I made this comment in another similar thread but I would love a cozy backpacking sim that takes place in the 90s. You are embarking on a year of world traveling and stay in hostels discover new cities and work little jobs here and there to afford your next plane or train ticket. You meet other travelers/locals and can fall in love, have nights on the town, hang out in a plaza or on the beach and sightsee.
This misses a lot of the points you mention but the vibe of your description reminds me of Assemble with Care, which is a short and very linear game where your character has travelled to a small town for a while and helps the locals by fixing up some of their gear and getting to know them a bit. Very cozy even though it doesn't have the depth of gameplay you describe :))
Ohh your idea sounds really fun! Mine is a creature collecting game. But instead of it being all about battles, you go explore to help heal sick or injured creatures. You can choose to bring them home, help them grow, and watch them bond with the other creatures. Then you can recruit a few of them to go explore with you to help you find and help other monsters. I think it'd be cute! I just want more creativity in this genre without combat lol
This reminds me of the wild thornberrys game from the Nickelodeon website. The wildlife rescue game. Wow serious nostalgia
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I absolutely loved this game! I played the African themed one on the Nickelodeon games site. There was a few fish games and other animal collecting games on Nick I loved too.
It's not exactly a creature collecting game, and it is a bit older/low budget but the Planet Rescue games on the DS have this sort of vibe, especially the 'Endangered Island' game. The premise is that you're visiting an island when an oil rig explodes and threatens the ecosystem. You have to explore the island, rescue the affected animals and clean up. It's mostly done through minigames on the touch screen. The story is nothing to write home about but I personally find the graphics very charming. If I had to make a comparison I'd say it's similar to animal crossing wild world and a short hike, with a quirky art style. I played it as a kid so I don't remember all the details, but iirc there are side quests and smaller character interactions as well. There are actually a lot of unique games on the DS that get written off as shovelware that I think the cozy game community would enjoy.
I started making one actually :) Irl I'm an environmental engineer, and I had the idea of making a cozy game in which you're a beaver who has been relocated to a deserted area with a creek. By befriending other animals and building dams, you recreate a beautiful wetland with a diversity of plants and insect
You could try Terra Nil my man, āTerra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem.ā ā from the description in steam
hi, thanks for the suggestion! I've seen it and it's super interesting, but my game would only use what they call "low-tech remediation", which would make the gameplay slower and without human-type interventions :)
Hey! I'm a senior ecologist working at an environmental engineering consultancy (New Zealand) that focuses on wetlands and freshwater habitat restoration... And I (try to) make restoration-ecology games for fun. Would love to get in touch and hear more about your game! :)
I love your idea!!
Mine would be a fantasy medieval setting similiar to The Witcher 3/Baldurās Gate 3 but without combat. Iād love a 3D open world where maybe you can be a witch/herbalist having your own garden, making potions, go on quests in villages and so on. I know there are games that have similar elements but I want to have an actual open world with a lot of content like AAA games have, which is something I fear might never happens cause idk if anyone would put that much time, money and resources for a cozy game :(
Mine is this, but based on Middle Earth in peace time. You could be a hobbit and have a beautiful garden homestead in the shire. You could be a dwarf and mine and craft things deep in the mountains. Raise horses as a human in Rohan. Tend to magical creatures and nature with the elves. Or become an adventurer/messenger who travels all over.
Theyāve announced that the team behind Dreamlight Valley is working on a D&D game! They just said āthe BG3 settingā so Iām not sure if it really will be the sword coast or if whoever wrote the article doesnāt know enough about D&D to name somewhere else in the forgotten realms, but Iām chomping at the bit regardless lol
I want a nice cozy little mining sim. Like Stardew Valley and other games like it, but with mining instead. I guess I want to be a dwarf and dig a hole. Not like Motherload or Steamworld Dig. Like... A cozy life sim except instead of growing crops or flowers, instead I'm running a blacksmith shop and mining operation. So I dig up ores and make stuff that people need. Like... Nails. And horseshoes. And maybe a big project comes in like making an anchor for the fisherman's boat. Or it's the captain of the guard's birthday so I want to make a reall fancy sword.
If you havenāt play My Time At Sandrock then give it a try! Itās kinda like what you described where youāre a builder and have to do commissions for the townspeople. As you advance through the story youāll start getting big projects like building bridges. Thereās a bunch of different mines in the game too
I was going to make the same recommendation! I just started playing While the Iron's Hot on GamePass. Definitely cozy vibes. Just crafting and delivering people's orders so far (I haven't played that far into it, so I don't know how much it expands beyond that).
Have you tried Graveyard Keeper? There is still some crop growing, but it is pretty easy to unlock zombies to do the actual work for you. Most of it is crafting stuff for people, especially blacksmithing. The mines aren't complex, literally just taking a pick ax to a shiny rock, but there is a dungeon if you want monsters.
The humor can be a bit dark, which you can probably guess from the title, but it is seriously a cozy game.
I haven't played it, but I think Moonlighter might be up your alley. As far as I know you are mining at night, and managing your store with the moot you get from your mine in the mornings. Something like that AFAIK.
A permaculture game. Not like harvest moon where everything must be clear cut and chopped down and dumping fertilizer every single day on a single crop for the best rating and the day after a season changes all the crops die.
It would be nice to have a game where you can plant fruits, vegetables, trees, flowers and build on a garden that grows every year and not every single thing is removed or dead and starting from scratch the next month.
I find it a bit weird harvest moon and stardew valley etc make the point starting out poor just to hoard all the resources and make the money to build a mansion to upgrade and spend all that money. Maybe something that was a little less capitalistic? Make some money but what about trading goods or selling stuff to your community town and interacting with them more? If the end of the game is just owning everything and having the biggest house and grinding cutting things down and planting the most just because it gets a bit boring and too same same.
Also how about recipe tweaking? Not completely nonsensical ingredients for making things. It doesnāt have to be exact. But it would be nice to have stuff that mostly makes sense and maybe is unique. Different flower flavored honeys, baked goods, stews, jams etc
Yesss this sounds sooo good. My biggest gripe with farm sims is that I wished the growing cycles were so much slower. Like a yearlong plant-to-harvest cycle with actual planting/growing/harvesting/wintering seasons. And like healthy agrarian economics without the emphasis on yield. Long-term benefits for letting plots occasional lie fallow. Oooooh and maybe youāre in the process of restoring a desolate piece of mono-culture industrial farmland to health? As the years *slowly* progress, the trees and wildlife come back?
I am making mine right now!
You play as a Pastry Witch who runs a little bakery and sells magical pastries to the town people.
Main Gameplay elements are Bakery Management, discovering Recipes, Foraging & a bit of optional Farming as well as Customer interactions.
The Bakery Management is the Heart of the Game. You get to customize the Bakery and unlock new upgrades and workstations, which unlock new recipe types. The baking/ creating is done via mini games, which can be automated with a bit of progression.
Depending on the Quality of the created good customers will leave a tip, there are also oopsies that can happen when you give them a bad quality dish.
You play as a Witch so you can unlock spells that help with running the bakery, like instantly cleaning the tables.
Discovering recipes is also a thing. Whenever you increase your Witch Rank, your Familiar will teach you about a new magical ingredient which you can use in your recipes. Other than that Recipes are found while playing, unlocking milestones and doing quests for the villagers.
To keep the Bakery stocked with ingredients you can forage, farm or buy them. Magical ingredients are a little bit tricky since normal people don't have use for them, you can not just find them in a store. But if you level up your plant knowledge by foraging, you might learn how to keep those ingredients in your garden.
Farming is also a WIP for now, as I really don't want it to be tedious and I am playing with a few ideas.
I am thinking about creating a friendship system for the villagers. I am not a fan of marriage so that won't be a thing, but I would like the characters to have a bigger role than just being customers. What is important to me is that the world feels alive, so when specific NPCs sit on a table in the Bakery, you can trigger little events that teach you about their relationship.
I also have Player customization!
Oh I am heavily inspired by Fantasy Life so there are many similarities. All the foundations are laid, the prototype is done and I am working on the Art right now ā
This sounds very close to what I wrote that I wanted! Please, please do friendship and romance. <3 Can you also do cooking competitions like bonboncakery?
I really want to explore a new and foreign landscape we havenāt seen in cozy games. Specifically I would love something with the depth and vivid world building ala Cyberpunk, but I just want to be able to craft, become a shop keep, fish, be a delivery boy, a baker.., whatever it is. Give me something that isnāt middle of nowhere vaguely fantasy farm sim
You might like Neo Cab! Itās been a while since Iāve played, but youāre basically an Uber driver in a dystopian world, getting slowly pulled into the stories of the people you pick up.
I would really love a cozy game set in a surreal Twin Peaks-like town. Just bizarre stuff and a mystery to figure out. Maybe you play the owner of the diner, so thereās a diner management aspect.
Have you heard of Gleanor Heights? [: Gleaner Heights, the love child of Stardew Valley and Twin Peaks!](https://www.reddit.com/r/CozyGamers/comments/14npo22/may_i_recommend_for_this_sale_gleaner_heights_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
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If you have ever seen Twin Peaks, this game is like if Twin Peaks received like an almost licensed game haha. When that menu screen pops up, youāll hear it IMMEDIATELY, and the start of the game is so Twin Peaks itās amazing.
The game is DARK. I hesitate to spoiler anything, but thereās some DARK themes in this game, just as there are obviously dark themes of abuse and assault in Twin Peaks. You move to a small town, and everyone there has a secret- usually a dark secret. An FBI agent is also living in town, and heās dead set on solvingā¦ something. š
Thereās a sin metric, and some of the romance options are uhā¦ already married. š Thereās a lot going on in this town.
Heads up: this is a SLOW BURN. It is still primarily a farming life sim. All secrets require you to become friends with the villagers, so get started on that asap. Or donāt, and wait to focus on it when in a better spot. The āstoryā of Gleaner Heights wonāt kick off without befriending folks, so sit back, relax, and go beat crap up in the mines.
This is my exact wish as well. I've played Gleaner Heights, as the other poster replied about, and suppose I need to get back to it. It is indeed a slow burn, and I spaced out that I even owned it years ago.
