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Dec 21, 2022
It’s that time of year where the weather gets a little frightful, and while many people are cozying up with comfy pajamas, and hiding from the weather under warm blankets, it’s the perfect time to play some fun games. Some of you may even be looking for some games to celebrate the winter festivities with. Luckily, there are a few that feed that cozy holiday need. Cozy Grove, Hokko Life, Ooblets, and Disney Dreamlight Valley are all perfect to get into that holiday spirit with.
Cozy Grove
In Cozy Grove, you play as a Spirit Scout, and are camping on an ever-changing haunted island. Wander around the forest, discover secrets, and help the local ghosts. Meet and befriend dozens of characters and ghosts. Explore each character’s story. Collect spirit animals, craft decor, go fishing, and so much more.
And Cozy Grove has a Winter Festival! The festival runs from December 20th to January 23 every year. While it’s active, you can get winter festival themed decorations, clothes, and other items. You can meet snowfolk, craft and give gifts to the bears, and challenge the imps to snowball fights. You can even lure special winter cats into your cat beckoner!
So, dress in your favorite Winter Festival attire, gather some gifts, and go have a snowball fight to celebrate the holiday season!
Cozy Grove is available on Apple Arcade, Steam, Epic Games, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and Playstation.
Hokko Life
Hokko Life is an Animal Crossing-inspired life-sim. Spend time building the town and filling it with your favorite villagers, catch bugs, go fishing, and befriend the villagers. What sets this one apart from Animal Crossing, though, is the creative freedom you have! You get to build buildings with the help of the resident builder, and place them wherever you wish. You can also customize the interiors and exteriors of each home by placing furniture you’ve crafted and painted. Use the design table to change the shape and materials of your crafts, and paint them to suit your tastes and vision. Even the clothes can be painted
Paired with the seasonal snow, Hokko Life is a great game to play to get into the holiday spirit, or even just the cozy winter mood. Your town can be redesigned for free, so you can make it the winter wonderland of your dreams! And don’t forget about the seasonal store.
Hokko Life is available on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Playstation, and Xbox.
Ooblets
Ooblets is another charming, but weird little game that involves farming, collecting creatures, and dancing. Spend your days growing otherworldly plants on your currently ramshackle farm. Collect pieces of furniture and other design items to use in decorating, and turn your farm into a beautiful homesteading paradise. You’ll also collect and raise odd little creatures called ooblets. Grow your team of alien critters, and compete in dance-offs with them.
Much like the other games, Ooblets has a seasonal Wintertime Event that starts every December 1st, and ends December 31st. Players can travel to Badgetown, where they’ll find the Wintertime Event display. Find and collect the festive bobbles found on the ground around Badgetown, then exchange them at the Wintertime Event gotsapon machines to get an array of wintertime clothing goodies.
Ooblets is available on Nintendo Switch, Epic Games, and Xbox.
Disney Dreamlight Valley
Last, but certainly not least, is Disney Dreamlight Valley. Another cozy village life-sim game, Dreamlight Valley offers that classic Disney charm by giving players the opportunity to interact with their favorite characters. Players can spend their time gardening, cooking, fishing, home design, and much more. Complete quests and unlock the doors to the Dream Castle to help the characters return to their homes
Disney Dreamlight Valley is running a seasonal event from December 18th to the 31st called Gift of Giving Event. During this event, players can visit the castle to find a beautiful Christmas tree where they’ll be able to unwrap presents starting December 25th. Each gift will have a fun holiday-themed item. There are also festive quests and festive fishing for players to complete. Plus, players are getting creative in the Frosted Heights area, where they’re taking some beautiful holiday-themed photos.
Disney Dreamlight Valley is available on Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Epic Games, Steam, Playstation, and Apple Arcade.
Or, if you’re reminiscing on the end of the year, take a walk down memory lane with 10 Forgotten Animal Crossing Features That Made The Game More Charming And Fun.
