Hi — I’m Tammy.
I started this site because I kept buying cozy games and quietly putting them down three hours in. Not because they were bad. Because somewhere around the second act there’d be a shrine, or a séance, or a goddess who wanted something from me, and the thing I’d bought for a quiet evening had turned into something I didn’t want to play.
Refund, or just stop. Then back to scrolling, trying to find another one.
Eventually I got tired enough to start keeping notes. Then the notes got long enough to be a website.
What this site is
Cozy games with no magic, no spirits, no violence and no holiday themes — checked before I recommend them. Tidying games, building games, shop sims, cooking, growing things, taking care of small places. There are more of them than you’d think, and almost nowhere that sorts them out for you.
If you want the detail on how I decide, that’s all written down on How I Choose Games.
How I actually play
On a laptop, with one extra monitor and no graphics card worth mentioning. No console, no gaming rig, no LED wall.
I mention it because a lot of cozy gaming content is photographed on a very expensive desk, and it quietly suggests this hobby needs money you might not want to spend. It doesn’t. Almost everything I recommend runs on an ordinary laptop, and I say so when something doesn’t.
Where I’m up to
I’ll be straight with you, because the whole site rests on it: I’ve screened a lot of games and I’ve played a few. Those are different things and I mark every game as one or the other.
Screening means working through the store page, the full tag list, the DLC history, the wiki, the forums, the achievement list, and discussion of the ending — and emailing the developer when those disagree. It’s real work, and it’s the work you actually need from me. It isn’t forty hours in a save file, and I won’t write as though it were.
Right now I’m playing Outlanders. The Played column grows slowly and honestly from here.
The short version
- Based in Canada
- Plays on a laptop, badly, happily
- Will always tell you what she checked and what she didn’t
If you want to say hello, you can. If you’ve found something in a game I missed, please do — I’d rather be corrected than be wrong in public.