Topic: Life Sim & Sandbox Games Thread

Cozy Grove is really fun. It is like Animal Crossing in that you play a litte every day. You help ghost bears "go gold", basically helping them work through the issues that are keeping them here. The life sim elements including fishing, digging up nuts (what kind depends on the time of year), treasure map pieces and coins, raising animals (birds, cats, squirrel like creatures and deer), cooking and feeding the resulting food to the animals (each of them tell you what they want in a thought bubble) to get resources from them, collecting shells, catching bugs, etc.

Does Spiritfarer count as a "life sim"? If it does, it is another really good one. You're a spiritfarer, you take souls to the afterlife after helping them finish whatever unfinished business they have. In between, you take care of crops, fish, smelt metal, make fabric from cotton, wool and silk, mine, chop down trees, cut them into planks, etc. You do all that to make houses for your guests and then upgrade the houses as their needs change. You also cook because they get hungry and you have to feed them to keep them happy. They all have a favorite type of food as well.

Both are sad at times but also have a lot of sweet moments too. Great games.

The Elder Scrolls. Likely for the same reasons that the fallout folks love fallout. So much to do, see and kill in those games. I do the main quest unlike a lot of folks but I remember living as a traveling merchant in Oblivion and a werewolf vigilante in Skyrim. I’m going to miss Shouts in the next game. I sorta hope for settlements (building mechanic) in the new TES. Especially since there is always one city that gets burnt to the ground.

After that some of the Assassins’s Creed games.

Puffpals Island Skies gameplay early access.