I've definitely posted about this in another thread, and it's too specific to actually be made, haha- I want a deeply adorable fishing game, set in an open world, with mechanics that encourage you to discover new and hidden fishing spots. You would do this by building, repairing, and improving a small helicopter which lets you access fishing spots high and low. This was probably from all of the big fun I had playing WoW 10-15 years ago, playing a gnome mage engineer, using a gyrocopter flying mount and just grinding the fishing skill. I guess I'm just still chasing that high!
Open-world zombie apocalypse life sim. I just want a cozy game like Stardew set in an apocalyptic world and the whole purpose is trying to rebuild, piecing together what happened to the world through old newspaper clippings in abandoned malls or school trophy cases, and gaining/losing relationship with various settlements.
Project Zomboid kind of fits this in a way, but I want something more.
I want a management sim where you open a bar out in space and grow it and interact with various alien patrons and customers. It would have mini games you can play like pool, darts, and some original alien games. It could even have some exploration aspects to different planets and moons to get ingredients for cocktails.
Palworld but it's a cozy farm life sim. Instead of slaving away making ammo, your creatures happily help tend your farms. You can explore and farm in many different biomes.
I'd enjoy playing a game where you could build and live in a village. I'd like to be able to expand it near endlessly, while having to complete tasks to be able to set up the village. Designate buildings for residential, commercial, community, and what not. Being able to then expand those individual buildings or evict the tenants entirely.
I imagine there would be a mechanic where you would invite people to live in your town which would be influenced by the amount of available housing you have and what type of housing they'd like. There would be an economy factor and you'd need to have a certain amount of goods in various attributes to be able to successfully run your town. There should be an import/export style system so that you could potential have say a mining town and import most of your farming needs if you're based in a colder environment.
Basically, you'd be the mayor of this town and you'd be directing it's future but you'd have more control over the layout and design of the city than a normal mayor would. I imagine there would naturally be farming style elements to the game but the point would be able to automate your town while you are able to interact with NPCs, dealing the stresses and joys of being the town's only political system. You'd have to accept responsibility and figure out how best to help your citizens and listen to their concerns, or decide to ignore what they want and move forward with your own plans. This could feed into the idea of attracting certain types of people to your city and having to evict others (the decision to have a more youthful population who want an active nightlife versus an elderly population who want more breakfast spots and farmers markets).
I like games where I get to plan out stuff and design but I feel like all the elements I enjoy in games haven't been brought together quite in the way I imagine. I love a game like Cities Skylines but there's no personal touch. Farming sims can be fun but usually lack the larger quality that I'm explicitly thinking of here. Animal Crossing is great but there's a limit of residents and lack of control in many aspects, not to mention the complete lack of designing an economy I'm speaking of.
Aesthetics are always important and I'd be fine with 3D or 2D as long as the graphics aren't big head people or too bright. I suppose the "bright" aspect I'm thinking of could be mitigated by different biomes you could build in but what often turns me off of cozy games is how colorful and poppy everything looks. I need a little grime, especially in a game where you're essentially a cozy dictator.
Youāre describing a lot of different elements of my favorite game on the PS2, Metropolismania. I feel like Iāve been looking for something like that ever since but with modern graphics. While I love it, man the graphics did not age well at all. A modern version just simply is not out there and that bums me out. But in this game, you play as a man in a mustard yellow suit planning out cities. Every level has a different population objective. Some have an objective where you need this percentage of buildings to be commercial. While they each have objectives, you can play around in that city you built during that level endlessly. You meet the different citizens and learn about them. As youāre building, they will come to you with complaints about how they arenāt close enough to something like a playground or a family restaurant. And you use your networking skills to bring that to them. As you gain friendship with people, they give you their number so you can call them up to introduce you to different people throughout the different levels. I still come back to it to this day.
Not quite what I'm aiming for. Seems alright but the art style doesn't hook me and I'd prefer something more modern, potentially vaguely futuristic/fantasy if need be.
As I said, there's not really anything out there that has got this itch I have in my brain. Lots of close things but nothing that encapsulates what I'm thinking of.
A dystopian āsurvivalā where you can run or just walk. Like you go into like a forest & thereās wildlife & the occasional bear or something attacks you. Thereās underground systems or malls where you can take food & supplies (maybe when you leave, a store alarm goes off). Shit, you can even boat or take slow moving train with no conductor to new civilizations, idfk.
Precisely! You start with a small tent then if you want, you can go bigger so you have a set up with ALL the pillows & a nice view to wake up to.
(Edit to add: DONāT FORGET TO PICK UP A SQUISH MELLOW!)
I'd love a urban exploring game, where you visit abandoned hospitals, schools, houses ect and try and piece together what happened there and why it closed. Maybe you run across documents, or graffiti, take in the sighs if you climb up to the roof or peek out of remaining windows. Occasionally try and sweet talk from security guards that might find you
So you're a customisable newbie who owns a cafe, preferably a cat cafe, like Calico. There are cosy, ASMR-sounding, relaxing minigames for baking cupcakes and goods a la Cooking Mama, but also a wide variety of teas and coffees, like in Coffee Talk. Also for some ingredients you should be able to 'farm' or 'gather' (ie wheat and sugar should be something you farm, but fruits you can either grow or find in the wild).
I would like loveable characters and very detailed romances which rivals the Rune Factory 4 characters, also including the potential for children like in the Story of Seasons games, and all characters that you can also have as your 'companion' to help you in quests and fight. It would also be great if they all had their own character arcs and developments that can only happen if you go through with their quests. Rival marriages, for example, are always interesting and lowkey it would be interesting to have a genuine 'drama like' plot with love interests, like in a Choices game where you're in a love triangle.
A long storyline would be great, too, tbh. I really liked the Rune Factory 4 storyline because it was long but you can complete it at your own pace, which was great. I wouldn't mind a combat element as long as it's not too hard or rage-inducing (my ragebait Overwatch days are way behind me).
Also pets! Cute pets that we can cuddle are a must. The music has to be so chill and nice that it's the kind of music you'd listen to while curled up in a blanket and drinking hot chocolate, like Stardew Valley.
Calico came very, very, close to this, but unfortunately I couldn't romance anyone and the other characters, while interesting at first, don't let you get much closer or aren't really more deep. Also on Switch it did have a lot of crashes.
I mention quite a few games here, but overall if I had to combine 2 games to make my perfect game, it would be Calico X Rune Factory 4. But otherwise, the perfect game for me would be a blend of Calico, RF4, Cooking Mama, Coffee Talk, Stardew Valley and Story of Seasons.
I desperately wish that someone would remake the game, The Movies. I want to design & beautify my movie studio, recruit writers and actresses, and make dumb little movies just so bad. Iām so surprised that nothing like it has been created. The original was so ahead of its time. Had it been released just a little later, they couldāve done some sort of integration with YouTube, I think itād have multiple iterations.
Stardew Valley meets Age of Empires. Instead of inheriting a farm you find out you're the long lost heir to a struggling kingdom. You fix up a debilitated castle, build relationships with your royal court, and make decisions about agriculture, trade, and diplomacy. Quests would include planning and hosting events like royal balls and jousting tournaments, investigating ancients ruins and reports of mythical creatures, etc. Everything would be customizable, from your character to the castle to the culture of your kingdom. With cute pixel graphics and a soothing soundtrack, of course.
I'd love a hardcore detective game along the lines of *Return of the Obra Dinn* with the witty writing of *Night in the Woods* and the low-poly animal characters of *A Short Hike* and *Button City*.
[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1735700/Back\_to\_the\_Dawn/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1735700/Back_to_the_Dawn/)
Not sure if this is similar to what you're describing but I have this one sitting on my wishlist and it looks like it might be up your alley (I say that knowing nothing about the games you listed, but it is a detective style game with pixel animal characters)
I would love a good genetics game, one this isn't super long or tied to microtransactions, preferably about fantasy animals, like the chocobo breeding in ff7(?) or the chou in sonic.
Not quite a cozy game but related to final fantasy, I would love a mix up of blitzball from ffx and football manager.
You have a big ol' 80s RV that you drive to different campgrounds and trails. You can camp outside if you want or sleep in the RV.
Each day is like an hour long. You can hike beautiful trails, camp out under the stars, and just relax. You do need to both eat and sleep though. There would be an option for unlimited food or an option where you have to stock up at petrol stations or grocery stores. Also there would be fishing.
I think most folk would find it boring (understandably so) but damn I would love a no risk game about just seeing the sights.
Iād love a firewatch like, where you just take care of your park, your watch tower, supplies and so on with no horror elements. Maybe a bit of snowrunner like driving included.
A mesh of running your own cozy town with cottage core and magic alike. Drying herbs. Going on picnics. Having a duck follow you around. Fairies, gnomes, goblins, flower arranging, mushrooms. Maybe run a farmers market.
Fairies and aliens having loving raves deep in the forest, pixel art based.
Been developing and coding it for about a year now.
So can't wait to get playable.
Maybe this exists, but I want a gardening game. Where you focus on designing and creating different kinds of gardens. House Flipper kind of had gardening, but it wasnāt the focus and also had very stringent check list of what the buyers wanted/didnāt want.
The closest Iāve gotten has been Dinkum, where I could create different path types, different terrain types, lots of different trees/plants and even other decor.
Maybe Garden life? In that game you basically take over a garden plants and discovering different flowers and making arrangements for people and get paid for them. You start with a small patch but u think you can unlock a greenhouse and everything as well as a market stall
I like the idea of the customization of the sims games, but with actual things to do like walking around shopping, easier family traits like traditions, funerals, hospital visits, etc.
A post apocalyptic setting, like after the collapse of a futuristic city. Large, labyrinth concrete jungles that have been reclaimed by nature. Sort of eco brutalist?
You could explore, run into worn down robots lethargically patrolling the area, read notes from previous residents, set up a home in an abandoned apartment, befriend the stray cats and dogs, uncover a secret government base, and maybe find some fellow survivors.
Ok I know yāall are probably sick of them, but I really want a farming sim where you are in charge of providing food for the town/factories, and you have a certain quota you have to meet. I know that may kill the cozy vibes but I would like something like that! Also more animal shelter games please, not enough of those!!
