Cozy Games May Help Improve Players' Mental Health, Researchers Say
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So does the soundtrack imo. Idk why, but a lot of the songs are incredibly moving to me. Especially the track March, which plays a couple times in the game but most notably during the scene when you float up in the sky with a bubble.
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Can someone explain what is a "cozy" game?
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Tchia has a tiny bit of fighting, but felt like a cozy game the whole time I played it. It was slower paced and easy to just explore.
Outer wilds has a lot of mystery to solve but is very relaxing and pleasant.
Both games I felt perfectly happy to just enjoy the sights occasionally.
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To me it seemed to try to say that most research done so far on video games is mostly about how violence in games affects people, not the positive benefits. Which is probably true that the majority (for a while at least) was about that.
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think animal crossing, harvest moon, stardew valley, those games.
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Loosely: Games that make you feel cozy.
Does not necessarily challenge the player, might not even set goals. Has a certain aesthetic that is not drab or dreary.
Stardew Valley is considered to be a cozy game, as an example.
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Loosely: Games that make you feel cozy.
I've never noticed a game having that effect personally
I always thought of the word cozy as describing your physical comfort level as opposed to mental
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I've not played harvest moon, but I found stardew valley and animal crossing a bit tedious... I guess people mean games that have a lot of small low stress tasks that don't require much risk taking?
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I’m trying to write a story, and I struggled with this, especially when confronting certain realities:
- While fantasy, the story is meant to reflect some harsh political realities
- Multiple villains are killed, but the heartfelt good guys live.
- The ending has everything fixed and everyone’s happy.
I’m aware most stories don’t come anywhere close to a full happy ending like this. Every Batman story ends with Gotham still a miserable shithole. Every noir story ends with the case solved but everyone broken for it and the city still a dystopia. It generally has good reasoning, to reflect harshness of reality, but that’s a realm of fantasy I really want to venture into; one where things just work out.
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What about Steampunk & Cyberpunk ?
Funny that there are no biopunk, Solarpunk, teslapunk or even clockpunk stories
