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The Sims 4 Enchanted by Nature Expansion Pack

The Sims 4 expansion pack "Enchanted by Nature" presents an idealized and heavily romanticized representation of rural life and living with nature inspired by the 'cottagecore' aesthetic and the British countryside.
Digital GameGameFantasyIdealizationIdealizing rural lifeLiving Off the GridLiving Off the LandRomanticizationCalmCozySimulation Game

Grow Wild

Grow Wild is a cozy sandbox style game in which players can discover new plants, find bugs, and watch the world change around them. Players discover the natural phenomena around them and document the different stages of plants and animals throughout the year.
Challenge: Plant BlindnessDeceleration / SlownessEnvironmental LiteracyExperiencing EcosystemsCalmCompanionshipCozyCuriosityEmpathizing With AnimalsEmpathizing With EnvironmentEmpathizing With PlantsRelaxationCollectionSandbox

Cloud Gardens

From the presskit description: “In Cloud Gardens the player overgrows lo-fi scenes of urban decay and manufactured landscapes. Plant your seeds in the right place to create small overgrown dioramas with hundreds of different items and progress through the stages in six chapters. Discover a dozen different seeds and learn how to make them thrive.
Cozy ApocalypseDystopian FuturePost-apocalypticRewildingCalmCozyEcological MelancholyNostalgia

Community Garden: The Board Game

Community Garden is an easy-to-learn, strategic board game for 2 – 4 players that takes about 45-60 minutes to play. In the game, players will use Gardeners to gather resources like water and compost, and then they will play cards ranging from Dill to Strawberries to Butternut Squash. The player who has scored the most
Community GardeningGardeningCozyFeeling GoodHelper's High

Spilled!

Spilled! takes players to a captivating but polluted world that they need to clean up to watch it come back to life. It taps into the pleasure of frictionless ‘cleaning’ that a small but growing number of game are catering to, both with and without an explicit environmental subtext (like e.g. Powerwash Simulator). Spilled! is
Digital GameGameCleaning PollutionOceansWater PreservationCozyHelper's HighRelaxationSatisfying

Outbound

Outbound is a crowdfunded game project by Dutch developer Square Glade Games about building one’s own home on wheels and living sustainably off-grid by crafting workstations, sourcing energy, upgrading, customizing, and automating processes. Image source: https://www.gematsu.com/2024/02/open-world-camper-van-exploration-game-outbound-announced-for-pc
Digital GameGameEcological IdentityLiving Off the GridLiving Off the LandSolarpunkCozyRelaxationKickstarter

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