Welcome to the second Cozy Gaming train!! Last year it was a joint venture between: canis39, galiane, InsideAfireball, patch22, PoeticKatana, s4k1s, softbearcas, TinaG & WaxWorm. The purpose was to revitalize the Cozy Gaming Corner thread. It was a succes and people seem to love the cozy games. What is not to love right? I mean, it's winter (for us Northern hemisphere dwellers) and Valentines day is around the corner,... Plus we might all need a bit more cozyness and love in our lives right now, right? What better way than to get lost in a cozy game.

We (s4k1s and me) decided this time to do it 'Community train style' instead of just a footnote in the Cozy Gaming Corner. This gives everyone more freedom to join if they want or not.

What makes a Cozy Game? These are some of the "criteria" for games to be considered Cozy:

  • Gives feelings of warmth, peace and comfort.
  • No violence or gore (So no FPS, no horror or bloody hack and slash etc).
  • No (heavy) time constraints or pressure for performance. So more open ended. No stress, aka relaxing.
  • Not overly challenging,
  • ...

So even if the graphics are cute, it doesn't mean it's a cozy game and visa versa. Although I do realise some people will find a Twin shooter hack and slash like Trifox cozy. And I can see why. We all have different tastes in games. And that is why we won't be acting like judges. Just make a little disclaimer or discription so that people - who might not know the game - will be informed what to expect. I mean, even Stardew Vally has combat... I don't believe those slimes find it cozy to be hit on the head repeatedly. Though it's not mandatory. Just prefered ^^
But try and be as close as you can please. (otherwise what is the point of having a Cozy train instead of just a normal train, right?)

A few other rules here to mention. You can choose your layout, level of entry, links, discription, whatever else, but be respectfull.

  • The train ends on Valentines day, so any giveaways made must end on 14th of February. Start date must be at the moment you post the giveaway link or earlier. Don't jam the train please.
  • Only "invite only" giveaways.
  • Post the next giveaway in the comments of the last so that person can link it.
  • Try to use no region restricted games, or keep it to a minimum.
  • Number the giveaway in the discription so it's easy to keep track of the train.
Station Station Station
10 20 30
40 50 60
70 80 90
100 110 120
130 140 150
160 170 180
190 200 210
220 240 250
260 270 280
290 300 310
320 330

I can't post about a Cozy train and not mention Softbearcas' thread of Free Cozy games. When you can't get enough of the Cozy gaming genre, go browse all the work Softbearcas does for your ease. Go give her some thanks.

We hope you enjoy the ride! Happy cozy gaming to you all and we hope you'll enjoy playing these cozy games! That would be much appriciated!

The Cozy Community train starts here

Thank you so much to all who contributed to the train!! I know it was a bit last minute for many of you. But I never would have dreamed it would become such a succes. I think a new edition next year is in order then! Same time and place, see you all then! I hope all of you enjoyed the coziness of it all. ^v^

View attached image.
View attached image.
3 weeks ago*

Comment has been collapsed.

I'm not sure about what this is, but still wanted to give it a try โ˜บ๏ธ

5 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Welcome to SG! You'll see a couple of these Community trains throughout the year. They are a loved means of doing giveaways by and for the community.

4 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Cozy bump! :-)

5 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Bump! :)

4 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I forgot if I thanked before in the main tread, so...thank you!!

4 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Bump!

4 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Bump 331 and 334 added
Thanks TinaG for this event and for the train !

4 days ago*
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

View attached image.
4 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

4 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Just came out of work and reminded I didn't add anything to the train agh, last day bump, added 335, 336 and 337 ๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿฆฆ

4 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Welcome to the train Kyog! :)

4 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

quite-late heart-filled bumpy thanks for all you awesome ppl ๐Ÿ’œ

View attached image.
4 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Happy Valentine's Day

4 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thanks for all the giveaways, everyone!!!

4 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I won a game from the train, bump!

4 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thank you for hosting, and a big thank you to all the GA hosters for sharing the love ๐Ÿ’–

3 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thank you for organizing this train, Tina and Sakis ^^

3 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thanks for starting a cool train!

3 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thank you so much to all who contributed to the train!! I know it was a bit last minute for many of you. But I never would have dreamed it would become such a succes. I think a new edition next year is in order then! Same time and place, see you all then! I hope all of you enjoyed the coziness of it all. ^v^

3 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thanks Tina for putting this on! It was loads of fun!

3 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thank you for creating something so great Tina, for the next one I will be attentive to collaborate with everything I can.

3 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thanks for hosting it, Tina!

3 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Glad i found it in the VERY last minute!
Looking forward for the next one.

Thanks a lot for organizing, i really liked it ๐Ÿฃ

See you all next year again!

3 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thanks for the train!

3 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Hopefully will have something on hand to participate next time! That was a great community train

3 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thank you Tina, for organizing it! I would also like to thank everyone who participated in the train and the thread! It exceeded all my expectations! :)

3 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I love the idea of a yearly cozy train. Thank you so much for putting together <3

3 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thanks again Tina! I look forward to the next one :)

2 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thank you for organizing the train!
The Cozy Trains stats are here
If you wish to create a reports as I usually do, here's the tool, but you need a computer / notebook.

2 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thank you for the stats JM and the tool aswell. I must admit, I'm not that great with this sort of thing, so I'm gratefull that you made this. This will come in handy for reviewing this train and preparing for next years train, so thank you very much! :) ๐Ÿ’™

2 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I'll be glad to answer any questions and to receive any feedback :)

2 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thank you very much Tina for the great cozy idea

2 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thank you Tina (and s4k1s) for organizing this and to everyone else who participated. I'm happy to have been a tiny of it. See you next year.

2 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thank you too PK. Looking forward to next year! :)

1 day ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Thank you for organizing this cozy event! ๐Ÿฅฐ

See you next year hopefully, for the start of a cozy new tradition!

1 day ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Cozy bump! :)

2 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Honest Question!
can call of the wild be considered a cozy game?

2 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

While the game as a whole will probably not be considered cozy by most people, it can be very cozy, if you play it without shooting animals, just walking around watching the landscape and animals.

2 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

For me personally I would say no, because you are killing animals after all. But if you take that out of the equation, I can see a relaxing exploration game; taking your time to work on your skills...
For me cozy means warm and happy, locking the world out and just enjoy the sweet make-believe. But others might actually find a relaxing exploration game cozy. This is the Wikipedia definition for cozy, but you can decide what falls under that for yourself. :)

2 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Based on the first two criterias and the actual games in the train, I had an initial guess (for the stats collecting reason) to describe games definitely fit the train requirements as the games that have at least two tags from the list

Cozy
Cute
Colorful
Wholesome
Relaxing

and the games unfit the train theme as the ones that have any tag like

Combat
Shoot 'Em Up
Dystopian
Violent
Gore
Souls-like
NSFW
Sexual Content
Mature
Hentai
etc.

2 days ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Sign in through Steam to add a comment.