# CozyWiki > CozyWiki — The Cozy Games Wiki — is a community-edited, citation-first encyclopedia of cozy games: farming sims, life sims, wholesome adventures and every gentle game in between. Every fact cites a source, every page is machine-readable, and anyone can contribute. Important notes: - Every factual claim on this wiki cites a source; citations (with URLs and access dates) are included in each page's markdown and JSON. - Text is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Attribution: "CozyWiki contributors — https://cozywiki.com". - Append `.md` to any article URL for clean markdown, or `.json` for structured data with citations. - Structured game facts (developer, release dates, platforms, genres): https://cozywiki.com/api/v1/games - Full database export: https://cozywiki.com/api/v1/export - Community edits go live only after human moderator review (pending-changes model). ## Games - [A Little to the Left](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/a-little-to-the-left.md): Max Inferno's tidying puzzle game about sorting, stacking and straightening — despite the cat. Over a million copies sold. - [A Short Hike](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/a-short-hike.md): Adam Robinson-Yu's gentle exploration adventure about hiking to a mountaintop; winner of the 2020 IGF Grand Prize. - [Animal Crossing: New Horizons](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/animal-crossing-new-horizons.md): Nintendo's 2020 island life sim for Switch — 49.91 million copies sold, the fastest Switch launch ever recorded at the time. - [Chicory: A Colorful Tale](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/chicory-a-colorful-tale.md): A top-down adventure in a coloring-book world where you paint on everything — BAFTA Family award winner, music by Lena Raine. - [Coffee Talk](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/coffee-talk.md): Toge Productions' late-night barista game: listen to fantasy folk's troubles and answer with a warm drink. - [Cozy Grove](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/cozy-grove.md): Spry Fox's life sim about camping on a haunted island and soothing its ghosts, one real-time day at a time. - [Dinkum](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/dinkum.md): Solo-developed Australian-outback life sim by James Bendon; 1.0 in 2025 after selling over a million copies in early access. - [Disney Dreamlight Valley](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/disney-dreamlight-valley.md): Gameloft's life-sim adventure set among Disney and Pixar characters; left early access in December 2023 as a paid game. - [Dorfromantik](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/dorfromantik.md): Toukana Interactive's meditative hex-tile village builder — a student debut that won Germany's top game awards. - [Fields of Mistria](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/fields-of-mistria.md): NPC Studio's 90s-anime-styled farming and life-sim RPG; a breakout 2024 early-access hit with 1.0 set for August 2026. - [Garden Story](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/garden-story.md): A solo-developed action-RPG about a grape named Concord rebuilding an island community, published by Rose City Games. - [Lil Gator Game](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/lil-gator-game.md): MegaWobble's joyful movement adventure about a small alligator making friends — now with a game-sized expansion, In the Dark. - [Ooblets](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/ooblets.md): Glumberland's farming and creature-collection game where battles are dance-offs; early access 2020, 1.0 in 2022. - [Palia](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/palia.md): Free-to-play “community sim” MMO of farming, fishing and home-building; over 4 million players by mid-2024. - [PowerWash Simulator](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/powerwash-simulator.md): FuturLab's soothing cleaning sim — blast the grime, watch the sparkle, optionally with friends. 3 million players by late 2022. - [Slime Rancher](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/slime-rancher.md): Monomi Park's first-person slime-wrangling ranch sim — 5 million copies sold by 2022, with a sequel that hit 1.0 in 2025. - [Spiritfarer](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/spiritfarer.md): Thunder Lotus's “cozy management game about dying” — ferry spirits, care for them, and let them go. Over a million copies sold. - [Stardew Valley](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/stardew-valley.md): Open-ended country-life RPG made single-handedly by Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone; released in 2016, 50 million copies sold by 2026. - [Sun Haven](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/sun-haven.md): Pixel Sprout's fantasy farming sim with dragons, skill trees and 8-player co-op; Kickstarted in 2020, 1.0 in 2023. - [Terra Nil](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/terra-nil.md): Free Lives' “reverse city builder”: restore a wasteland to a thriving ecosystem, then pack up and leave no trace. - [Tiny Glade](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/tiny-glade.md): Pounce Light's gridless castle-doodling toy: no goals, no management — 616,000 copies in its first month. - [Unpacking](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/unpacking.md): Witch Beam's zen puzzle game that tells a life story through eight house moves; double BAFTA winner in 2022. - [Venba](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/venba.md): Visai Games' narrative cooking game about an Indian mother in 1980s Canada — IGF Grand Prize and BAFTA Debut Game winner. - [Wylde Flowers](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/wylde-flowers.md): Studio