- Nov 4, 2022
This is your last chance to get the Animal Crossing inspired Clamshell Diorama.
The Tiny Village captures all the adorability of some of the most iconic and nostalgic toys and games, and puts them in a little world all for you. This adorable little toy that opens and closes comes with four dolls ( and now even 4 more villagers! ) and some trees you can place right away – and it fits right in the palm of your hand.
The Animal Crossing Polly Pocket inspired Clamshell Village will only be available for a very limited time and will become a rarity shortly after! there are only a few left once these sell out, the Tiny Village Pals won’t become available again.
20% off your entire order and free Bell Bag
Use coupon code COZYWEEKEND during checkout to receive 20% off your order and a free bell bag with every purchase $60 and up! The sale also includes the a Tiny Garden Pals an Animal Crossing themed gardening DIY kit!
Only valid until Saturday, November 5th. Head over here and grab some early Holiday gifts and/or treat yourself!
Check out the TikTok video of a Tiny Village Pals unboxing from user @littledreamtoys, thank you so much for sharing!
- Oct 27, 2022
Unsure as to whether we’d be getting new Halloween-themed in-game items, players decided to bring spooky season to the game prematurely with these inspiring island ideas and professional-looking pumpkin patches. Even if Nintendo doesn’t share many new items, the community always keeps it fresh!
I was so excited to finally know for sure that Jack was back when Nintendo announced it during the games first year, that
I didn’t even mind the return of that god-forsaken Halloween music (‘witch’ in New Horizons, sounds rather like it could’ve been played by Miles Davis himself…)*Hisses in Animalese!*But whilst I was busy clapping at the pumpkin seeds on sale in Nook’s Cranny, creative players were busy doing what they do best! Namely, creating creations such as these:
But Wait; There’s More!
For more spook-tacular creations from fans following on from the Animal Crossing: New Horizons fall update, be sure to check out these cool costume ideas here. And whilst you’re in the mood, you seriously need to take a look at these perfect little pumpkin patches (which now contain actual pumpkins!).
Adorable Spooky Game Obakeidoro! Free this weekend
take a look at this adorable lantern haunting game you can play with your friends on Switch for free this weekend only!
- May 5, 2022
Build Your Own Town and Garden with WALL-E, Cook with Remy, Fish with Goofy, and so Much More!
Disney Dreamlight Valley is an upcoming free-to-play multi-platform life-simulation adventure game. Although the words “free-to-play” may have given you pause, the Gameloft assures players that there will be no main-campaign “pay-walls”. However, players will have the option to buy expansions to enhance their gameplay. With that out of the way, what is Disney Dreamlight Valley all about?
Play as your own unique, customizable character in a place called Dreamlight Valley where Disney and Pixar characters lived in harmony, that is, until the Forgetting. Night Thorns have grown everywhere now, destroying wonderful magical memories and displacing its inhabitants. In every realm, there’s a Disney or Pixar character that needs your help to go back home. The realms all have their own challenges, puzzles to solve, and villains to encounter.
How is the game compared to Animal Crossing and The Sims? Well in Dreamlight Valley, you can build your own fully customizable neighbourhood with creative landscaping and thousands of decorative items (all Disney/Pixar-themed, of course). Once you bring new characters to town, have them settle down, become their friends, and restore the valley to its former glory. This means you can do things like garden with WALL-E, cook with Remy, and fish with Goofy. The game has a real-time day and night cycle, but the shops will remain open 24/7!
Early Access Launch this Summer, Full Release in 2023 on All Platforms
Disney Dreamlight Valley will launch as a free-to-play game in 2023 on all available platforms. This includes PC and Mac on Steam and the Epic Games Store, mobile (iOS and Android), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, and the Nintendo Switch.
Later this year (Summer 2022), fans who purchase the Founder’s Pack or have an Xbox Game Pass subscription will get Early Access to the game, along with exclusive rewards and limited-edition items that can be carried over to the full version (exclusive goodies such as in-game currency, cosmetic items, etc). For now, you can click on the links provided above to Wishlist the game on your platform of choice.