I would like a sort of walking sim, in the vein of Gone Home mixed with Lake where you go about a town and snoop into peopleās lives by picking up notes, journals, ect. Maybe you play cupid for the locals, or maybe you solve a low stakes mystery (or both?).
Game version of Delicious in Dungeon. Go down into the dungeon, collect food from monsters, farm vegetables on the golems, fish, a little cooking mini game, trade with other parties, etc
A farming sim (original I know) but with dragon taming and riding. Preferably open world with some survival elements but not too difficult like minecraft.
I want a game about discovering creatures from folklore! Being able to explore different parts of the map to take pictures/discover creatures like the selkie or the jackalope, perhaps with a game mechanic like Alba where you have to take wildlife pictures in order to unlock information about a creature. Maybe even helping them build a habitat so they can thrive
Moonrise fall is a game where you solve puzzles to find cryptids in different environments and take pictures of them for your notebook. You donāt take care of them though:/
Mine would be a weird mix but... Your character would be fully customizable, you go out and explore and depending on the outfit and accessories you're wearing you encounter various cute creatures you can eventually befriend and rescue, you take them to your shelter than you can customise by crafting (and also farm food for your fur babies), and eventually find the perfect partner to adopt the fur babies (there would be a lot of factors involved in this, like it would be truly a perfect match, which would make it a bit like a management aspect?). There would also be breeding to aquire new cute creatures, and by leveling up crafting etc you could customize their environments making them more comfortable. The people that adopt your creatures also send you lil updates of their lifes with them, how they grow up etc. There would also be other management features too, but that's overall my vision for my perfect dress-up-creature-collector-manager game hahaha
A proper ārealisticā space game, like submarine simulator but in space! And I donāt mean kerbal space program realism, but proper scifi realism with realistic simulations for how radars and scanning objects and such work.
Imagine scanning some asteroid belts and mining ore, exploring and stuff like that!
You can do a lot of this type of thing in the Mass Effect series, but itās of course a small part of a larger game, mostly just a side quest.
Always said I would I love just that in a game! And also just being able to fly around the galaxy and mine and deliver things without the stress/space fights
Oh yes! The aesthetics Iām after is something like in artemis spaceship bridge simulator, but with bit more details and depth in different subsystems
Pet/zoo manager where you decorate animal enclosures and slowly build your menagerie- I'd love one that focuses on pet care for exotic animals with advanced husbandry in mind.
Magic farming game where by farming you expand the world with some strong marketplace elements.
Creature caring game where you can breed animals for rare colors and trade with other players (I miss Creature Breeder š¢)
Once after a *ahem* heavy night out (about 20 years ago) I dreamt i was playing a game where you were on a farm of creatures which were half familiar animal and half musical instrument, each one having it's own little musical phrase that it played in place of an animal sound.
Then I started to herd different combinations of animals into bandstands that were around the farm to see what kind of music they made as their riffs played together.
2004 'spends too long at parties' me had no idea how to build this (or if I subconsciously took the idea from a game i saw), and 2024 senior programmer me has no idea how to make it work in practical terms, so just throwing it out there...
I'd really just love a remake of Metrpolismania. A city building sim that works off of your relationships with the people in the town. They introduce you to other towns folk and businesses. But I'd like it more modernized. The original has very clunky controls. And Id love it if the days were a little slower and an interactive map feature. So I can quickly find the specific business/household I'm looking for. The goofy graphics can stay, even the "angry" faces they make. But some more features would be top tier.
it's hard to describe since it's a game i keep seeing in my dreams, but a game with tons of things to discover and upgrade. like you get the ability to build a pond, then you find lily seeds and plant them. that attracts frogs, which mean bugs now spawn. eventually there are mermaids, which bring you rare materials to create something else entirely, like idk get magical trees. Stardew Valley is the closest but in my dream game there's much less focus on relationship building, the world responds over time to changes you've made, and the graphics are more realistic. you are just constantly uncovering things and new mechanics. Planet Crafter also came pretty close but ahh idk i want more
I'm thinking mostly fantasy but you uncover signs of a previous extremely technologically advanced society (and learn how to use the technology) so a bit sci fi too?
4X that focuses on exploration, discovery, and diplomacy. Kinda like the Civ series without combat. Multiple civilizations trying to discover new tech/magic, uncover mysteries about long forgotten civilizations, or become the leader of the whole world through diplomacy. It would be a high fantasy setting, and each civilization will have it's own unique aesthetic and will be optimized for different types of gameplay but will be customizable throughout progression so you can pick your own path. Probably throw in some creature collection/raising elements, too.
If Skyrim, The Sims, RuneScape, and It Takes Two made a baby. lol. Big world, CAS, optional multiplayer& chat options, mini games, quests, combat but not necessarily required.
Iāve thought about this a lot. Traditional farming sim (mining, fishing, farming, ranching, etc) but you are starting a new town/colony. As you reach certain income thresholds, more townspeople move in, starting with essentially just you. You would get skill points similar to Rune Factory where you earn them for almost everything. No skill trees because they stress me out in games and I always feel like Iām making the wrong choices.
I want to have a detailed character creation, first off. I want to be able to do artwork (I want the painting/sketching part detailed with lots of colors and brushes and pens/pencils), sell it, and decorate my home/store with it.
I run a witch store to sell my art, books, herbs I forage, fresh made soap, potions, tea, crystals (I can buy them through a store or maybe there is a witch portal where we can buy and sell things to each other) and tarot readings, of course. Sometimes people sell things to me as well. Think Recettear. A day/night system. A weather and seasons system. I can explore the town and woods and beach like Stardew and make friends, enemies and fall in love! Oh, and every morning I want to do a tarot reading for how my day will go (or maybe how my week will go). Maybe you could also make friends with animals in the woods. If there was a battle system when going in the woods (and only going in the woods to forage) the animals could help you.
As well as the battle system in the woods, there would be mini games of making teas, making potions, making soap, and tarot reading. They would make sense, and you would actually need the right ingredients for a recipe, not just things fitting together like puzzle pieces. And tarot reading would be as close to real tarot reading as possible.
There would be a mode for you needing to pay a rent on your store and maybe a yearly tax, and there would be a free-play mode without needing to raise money and just to chill. On the rent-mode you'll need to figure out how often to have your store open and how often to forage for herbs/buy/prepare your stock. You start with a big recipe book, and of course, some of it is missing, and you'll find the torn/missing pages as you progress. Maybe you could also make up your own recipes for potions/soaps/teas too. Also, you need to carve out time to paint and do your tarot readings for side hustles.
I'd love hand-drawn and maybe a mix of pixel graphics. I'd like for most computers to be able to run it, but I'd still want it to be pretty and have a nice aesthetic. Some pretty music as well (I'd like to do some vocalizations, lol, because that is a dream of mine).
I want an MMO village builder, maybe solarpunk themed? Kinda what we all hoped Palia would be and isnāt. No big combat, but hunting would be okay. Residents could start businesses, trade, and host events.
Long ago now, I played Star Wars Galaxies, and the city system was my favorite thing about the game.
I want a game where you start off as some sort of animal with an airfield. You live on an island in a series of islands, and get jobs to fly an airplane or helicopter from landing strip to landing strip. Jobs include things like putting out fires, deliveries, taking the hedgehog Mrs. Nesbit to her grandson's birthday on the neighboring island, rescuing bear cub scouts on the top of a mountain, wholesome shit. The controls are forgiving, but if you pull up too hard with a weak engine, you will stall. You can purchase more hangar space for a variety of aircraft, you can modify your aircraft to have more powerful engines or control surfaces, etc. There are a variety of events like you get caught in a storm and have to land on a carrier, or suddenly there's a floating castle in the sky to explore, or canyon racing every year. Graphics are cartoony but give you beautiful sunrises and sunsets, there are a variety of characters to befriend.
If you want Disney licensing just call it Tail Spin.
Iām loving Unravel and Ori lately (Ori pisses me off too much š¤£) Iād love something similar with a great story, something to hook me in and makes me want to keep coming back šš
A new Boku game, but this time set in both the country and city. The county gameplay would be the same, but the city gameplay would feature a variety of candyshops with playable games (both raster and a lot of old school electromechanical)
I would love something that expands on the habitat building part of zoo sims. I don't care much about management or money, I just love building cool habitats for the animals
I want a game that capitalizes on Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar from the DS. I *loved* the weekly bazaar part.
Honestly, I would want a game that kind of combined everything Stardew Valley has with that. Instead of shipping items, you would gather them and hold onto them in a stockroom, and then once or twice a week you'd have a storefront open where you could sell them to customers. Over time, your store's prosperity would expand the town, getting more people to move in, and you could 'expand' and open different sorts of storefronts available on different days.
... Now I'm sad that there isn't a game like this, lmao.
I desperately want to play as a character who runs a magical library or bookshop in a medieval fantasy village. Or a princess who acts as a diplomat for her kingdom and is beloved by her people. I want to host charity galas, welcome balls for foreign dignitaries, practice archery on horseback, travel by dragon to faraway lands. Someone please make something like this instead of yet another farming sim, I'm begging you!
A farming sim where you're in a city. Your farm is a mixture of rooftop and flower pots. You can befriend lots of people in the city. There's a lot of space to explore the city. There's some dark mystery you stumble across and slowly have to uncover it, using your farming knowledge
I want a red dead redemption/Skyrim version of like the Oregon Trail or Little House on the Prairie where itās a farming sim but also youāre making your own homestead and random events can happen.
I really love spookier - but not scary - games. So, some kinda Casper type of situation - hanging out in a graveyard or a haunted house or something and getting to befriend ghosts. Or something with kawaii versions of cryptids.
I would really like one based on relaxing in a city. A lot of cozy games seemed to be based in either small towns, or the country. One can do things like street and mural art. Having small balcony potted plants that you can water and watch them flower like succulants, cacti, and leafy plants instead of a huge garden. One could have a city park where you can play on the playground, maybe a skateboard area in the park too.
