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Humble Choice's August 2025 bundle offers eight games for $14.99, including the highly acclaimed Persona 5 Royal, along with cozy titles like My Life at Sandrock and Wildmender, with a portion of proceeds supporting charity.
Humble is offering a $22 Wholesome Snack bundle featuring six cozy games, including the popular 'Little Kitty, Big City,' coinciding with the Wholesome Snack 2024 showcase. The bundle also includes games like 'Fae Farm' and 'Minami Lane,' and supports the World Central Kitchen charity. The showcase is set for December 10th at 3 p.m. EST.
The Nintendo Switch offers a variety of cozy games for players seeking casual and comfortable fun, including underrated options like Venba, A Space for the Unbound, Gris, Lonely Mountains: Downhill, and Mineko’s Night Market. These games provide soothing and relaxing experiences, from cooking sims to platform-adventure games, making them perfect for zoning out and unwinding.
A list of 30 cozy games set to release in 2024, including Japanese-inspired RPG farm sims, open life-simulation games, and supernatural farming sims, each offering unique gameplay experiences such as managing a Japanese-inspired street, tending to a post-apocalyptic paradise, and exploring a desolate planet. These games promise immersive visuals, relaxing soundtracks, and opportunities for players to build, create, and form relationships in tranquil settings.
Here are eight cozy games to check out on Nintendo Switch, including "Palia," a multiplayer simulation game reminiscent of "Stardew Valley," and "Unpacking," an award-winning puzzle game that takes you through different eras of a protagonist's life. Other cozy games include "A Little to the Left," "Melatonin," "Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom," "Life is Strange: True Colors," "Octopath Traveler 2," and "No Man's Sky," which offers a relaxed mode for a cozier space exploration experience.
Sony's December update for PlayStation Plus subscribers includes three lowkey games perfect for cozying up during the holiday season: Lego 2K Drive, PowerWash Simulator, and Sable. Lego 2K Drive offers open-world racing with building elements, PowerWash Simulator is a satisfying neat-freak sim, and Sable is an atmospheric coming-of-age game. PS Plus Premium subscribers can also enjoy free trials of Baldur's Gate 3 and The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.
Palia is an upcoming MMO that combines elements of Animal Crossing and World of Warcraft, offering a cozy gaming experience with a focus on social interaction and real-world cooperation. Players can farm, hunt, and romance NPCs alongside each other in a shared server, engaging in joint activities and multiplayer functionality. The game features social links and dating sim mechanics, but currently lacks player-to-player relationship elements. Palia's beta has recently launched, and it offers enormous potential for fans of cozy games and MMOs alike.
IGN recommends 7 cozy video games with queer representation to play during Pride month, including Spiritfarer, Wylde Flowers, The Archipelago, Coffee Talk, Stardew Valley, Night in the Woods, and I Was a Teenage Exocolonist. These games range from a melancholy journey through the beyond to a witchy life-sim with monsters to romance, and from a slow-paced tea steeping game to a futuristic coffee shop simulator. Night in the Woods is an unabashedly queer game with complex representation, while I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is an immersive narrative deckbuilding RPG set on an alien planet.
Thirteen cozy games are set to release in 2023, featuring themes such as witchcraft, cottagecore, and secret histories. These indie games include Critter Crops, Europa, Fall of Porcupine, The Garden Path, Kitori Academy, Loddlenaut, Mike and the Witch’s Mountain, Paper Trail, Pekoe, Pixelshire, Spirittea, and Wholesome – Out and About. Players can expect to engage in activities such as growing crops, exploring Jupiter’s moon, treating patients, brewing tea for cats, and connecting with nature.
Cozy games, known for their soft colors and lack of violence, are now exploring darker themes in a new subgenre of "dark cozy games." Games like Dredge and Night in the Woods combine cozy elements with psychological horror and themes of mental health struggles and late-stage capitalism. Strange Horticulture, a slow game set in a plant shop with strange plants, also weaves cozy and dark elements together. The contrast between cozy and dark elements makes the comfortable parts even more meaningful.