PPG Game Of The Year 2024 - 38 - Cozy And Chill
Sometimes, what you want to do is snuggle up on the couch with a blanket and hot cup of tea and enjoy something that doesn't ask too much from you. Simply engaging with a system on your own terms, alongside the delight in the animation or dialogue, is enough.
Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator
First Person Gardening
A bit different from your typical farming sims which focus on produce and profit, this game is all about cultivating and nurturing your own little slice of heaven for your own enjoyment and pleasure.
Time To Morp (EA)
Creature Collecting, Automation
A deceptively mechanically focused game where you build up a little farmstead style town, put your little cut creatures to work automating production while you go out and find more creatures and materials to continue the expansion.
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
Heartfelt Musical Journey
Play instruments to solve puzzles and bring joy to the world as you explore and discover the valley. Good comfy game to bring a smile to your dial.
Distant Bloom
Alien World Restoration
Restore a world left devastated and abandoned by using flora to rejuvenate what was once lost. Build a flourishing community alongside new tools and recipes gained through your exploration and re-invigoration of the environment.
Dog Brew
Anthropomorphic Beer Brewing
A neat little package about being an anthropomorphic dog brewing their way out of debt with a sort-of Minecraft-esque but zoomed out art style.
Pocket Oasis
Extremely Chill Gardening
Create your own little balcony garden, your own oasis in for you to decorate and grow as you see fit.
Cozy Caravan (EA)
Wholesome Crafting Trading Journey
Head across the world in your ye olden style caravan, trading and crafting goods as you trek across the world meeting people and bringing smiles to their faces.
Fireside
Narrative Chatty Adventure
An cozy adventure all about walking from place to place, chatting with those you cross paths with, and build connections in a whimsical world.
Horticular
Environmental Garden Rebuilder
Rebuild a thriving ecosystem of flora and fauna with full creative freedom. Tons of different tiles to be placed to build out your space, with plenty of gardening upgrades to keep you pushing forward with creating the perfect garden from an isometric viewpoint.
Magical Delicacy
2D Magical Cooking Exploration
Cook magical foods for the denizens of this town, learn abilities for traversal and build a cozy life as a young witch.
The Garden Path
Slice of Life Sim
A simple gardening and life sim that is designed to be played in small bursts over a longer period of real life time. Whimsical and wistful.
Garden of the Sea
Chill Home Maker
First person pastel vibes with a little bit of island exploration, home building, creature befriending and of course garden growing.
Whimel Academy (EA)
Witchy Timey Whimey Dating
Life sim as a magic student, with time based management and dating sim elements. Study magic, get good at hobbies and romance other students.
Fruitbus
Run A Cozy Food Truck
Gather fresh ingredients in the area around you, cook it up in your van and serve it to the locals while hopefully making the world a better place in the process.
Everholm
Cozy Narrative RPG
With a number of interlocking systems present such as farming, foraging, fishing, relationship building and also some combat built in, you'll be facing a slightly darker story of tracking down your long lost sister.
I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
Relaxing Post-Apoc Survival
Much lighter than the usual survival game, build your own rooftop haven amongst a flooded world, scavenging for parts, growing a garden, do some tinkering and more.
Critter Cafe
Run A Cozy Cafe
Absolutely gorgeous art style mix with top notch animation work. Start off with a humble little abode and build up to a thriving beloved cafe, with a neat loop of exploration, critter collecting and puzzle solving breaking up the management aspects.
And The Best Cozy Or Chill Game Of 2024 Is…
Tiny Glade
Tiny Cute Castles
I think Tiny Glade hits the absolute peak of cozy, with its ability to build the coolest and cutest little diaramas imaginable. The way the game translates the idea of what you can envision in your head to what happens on the screen is its greatest achievement - instead of being strictly structured by discreet blocks, plants and the like. It's much more vaguely free-form, using dreamlike logic instead of hard math. It’s Magic.