Drydock's fully voiced farming-and-witchcraft life sim: tend the farm by day, cast spells by night. ## Game sub-wikis (deep-dive pages, one wiki per game at //wiki/…) - [A Little to the Left — Expansions and updates](https://cozywiki.com/a-little-to-the-left/wiki/expansions-and-updates.md): Cupboards & Drawers, Seeing Stars, seasonal events and the mobile edition — how the tidying kept growing. - [Animal Crossing: New Horizons — Version 2.0 update](https://cozywiki.com/animal-crossing-new-horizons/wiki/version-2-0-update.md): The big free November 2021 update: The Roost, Kapp'n boat tours, gyroids, cooking, ordinances — plus the paid Happy Home Paradise DLC. - [Chicory: A Colorful Tale — Awards and recognition](https://cozywiki.com/chicory-a-colorful-tale/wiki/awards-and-recognition.md): BAFTA Family winner, IGF Grand Prize finalist — Chicory's awards record, precisely stated. - [Coffee Talk — Series releases](https://cozywiki.com/coffee-talk/wiki/series-releases.md): Every entry in the Coffee Talk series so far, from the 2020 original to Coffee Talk Tokyo. - [Garden Story — Release history](https://cozywiki.com/garden-story/wiki/release-history.md): Showcases, the 2021 Switch/PC launch, and the 2022 Game Pass arrival of Garden Story. - [Lil Gator Game — In the Dark](https://cozywiki.com/lil-gator-game/wiki/in-the-dark.md): The game-sized 2026 expansion that takes Lil Gator underground — plus the Gator of the Year Edition. - [Ooblets — Release history](https://cozywiki.com/ooblets/wiki/release-history.md): From Patreon GIFs to Epic exclusivity to 1.0 — the long, public road Ooblets took to release. - [PowerWash Simulator — Special Pack DLC](https://cozywiki.com/powerwash-simulator/wiki/special-pack-dlc.md): PowerWash Simulator's licensed crossover packs — from Croft Manor to Bikini Bottom. - [Slime Rancher — Sales milestones](https://cozywiki.com/slime-rancher/wiki/sales-milestones.md): One million in weeks, five million by 2022 — Slime Rancher's documented sales history. - [Slime Rancher — Slime Rancher 2](https://cozywiki.com/slime-rancher/wiki/slime-rancher-2.md): The sequel on Rainbow Island: early access in 2022, full 1.0 release in September 2025. - [Stardew Valley — Version history](https://cozywiki.com/stardew-valley/wiki/version-history.md): Stardew Valley's major free updates — from the XNA-to-MonoGame migration to the 1.6 content update. - [Sun Haven — Version history](https://cozywiki.com/sun-haven/wiki/version-history.md): Kickstarter to 1.0 to Switch — Sun Haven's release milestones and its 43-item DLC catalog. - [Terra Nil — Updates and releases](https://cozywiki.com/terra-nil/wiki/updates-and-releases.md): From Ludum Dare prototype to the Vita Nova update — how Terra Nil grew across platforms. - [Unpacking — Awards and recognition](https://cozywiki.com/unpacking/wiki/awards-and-recognition.md): Two BAFTAs, twenty award wins in year one, and a million copies — Unpacking's trophy shelf. - [Venba — Awards and recognition](https://cozywiki.com/venba/wiki/awards-and-recognition.md): IGF Grand Prize, GDC double, BAFTA Debut Game — Venba's extraordinary awards season. ## Concepts & culture - [Cozy game](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/cozy-game.md): A loosely defined genre of games built around comfort, low stakes and gentle pace — its definition, design theory, history and culture. - [Glossary of cozy gaming terms](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/glossary-of-cozy-gaming-terms.md): The vocabulary of cozy gaming — from chore-core to wishlists — as the community actually uses it. - [Wholesome Games](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/wholesome-games.md): The curation project and annual Wholesome Direct showcase that gave gentle indie games a stage — from 25,000 viewers in 2020 to millions. ## About the wiki & policies - [About CozyWiki](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/about.md): What this wiki is, how it stays accurate, and why it is built for both human readers and AI systems. - [General disclaimer](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/general-disclaimer.md): The legal small print: volunteer-written content, no warranty, and trademarks belong to their owners. - [Moderation](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/moderation.md): How pending changes work: anyone can edit, a human reviews every change against its sources before it publishes. - [Style guide](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/style-guide.md): House style: neutral encyclopedic tone, standard article structure, dates, links and citation formatting. - [Verifiability](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/verifiability.md): The wiki's core policy: every factual claim must cite a reliable source that readers (and machines) can check. - [What counts as cozy](https://cozywiki.com/wiki/what-counts-as-cozy.md): Inclusion criteria: how the wiki decides which games belong, without pretending the genre has hard edges. ## Data endpoints - [All pages (JSON index)](https://cozywiki.com/api/v1/pages): every article with markdown/JSON URLs - [Games database (JSON)](https://cozywiki.com/api/v1/games): structured, cited facts per game - [Full export (JSON)](https://cozywiki.com/api/v1/export): the entire wiki as open data - [Site stats (JSON)](https://cozywiki.com/api/v1/stats): article/citation counts - [Recent changes (RSS)](https://cozywiki.com/feed.xml): every published edit - [All pages (HTML index)](https://cozywiki.com/all-pages): human-browsable index of every page - [Wiki statistics (HTML)](https://cozywiki.com/stats): live health metrics with per-wiki breakdown ## Optional - [llms-full.txt](https://cozywiki.com/llms-full.txt): every article's full text in one file