A cozy game is a video game genre that emphasizes non-violence and relaxation. Initially derived from the life simulation genre, cozy games commonly include activities such as gathering and growing plants and nurturing other characters. Check out these cozy games you can borrow with your BCLS library card:

Nintendo Switch

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Rated E for Everyone)
  This is probably the most well-known and loved cozy game! Escape to a deserted island and create your own paradise as you explore, create and customize. Your island getaway has a wealth of natural resources that can be used to craft everything from tools to creature comforts. 
• My Time at Portia (Rated E 10+)
  This is an RPG, life-sim, crafting game that enables players to embark on an open-world adventure to meet and form relationships with a cast of unforgettable faces – all while using an exciting range of game mechanics (including crafting, farming, resource gathering, exploration and much more).
• Endless Ocean Luminous (Rated E for Everyone)
  Take a deep breath and plunge into the Veiled Sea: an unexplored region with discoveries that change with each dive. Scan sea creatures and learn about more than 500 species of marine life – some of which are presumed extinct, or even mythical!
• HOA (Rated E for Everyone)
  This is a beautiful puzzle-platforming single-player adventure game that features breathtaking hand-painted art, lovely music, and a peaceful, relaxing atmosphere. Experience the magic of nature and imagination as you play as the main character, Hoa, on her journey through breath-taking environments back to where it all began.
• Grow: Song of the Evertree (Rated E for Everyone)
  Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox with life management and adventure elements. Discover a vibrant unique world... at your own pace.
• Little Dragon’s Café (Rated E 10+)
  The story opens with a twin brother and sister learning to cook and manage a small café under their mother's tutelage. All was peaceful and routine until one morning when the twins discover that their mother has fallen into a deep sleep and won't wake up. Suddenly, a strange old man appears to inform them that they must raise a dragon in order to save her. Working together with three quirky café employees, the two siblings must figure out how to a wrangle a dragon and manage the family business while finding a way to save their mother.

Nintendo Wii/Wii-U

• Cooking Mama. World Kitchen. (Rated E for Everyone)
  With a new 3D look and comedic kitchen mini-games with her little dog Max, Mama and her international friends offer more than 50 new recipes, including Nestle toll house chocolate chip cookies, ratatouille, french fries and pancakes. Prepare ingredients with a real or in-game friend. Use the Wii remote as a universal utensil to chop, grind, slice and stir.
• Endless Ocean. Blue World. (Rated E 10+)
  The ocean is teeming with life. Hundreds of real-life species are there to be discovered, from seahorses to giant whales. Explore exotic locations, interact with more than 300 species of aquatic life, and search for sunken treasure across the globe.
• Minecraft (Rated E 10+)
  Build, create, explore. Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. This game is also available for PS4, Xbox One and Xbox 360.

PlayStation

• Planet Coaster (PS4, Rated E for Everyone)
  Welcome to a new era in coaster park simulation! Bring your ideas to life with easy-to-use tools, manage all aspects of your expanding empire, and harness the world's best creations from an endlessly creative community in the frontier Workshop. This game is also available for Xbox One.
• Harvest Moon. One World. (PS4, Rated E for Everyone)
  Trek across beaches, the desert and even a volcano in the latest entry into the long-running Harvest Moon series! Along the way, you'll come across cows, sheep, camels and even reindeers! This game is also available for Nintendo Switch.
• Coffee Talk (PS5, Rated M for Mature 17+)
  Coffee talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples' problems and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two. Immerse yourself in the stories of alternative-Seattle inhabitants, ranging from a dramatic love story between an elf and a succubus, an alien trying to understand humans' lives, and many other modern readers will find strongly echo the world around them.
• Lake (PS5, Rated M for Mature 17+)
  It's 1886. Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next? It's up to you.

Xbox 360/Xbox One

• Moving Out (Xbox One, Rated E for Everyone)
  This is a ridiculous physics-based moving simulator that brings new meaning to “couch co-op!” Are you ready for an exciting career in furniture? As a newly certified furniture arrangement and relocation technician, you'll take on moving jobs all across the town of Packmore. Grow Smooth Moves to brave new heights, recruit colorful customizable characters, and save your town from furniture peril! This game is also available for PS4 and Nintendo Switch.
• Viva Piñata (Xbox 360, Rated E for Everyone)
  Grow your own pinatas on Pinata Island, where pinata gardens produce pinatas that are sent all over the world for people to enjoy at parties.
• Zoo Tycoon (Xbox 360, Rated E for Everyone)
  Create and manage your perfect zoo while getting up close to the animals you love.