- Feb 28, 2022
Spirit of the Island is a life simulation game taking place on a remote island.
Island Paradises is a dream of many and Spirit of the Island lets you experience just that. The game that is inspired by Stardew Valley and other similar titles. It is a colorful take on the popular life and village simulation genre.
The island you find yourself on has many areas to explore, as you embark on your adventure you will uncover many mysteries. In addition to exploration, you also find much beloved activities such as farming, fishing, crafting and more.
The fun really begins when you invite a friend and enjoy the entire game cooperatively together.
Spirit off the Island Release Date
Spirit of the Island was successfully funded on Kickstarter and backers will be receiving their early Access this month. If you were not one of the initial Kickstarter supporters you will have to wait until 2022 to start your island adventure.
You can wishlist the game on steam already!
Coral Island
If you enjoy island based games, take a look at Coral Island a game about creating an eco friendly island.
- Jul 31, 2021
The super charming farming and life sim indie game Littlewood is getting a physical release on Nintendo Switch.
For those that may have missed it, Littlewood is a cute little farming game that was fully inspired by games like Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing. The game released last August on Steam and has received an overwhelming amount of wonderful reviews.
Players often mention how the game is super relaxing and addicting every moment. It’s described as a laid back version of Stardew Valley. Not too long ago, developer Sean Young finally brought his masterpiece to the console it belongs on. And now, there will even be a physical version.
The news was recently announced in the form of a Tweet, wherein Sean revealed that he would be releasing a limited number of Nintendo Switch physical copies of his game Littlewood. The physical version will become available on August 5th!
For more great news from the farming genre, check out the new gameplay trailer for Kitaria Fables.
- Jun 4, 2021
The developer of Hokko Life just announced that the farming update for the game is just around the corner.
For anyone who is not familiar with Hokko Life yet, it is an Animal Crossing inspired indie game that aims to capture the cuteness of the beloved village simulator but it also adds a whole lot of new fun features such as an in-depth customization tool to create your very own furniture designs from scratch.
The game takes a lot of inspiration from Animal Crossing but also includes the charm and farming elements from games like Stardew Valley. Hokko Life is not just a copy of either of those games as it re-invents many of the beloved features and adds tons of new stuff to explore at the same time.
Now that the game is available in Early Access on Steam, you can give the game a try for yourself. However, the game is still going through some polishing (hence the EA). Everyday the developer is working on making the game smoother and more….well, complete. To that end, he has just announced that the farming update for the game will release in July of this year.
For more great news from the farming and life sim genre, check out how amazing the new game Palia looks.
- May 19, 2021
A short update on the Tiny Village pre-orders.
As you may know the Animal Crossing inspired Tiny Village pre-order is about to close and everyone who has placed their pre-order is eager to receive their cute little village.
The Tiny Village pre-orders are expected to ship this summer as initially outlined in the original announcement. As you may know this is a one time only edition and once pre-orders have been exhausted, the Tiny Village won’t be offered anymore making it a rare collectors item.
The Tiny Village is an intricate and difficult-to-produce item. I will be doing pre-orders to allow myself to keep up with resources but its also a lot of fun and just so super adorable. I wanted to take a moment and share some progress in the making of the Tiny Village.
Tiny Village 3D model Each of these adorable little clamshells is handmade, hand painted and assembled by hand. It starts out with a 3D model which turns into just a 3D printed white shell like this, and all parts are then assembled together.
Of course all characters included are separate, so you may place them anywhere your like in your village.
There was a lot of trial and error in figuring out how to best assemble everything together so that it would open and close easily – and of course also stay open if you wish to display it on your shelf.
I am currently also working on the little box the Tiny Village comes packaged in, I cant wait to share the progress on this in the next update!
If you have any questions about your pre-order please do not hesitate to contact me! I can’t wait for you to get your Tiny Village this summer!
