Last updated on May 30th, 2025 at 04:33 pm
The cozy gaming genre has absolutely exploded in recent years, especially on the Nintendo Switch. With so many comforting, charming, and emotionally rich games available, it’s easy for some incredible titles to get lost in the shuffle.
That’s why we’ve curated a list of 21 cozy Nintendo Switch games that deserve way more love. These hidden gems may not dominate bestseller charts, but they’ll absolutely win your heart.
1. Grow: Song of the Evertree
Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox, with life management and adventure elements.
2. Tavern Talk
One of the best new releases of 2024, this magical tavern simulator blends storytelling, drink-mixing, and fantasy worldbuilding. Your choices shape quests, relationships, and destinies—all without ever leaving your bar.
Play as the Innkeeper in Tavern Talk, a cozy visual novel where you run a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.
3. Mutazione
MUTAZIONE is an adventure game where the juicy personal drama is just as important as the high-stakes adventure part of the story.
Explore the community as 15-year-old Kai as she travels to the strange and secretive community of Mutazione to care for her ailing grandfather, Nonno.
Make new friends; plant musical gardens; attend BBQs, band nights and boat trips; and embark on a final spiritual journey to save everyone from the strange darkness at the heart of it all.
4. Roots of Pacha
A farming sim set in the stone age where you develop the ideas that shaped humanity.
Be a part of a thriving stone age community. Discover “ideas,” domesticate crops, befriend animals, and contribute to the growth of your village. Play with friends in co-op or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
5. Tinykin
Shrink down and explore massive environments filled with platforming puzzles and quirky creatures. It’s Pikmin-inspired, but way more relaxing.
Catch hundreds of tinykin and use their powers to bring Milo back to his home planet!
Milo arrives on Earth to find that he’s way too small, everybody’s gone and a day hasn’t passed since 1991!
Team up with the mysterious tinykin and use their unique powers to create ladders, bridges, explosions and a lot more!
Find a way home through a sprawling ant-sized metropolis, and unravel Earth’s biggest mystery!
6. Potion Permit
Diagnose, gather, brew, and cure in this open-ended sim RPG!
The town of Moonbury has always been wary of the advances of the outside world, preferring to rely on their traditional methods of healing. Until one day, when the mayor’s daughter falls ill, and the local witch doctor can do nothing to help her, they are forced to look outside their small community for help.
The Medical Association decides to send their most accomplished chemist – you – to help cure the mayor’s daughter and convince the residents of Moonbury of the wonders of modern alchemy. Gain their trust and tend to each person when they fall ill in this open-ended sim RPG.
7. Jenny LeClue: Detectivú
A beautifully written mystery game with fully voiced characters, branching storylines, and detective gameplay. Great for fans of narrative-rich adventures and cozy mysteries.
An adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character.
You play as Jenny LeClue, an aspiring young detective and obsessive pursuer of the truth. But nothing exciting ever happens in her small town, and she longs for a real adventure. Jenny gets more than she bargains for when her mother is accused of murder! She embarks on a journey to uncover the truth, and soon discovers nothing in Arthurton is what it seems. Jenny must use her skills of deduction and face her demons to find the real killer and unravel Arthurton’s darker mysteries.
8. Dorfromantik
A relaxing building strategy and puzzle game in which you place tiles to create ever-growing, idyllic village landscapes.
With Dorfromantik, you can immerse yourself in a quiet, peaceful world at any time and take a break from everyday life. At the same time, Dorfromantik offers a challenge for those who are looking for one: To beat the highscore, you need to carefully plan and strategically place your tiles.
9. Graveyard Keeper
Yes, it’s a bit darker in theme—but it’s oddly cozy, too. Manage your graveyard, craft materials, explore dungeons, and make morally questionable choices… with humor.
Expand a medieval cemetery into a thriving business, whatever it takes!
Graveyard Keeper is the most inaccurate medieval cemetery management sim of the year. Build & manage your own graveyard while finding shortcuts to cut costs, expand into entertainment with witch-burning festivals, and scare nearby villagers into attending church. This is a game of capitalism and doing whatever it takes to build a thriving business.
10. GRIS
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality. As the story unfolds, Gris will grow emotionally and see her world in a different way, revealing new paths to explore using her new abilities.
GRIS is a serene and evocative experience, free of danger, frustration or death. Players will explore a meticulous designed world brought to life with delicate art, detailed animation, and an elegant original score. Through the game light puzzles, platforming sequences, and optional skill-based challenges will reveal themselves as more of Gris’s world becomes accessible.
