Why do cozy games suck?

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hold awn lemme go grab the switch and play animal crossing and stardew valley while listening...

The thing is cozy games by definition dont suck. Allow me to elaborate. A game intended to be cozy is artificial and often repetitive and that does indeed suck. But a trur cozy game is the game you find confort in even if the game itself is not activelly trying or forcing you in its design to perform mundane tasks oriented to satisfaction. The game shouldnt be intended to be cozy because such definition is portraid one dimensionaly amd limits the game steticaly and mechanicaly, the game should focus on fullfill its purpose in telling a story and providing an experience. Its up to the player to interpret the experience as disturbing, intriguing or conforting. Of course, you can rely on some resources to guide those fellings in a intend way like music and design. But ultimatimely such measures cant possibly reach nor cover or convey their intend universaly to all people. The receptor is the one who decides how he will take the path you set. In resume, any game can be cozy game and people find confort in diferent things. Its like confort characters. Some people find peace playing minecraft, some find confort playing call of dutty. And thats the thing, confort is subjective, labeling you game "cozy" only means saying that it has an specific reaction to a specific group of people

What exactly are cozy games? Are they just games with a predominantly girl/woman playerbase? Sometimes I think cozy games are just relaxing games, sometimes it means games with a cute art style, but then other times it seems to mean games enjoyed by mainly girls/women. Like, nothing about the Sims is relaxing or cutesy about the Sims. For context I’m autistic so that’s probably why I think about this so much.

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we should have large-scale corporate factories in cozy games

You are so right about everything you just said

Games exist for the developer and players to put their heart into it

It kills me that you can feel the love in Coral Island , but the team just got totally f'd over and now the game is broken :(

no one is mentioning duck detective

Death Stranding will always be the koziest game imo

I thought you were gonna say ACNH sucks..

Story teller is a really cute cozy game that’s different! I loved playing through it when it first came out and soon after it got a free “DLC” type thing.

I like the AESTHETICS and the IDEA of a cozy game. But then I tend to end up playing for 10mins and get bored.

Sometimes my anxiety/impatient/fidgety ass doesn't let me enjoy the simple, slow, moment to moment gameplay of just doing routine things with little to no goals.

The points you made in this video resonated, and it made me think of my favourite cosy games, which are all so different. My favourites being Cozy Grove, Wytchwood, and BOTW, besides Stardew Valley obv.

Didn't watch yet, hazarding a guess...

It's because there's no end-goal?

They just dont bother to implement complexity. In gameplay or NPCs

I loved Cult of the Lamb so much. I need more like that.

I think the story is just boring and the gameplay is repetitive

I wanna normalize time limits and making players feel uncomfortable either being idle or

You say the switch was cheap, i still don't own one 😅
I wanted it for animal crossing and zelda hd remakes.
I have a wii u though

I also love that Stardew Valley, despite being labeled a cozy game, definitely has some challenge in it as you advance. Going through the skull caverns, trying to get to level 100 in 1 day without abusing staircases wasn't easy. As well as some of Qi's challenges. Not that these are dark souls level of difficult, but the game doesn't treat as like we're stupid (such as modern pokemon).

While not traditionally labeled as "cozy", I felt quite cozy playing the 3 original Mana games on the switch. Secret of Mana was probably my favorite.

This video almost perfectly expresses a lot of the complaints I have with my most anticipated cozy game of all time, Paleo Pines. As someone who LOVES dinosaurs and really enjoys farming games, I was super hyped! Unfortunately (from an outside perspective), it looks like the game had kind of a rocky development. The release date kept getting pushed back, and at one point I think the company funding the project was switched or something? But after waiting for literally years for it to release, I was unfortunately disappointed with the final product. After waiting all this time it felt like the game was half finished and missing a lot of content or little tweaks that would have made it more enjoyable. I still have a ton of hours on it and most of the achievements, but there are a lot of things holding it back from being up there with Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, and even Graveyard Keeper for me. Now funding for the project has basically stopped and the development crew has made a public statement that if they don't receive more financial support, the game will stop receiving updates. This is really unfortunate, because the planned road map for the game looks so amazing and like it would have fixed most of the problems I had with the game :( I really hope the team gets the funding they need to keep updating it, or else I'm gonna teach myself 3D modeling, animation, and coding and make the entire damn game myself!!!

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Honestly what comes to mind for a cozy game that I have played is the OG Jak and Daxter. It's a an atmospheric exploration game with some amazing ambient music. Especially the Earlier levels.

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Factorio is the best cozy game change my mind

I know a cozy game called Doom 2016. Perfect to relax and to relieve emotions you have to control around people ^^

This type of game is something I play like my dad used to play solitaire. I don’t play them everyday or all the time. I think you can get tired of anything you do too much. I haven’t overdosed on these

Why do clickbait titles suck?

I call these " I'm baby " games.

I just wish Chibi Robo and other Love-de-Lic-core games had a bigger cultural impact.

It's funny I came across this video while searching for content of caves of qud

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take a shot every time she say “cozy”

To me cozy games are not cutesy cartoony games. I think hand of fate 2 and skyrim are cozy.

It’s a shame that Nintendo didn’t take advantage of all the hype for New Horizons and within over a year they dropped all the content into the game. The game has so much more potential and yet Nintendo barely acknowledges it anymore. It’s a shame cus this is my favorite video game ever (I’ve played it more than any other game I’ve played).

Cozy games for some reason bring the most toxic people out of the woodwork and lord help you if that game includes marriage mechanics

Animal crossing is cool, but the pixel games.. looks sorta .. .. sorta bog standard/unskilled..
Like ok you designed them with one pixel for the iris, no mouth etc, and people eat it up.

One reason behind AC cranky villagers' dialogue getting nerfed was parents upset over their children being insulted. I also tend to favor quality over quantity but I also mainly stay away from the early access games as many have been in "early access" for years and some I did buy ultimately turned into a thing I did not want. Along with farming, I am beyond tired of games that include the occult. People would have a fit if someone tried pulling off as many games with as much Judeo-Christian content as the occult content I keep seeing in so many games.

I think the issue is the bandwagoning into the genre brought in a bunch of devs who are doing it not out of love of the game and not out of making the kind of game they want to play, but a task: make a game.

Stardew Valley was a passion project. Tales of Mistria is, too. Animal Crossing devs love the game and understand it and play it.

When a game is made by people who have no interest in playing what they made, it’s going to be mediocre.

Like a chef in a restaurant who doesn’t love their own food.

the best cozy game is tomodachi life just because is weirder than the rest of cozy games

Fields of Mistria is the goat!

"Bad cozy games suck"

my cozy game is american truck sim

I recommend A Short Hike. It’s a short and sweet indie cozy game that only takes a short time to complete. Even though I’ve completed it three times already, I play it over and over again because it is not a big commitment and it is just an amazing vibe with cool art.

sakuna: of rice and ruin is phenomenal if you like a storyline, lovable characters, easy/actually fun platform combat, stunning art, relaxing and realistic rice farming, the most fun i've had making food in a game too lol

there's an aspect of the mundane and character depth/development that i find myself always craving more of with a lot of cozy games. need more life simulations too like the sims 😭😭 i don't want to only farm pls

The sims is not a cozy game. You know how stressful it is taking care of 8 adult babies, 4 babies, 2 pets