Run a shop and explore a map uncovering mysteries about your clients
Volcano Princess - Stat raising life sim multiple endings
 
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