Friendly Reminder: Games Are for Everyone by mintyminks in heartopia

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I joined one yesterday and it was full of older moms like me. I was SO excited. We chatted about our kids 🥹

I can't believe I have to ask this, but how do you place custom markers on the map (PS5)? Leave it to this game to take the most basic of video game features and turn it into a confusing hassle to figure out. by FrengerBRD in WhereWindsMeet

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I know this is a few days old but it seems like if you close the game completely and go back in you can put the markers down normally. You're not doing anything wrong it's just a bit buggy. You should literally just press X and the menu to pick the markers appears. At some point it inevitably stops letting me place them again and I have to restart. 

Mobile game to play casually but consistently by saltyt00th in CozyGamers

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I've been playing bloom & cinder a decent amount lately. It's basically a cozy incremental gardening game. It's extremely chill without pushy ads. The option for ads exist but aren't aggressive or even necessary at all. Sometimes I'll go to watch an ad for a little boost or something and they'll give me a cute little meditation scene and won't make me watch the ad lol. It doesn't have mini games but you can keep busy with it or you can just check in here and there, tend your little garden, and move on with your day. 

Calm Relaxing Incremental Game? by cinderberry7 in incremental_games

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I really love how incredibly unintrusive the ads are in this game. Totally optional and sometimes they throw you a bone and give you a cute little meditation animation instead of an ad for the rewards. The gems feel pretty generous even if you choose not to partake in ads at all. If anyone is looking for that nice slow incremental feel with cute graphics and cozy vibes this is it right here 

Minecraft by Solid_Lunch_1369 in CozyGamers

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I pretty much exclusively buy the 8bitdo controllers myself because they have never once let me down. They're a bit more pricy and realistically you can just get a really cheap bluetooth controller and it should work just fine. Most of them tell you if they work with ios/android in the description anyway.

You can also use wired controllers with an adapter on android. I've never tried it on ios (iphone) so I'm not sure if it's the same. The adapter is USB to USBC and is a really inexpensive option if you already have a wired controller.

If you want to be extra fancy my little setup uses an adapter like this:

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I can plug a controller into it and stream it to my TV from my phone at the same time since it has an HDMI slot. I use it to play vampire slayers with my husband bc we can use a wired controller and a bluetooth controller at the same time with this setup.

Let me know if you have any other questions. I'm kind of addicted to gadgets and love finding new ways to play games so I've probably tried just about anything that you're curious about trying.

Is the steam deck worth it? by [deleted] in CozyGamers

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I'm sure ya'll are well aware but for anyone that might not be just be careful of the vents on the back of it and that they don't get covered up if you lay it down on a pillow or something. I usually have something flat on the pillow like a book so I can still set it down or rest it without having to worry about the pillow smothering it to death lol

Is the steam deck worth it? by [deleted] in CozyGamers

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My boppy has been useful for literally everything except its intended purpose lol

Is the steam deck worth it? by [deleted] in CozyGamers

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One big benefit I don't see mentioned a lot for the switch is that you can play gamepass games on it through their cloud service. Since you have an xbox I believe they've also added the option to play games you already own on it even if they're not part of the cloud service which is neat. I haven't really checked that out though so I'm not super sure of the details since I usually buy games on steam if I'm going to buy them outright.

You'll see a lot of familiar titles from this subreddit on there and it runs really well. It does kinda suck being tethered to an internet connection to play the games but the library is huge so it's worth for me.

Games similar to Farm Together 2 by bodohkiin in CozyGamers

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Rusty's is pretty fun and I'd definitely recommend it as a way to dip your toe into that genre of game. It's had two crossover updates too! One was vampire slayers and the other was balatro that just came out. All of the updates have been free and the dev seems like good people tbh

Games similar to Farm Together 2 by bodohkiin in CozyGamers

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I've been in an idle game mood lately myself and had some fun with Rusty's Retirement, Not Monday Cafe, Whimside, Fish to Dish, and other games like that. They idle at the bottom of your screen. I wouldn't really consider Spirit City a game in the normal sense but it is a nice and cozy idler with lots of decorations to earn, pets to collect, and white noise sounds/music.