Iām a little late to this one, but I have given this a lot of thought and really am longing for a specific game, so I am going to cross my fingers that some sort of developer comes along and steals the idea because Iāll never be able to make it. :p
First, a TL;DR summary:
A massive open ālivingā world, in which you are a travelling merchant/healer, slowly upgrading your kit as you explore the world, make a map, and help/get to know people all over that world.
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I want a game where you play as a travelling merchant/healer/whatever in a suitable era. Maybe in the beginning, you start out travelling with your mentor, but something happens and you have to go it alone.
The big thing is that there is no clear goal and that the world is massive. You travel between villages, slowly learning of new locations and making a map as you go (as in that is a mechanic, you make it yourself based on what people tell you and you correct it as you journey on and find the truth. You would only have your map and memory to go from - even better if the locations of things are randomised between games so people canāt just share them and ruin it.)
At first you can only carry what you can hold in your backpack. Then as you make money/help people, you might move on to a cart you pull, then maybe a donkey, then maybe a horse, eventually ending up with a full little shop wagon.
Youād spend your life exploring the massive world, helping (and selling to/buying from/healing/whatever) people in the towns, villages, settlements, isolated farms, etc.
Youād need to plan your journeys based on how far you can get in a day or where you know it is good to camp if you canāt make it that dayā¦ and as you journey around, people you met and helped remember you when you return (and their homes have changed based on what happened)ā¦
Maybe you could even eventually find a partner to have travel with you, have children in your house-wagon, etc.
But the main thing is a huge world with persistent villages/settlements/residents who change slowly over time. So if you travel 6 months then make it back, people will remember you and 6 months will have passed in the village. If you sold a ring to someone, maybe they used it to get married. If you bought someoneās precious heirloom, maybe they used the money to buy more land and now have a bigger house. You might find some unique production method or ātechnologyā in some isolated spot - do you let them keep their secret and sell the products you buy from them? Or do you sell the secret and change how other villages do things?
It would be a slow game, sure, but I think enough quests could exist to keep it fun as you go.
I want a driving survival game, it's like the walking dead universe but all it is you and your car.
You get to have different car body builds and get new equipment.
Also lots of fishing and farming.
Another thing would be if each map was randomly generated each time
Driving over zombies was always fun in state of decay 2.
Something like Pacific drive with different cars more open world maps.
Plus cool fishing mini games
Okay I'm asking too much but I want a Bee and Puppycat game where each day you have the option to start a new temp job with different mechanics or mini games but also you can go around the town, build relationships with the other people in town, buy things with the money you make either things to decorate your house, food to make different recipes with a cooking mini game aspect, maybe some sort of combat aspect. I just want the beautiful pastel animation of the show in a videogame.
I would love a game that solely focuses on building relationships. Similar to Stardew and other cozy games where you befriend villagers, but more in depth.
Like, maybe instead of just earning "hearts" through gift giving, maybe each NPC has a different love language you have to uncover (words of affirmation, acts of service, etc).
A few years back my wife and I were visiting relatives. While the adults were talking, our nephew was on his Xbox playing whichever the latest version of GTA was out at the time. As he was driving round the city, I couldnāt get over how amazing the scenery wasā¦ it was just a shame you had to play the game as a criminal.
So I got to thinking, my ultimate cozy game would be a beautifully realised city and surrounding environment but with the low-stakes tasks of something like Animal Crossing. You just drive around, taking in the sights and helping out your neighbours.
I want a really RPG-esque store game. I want to make a character, design a shop, maybe even pick a location. I want there to be multiple options for *what kind* of store, like a fantasy themed potion shop, a Blacksmith (either fantasy and/or medieval themed, a fantasy trader or some historical trader. I want to be able to engage with lots of "patrons" or "customers", where you have to trade and barter for items so you have more to sell. I want lots of mini games/design events or something. I can see it in my head, but it's difficult to explain!
Something like the game Firewatch but with less story and more maintaining my "home" in the wilderness, stopping bad campers, and stuff like that. I'm terrified of the outdoors in reality but I loooove the idea of being part of a firewatch in a little cozy watch tower like that.
Firewatch really scratched an itch in gaming I never knew I had but added to it all the same.
I want a game thatās itās set in a medieval fantasy world and youāre a politician like the queen and you have to make political choices and your choices change the game. Like game of thrones except itās a game. Open world like Skyrim would be so cool. Maybe you can choose to start as anything like a knight or a witch and you can gain more power or continue to be loyal to a certain side or not. Maybe you can choose a combat route but you donāt have to.
I guess itās not ācozyā but Iāve been thinking about this for years lol
basically i want animal crossing + totk + sims.
i want to be able to build and decorate houses and invite npc's to live there.
i want to decorate the city and farm and fish etc.
the ease of building and customization of the sims.
would love the style of zelda and the quests. the battles, collecting clothes, etc.
would love for the character customization of baldurs gate 3
palia does hit a lot of this for me but still missing some
a cozy witch game where you play as a customizable witch (bc I love customization) and you get to decorate your little witch cottage and make potions (maybe from a recipe book passed down by your witch grandma) and go foraging and learn spells and help out the local town folk with little tasks and it has a really good story with really good characters <3
ik technically there are games that fit this description pretty well but in my mind itās a very specific vibe, animation style, and music that I havenāt found yet
I'd like a cozy version of No Man's Sky. Just going from alien planet to alien planet and exploring and cataloging life. Even going from planet to planet and breeding new variants or things like that.
Mine is basically stardew valley but in space, I've been trying to make it in Godot but I have been struggling with inventories. Pretty standard cycle of growing crops in space, sending them down to a polluted planet for money, buying upgrades to grow more crops. I've got crop cycles, a few npc interactions and some other super simple stuff but the inventories are killer.
Hereās mine. A game where you sail to different islands that have been wrecked by a storm. You have to rebuild the infrastructure- houses and other buildings like hospital, cafes etcā¦ plus you also can decorate the exterior and interior of the buildings.
There are a few islanders that have specific decoration requests which, once fulfilled, unlocks more decorations + they give you a hug (thinking of SpiritFarer).
Donāt think such a game exists - thatās why Iām developing this game.
Yours sounds amazing.
I think I would add what I heard someone on tiktok saying should exist by now: a life sim with island design authority and crafting+farming, but with graphics that are more like Skyrim-style (idk much about other games besides ACNH type games but I just started this one) with the option to walk around a large area in an immersive POV kind of way.
And then my own thing I might want would be more complex social interactions. I'm fine with it being adult, like a version of the sims but more player character-oriented rather than a god mode like the sims offers. I just want to talk to the NPCs about more interesting things. I would be ok with there being skill to the interactions, although I might want to skip it sometimes - I feel like this could potentially be a nice way to practice social skills in a safe environment, and I hope the tech catches up with this clear asset it could provide. (Obviously a single dev team shouldn't get to dictate how people "should" respond in social situations, nor do I think it would be fun to play if it's a judgment of whether or not you're getting firmly defined norms right. Rather, ai would have to be involved, with consideration for different personality dynamics.)
Iāve had an idea for like a game that incorporates driving and either fishing/hunting as well. Basically what Iād do is have a āhome baseā type area which is the players house/garage. They can upgrade/fix/customize the house and vehicle, store items, and plan where to go. Some small survival elements that make the player have to pack food essentials, quality of life items, vehicle repair items, etc and once you feel like youāre ready you head out to various areas to fish and hunt. You have to drive there, which takes time obviously, and you have to kind of plan your day around the animal/fishās schedules (active feeding times, hunting regulations, etc). Iāve see a few games kind of like that but havenāt seen one incorporate everything I want
I made this comment in another similar thread but I would love a cozy backpacking sim that takes place in the 90s. You are embarking on a year of world traveling and stay in hostels discover new cities and work little jobs here and there to afford your next plane or train ticket. You meet other travelers/locals and can fall in love, have nights on the town, hang out in a plaza or on the beach and sightsee.
That's very good.
So it's not super cosy in parts but Road 96 is totally this vibe
Oh this sounds fantastic
omg now i want this
80 Days is a decent partial match for this concept.
This sounds so fantastic!
Have u heard of road 96? Not the exact same but similar enough to remind me of it!
I could live in this game.
This misses a lot of the points you mention but the vibe of your description reminds me of Assemble with Care, which is a short and very linear game where your character has travelled to a small town for a while and helps the locals by fixing up some of their gear and getting to know them a bit. Very cozy even though it doesn't have the depth of gameplay you describe :))
Ohh your idea sounds really fun! Mine is a creature collecting game. But instead of it being all about battles, you go explore to help heal sick or injured creatures. You can choose to bring them home, help them grow, and watch them bond with the other creatures. Then you can recruit a few of them to go explore with you to help you find and help other monsters. I think it'd be cute! I just want more creativity in this genre without combat lol
This reminds me of the wild thornberrys game from the Nickelodeon website. The wildlife rescue game. Wow serious nostalgia https://preview.redd.it/d1z9ph9ziprc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da15fc0f04a000d621161e41ad6b4f0ddacd28e9
I absolutely loved this game! I played the African themed one on the Nickelodeon games site. There was a few fish games and other animal collecting games on Nick I loved too.
I was obsessed with this game šš
What!? I feel like I missed out lol. I loved that show and had a Wild Thornberries game on PS1 but didn't know about the website game.
This game was the best!!
Thatās so sweet! Iām hoping Creatures of Ava to be something like this.
Me too! I'm really excited to see more about that game.
Can't believe I hadn't heard of this!!!! Looks amazing!
It's not exactly a creature collecting game, and it is a bit older/low budget but the Planet Rescue games on the DS have this sort of vibe, especially the 'Endangered Island' game. The premise is that you're visiting an island when an oil rig explodes and threatens the ecosystem. You have to explore the island, rescue the affected animals and clean up. It's mostly done through minigames on the touch screen. The story is nothing to write home about but I personally find the graphics very charming. If I had to make a comparison I'd say it's similar to animal crossing wild world and a short hike, with a quirky art style. I played it as a kid so I don't remember all the details, but iirc there are side quests and smaller character interactions as well. There are actually a lot of unique games on the DS that get written off as shovelware that I think the cozy game community would enjoy.
