With the holiday season in full swing, it can be hard to find a quiet moment to yourself. Every month is a social event and everyone you’ve got a drop of relation to is coming in from out of town. Add in work obligations and the stress of just existing, you’re going to need a self-care cozy game session, STAT!
You’re likely looking for something that will help you escape the chaos and just decompress. In November, we played quite a number of cozy games that just might fit the bill.
November Cozy Game Reviews
The Holy Gosh Darn is perfectly chaotic. If you’re not jumping around in time, you’re venturing off on a side quest or two. The whole package was exceedingly well done and I highly recommend giving it a go.
Amber Isle felt like it had a lot of promise, but the repetitive nature of daily tasks slowly drains the fun from it. It’s visually stunning, but it just feels unpolished. The forced camera angle made it a pain, the typos added up, and, when Winter dawned, there was a visual lag in the character’s movement in the areas that had active snowfall.
While it can be a little confusing at first, Great God Grove is an easy game to master once you’re fully on board. The concept is unique to me and while most puzzles are easy enough to parse out, I found the hint system to be invaluable.
NAIRI: Tower of Shirin is a very good point-and-click adventure that you can expect to sink about 6 hours into. I found the game to be engaging and easy enough that I didn’t feel stuck. Well, until the end. I had to bow to a guide when the difficulty ramped up suddenly.
| Quick Verdict: NAIRI: Rising Tide had big shoes to fill since the first game in this series was done so well. However, I found Rising Tide to not only be more frustrating and less intuitive, but the “cliffhanger” at the end is so hopeless. |
With glitches expected from most modern MMO’s, you get a fun high fantasy game that goes from PVE to PVP quickly and pushes you to keep improving your character in Throne and Liberty.
While Galaxy Burger seems like the type of game that would require high intensity and attention to detail, you can just sit back and relax. With no time limits and no huge penalties, you can make burgers to your heart’s content either by yourself or with friends – up to 7 of them!
Critter Cafe is an adorable mix of collecting critters, managing a shop, decorating, and puzzle-solving. While the motions of the game can seem repetitive to most, I found that with the constant movement of rewards and creatures to catch, it never stagnated.
I’m constantly blown away by a lot of frame options that GUNNAR puts out. The Strata Collection brings a lot of what I loved about the Arbor Collection to a more cost-effective lineup.
The majority of tokidoki glasses, as a whole, fail to impress. While they did so much better in the tokidoki Fall Collection than the last collection in a lot of regards, GUNNAR needs to either focus on their own brand or step up their game when it comes to licensed products.
Previews
It’s not my favorite game ever, but I still found some enjoyment in it. I just wish there were a bit more safeguards for someone who is stuck. All in all, if you like city builders, you’re probably going to like I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival.
Demos
Pieced Together is a scrapbooking game where you revisit times you had as a child with your best friend, Beth. While the demo is only one chapter long, it’s clear that “friends forever” didn’t exactly work out.
Guides
- Pokémon TCG Pocket: How to obtain flair
- Pokémon TCG Pocket: How to make Display Boards and Binders
- Pokémon TCG Pocket: What’s the difference between the new mobile game and Pokémon TCG Live?
News
- Your library is still good! Nintendo Switch successor will have backwards compatibility
- House Flipper is coming out with their new “Dine Out” DLC on Nov. 26th
- New Today (11/26): Critter Cafe is ready to take your orders on Steam and Nintendo Switch
Other
Tiny House Simulator: Simulator games are very hit or miss, they’re either great or terrible and unfortunately, Tiny House Simulator has a fatal flaw. I locked myself out of progress and I did it quite early.
In this game, you have a workshop where you fix Tiny Houses and when they’re done, you hitch them to your truck and drive them out to their final location. Arguably, driving without anything attached is the most fun, which is a separate problem entirely.
As a word of caution: don’t do things out of order. The game tells you that you need to sell unneeded objects, paint/tile, and then buy new things. Do not buy new things before you paint or tile. In this one instance, the game chose reality and will not let you put things underneath objects. You’ll have to move everything around and redo it if you do.
While frustrating, the thing that really broke this game was delivering a tiny home. I drove it all the way out and unhooked just a bit too far outside of the indicated zone and that seemed to glitch something in the background. It didn’t matter that I reattached and moved the house, nor did it matter when I shoved it perfectly into the spot. Because I unhitched in the wrong place, it disconnected that zone’s ability to see the tiny home.
If you want to try Tiny House Simulator, wait for patches or the full release since it’s still in early access on Steam.
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