![]() Even after this time, the stories haven’t developed enough to grab interest and the gameplay already feels repetitive. Yet after two weeks, it’s hard to recommend Cozy Grove. The developers promise over 40 hours of gameplay spread over months. And perhaps the game will reveal more of its charm with continued play. It’s frustrating because there is wholesome charm to the game and undoubtedly a welcome change of pace in its soothing busywork. Cozy Grove is essentially just an elaborate game of hide and seek and the gentle nature of the game isn’t an excuse for its simplicity. Learning more about your ghostly friends is a delight, but the quests themselves are little more than fetching items infuriatingly hidden among the island’s flora. It’s certainly admirable to create a game that doesn’t demand too much of our busy lives – fitting for such a cozy game – but it makes for a shallow experience that instead seems to be eking out a small amount of content across multiple days.Įventually the days all blend together. It’s designed this way, to stop you binging all the content in one sitting. ![]() Yet there’s little depth to all this and without the special visitors and celebrations of Animal Crossing to keep you returning day after day, little reason to keep playing. There are some customisation options to decorate your island, animals to befriend, badges to collect for completing tasks, and rewards for collecting each type of resource. On top of that is awkward item management where you need all items required for a quest in one go before completing it, taking up valuable inventory space. In some cases it seems excessively long, turning a cute game into a chore. Often that’s because quest items aren’t yet available or need to be farmed or created over multiple days. Help them shine brighter and the island will expand, revealing new ghosts to assist. The gameplay cycles around helping bears to receive spirit logs of wood which are fed to your talking campfire Flamey. Its hand drawn aesthetic is gorgeously detailed, while its gently lilting acoustic soundtrack provides the perfect sonic setting to its slow-paced gameplay.Īfter creating your Spirit Scout – you’re free to select any options, without gender – you’re immediately set to work. What’s immediately striking about Cozy Grove is its presentation. After all, the Spirit Scout motto is: “All those who are lost deserve kindness.” That means living on an island, collecting resources, and crafting items, all while caring for the inhabitants…who are ghosts…but they’re cute bear ghosts.Īs a Spirit Scout, you’re tasked with helping these spectral bears remember their past glories. It’s summed up neatly as Animal Crossing meets Spiritfarer. A haunted island might not seem all that cozy, but Cozy Grove is an adorable yet flawed little life sim.Īs the name suggests, Cozy Grove is a cute and, well, cozy game that fits nicely into the current trend for relaxing game experiences.
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