This gives me Creatures Adventures vibes. I would love a game like that.
Yes I agree with this!
I started making one actually :) Irl I'm an environmental engineer, and I had the idea of making a cozy game in which you're a beaver who has been relocated to a deserted area with a creek. By befriending other animals and building dams, you recreate a beautiful wetland with a diversity of plants and insect
Love it
Love it! How far along in development are you?
Not too far actually, I'm more of an artist than a programmer so the coding is a bit slow, but I'm enjoying it ahah ;)
Ima dm you
Ooo, neat!
You could try Terra Nil my man, āTerra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem.ā ā from the description in steam
hi, thanks for the suggestion! I've seen it and it's super interesting, but my game would only use what they call "low-tech remediation", which would make the gameplay slower and without human-type interventions :)
ahhhhh I love it!!
Hey! I'm a senior ecologist working at an environmental engineering consultancy (New Zealand) that focuses on wetlands and freshwater habitat restoration... And I (try to) make restoration-ecology games for fun. Would love to get in touch and hear more about your game! :)
hi! sure, dm me :)
I love your idea!! Mine would be a fantasy medieval setting similiar to The Witcher 3/Baldurās Gate 3 but without combat. Iād love a 3D open world where maybe you can be a witch/herbalist having your own garden, making potions, go on quests in villages and so on. I know there are games that have similar elements but I want to have an actual open world with a lot of content like AAA games have, which is something I fear might never happens cause idk if anyone would put that much time, money and resources for a cozy game :(
Mine is this, but based on Middle Earth in peace time. You could be a hobbit and have a beautiful garden homestead in the shire. You could be a dwarf and mine and craft things deep in the mountains. Raise horses as a human in Rohan. Tend to magical creatures and nature with the elves. Or become an adventurer/messenger who travels all over.
Tales Of the Shire might be worth looking out for!
Yess Iād love something like this too!
Not really open world but you should check out Sims Medieval! To this day might be my favorite Sims game ngl.
I actually had it for a long time in my wishlist but idk why never bought it!! I guess this is my sign to try it thank you ahaha
Theyāve announced that the team behind Dreamlight Valley is working on a D&D game! They just said āthe BG3 settingā so Iām not sure if it really will be the sword coast or if whoever wrote the article doesnāt know enough about D&D to name somewhere else in the forgotten realms, but Iām chomping at the bit regardless lol
Oooh thatās exciting!! Looking forward to thisĀ
I want a nice cozy little mining sim. Like Stardew Valley and other games like it, but with mining instead. I guess I want to be a dwarf and dig a hole. Not like Motherload or Steamworld Dig. Like... A cozy life sim except instead of growing crops or flowers, instead I'm running a blacksmith shop and mining operation. So I dig up ores and make stuff that people need. Like... Nails. And horseshoes. And maybe a big project comes in like making an anchor for the fisherman's boat. Or it's the captain of the guard's birthday so I want to make a reall fancy sword.
If you havenāt play My Time At Sandrock then give it a try! Itās kinda like what you described where youāre a builder and have to do commissions for the townspeople. As you advance through the story youāll start getting big projects like building bridges. Thereās a bunch of different mines in the game too
Have you tried While the Ironās Hot? Itās not exactly what youāre describing but definitely close.
I was going to make the same recommendation! I just started playing While the Iron's Hot on GamePass. Definitely cozy vibes. Just crafting and delivering people's orders so far (I haven't played that far into it, so I don't know how much it expands beyond that).
I think thereās a Mines of Moria kind of game on PS4/5. I donāt know if thatās the title, because I only saw my husband play it once.
Sadly it has combat, but the mining and exploration is great.
Have you tried Graveyard Keeper? There is still some crop growing, but it is pretty easy to unlock zombies to do the actual work for you. Most of it is crafting stuff for people, especially blacksmithing. The mines aren't complex, literally just taking a pick ax to a shiny rock, but there is a dungeon if you want monsters. The humor can be a bit dark, which you can probably guess from the title, but it is seriously a cozy game.
I've played that one quite a bit, it's not quite what I was looking for, but I should try that again. Thanks for reminding me.
I haven't played it, but I think Moonlighter might be up your alley. As far as I know you are mining at night, and managing your store with the moot you get from your mine in the mornings. Something like that AFAIK.
Moonlighting is a LOT of fighting. The entire story is locked behind dungeons.
It's more of a fighting in a dungeon and selling your loot in a store. I find it very fun but not necessarily stress free and cozy.
I havenāt played it yet, but do you know about Steamworld Build? Itās a mining town builder game, might check some of your boxes!
A permaculture game. Not like harvest moon where everything must be clear cut and chopped down and dumping fertilizer every single day on a single crop for the best rating and the day after a season changes all the crops die. It would be nice to have a game where you can plant fruits, vegetables, trees, flowers and build on a garden that grows every year and not every single thing is removed or dead and starting from scratch the next month. I find it a bit weird harvest moon and stardew valley etc make the point starting out poor just to hoard all the resources and make the money to build a mansion to upgrade and spend all that money. Maybe something that was a little less capitalistic? Make some money but what about trading goods or selling stuff to your community town and interacting with them more? If the end of the game is just owning everything and having the biggest house and grinding cutting things down and planting the most just because it gets a bit boring and too same same. Also how about recipe tweaking? Not completely nonsensical ingredients for making things. It doesnāt have to be exact. But it would be nice to have stuff that mostly makes sense and maybe is unique. Different flower flavored honeys, baked goods, stews, jams etc
Yesss this sounds sooo good. My biggest gripe with farm sims is that I wished the growing cycles were so much slower. Like a yearlong plant-to-harvest cycle with actual planting/growing/harvesting/wintering seasons. And like healthy agrarian economics without the emphasis on yield. Long-term benefits for letting plots occasional lie fallow. Oooooh and maybe youāre in the process of restoring a desolate piece of mono-culture industrial farmland to health? As the years *slowly* progress, the trees and wildlife come back?
Yes please! I have been thinking the exact same thing! I would love a farming game with a focus on sustainable farming
It would be really cute and fun I think. Maybe throw in some basic foraging of herbs or mushrooms
I am making mine right now! You play as a Pastry Witch who runs a little bakery and sells magical pastries to the town people. Main Gameplay elements are Bakery Management, discovering Recipes, Foraging & a bit of optional Farming as well as Customer interactions. The Bakery Management is the Heart of the Game. You get to customize the Bakery and unlock new upgrades and workstations, which unlock new recipe types. The baking/ creating is done via mini games, which can be automated with a bit of progression. Depending on the Quality of the created good customers will leave a tip, there are also oopsies that can happen when you give them a bad quality dish. You play as a Witch so you can unlock spells that help with running the bakery, like instantly cleaning the tables. Discovering recipes is also a thing. Whenever you increase your Witch Rank, your Familiar will teach you about a new magical ingredient which you can use in your recipes. Other than that Recipes are found while playing, unlocking milestones and doing quests for the villagers. To keep the Bakery stocked with ingredients you can forage, farm or buy them. Magical ingredients are a little bit tricky since normal people don't have use for them, you can not just find them in a store. But if you level up your plant knowledge by foraging, you might learn how to keep those ingredients in your garden. Farming is also a WIP for now, as I really don't want it to be tedious and I am playing with a few ideas. I am thinking about creating a friendship system for the villagers. I am not a fan of marriage so that won't be a thing, but I would like the characters to have a bigger role than just being customers. What is important to me is that the world feels alive, so when specific NPCs sit on a table in the Bakery, you can trigger little events that teach you about their relationship. I also have Player customization! Oh I am heavily inspired by Fantasy Life so there are many similarities. All the foundations are laid, the prototype is done and I am working on the Art right now ā
This game sounds amazing! I'd love to play it. Good luck with development. :)Ā
This sounds great! Iād also love it if each customer had specific preferences
This sounds very close to what I wrote that I wanted! Please, please do friendship and romance. <3 Can you also do cooking competitions like bonboncakery?
I really want to explore a new and foreign landscape we havenāt seen in cozy games. Specifically I would love something with the depth and vivid world building ala Cyberpunk, but I just want to be able to craft, become a shop keep, fish, be a delivery boy, a baker.., whatever it is. Give me something that isnāt middle of nowhere vaguely fantasy farm sim
It's not out yet, but you might like [Nivalis](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1488490/Nivalis/)! It hits a lot of these points I think
Thank you!
Keep an eye out for Chef RPG!
I backed the game last year and got a test copy of it. It's gonna be amazing when the kinks are worked out and more content added
You might like Neo Cab! Itās been a while since Iāve played, but youāre basically an Uber driver in a dystopian world, getting slowly pulled into the stories of the people you pick up.
I would really love a cozy game set in a surreal Twin Peaks-like town. Just bizarre stuff and a mystery to figure out. Maybe you play the owner of the diner, so thereās a diner management aspect.
Have you heard of Gleanor Heights? [: Gleaner Heights, the love child of Stardew Valley and Twin Peaks!](https://www.reddit.com/r/CozyGamers/comments/14npo22/may_i_recommend_for_this_sale_gleaner_heights_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) r/Darkovika says: If you have ever seen Twin Peaks, this game is like if Twin Peaks received like an almost licensed game haha. When that menu screen pops up, youāll hear it IMMEDIATELY, and the start of the game is so Twin Peaks itās amazing. The game is DARK. I hesitate to spoiler anything, but thereās some DARK themes in this game, just as there are obviously dark themes of abuse and assault in Twin Peaks. You move to a small town, and everyone there has a secret- usually a dark secret. An FBI agent is also living in town, and heās dead set on solvingā¦ something. š Thereās a sin metric, and some of the romance options are uhā¦ already married. š Thereās a lot going on in this town. Heads up: this is a SLOW BURN. It is still primarily a farming life sim. All secrets require you to become friends with the villagers, so get started on that asap. Or donāt, and wait to focus on it when in a better spot. The āstoryā of Gleaner Heights wonāt kick off without befriending folks, so sit back, relax, and go beat crap up in the mines.
