Can Horror Games Be Cozy?

Cozy Gamer Cast

Can a horror game be cozy? Or do the two not mix? And who gets to decide? This topic has been quite divisive, but who better to talk about it than a scaredy Kat and a haunted Jess?

New & Upcoming releases 3:00

Games mentioned: Fall of Porcupine, Smushi Come Home, Dordogne, The Palace on the Hill, To A T, Little Kitty Big City, The Invincible, Botany Manor, The Star Named EOS, Tiny Bookshop, Venba, Gourdlets, Henry Halfhead, Kibu, The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, Moonstone Island, Grave Seasons

Cozy Horror 22:08

Our assigned game: Dredge

Games mentioned: Firewatch, Oxenfree, Call of the Sea, Little Nightmares, Little Misfortune, Inside, Limbo, Stray, Strange Horticulture

Jess Nevins' cozy horror thread Simon McNeil - In Praise of Discomfort Shila Vikström's 'Why do we experience horror games as cozy?' thread

Jess' TikTok on Venba Kat's video on Can Horror Games be Cozy?Kat's Firewatch playthrough Kat's video on the Botany Manor demoKat's quick look at Dordogne

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