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Great video. Thank you for featuring Duck N Roll as well!

Was hoping to see Hexargy show up here. A nice combination of deck building and 4X, the perfect board game turned video.

Very nice video, thank you. Nice summary of the history and I especially appreciate the richness and variety of shown material, very cool!

.Forty-Five is a deck building duel where you load cards (bullets) into your gun. It's criminal that the author isn't charging anything for it.

I like singleplayer deck building games but not the roguelite ones. I like the ones where its rpg and you get to keep your cards or play vs ai bots like yugioh handheld games.

Which city deck builder would you recommend?

No love for Dream Quest? Spire's gangly, sprawling forerunner?

Love your content!

We love deckbuilders! Great vid DooDad! 👌

Great video! Would like to see a tier list of all the randomness (card, dice, building etc) games you have played so far

Prior to dominion, there was the starcraft board game that had deck building. Researching new techs would add cards to your deck.

It’s always neat to look back and see the history of the genre when you’ve been there to see it start out. Look forward to perusing the channel!

Great vid mate

The only thing you didn't cover was the Draft formats of these collectible card games that DXV has cited as a huge influence on Dominion!

Great video! Thanks youtube algorithm!

my personal favourite implementation of deckbuilding is in the board game "paperback" which wonderfully combines word games with deckbuilding. i highly recommend it c:

I love how much variety there is in the deck building genre! It is one of my favourite formats

Hm, interesting video, but I'm not sure I 100% agree. Most importantly I'd like to ask if everything can be a cozy game for someone, then what *isn't* a cozy game? Does it at that rate not just become a synonym for enjoyable, which is kind of a baseline of games? (Except for some experimental pieces I guess) I get the talking point of "more mechanics other than farming can be cozy", but then I also wonder what is the core essence of cozy that has to be preserved for it to be a useful term.

Just because you cant exactly pinpoint what defines cozy games objectively, doesnt mean people don't have a general understanding what they mean, using that term. The term gets used, and people understand what others mean. That's all there is to it, and all that's needed to justify using the term. I'm literally looking for stuff invoking this feeling so using this term helps me weed out stuff that definetly doesnt fit that term. It's roughly synonymous with "calming", but that gets less used so i use the former And people that might use that term for stuff like Darkest Dungeon, Thumper or high level Osu! maps or competative Gameplay of Shooters or MOBAs just misuse the term. Again, just because there is some wiggle room regarding what counts and what doesn't, doesn't mean every gaming category and genre is invalid.

These types of videos are always weird to me. I appreciate questioning the status quo, however the label "cozy" is there to do what all labels do: group a game into a category of similar games. If I want to know what type a specific game is and someone says "cozy", I know it won't be Elden Ring. You go on to say "play the games you want to play, not because of some label" .... homie, I have no time to play a bunch of games until I find one I like - I trust a few people to have similar tastes to mine, and when they say "cozy", I know they're using it like I do. Regardless of whether gaming journalism uses them properly or not, that's what labels are for: to facilitate access by allocating instances to their appropriate categories. Accept that it is a somewhat subjective tool, and navigate accordingly.

Loved this. Subbed!

I dont want to repeat something that others have said already but you're taking it too literal. If we applied your same logic to horror games; just because it's scary for me and not for you doesn't exclude the game from the horror genre. Yes the formula may be reused too much, but the term and it's definition are fine.

What a nice cozy video.

Cozy is literally the genre name. It refers to games with no fail states, lack of time pressure, and no combat. While there are valid arguments against the lack of innovation in the genre, it has nothing to do with the genre name. Complaining about the use of the word is so pedantic.

By definition, every single game that exists should be defined as cozy by at least a notable percentage of the playerbase. If there is ever a game that no one finds comfort in, then that game should not even exist. After all, why play a game if you're not immersed, comforted or otherwise interested in the game? The fact that the cozy genre popped up means that there are many games out there that too few people find interesting or engagning, yet they proceed to play them. I think that this phenomenon came about due to the overwhelming amount of soulless live service games, along with all the AAA slop that people keep buying for some reason. For many larger game studios, games are not passion projects. Instead, games are being treated as sources of revenue and nothing else. No wonder everyone is seeking out a "cozy" game.

The problem is we confuse comfort with Cozy games any game can be a comfort game but cozy games have a certain feeling to them that you don't get from other games.

my comfort game, and I realized it only after playing typical cozy games, are just my favourite games regardless of their difficulty. games like Hades or Lies of P, just because I'm so familiar with the mechanics and it makes the gameplay incredibly soothing, I just love getting back to those worlds every once in a while

I am playing Coral Island. I love that it is a Stardew Valey "clone". It has the same plot and gameplay but they added more stuff like bug catching and ocean diving and mermaids! Also slow down game speed to double your day with fast travel waypoints all over the map. Makes it more casual friendly. Also i love the art style very cute. Especially the huge animals. I dont like Stardew Valley's art style.

