Cozy games are in their boom era, but some of the oldies are still the best out there.

Here's how to beat March's competitive side and finally get onto his good side.

A neat, but fundamentally flawed remake that doesn't always understand the appeal of Halo.

Games like Stardew Valley have fully taken root on PC, so now we're thoroughly spoiled for choice on new games to plant parsnips in.

I can be a werewolf or a vampire, sure, but nothing as far-fetched as a trillionaire.

A gauntlet of new games.

Thanks, Guild Wars 3.

Crafting and cooking are all over the menu this month from survival crafting to flower arranging to stamp collection journaling.

With Paralives joining the party, I finally feel like there's a real buffet of choice for life sim players.

This unsettling, naked para is bodysnatching our characters and honestly, I want to keep them.

After a lot of hours spent in Paralives, here's my breakdown on how you can decide whether it's your type of life sim or not.

Perfect playlist, but just a decent videogame.

Chris Livingston's fault specifically.

You can find Chort in the Clyteum.

From Paralives to Thrifty Business, this month is going to be all about life sims and shop sims in the cozy game corner.

Life sim MMO Palia's next free expansion is just three weeks away and it's giving me the ranching update that Red Dead Online refused to.

Seven years in the making, the developers of Eastshade are finally ready for us to play a tiny first taste of their cozy witch school life sim Songs of Glimmerwick.

One In A Thousand is a mesmerizing replication of real life's most notorious hidden object challenge.

Don't get a spring in your step just yet because this month's cozy game launches are all so cozy you might want to stay bundled up.

The Sims 4's original lead AI programmer says he pitched the entire AI system not long before alpha and rewrote it from scratch.

The Legend of Khiimori is a surprisingly detailed horse courier sim that I'm actually loving more than just in solidarity with my horse girl gamer friends.

OddFauna's handmade critters are absolute catnip for my crafting game brain.

February is surprisingly light on cozy game launches but we're looking forward to these chill picks you shouldn't miss

One of The Sims 4's biggest mods is putting up numbers a triple-A game would be jealous of.

Novelist and game writer Naomi Alderman has bought back the rights to the Zombies, Run! exercise app she's been writing episodes of for more than a decade.

Body-doubling is now 100% cozier.

We can't keep calling them Stardew-like, farmlife without a farm, and "basically Animal Crossing" forever.

I can't believe desktop pets are actually back and they're more fun than the early 2000s.

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