cozy mmo
Palia is prepping an economy patch to smooth out gold generation and skills
With two major rounds of layoffs and a severely shrunken team - not to mention the fiasco with its beta status - Palia has...
For Science: Fandom’s survey shows a majority of gamers play to unwind and de-stress
I know you'll all be shocked to learn that people play games to have fun and chill out, but in the current industry, sometimes...
Palia studio Singularity 6 has been slammed with yet another layoff round
Singularity 6, the studio behind beta cozy MMO Palia, is dealing with yet another round of layoffs this week, following a round back in...
Cozy co-op farming game Farm Together 2 has rolled into early access as planned
A month ago, we chittered excitedly about the fact that Farm Together 2, the sequel to the seriously underrated multiplayer-optional cozy game Farm Together,...
Miracle-Gro asks gamers to film gardening in games from Stardew Valley to Minecraft
This is such a weird crosspromo that I literally dropped what I was doing to write it up because I know this is gonna...
Kickstarted multiplayer cozygame Loftia talks minigames, NPCs, and accessibility
Mediumly multiplayer solarpunk cozy game Loftia closed out April with another dev blog about the team's progress this week.
Bolstered by last year's half-million-dollar Kickstarter,...
Stardew Valley’s latest patch adds more mines, fairies, and fish frenzies
Stardew Valley isn't quite finished perfecting its cozy life sim world. This past week saw the release of Patch 1.6.4, and as usual, the...
Dune Awakening teases its movable, taxable, base-buildy but cozy player housing
Fans of Funcom's Conan Exiles will eagerly point to the game's building as one of its strongest features, so it's no surprise that the...
LOTRO Legendarium: Looking back and ahead at LOTRO’s 17th birthday
At the start of Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo Baggins famously celebrates his 111th birthday (alongside Frodo's own 33rd birthday). He looks back at...
Casually Classic: Four lessons we’ve learned from WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery so far
As I write this, we're still a long way off from the end of WoW Classic's Season of Discovery. A final stretch of leveling...
Kickstarted cozygame Solarpunk didn’t make its Q1 alpha, but devs say they’re ‘making significant progress’
One of the top multiplayer Kickstarters of 2023 was for Solarpunk, when indie outfit Cyberwave Games and Rokaplay pulled in $330,000 US on a...
Cozy multiplayer game Farm Together 2 is launching early access in May
You might not know this about me, but I really love the idea of farming in video games. I just... almost universally hate the...
The Stream Team: Taking our first steps into the world of Sky Children of the Light
MOP's Chris has had his eye on Sky: Children of the Light for quite some time now, as he patiently waited for the game...
KingsIsle announces Wizard101 single-player spinoff Ravenwood Academy
If you've ever wanted to dive back into the Wizard101 world without actually being in Wizard101, now is your time, as this morning KingsIsle...
Cozy MMO Sky Children of the Light launches F2P early access on Steam today
Thatgamecompany's five-year-old Sky: Children of the Light officially debuts on PC today, one of the rare few multiplayer titles these days that seems to...
Last week’s massive Palia layoffs included waaaay too many senior Singularity 6 staff
As Palia players continue to reel from last week's news that Singularity 6 had laid off 35% of its team, the staff are continuing...
The Crew Motorfest and Sky Children of the Light confirm arrivals to Steam in April
One's a multiplayer racing open world-ish title, the other is a cute and emotive social multiplayer game, yet both The Crew Motorfest and Sky:...
RuneScape-inspired Brighter Shores plans AFK character advancement
Ever since hearing how one of Jagex's co-founders is bringing a cozy RuneScape-like MMO to us later this year, we've been keenly interested to...
Noah’s Heart is sunsetting April 29 as Archosaur diverts players to Dragon Raja
Cozy multiplatform MMO Noah's Heart has never been a loud and splashy MMO, with news about its updates since its official global launch in...
Cozy MMO Palia handwaves its bizarre beta obfuscation on the grounds that it’s free-to-play
Yesterday, we recapped the ongoing drama with Singularity 6's cozy mini-MMO, Palia. The short version is that the game hit beta last summer and...