These are the games I curl up with when life feels a little too loud. With fall coming up, think soft music, cute characters and adorable animation. If you’re looking for something low-stress but full of charm, this is the list. 🎮✨
Build and run a Bed+Breakfast in the woods, but you’re a Bear. Tourists are flooding in, your decoration senses are tingling, and the woods are making a kooky noise.
Bear and Breakfast
Prepare delicious drinks, experiment with new flavors, decorate your shop, and manage cafe costs to become the best barista in town.
Good Coffee Great Coffee
Super cozy puzzle game that has you seating characters in accordance to their pet peeves and requests. The art is so lovely and relaxing—it reminds me of a hug.
Is This Seat Taken?
A truly cozy escape that catered to my joint love for reading and video games. Real titles from Shakespeare to John Green line the shelves of your seaside shop in a rhythmic, mellow management simulator worth relaxing into.
Tiny Bookshop on Steam
You play as a pesky little goose terrorizing the town as he navigates puzzles to get his main goal (a funny little surprise I won't spoil). I love this game. It's got wonderful music and art.
Untitled Goose Game
So cute and calming.
Neko Bento: 'A Light Snack' (Switch)
Now this is a very unique farming game that includes mechanics you don't see in normal farming sims. If you want something that feels relaxing but still meaningful, with consequences for your choices, an evolving story through generations and a cozy ...
Echoes of the Plum Grove
The OG cozy game. Available on multiple platforms (switch, PC, mobile, etc) this is one of the best farming sims out there. It's got a great story and a well of iconic characters.
Stardew Valley
This game is my cozy escape. It’s not about grinding, it’s just living a little farm life while watching the town and your character actually grow and change over the years. It feels like you’re part of a real story, and it’s so chill!
STORY OF SEASONS: A Wonderful Life
Unpacking is a quiet story telling puzzle game. You follow a character as she starts off in adolescence, decorating and unpacking her furniture as time passes. The story isn't outright but there are subtle hints to how her life is going. Super sweet ...
Unpacking for Nintendo Switch -
Cute little cooking game where you mix ingredients together to make new recipes. Simple and sweet.
Cookulo for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
A late night cafe simulator. You serve coffee and listen to meaningful stories from interesting characters.
Coffee Talk on Steam
Cats and coffee are my weakness lol.
Cat Cafe Manager on Steam
Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world action RPG set in the world first introduced in the Harry Potter books. Embark on a journey through familiar and new locations as you explore and discover magical beasts, customize your character and craft potions, ma...
Hogwarts Legacy
Your kitty meets all sorts of friends along the way, and I appreciated the dialogue, which adds a ton of humor and a basic storyline with side missions to the game. There are a variety of tasks to complete, and even once you finish the main quest, th...
Little Kitty, Big City
The amount of nostalgia this brings me!!
New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch™ system – Official Site - Animal Crossing
In another life i'm living my interior designer dreams haha <3
Happy Home Paradise DLC – Animal Crossing™: New Horizons - Nintendo