I love Cozy videos like this.

I really love life-sims. But I honestly never saw or heard the term "cozy" used until the release of Palia, where the community used, and overused the term; completely wearing it out. Palia was and is an unfinished, skeleton of a game made up of apologists and devs unsure what to do with it. Upon release and shortly thereafter, anyone who criticized the game in their discord would catch a BAN for talking negatively about it publicly. I saw many such posts on steam reviews about it around that time. It's exactly the type of cookie-cutter, empty copy-cat you mentioned, but perhaps even the poster child considering there's just.. nothing in the game. I also found it interesting that I never saw the word "Cozy" be used as a genre until after Palia. It's certainly a case-study of a game, haha.

I disagree, cozy is a synonym of chill, and chill means slow paced. You can't say that a shooter is "cozy", it will never be, it may please the player, make him happy and relaxed eventually, but it's main mechanics are fast paced. Some people actually say that Stardew Valley is not a cozy game sometimes, and it's "stressful", and it kind of is till you manage to complete the community center: if you don't get the right crop and the right fish in the right time frame, you will eventually have to wait one more ingame year to do so, and you start stressing to get that done in time. Moreover, the stagnation effect you mention, because a lof of publishers chase some very successful games, and just make ripoffs to cash in on that success story, is valid for all categories of games, the entire gaming industry is made up mostly by projects that chase some famous successful games. Last thing, you didn't mention Minecraft, and that's bad. 😄

Make a Sims video and why does no one bothers to beat it. It's been decades and we're still stuck with that sht

Some people don't want gsmes that take chances or whatever. Some people just want a game that they can decompress with at the end of the day. And yes, as a whole, this can be any type of game for anyone. But the term cozy is typically associated with low stakes games euth aesthetics and some kind of benign gameplay. Like other commenters have said, the term cozy gets the point across. Calling it an epidemic because you find mundane games... mundane? Idk. Your essays are well formatted and easy to listen to. But this is somewhat of a bad take where it feels like you're just trying to make a bigger deal out of something than it is. Or being harsh on people who like this genre because the name of it can be semantic.

I love cozy games! Playing Disney Dreamlight Valley right now.

I always thought cozy was for games that dont have combat.

Cozy games = comfort games. That's gonna differ from person to person. Theres people who find dark souls or elden ring to be comfort games. DS3 was one for me at a time

I prefer "cozy" to "soulslike," but if you think about it, they're kind of the polar opposites of each other, and neither makes sense and both are subjective. So true. True. U rite! BUT! The problem I have with the term "soulslike" is that it attributes it to the soulsgames, when a fuck ton of games before it were hard as balls too, and it doesn't really describe any unique or particular thing about soulsgames that warrants the term other than the game being fun, yet a hard and stressful game. And calling a game "Cozy" isn't a genre; it's just a term to describe a game, similar to how I would describe a soulsgame or any dark, scary, hard game as "stressful." So yeah, both terms are dumb, but I think "soulslike" is dumber because it provides no clues as to what it is or means, even if you're an avid gamer.

There's nothing wrong with the term cozy game. People know what it means. Gets the point across. You're taking it too literal. The issues you describe with cozy games is not because they are called "cozy". It's due to lack of innovation in the genre.

I really enjoyed this. Looking forward to the next video 😊

i'm genuinely surprised that you only have 150 subscribers. this was a really good thinkpiece

Im sorry but i hate the word cozy to an unreal extent 😂

bruh you picked the worse items and cant even understand what acceleate means, I DONT EVEN PLAY THE GAME CAUSE THEY FORCE FED RECOMMEDATIONS OF LESSER CHANNELS, it just accelerates anything with a cooldown 1 extra turn in my understanding and you picked destroyable artifacts when your not even in late game. im not even 10 minutes in and you killed the enjoyment of watching this, ya lack entertainment and game skills think before you click.

Glad I recently found your channel. We have very similar tastes 👌

Your videos are great to watch thank you !

Great find, looking forward to this one coming out.

one could say there are a monster on enemy train. ha -2

The auto merge perk you had earlier in the run would have worked perfectly with the adding one soldier perk because every turn it will merge a set when you have a set, its great early and when youre going merge builds

any android game similar to this game?

Note, I only played through about half the demo in this video and the story just starts picking up in the latter half of the demo. Definitely worth a look if you are into RPGs with rich stories! Other than that this game ticks a lot of my boxes with the turn based combat, roguelite flow, and 90s anime portrayal. Enjoy!

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