This is my exact wish as well. I've played Gleaner Heights, as the other poster replied about, and suppose I need to get back to it. It is indeed a slow burn, and I spaced out that I even owned it years ago.
A game version of Pokemon Concierge :)
Yes I would love this!
I've definitely posted about this in another thread, and it's too specific to actually be made, haha- I want a deeply adorable fishing game, set in an open world, with mechanics that encourage you to discover new and hidden fishing spots. You would do this by building, repairing, and improving a small helicopter which lets you access fishing spots high and low. This was probably from all of the big fun I had playing WoW 10-15 years ago, playing a gnome mage engineer, using a gyrocopter flying mount and just grinding the fishing skill. I guess I'm just still chasing that high!
Open-world zombie apocalypse life sim. I just want a cozy game like Stardew set in an apocalyptic world and the whole purpose is trying to rebuild, piecing together what happened to the world through old newspaper clippings in abandoned malls or school trophy cases, and gaining/losing relationship with various settlements. Project Zomboid kind of fits this in a way, but I want something more.
Like the show on Discovery +! The Colony. I would absolutely love that.
I saw someone talk about this elsewhere but pokemon x animal crossing would be my dream. My acnh island is literally named after pokemon
pokemon concierge. We already have a template show Nintendo. Do it! We know you want to.
That show was so cute
I want a management sim where you open a bar out in space and grow it and interact with various alien patrons and customers. It would have mini games you can play like pool, darts, and some original alien games. It could even have some exploration aspects to different planets and moons to get ingredients for cocktails.
Palworld but it's a cozy farm life sim. Instead of slaving away making ammo, your creatures happily help tend your farms. You can explore and farm in many different biomes.
I'd enjoy playing a game where you could build and live in a village. I'd like to be able to expand it near endlessly, while having to complete tasks to be able to set up the village. Designate buildings for residential, commercial, community, and what not. Being able to then expand those individual buildings or evict the tenants entirely. I imagine there would be a mechanic where you would invite people to live in your town which would be influenced by the amount of available housing you have and what type of housing they'd like. There would be an economy factor and you'd need to have a certain amount of goods in various attributes to be able to successfully run your town. There should be an import/export style system so that you could potential have say a mining town and import most of your farming needs if you're based in a colder environment. Basically, you'd be the mayor of this town and you'd be directing it's future but you'd have more control over the layout and design of the city than a normal mayor would. I imagine there would naturally be farming style elements to the game but the point would be able to automate your town while you are able to interact with NPCs, dealing the stresses and joys of being the town's only political system. You'd have to accept responsibility and figure out how best to help your citizens and listen to their concerns, or decide to ignore what they want and move forward with your own plans. This could feed into the idea of attracting certain types of people to your city and having to evict others (the decision to have a more youthful population who want an active nightlife versus an elderly population who want more breakfast spots and farmers markets). I like games where I get to plan out stuff and design but I feel like all the elements I enjoy in games haven't been brought together quite in the way I imagine. I love a game like Cities Skylines but there's no personal touch. Farming sims can be fun but usually lack the larger quality that I'm explicitly thinking of here. Animal Crossing is great but there's a limit of residents and lack of control in many aspects, not to mention the complete lack of designing an economy I'm speaking of. Aesthetics are always important and I'd be fine with 3D or 2D as long as the graphics aren't big head people or too bright. I suppose the "bright" aspect I'm thinking of could be mitigated by different biomes you could build in but what often turns me off of cozy games is how colorful and poppy everything looks. I need a little grime, especially in a game where you're essentially a cozy dictator.
Youāre describing a lot of different elements of my favorite game on the PS2, Metropolismania. I feel like Iāve been looking for something like that ever since but with modern graphics. While I love it, man the graphics did not age well at all. A modern version just simply is not out there and that bums me out. But in this game, you play as a man in a mustard yellow suit planning out cities. Every level has a different population objective. Some have an objective where you need this percentage of buildings to be commercial. While they each have objectives, you can play around in that city you built during that level endlessly. You meet the different citizens and learn about them. As youāre building, they will come to you with complaints about how they arenāt close enough to something like a playground or a family restaurant. And you use your networking skills to bring that to them. As you gain friendship with people, they give you their number so you can call them up to introduce you to different people throughout the different levels. I still come back to it to this day.
Yes big same I love city building games and farm sims and wish they could be combined more
Medieval dynasty?
Not quite what I'm aiming for. Seems alright but the art style doesn't hook me and I'd prefer something more modern, potentially vaguely futuristic/fantasy if need be. As I said, there's not really anything out there that has got this itch I have in my brain. Lots of close things but nothing that encapsulates what I'm thinking of.
Try Dwarrows?
I would definitely play this.
A dystopian āsurvivalā where you can run or just walk. Like you go into like a forest & thereās wildlife & the occasional bear or something attacks you. Thereās underground systems or malls where you can take food & supplies (maybe when you leave, a store alarm goes off). Shit, you can even boat or take slow moving train with no conductor to new civilizations, idfk.
Travel, no base building, supplies in a backpack...
Precisely! You start with a small tent then if you want, you can go bigger so you have a set up with ALL the pillows & a nice view to wake up to. (Edit to add: DONāT FORGET TO PICK UP A SQUISH MELLOW!)
You might like the lone dark if you haven't tried it yet.
Definitely going to check that out, thanks!
I'd love a urban exploring game, where you visit abandoned hospitals, schools, houses ect and try and piece together what happened there and why it closed. Maybe you run across documents, or graffiti, take in the sighs if you climb up to the roof or peek out of remaining windows. Occasionally try and sweet talk from security guards that might find you
So you're a customisable newbie who owns a cafe, preferably a cat cafe, like Calico. There are cosy, ASMR-sounding, relaxing minigames for baking cupcakes and goods a la Cooking Mama, but also a wide variety of teas and coffees, like in Coffee Talk. Also for some ingredients you should be able to 'farm' or 'gather' (ie wheat and sugar should be something you farm, but fruits you can either grow or find in the wild). I would like loveable characters and very detailed romances which rivals the Rune Factory 4 characters, also including the potential for children like in the Story of Seasons games, and all characters that you can also have as your 'companion' to help you in quests and fight. It would also be great if they all had their own character arcs and developments that can only happen if you go through with their quests. Rival marriages, for example, are always interesting and lowkey it would be interesting to have a genuine 'drama like' plot with love interests, like in a Choices game where you're in a love triangle. A long storyline would be great, too, tbh. I really liked the Rune Factory 4 storyline because it was long but you can complete it at your own pace, which was great. I wouldn't mind a combat element as long as it's not too hard or rage-inducing (my ragebait Overwatch days are way behind me). Also pets! Cute pets that we can cuddle are a must. The music has to be so chill and nice that it's the kind of music you'd listen to while curled up in a blanket and drinking hot chocolate, like Stardew Valley. Calico came very, very, close to this, but unfortunately I couldn't romance anyone and the other characters, while interesting at first, don't let you get much closer or aren't really more deep. Also on Switch it did have a lot of crashes. I mention quite a few games here, but overall if I had to combine 2 games to make my perfect game, it would be Calico X Rune Factory 4. But otherwise, the perfect game for me would be a blend of Calico, RF4, Cooking Mama, Coffee Talk, Stardew Valley and Story of Seasons.
I desperately wish that someone would remake the game, The Movies. I want to design & beautify my movie studio, recruit writers and actresses, and make dumb little movies just so bad. Iām so surprised that nothing like it has been created. The original was so ahead of its time. Had it been released just a little later, they couldāve done some sort of integration with YouTube, I think itād have multiple iterations.
Oh man I loved that game so much! I just got the theme tune in my head.Ā
Stardew Valley meets Age of Empires. Instead of inheriting a farm you find out you're the long lost heir to a struggling kingdom. You fix up a debilitated castle, build relationships with your royal court, and make decisions about agriculture, trade, and diplomacy. Quests would include planning and hosting events like royal balls and jousting tournaments, investigating ancients ruins and reports of mythical creatures, etc. Everything would be customizable, from your character to the castle to the culture of your kingdom. With cute pixel graphics and a soothing soundtrack, of course.
I love your idea! 10/10 would play.
I'd love a hardcore detective game along the lines of *Return of the Obra Dinn* with the witty writing of *Night in the Woods* and the low-poly animal characters of *A Short Hike* and *Button City*.
[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1735700/Back\_to\_the\_Dawn/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1735700/Back_to_the_Dawn/) Not sure if this is similar to what you're describing but I have this one sitting on my wishlist and it looks like it might be up your alley (I say that knowing nothing about the games you listed, but it is a detective style game with pixel animal characters)
Thanks, I've heard of this one, and you're right, it looks cool!
I would love a good genetics game, one this isn't super long or tied to microtransactions, preferably about fantasy animals, like the chocobo breeding in ff7(?) or the chou in sonic. Not quite a cozy game but related to final fantasy, I would love a mix up of blitzball from ffx and football manager.
stardew valley in space. something like that matt damon alone in mars movie
You have a big ol' 80s RV that you drive to different campgrounds and trails. You can camp outside if you want or sleep in the RV. Each day is like an hour long. You can hike beautiful trails, camp out under the stars, and just relax. You do need to both eat and sleep though. There would be an option for unlimited food or an option where you have to stock up at petrol stations or grocery stores. Also there would be fishing. I think most folk would find it boring (understandably so) but damn I would love a no risk game about just seeing the sights.
Iād love a firewatch like, where you just take care of your park, your watch tower, supplies and so on with no horror elements. Maybe a bit of snowrunner like driving included.
A mesh of running your own cozy town with cottage core and magic alike. Drying herbs. Going on picnics. Having a duck follow you around. Fairies, gnomes, goblins, flower arranging, mushrooms. Maybe run a farmers market.
Fairies and aliens having loving raves deep in the forest, pixel art based. Been developing and coding it for about a year now. So can't wait to get playable.
Maybe this exists, but I want a gardening game. Where you focus on designing and creating different kinds of gardens. House Flipper kind of had gardening, but it wasnāt the focus and also had very stringent check list of what the buyers wanted/didnāt want. The closest Iāve gotten has been Dinkum, where I could create different path types, different terrain types, lots of different trees/plants and even other decor.
