In recent years, multiplayer games with a slow-paced, cozy feel have become even more popular. If you want to play together with your family and friends but are not a fan of fast-paced action games, you have a much bigger selection to choose from than you may have thought.
Whether you like completing tasks, exploring an open world, or simply decorating your house, you don't have to worry, as there are options for gamers of all backgrounds. Some of these games can be played over long distances, while others are more of a couch co-op style.
10 Staxel
Staxel is a game definitely worth playing if you are a fan of farming and crafting games. It replicates the visuals of Minecraft and is also heavily inspired by Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley. You can build a community with your friends, gather collectibles, create a marketplace for fish and bugs, and much more.
Staxel is available to play on PC and the Nintendo Switch. With the new version of the game, Staxel CE, the multiplayer function is better than before and does not need a fast internet connection.
9 Sun Haven
If you and your friends like farming sim games with a spin of fantasy, Sun Haven is the game to choose. It offers you RPG-style skill progression, quests, and even a final boss. You can also choose to just grow your farm and build relationships with the villagers.
Sun Haven is available on Windows and Mac, and up to eight players can play together. The game is quite similar to Stardew Valley but offers more action.
8 Wingspan
Wingspan is a multiplayer strategy game and a digital adaptation of the same-named board game. It is a competitive turn-based engine-building masterpiece. With its highly aesthetic art and soundtrack, it can easily steal the hearts of you and your friends.
If you are already familiar with the board game, you will notice the digital version is easier thanks to the automatically enforced rules. Your goal is to build a suitable habitat for birds and attract as many species as you can.
7 Untitled Goose Game
Untitled Goose Game lets you play a goose that terrorizes a small town. With the multiplayer function added, you can have hours of fun with your friends solving puzzles and bullying the townsfolk to your hearts' content.
The downside of Untitled Goose Game is that you can play multiplayer only locally unless you take advantage of streaming services like those offered by Steam or PlayStation. Regardless, this game offers a fantastic time.
6 Farm Together
Farm Together, as the name suggests, offers you the opportunity to create your own farm from scratch. You can play solo, locally with up to four players, or even online. Its easy controls also make it a perfect choice for families with young children.
Farm Together is available on many different platforms, letting you sit back, relax, and enjoy a unique farming experience with your friends.
5 Powerwash Simulator
Powerwash Simulator is a great game to play if you like cleaning games. There is no action, no music or voice acting — just the sound of water and the peculiar satisfaction of cleaning grime from every surface imaginable.
You and your friends get to explore different maps and solve light puzzles in order to complete your missions. Powerwash Simulator is also available on many different platforms, making it easy to play with others. Cleaning has never been so fun.
4 Overcooked
The Overcooked franchise offers you a great amount of fun (and a dash frustration), with multiple maps to explore and puzzles to solve. This one is neither a farming sim nor a cleaning game; instead, you cooperate with your friends to cook different recipes on changing maps.
Overcooked can be considered a great cozy and relaxing game, but it can also spark something more than just friendly competition among family and friends.
3 Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley is the perfect multiplayer farming and life simulation RPG. You can share your farm with up to three friends, either by building them a cabin or by creating a new multiplayer map with pre-built cabins.
Stardew Valley also offers you the option to marry your friends, in case you are not satisfied with the available NPCs. It also has a great community and a plethora of mods to make the game more interesting.
2 Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is easily one of the coziest games the Nintendo Switch has ever released. With additional systems and games, you can share your island with up to seven friends, and together, you can decorate your island, grow crops, gather collectibles, and much more.
The Animal Crossing community is big, and you can also visit your friends' islands and vice versa. No need to play on the same map. Deciding on the theme of your island, gathering all the suitable furniture and decorations, and exchanging them with your loved ones make for hours of entertainment.
1 Minecraft
Whether you consider Minecraft a cozy game or not is up to you. Although the latest updates have added a plethora of new biomes and content that are a treat to the eyes. Minecraft offers a huge open-world game where you can do whatever you want from farming, tending to animals, exploring, crafting, and much more.
If you do not like the action side of Minecraft, you can just turn on the creative mode and spend hours and hours building the structures of your dreams. Just one person in your friend group needs to pay for a subscription, and everyone else gets to enjoy the realm.