After that, you can fish and decorate as you please, but you’re not really going to get anything new until tomorrow. The daily tasks are extra on top of the main gameplay loop.Ĭozy Grove is kind of the opposite - you jump in-game every day to complete tasks, and once those are done you can’t really progress the story any more. With Animal Crossing, once you finish any daily tasks, there’s still plenty to do with fishing, catching bugs, or decorating your island. Instead, Cozy Grove is more akin to Animal Crossing, following real-world time in-game. I sometimes wish there was just a little more variety in the songs, but other than that it’s one of my favorite game soundtracks ever.Īs far as gameplay goes, I was expecting Cozy Grove to be more similar to Stardew Valley, which has its own in-game time, where each day takes about fifteen minutes to play. The soundtrack also fits really well with the camping, outdoorsy feel, featuring an acoustic guitar pretty heavily. If that sounds like the kind of thing you’re into, this game is for you.Īnother one of my favorite parts of this game was its soundtrack - all of the songs are so soothing, it’s likely I’ll listen to them while I work like I do with Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing. Of course, there’s also the fact that all of the island’s residents are ghosts, who talk about their own deaths as casually as one might talk about the weather. An occasional animal skull will decorate the forest around you, and the player character’s design will remind you slightly of a Tim Burton character. It’s a welcome spin on the genre, as this conceit of cute but haunted seemed to inform much of developer Spry Fox’s creative vision for the game.įor example, the art style is expectantly adorable, but there’s something slightly dark about it, too. In Cozy Grove, the player takes on the role of a Spirit Scout, who gains badges and other rewards by helping the ghostly residents of a haunted island. Especially with how stressful the pandemic has been, I’ve put dozens of hours into titles like Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Stardew Valley, so I was eager to get my hands on a new iteration of the formula.
Publishers: Spry Fox, The Quantum Astrophysicists GuildĬozy Grove is another entry in the ever-growing genre of relaxing community simulator/resource management games, which happens to be one of my personal favorites. A charming community sim with a haunting twistĪnimal Crossing fans, this one’s for you.Ĭozy Grove (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, Windows, Mac)
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