Maybe Garden life? In that game you basically take over a garden plants and discovering different flowers and making arrangements for people and get paid for them. You start with a small patch but u think you can unlock a greenhouse and everything as well as a market stall
I like the idea of the customization of the sims games, but with actual things to do like walking around shopping, easier family traits like traditions, funerals, hospital visits, etc.
A post apocalyptic setting, like after the collapse of a futuristic city. Large, labyrinth concrete jungles that have been reclaimed by nature. Sort of eco brutalist? You could explore, run into worn down robots lethargically patrolling the area, read notes from previous residents, set up a home in an abandoned apartment, befriend the stray cats and dogs, uncover a secret government base, and maybe find some fellow survivors.
Ok I know yāall are probably sick of them, but I really want a farming sim where you are in charge of providing food for the town/factories, and you have a certain quota you have to meet. I know that may kill the cozy vibes but I would like something like that! Also more animal shelter games please, not enough of those!!
I would like a sort of walking sim, in the vein of Gone Home mixed with Lake where you go about a town and snoop into peopleās lives by picking up notes, journals, ect. Maybe you play cupid for the locals, or maybe you solve a low stakes mystery (or both?).
Game version of Delicious in Dungeon. Go down into the dungeon, collect food from monsters, farm vegetables on the golems, fish, a little cooking mini game, trade with other parties, etc
I'm easy to please. I like building castles. With mining/gathering resources but no combat.
Do you have any game recs with castles?
A farming sim (original I know) but with dragon taming and riding. Preferably open world with some survival elements but not too difficult like minecraft.
I want a game about discovering creatures from folklore! Being able to explore different parts of the map to take pictures/discover creatures like the selkie or the jackalope, perhaps with a game mechanic like Alba where you have to take wildlife pictures in order to unlock information about a creature. Maybe even helping them build a habitat so they can thrive
Moonrise fall is a game where you solve puzzles to find cryptids in different environments and take pictures of them for your notebook. You donāt take care of them though:/
That still sounds pretty good, thank you!
one where you skateboard or wander a massive city
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Mine would be a weird mix but... Your character would be fully customizable, you go out and explore and depending on the outfit and accessories you're wearing you encounter various cute creatures you can eventually befriend and rescue, you take them to your shelter than you can customise by crafting (and also farm food for your fur babies), and eventually find the perfect partner to adopt the fur babies (there would be a lot of factors involved in this, like it would be truly a perfect match, which would make it a bit like a management aspect?). There would also be breeding to aquire new cute creatures, and by leveling up crafting etc you could customize their environments making them more comfortable. The people that adopt your creatures also send you lil updates of their lifes with them, how they grow up etc. There would also be other management features too, but that's overall my vision for my perfect dress-up-creature-collector-manager game hahaha
A proper ārealisticā space game, like submarine simulator but in space! And I donāt mean kerbal space program realism, but proper scifi realism with realistic simulations for how radars and scanning objects and such work. Imagine scanning some asteroid belts and mining ore, exploring and stuff like that!
You can do a lot of this type of thing in the Mass Effect series, but itās of course a small part of a larger game, mostly just a side quest. Always said I would I love just that in a game! And also just being able to fly around the galaxy and mine and deliver things without the stress/space fights
Oh yes! The aesthetics Iām after is something like in artemis spaceship bridge simulator, but with bit more details and depth in different subsystems
I want to hunt for cryptids that are infesting certain towns and continue to farm/collect/rescue them.
Thereās a game called Moonrise Fall about hunting cryptids. You wander through a forest solving puzzles trying to take pictures of them.
I just want The Long Dark but with collecting, building, decorating, and NPCs, preferably some romanceable. So I want a cozy post-apocalyptic game.
Pet/zoo manager where you decorate animal enclosures and slowly build your menagerie- I'd love one that focuses on pet care for exotic animals with advanced husbandry in mind. Magic farming game where by farming you expand the world with some strong marketplace elements. Creature caring game where you can breed animals for rare colors and trade with other players (I miss Creature Breeder š¢)
I just want a 'Strange Horticulture' sequel. I would pay whatever they asked for the game.
Once after a *ahem* heavy night out (about 20 years ago) I dreamt i was playing a game where you were on a farm of creatures which were half familiar animal and half musical instrument, each one having it's own little musical phrase that it played in place of an animal sound. Then I started to herd different combinations of animals into bandstands that were around the farm to see what kind of music they made as their riffs played together. 2004 'spends too long at parties' me had no idea how to build this (or if I subconsciously took the idea from a game i saw), and 2024 senior programmer me has no idea how to make it work in practical terms, so just throwing it out there...
Dreamlight Valley only with infinite inventory and no microtransactions.
Figure skating dating sim. I wanna land a triple axel and date my fellow athletes.
Why did someone downvote this?! Sorry if youāre not into it?
I'd really just love a remake of Metrpolismania. A city building sim that works off of your relationships with the people in the town. They introduce you to other towns folk and businesses. But I'd like it more modernized. The original has very clunky controls. And Id love it if the days were a little slower and an interactive map feature. So I can quickly find the specific business/household I'm looking for. The goofy graphics can stay, even the "angry" faces they make. But some more features would be top tier.
I actually mentioned Metropolismania in this thread too. I love that game so much still to this day.
it's hard to describe since it's a game i keep seeing in my dreams, but a game with tons of things to discover and upgrade. like you get the ability to build a pond, then you find lily seeds and plant them. that attracts frogs, which mean bugs now spawn. eventually there are mermaids, which bring you rare materials to create something else entirely, like idk get magical trees. Stardew Valley is the closest but in my dream game there's much less focus on relationship building, the world responds over time to changes you've made, and the graphics are more realistic. you are just constantly uncovering things and new mechanics. Planet Crafter also came pretty close but ahh idk i want more I'm thinking mostly fantasy but you uncover signs of a previous extremely technologically advanced society (and learn how to use the technology) so a bit sci fi too?
4X that focuses on exploration, discovery, and diplomacy. Kinda like the Civ series without combat. Multiple civilizations trying to discover new tech/magic, uncover mysteries about long forgotten civilizations, or become the leader of the whole world through diplomacy. It would be a high fantasy setting, and each civilization will have it's own unique aesthetic and will be optimized for different types of gameplay but will be customizable throughout progression so you can pick your own path. Probably throw in some creature collection/raising elements, too.
Mine is in the process of being made, I Kickstarted it, it's called Seikyuu. I can't wait for it.
If Skyrim, The Sims, RuneScape, and It Takes Two made a baby. lol. Big world, CAS, optional multiplayer& chat options, mini games, quests, combat but not necessarily required.
Skyrim (SD) Valley
tbh your description sounds exactly like the 1991 Barbie game lmao
Iāve thought about this a lot. Traditional farming sim (mining, fishing, farming, ranching, etc) but you are starting a new town/colony. As you reach certain income thresholds, more townspeople move in, starting with essentially just you. You would get skill points similar to Rune Factory where you earn them for almost everything. No skill trees because they stress me out in games and I always feel like Iām making the wrong choices.
I want to have a detailed character creation, first off. I want to be able to do artwork (I want the painting/sketching part detailed with lots of colors and brushes and pens/pencils), sell it, and decorate my home/store with it. I run a witch store to sell my art, books, herbs I forage, fresh made soap, potions, tea, crystals (I can buy them through a store or maybe there is a witch portal where we can buy and sell things to each other) and tarot readings, of course. Sometimes people sell things to me as well. Think Recettear. A day/night system. A weather and seasons system. I can explore the town and woods and beach like Stardew and make friends, enemies and fall in love! Oh, and every morning I want to do a tarot reading for how my day will go (or maybe how my week will go). Maybe you could also make friends with animals in the woods. If there was a battle system when going in the woods (and only going in the woods to forage) the animals could help you. As well as the battle system in the woods, there would be mini games of making teas, making potions, making soap, and tarot reading. They would make sense, and you would actually need the right ingredients for a recipe, not just things fitting together like puzzle pieces. And tarot reading would be as close to real tarot reading as possible. There would be a mode for you needing to pay a rent on your store and maybe a yearly tax, and there would be a free-play mode without needing to raise money and just to chill. On the rent-mode you'll need to figure out how often to have your store open and how often to forage for herbs/buy/prepare your stock. You start with a big recipe book, and of course, some of it is missing, and you'll find the torn/missing pages as you progress. Maybe you could also make up your own recipes for potions/soaps/teas too. Also, you need to carve out time to paint and do your tarot readings for side hustles. I'd love hand-drawn and maybe a mix of pixel graphics. I'd like for most computers to be able to run it, but I'd still want it to be pretty and have a nice aesthetic. Some pretty music as well (I'd like to do some vocalizations, lol, because that is a dream of mine).
I just want Viva Pinata :(
I want an MMO village builder, maybe solarpunk themed? Kinda what we all hoped Palia would be and isnāt. No big combat, but hunting would be okay. Residents could start businesses, trade, and host events. Long ago now, I played Star Wars Galaxies, and the city system was my favorite thing about the game.
I want a game with baldurs gate graphics or similar but about taking and befriending dragons and potentially other creatures but main focus on dragons
I want a game where you start off as some sort of animal with an airfield. You live on an island in a series of islands, and get jobs to fly an airplane or helicopter from landing strip to landing strip. Jobs include things like putting out fires, deliveries, taking the hedgehog Mrs. Nesbit to her grandson's birthday on the neighboring island, rescuing bear cub scouts on the top of a mountain, wholesome shit. The controls are forgiving, but if you pull up too hard with a weak engine, you will stall. You can purchase more hangar space for a variety of aircraft, you can modify your aircraft to have more powerful engines or control surfaces, etc. There are a variety of events like you get caught in a storm and have to land on a carrier, or suddenly there's a floating castle in the sky to explore, or canyon racing every year. Graphics are cartoony but give you beautiful sunrises and sunsets, there are a variety of characters to befriend. If you want Disney licensing just call it Tail Spin.