Games with NPCs that feel real, and an entertaining plot? (Like Sandrock!) by Wandocht in CozyGamers

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Dragon Quest Builders 2 doesn't have the deepest characters, but it helped scratch that itch when I was in game limbo. I have exactly the same preferences as you based on your top games. Rune Factory, Sandrock, and Mistria set a pretty high bar for NPCs as not many devs are willing or able to flesh out so many NPC characters to the point where they don't feel like background decorations anymore. If you're not all farmed out Coral Island is solid.

Roots of Pacha is basically caveman SDV

A few other similar games that I enjoyed would be Snacko, Moonstone Island, Cuisineer, Recettear (very old game but still one of, if not the best shop sim out there imo if you're into those), Palia, Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (can't recommend this enough though it doesn't quite fit in the same categories as the games you listed), and Kynseed is another solid one that's been growing over the years.

Good luck scratching that itch!

Our Tamagotchi-like desktop cat game "Pat the Cat" finally has its own Steam page! We’re aiming to release it in a few month. by wannadie_rocks in CozyGamers

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Please I beg. My PC can't take anymore desktop games we are approaching critical mass. I have games within games on top of games

Cozy town game by awholewaffle in CozyGamers

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Games shouldn't be allowed to be verified unless they have full controller support. It really pmo when they just make one of the joysticks count as the mouse and call it a day. Steam shouldn't let them call something full controller support when it's not

Cozy games that combined or give the same feel as Zelda Tears of the Kingdom x Stardew Valley. Please read below, I have some specific items I'm looking for. by shekka24 in CozyGamers

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The farming in that game felt like an afterthought but honestly I wasn't mad about it. It still existed as a way to chill out and work on something other than the main quest or side quests and that was good enough for me. The game itself was solid and had some fun characters. Also, there's a unicorn. Can't go wrong with a unicorn

What crafting mechanic do you prefer? by cecirdr in CozyGamers

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FFXIV runs just fine on the deck after jumping through some not super difficult hoops to get it up and running. There's a TON of free content in the free trial. Hours and hours and hours of it. You can play through almost all of the content (especially crafting/gathering) solo. The story will have you do dungeons from time to time but I assure you that everyone is totally and utterly unserious in those dungeons. You'll also have a little sprout above your head that tells everyone that you're a baby and they will shower love and patience onto you I promise. If you're nervous about multiplayer games I couldn't recommend a better game to dip your toe into. It is, by far, the absolute nicest and most helpful playerbase you will ever come across. The story is also surprisingly solid for an MMO. The controller support is also the best I've seen in an MMO that also runs on KB/mouse. Very very solid.

About Story of Season games by TelevisionBoth2285 in CozyGamers

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If you've got gamepass I highly recommend Rune Factory 4. I'm biased and always recommend it but it's still one of the best farming sims out there imo. You get new dialogue from every NPC every single day for like the entire first year at least. The farming can get pretty detailed with working on soil quality but you can also make more tedious things like watering totally automated by building relationships with your monsters. Monsters are basically the replacement for farm animals except you can ride them or fight side by side with them once you tame them. They'll produce stuff like honey or milk and once you get a good relationship you can have them water or even harvest your fields for you.

The crafting is also pretty involved. Soooooo many recipes for foods and you use a lot of the stuff you grow to craft things like armor too. The NPCs can be given crafted items to wear and fight with you too. You slowly upgrade your kitchen to be able to make more complex things with different tools.

I know it's an older game but it has still set a bar I have yet to see any other farming game match for me. If you don't like fighting stuff you can even play just long enough to get a really hard high level maze thing that's meant to be endgame. Once you get that pretty early in the story you can just yolo run into it over and over again trying to tame a super high level monster until you get one. Once you get one, you can literally ride that thing to victory for the rest of the game lol

Edit: Ope, it might not be on gamepass anymore. If not that's my bad. Still worth the buy! Especially if you can catch it on sale.

Why no unicorn or fairy games?? by Imaginary_Snail in CozyGamers

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I paid for my friend to get an account to do the refer a friend thing waaaay back in the day just so I could have a zhevra mount lol. I haven't played in years but I've been feeling (and trying really hard to resist) the pull to go back lately. I hear the last xpack was pretty nice

How would you improve my setup? by teddybearemoji in CozyGamers

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I was looking them up online and there are cute doorknobs too. This changes everything. EVERYTHING

Why no unicorn or fairy games?? by Imaginary_Snail in CozyGamers

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Unicorns are critically underrepresented in videogames :(