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Coziness in Games: Second Homes, Audiences, and Esthetics

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Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media

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Abstract

Games and Culture, Volume 21, Issue 5, Page 1170-1188, July 2026.
The “Cozy” game has gained traction as a concept in contemporary game culture as a set of formal generic features. While we examine the way that Cozy Games are often now defined as a genre, we demonstrate that “coziness in games” has widespread formal and ...