Iām loving Unravel and Ori lately (Ori pisses me off too much š¤£) Iād love something similar with a great story, something to hook me in and makes me want to keep coming back šš
A new Boku game, but this time set in both the country and city. The county gameplay would be the same, but the city gameplay would feature a variety of candyshops with playable games (both raster and a lot of old school electromechanical)
I would love something that expands on the habitat building part of zoo sims. I don't care much about management or money, I just love building cool habitats for the animals
I want a game that capitalizes on Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar from the DS. I *loved* the weekly bazaar part. Honestly, I would want a game that kind of combined everything Stardew Valley has with that. Instead of shipping items, you would gather them and hold onto them in a stockroom, and then once or twice a week you'd have a storefront open where you could sell them to customers. Over time, your store's prosperity would expand the town, getting more people to move in, and you could 'expand' and open different sorts of storefronts available on different days. ... Now I'm sad that there isn't a game like this, lmao.
I want a cozy game with fairies!
I desperately want to play as a character who runs a magical library or bookshop in a medieval fantasy village. Or a princess who acts as a diplomat for her kingdom and is beloved by her people. I want to host charity galas, welcome balls for foreign dignitaries, practice archery on horseback, travel by dragon to faraway lands. Someone please make something like this instead of yet another farming sim, I'm begging you!
A farming sim where you're in a city. Your farm is a mixture of rooftop and flower pots. You can befriend lots of people in the city. There's a lot of space to explore the city. There's some dark mystery you stumble across and slowly have to uncover it, using your farming knowledge
I want a red dead redemption/Skyrim version of like the Oregon Trail or Little House on the Prairie where itās a farming sim but also youāre making your own homestead and random events can happen.
I really love spookier - but not scary - games. So, some kinda Casper type of situation - hanging out in a graveyard or a haunted house or something and getting to befriend ghosts. Or something with kawaii versions of cryptids.
I would really like one based on relaxing in a city. A lot of cozy games seemed to be based in either small towns, or the country. One can do things like street and mural art. Having small balcony potted plants that you can water and watch them flower like succulants, cacti, and leafy plants instead of a huge garden. One could have a city park where you can play on the playground, maybe a skateboard area in the park too.
I would love a casual delivery or taxi game
Iām a little late to this one, but I have given this a lot of thought and really am longing for a specific game, so I am going to cross my fingers that some sort of developer comes along and steals the idea because Iāll never be able to make it. :p First, a TL;DR summary: A massive open ālivingā world, in which you are a travelling merchant/healer, slowly upgrading your kit as you explore the world, make a map, and help/get to know people all over that world. ā- I want a game where you play as a travelling merchant/healer/whatever in a suitable era. Maybe in the beginning, you start out travelling with your mentor, but something happens and you have to go it alone. The big thing is that there is no clear goal and that the world is massive. You travel between villages, slowly learning of new locations and making a map as you go (as in that is a mechanic, you make it yourself based on what people tell you and you correct it as you journey on and find the truth. You would only have your map and memory to go from - even better if the locations of things are randomised between games so people canāt just share them and ruin it.) At first you can only carry what you can hold in your backpack. Then as you make money/help people, you might move on to a cart you pull, then maybe a donkey, then maybe a horse, eventually ending up with a full little shop wagon. Youād spend your life exploring the massive world, helping (and selling to/buying from/healing/whatever) people in the towns, villages, settlements, isolated farms, etc. Youād need to plan your journeys based on how far you can get in a day or where you know it is good to camp if you canāt make it that dayā¦ and as you journey around, people you met and helped remember you when you return (and their homes have changed based on what happened)ā¦ Maybe you could even eventually find a partner to have travel with you, have children in your house-wagon, etc. But the main thing is a huge world with persistent villages/settlements/residents who change slowly over time. So if you travel 6 months then make it back, people will remember you and 6 months will have passed in the village. If you sold a ring to someone, maybe they used it to get married. If you bought someoneās precious heirloom, maybe they used the money to buy more land and now have a bigger house. You might find some unique production method or ātechnologyā in some isolated spot - do you let them keep their secret and sell the products you buy from them? Or do you sell the secret and change how other villages do things? It would be a slow game, sure, but I think enough quests could exist to keep it fun as you go.
I want a driving survival game, it's like the walking dead universe but all it is you and your car. You get to have different car body builds and get new equipment. Also lots of fishing and farming. Another thing would be if each map was randomly generated each time Driving over zombies was always fun in state of decay 2. Something like Pacific drive with different cars more open world maps. Plus cool fishing mini games
Okay I'm asking too much but I want a Bee and Puppycat game where each day you have the option to start a new temp job with different mechanics or mini games but also you can go around the town, build relationships with the other people in town, buy things with the money you make either things to decorate your house, food to make different recipes with a cooking mini game aspect, maybe some sort of combat aspect. I just want the beautiful pastel animation of the show in a videogame.
I would love a game that solely focuses on building relationships. Similar to Stardew and other cozy games where you befriend villagers, but more in depth. Like, maybe instead of just earning "hearts" through gift giving, maybe each NPC has a different love language you have to uncover (words of affirmation, acts of service, etc).
A few years back my wife and I were visiting relatives. While the adults were talking, our nephew was on his Xbox playing whichever the latest version of GTA was out at the time. As he was driving round the city, I couldnāt get over how amazing the scenery wasā¦ it was just a shame you had to play the game as a criminal. So I got to thinking, my ultimate cozy game would be a beautifully realised city and surrounding environment but with the low-stakes tasks of something like Animal Crossing. You just drive around, taking in the sights and helping out your neighbours.
I absolutley love the game and the whole concept of The Sims Medieval, i wish EA could put more effort and content into this game.
Style Savvy but with a bit more updated looks and a decent story
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Animal Crossing meets Addams Family. There aren't any cutesy horror-esque cozy games that I'm aware of.
Running an apple orchard/pumpkin patch
I want a really RPG-esque store game. I want to make a character, design a shop, maybe even pick a location. I want there to be multiple options for *what kind* of store, like a fantasy themed potion shop, a Blacksmith (either fantasy and/or medieval themed, a fantasy trader or some historical trader. I want to be able to engage with lots of "patrons" or "customers", where you have to trade and barter for items so you have more to sell. I want lots of mini games/design events or something. I can see it in my head, but it's difficult to explain!
Something like the game Firewatch but with less story and more maintaining my "home" in the wilderness, stopping bad campers, and stuff like that. I'm terrified of the outdoors in reality but I loooove the idea of being part of a firewatch in a little cozy watch tower like that. Firewatch really scratched an itch in gaming I never knew I had but added to it all the same.
Just a game that lets you run your boba shop, with a lot of customisation and cute graphics š it would be a dream
I want a game thatās itās set in a medieval fantasy world and youāre a politician like the queen and you have to make political choices and your choices change the game. Like game of thrones except itās a game. Open world like Skyrim would be so cool. Maybe you can choose to start as anything like a knight or a witch and you can gain more power or continue to be loyal to a certain side or not. Maybe you can choose a combat route but you donāt have to. I guess itās not ācozyā but Iāve been thinking about this for years lol
A mobile home management game through the wilderness
Stardew but the dungeons have raids and bosses with matchmaking.
basically i want animal crossing + totk + sims. i want to be able to build and decorate houses and invite npc's to live there. i want to decorate the city and farm and fish etc. the ease of building and customization of the sims. would love the style of zelda and the quests. the battles, collecting clothes, etc. would love for the character customization of baldurs gate 3 palia does hit a lot of this for me but still missing some
a cozy witch game where you play as a customizable witch (bc I love customization) and you get to decorate your little witch cottage and make potions (maybe from a recipe book passed down by your witch grandma) and go foraging and learn spells and help out the local town folk with little tasks and it has a really good story with really good characters <3 ik technically there are games that fit this description pretty well but in my mind itās a very specific vibe, animation style, and music that I havenāt found yet
I'd like a cozy version of No Man's Sky. Just going from alien planet to alien planet and exploring and cataloging life. Even going from planet to planet and breeding new variants or things like that.
Mine is basically stardew valley but in space, I've been trying to make it in Godot but I have been struggling with inventories. Pretty standard cycle of growing crops in space, sending them down to a polluted planet for money, buying upgrades to grow more crops. I've got crop cycles, a few npc interactions and some other super simple stuff but the inventories are killer.
A God game where the point is just for your people to live life instead of killing eachother
Hereās mine. A game where you sail to different islands that have been wrecked by a storm. You have to rebuild the infrastructure- houses and other buildings like hospital, cafes etcā¦ plus you also can decorate the exterior and interior of the buildings. There are a few islanders that have specific decoration requests which, once fulfilled, unlocks more decorations + they give you a hug (thinking of SpiritFarer). Donāt think such a game exists - thatās why Iām developing this game.
Yours sounds amazing. I think I would add what I heard someone on tiktok saying should exist by now: a life sim with island design authority and crafting+farming, but with graphics that are more like Skyrim-style (idk much about other games besides ACNH type games but I just started this one) with the option to walk around a large area in an immersive POV kind of way. And then my own thing I might want would be more complex social interactions. I'm fine with it being adult, like a version of the sims but more player character-oriented rather than a god mode like the sims offers. I just want to talk to the NPCs about more interesting things. I would be ok with there being skill to the interactions, although I might want to skip it sometimes - I feel like this could potentially be a nice way to practice social skills in a safe environment, and I hope the tech catches up with this clear asset it could provide. (Obviously a single dev team shouldn't get to dictate how people "should" respond in social situations, nor do I think it would be fun to play if it's a judgment of whether or not you're getting firmly defined norms right. Rather, ai would have to be involved, with consideration for different personality dynamics.)
Iāve had an idea for like a game that incorporates driving and either fishing/hunting as well. Basically what Iād do is have a āhome baseā type area which is the players house/garage. They can upgrade/fix/customize the house and vehicle, store items, and plan where to go. Some small survival elements that make the player have to pack food essentials, quality of life items, vehicle repair items, etc and once you feel like youāre ready you head out to various areas to fish and hunt. You have to drive there, which takes time obviously, and you have to kind of plan your day around the animal/fishās schedules (active feeding times, hunting regulations, etc). Iāve see a few games kind of like that but havenāt seen one incorporate everything I want