

It doesn’t make you feel like you need to play for 8 hours in a single sitting to “maximize” your experience, and it doesn’t make you feel like you’ve seen everything there is to see in a few days either. Noemí brings an extraordinary whimsy to everything she draws, which is perfect for a game that includes vegetable-bear hybrids and giant fox salesmen on a constantly shifting, limbo-esque island.Ĭozy Grove is ultimately intended to become a game that you comfortably settle into. We hope the result will be a narrative and game that makes you delighted to play for a few minutes or an hour every day for a long time to come.Ĭozy Grove’s distinctive look has been driven in large part by Noemí Gómez, our wildly talented and charming Spanish colleague. Some of those tales are silly, and some of those tales are deadly serious. We also wanted the game to have characters and stories that would really mean something to players, so we’ve given every character in the game a tale that slowly plays out over weeks or months. I’ve witnessed this sort of moment in Cozy Grove a thousand times and I never get tired of it it’s a perpetually delightful experience. Once you do that, not only does the desaturated world literally become more colorful and beautiful, but plants begin producing fruit and characters become happier.

We’ve also added an original new gameplay mechanic in which large parts of the island are “uncolored” until you reinvigorate them.

But we wanted to push the genre in a few interesting ways, so for example, we used procedural generation to change the island itself on a regular basis, so you’re never quite sure what you’ll come back to each day. With a little time and a lot of crafting, you’ll bring color and joy back to Cozy Grove.Ĭozy Grove was inspired by relaxing life sims that encourage the player to unwind, explore and express themselves through decorations and clothing. As a Spirit Scout, you’ll wander the island’s forest each day, finding new hidden secrets and helping soothe the local ghosts. Cozy Grove is a life-sim game about camping on a haunted, ever-changing island.