11. Toem
Set off on a delightful expedition and use your photographic eye to uncover the mysteries of the magical TOEM in this hand-drawn adventure game. Chat with quirky characters, solve their problems by snapping neat photos, and make your way through a relaxing landscape!
12. Calico
Calico is a day-in-the-life community sim game where you are given an important and adorable task: rebuild the town’s cat café and fill it with cute and cuddly creatures! You will journey to a small village filled with magical girls and other fantastical friends, where you are placed in charge of a run down cat café. Build up your café by filling it with cute furniture, fun decorations, yummy pastries, and get it bustling with animals again!
Calico is meant to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. The gameplay reflects that with a laid back, low stress creative environment to explore and play in.
13. The Red Lantern
A dog-sledding narrative adventure where each run teaches you how to survive the wilds of Alaska. Includes a Zen mode for peaceful exploration—and yes, you can pet your dogs.
The Red Lantern is a story-driven, rogue-lite, survival game where you and your team of 5 sled dogs, lost in the wilderness, must navigate the ever-changing encounters of the Alaskan bush to find your way home.
14. The Star Named EOS
A short but powerful narrative puzzle game about love, memories, and photography. Solve 3D and classic point-and-click puzzles while uncovering an emotional family story.
The Star Named EOS is a story-rich puzzle adventure built around photography. Explore a beautiful hand-drawn world as you photograph some of the most precious yet fleeting moments in life. As you recreate photos from the past, you will slowly uncover the truth of a family mystery, and the love hidden within fragmented memories will eventually become clear.
15. Beacon Pines
A cute and creepy adventure set within a mysterious book where your choices change the narrative. You play as both the reader of the book and it’s main character, Luka.
Something strange is happening at the old warehouse, and Luka and his friends seem to be the only ones taking notice. Sneak out late, make new friends, uncover hidden truths, and collect words that will change the course of fate!
16. Spiritfarer
Spiritfarer is a cozy management game about dying.
You play Stella, ferrymaster to the deceased, a Spiritfarer. Build a boat to explore the world, then befriend and care for spirits before finally releasing them into the afterlife. Farm, mine, fish, harvest, cook, and craft your way across mystical seas. Join the adventure as Daffodil the cat, in two-player cooperative play. Spend relaxing quality time with your spirit passengers, create lasting memories, and, ultimately, learn how to say goodbye to your cherished friends. Includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates: explore an expanded world and befriend four new spirit friends!
17. Abzû
ABZÛ is a beautiful underwater adventure that evokes the dream of diving. Immerse yourself in a vibrant ocean world full of mystery and bursting with color and life. Perform fluid acrobatics as the Diver, using graceful swimming controls. Discover hundreds of unique species based on real creatures and form a powerful connection with the abundant sea life. Interact with schools of thousands of fish that procedurally respond to you, each other, and predators.
Linger in epic seascapes and explore aquatic ecosystems modeled with unprecedented detail. Descend into the heart of the ocean where ancient secrets lie forgotten. But beware, dangers lurk in the depths. “ABZÛ” is from the oldest mythologies; AB, meaning water, and ZÛ, meaning to know. ABZÛ is the ocean of wisdom.
18. Chicory: A Colorful Tale
Chicory: A Colorful Tale is a top-down adventure game in a coloring book world where you can draw on anything. Use your painting powers to explore new places, solve puzzles, help your friends, and change the world!
Something terrible happened. Chicory, superstar artist and wielder of the Brush, is missing, and all the color in the land vanished with her. It’s up to you, Chicory’s number one fan, to pick up the Brush and fill in for her. It’s a big job… but you’re ready for it! Probably!
19. Sumire
Sumire is an indie narrative adventure, featuring a one-day journey through a picturesque Japanese village. In this enchanted place, a disenchanted girl named Sumire meets a mischievous spirit who makes her a deal to fulfill her most desired wish.
But in order to see this wish come true, she must complete a series of tasks in return, before night falls and this special day reaches its end.
20. Ogu and the Secret Forest
COMING: April 29, 2025 on Switch
Embark on a delightful 2D adventure with Ogu and the Secret Forest. You play as Baby Ogu, exploring hand-drawn landscapes filled with puzzles, quirky characters, and hidden secrets. Customize Ogu with various hats and masks, each offering unique abilities, as you unravel the mysteries of the charming world.
Final Thoughts
If you’ve been feeling stuck in your cozy gaming routine, these hidden gems might be just what you need to fall in love with your Nintendo Switch all over again. Each one offers something unique—whether it’s stunning visuals, heartwarming stories, or relaxing gameplay.
