Cozy Grove is Animal Crossing’s chilled-out, haunted neighbor
Life on a different, not-so-abandoned island
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Each day I log into
Cozy Grove, the color has been drained from the otherwise abundant island. The lush greenery — tall pine trees, flowering fruit bushes, and twisted vines — is covered in grey. This happens each time I log off; the world I worked to colorize slowly fades back to these muted tones.
Cozy Grove, developed by Spry Fox, is a lot like
Animal Crossing: New Horizons — the video game we all sunk much of our lives into throughout 2020. Nintendo’s island-life simulator was inescapable, with life on a deserted island designed to be whatever you want it to be. As long as you collect enough resources to build it out, of course.