Environments are littered with various trees, plants, rocks, and items that complement the person nearby, such as postal scooters and undelivered packages near the postman, or a collection of farming equipment surrounding a corn-on-the-cob bear.Īt the start of your journey, and at any point thereafter, you can create your character, a genderless avatar that will horde an insane amount of clothing everything from hats, face masks, shirts, and even more costume pieces like a knight’s helmet or that of a hat matching your more grizzly residents. You can extend this color by aiding nearby spirits around them, and crafting, or buying, various lamps that grant their own area of color against the black and grey surroundings that make up the rest of Cozy Grove. The hand-drawn appeal of what has been done here compliments that so, with gorgeous artwork, characters, and environments, that are often jaw-dropping when you start to bring back its colorful residents, creating small little pockets of neighborhoods and structures throughout your progress.Įach completion of a spirit’s task causes their return to the living world to be with an explosion of color, flowing out as it covers a solid distance all around them. While the premise of spirits and ghosts may invoke some aspects of horror or the supernatural, Cozy Grove is instead charming and adorable. The game has you arriving at a little spot of paradise called Cozy Grove as a Spirit Scout, one tasked with assisting various spirits with an assortment of daily, and sometimes weekly, tasks, pulling them back into the real world as you track down a wealth of resources, crafting supplies, and more of their ghostly friends. While you’ll have a few graphical oddities of pieces overlapping over one another, developer Spry Fox has crafted a visually stunning experience in Cozy Grove that may just fill that need of moving on from something like Animal Crossing, while striving to become its own thing, one spirit bear at a time. Cozy Grove’s hand-drawn aesthetic is incredibly well suited to the tone and charm the game exudes.
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