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8 Best Cozy Games for Couples

Our favorite cozy games to play as a couple: gentle co-op farming, gardening and adventure games, picked for how well each one works for two.

By Cozy Couple Games Editorial Team · Updated

Our answer to “what should we play together?” Some of these have endings and some never stop, but all of them work well for two.

We ranked them on how well they work as a pair: whether both players get something meaningful to do, how forgiving they are to a less experienced player, and whether a long session ends in a good mood.

  1. A Stardew Valley farm in summer: a wooden farmhouse with a red roof, a barn and coop, chickens and a cow in the yard, and neat rows of crops with scarecrows.

    1 Best overall

    Stardew Valley

    PC · Mac · Switch · PlayStation +3 · Paid

    One farm, two farmers. Split the chores, meet up at night, repeat for months.

    • Cozy
    • Farming
    • Co-op
    Read our Stardew Valley review
  2. Our Flower Garden on iPhone: two players stand outside a small cottage above rows of red, white, purple and yellow flowers, under the caption “Grow a cozy garden together”.A greenhouse planted with rows of sunflowers, with both players’ avatars below and the caption “Plant, water, and harvest side by side”.

    2 Best for every day

    Our Flower Garden

    iPhone · Android · Free

    A shared garden on your phones. A few minutes a day, with no timers, so it works when life is busy or you’re apart.

    • Cozy
    • Mobile
    • Long Distance
    Read our Our Flower Garden review
  3. Three Animal Crossing players at night: two sit on a park bench eating cotton candy while a third walks up stone steps toward them, with fireworks in the sky.

    3 Best for decorating

    Animal Crossing: New Horizons

    Switch · Paid

    Better as a shared hobby than a true co-op game, but great for making a place feel like yours.

    • Cozy
    • Building
    • Relaxing
    Read our Animal Crossing: New Horizons review
  4. Two Sky players in blue and green capes sharing a glowing umbrella in the rain, looking toward a rainbow in a misty forest.

    4 Most romantic

    Sky: Children of the Light

    iPhone · Android · Switch · PlayStation · PC · Free

    Hold hands and fly. It’s free and works on almost every device.

    • Free
    • Mobile
    • Long Distance
    Read our Sky: Children of the Light review
  5. A Palia player holding a long farming tool in a vegetable garden full of tomato plants, leafy greens and orange root vegetables.

    5 Best free farming

    Palia

    PC · Switch · PlayStation · Xbox · Free

    A cozy online world where you can visit and help with each other’s gardens.

    • Cozy
    • Free
    • Farming
    Read our Palia review
  6. Stella and her cat Daffodil in a small canoe with Gwen, a deer spirit, on still red water beneath pale pink trees.

    6 Best story

    Spiritfarer

    PC · Mac · Switch · PlayStation · Xbox · Paid

    Beautiful and emotional. Player two plays the cat, which is a better role than it sounds.

    • Cozy
    • Story
    • Relaxing
    Read our Spiritfarer review
  7. Two Yarnys tied together by one thread: a red Yarny holds on to a mossy fallen tree while a blue Yarny dangles below it above a forest stream.

    7 Best weekend game

    Unravel Two

    PC · PlayStation · Xbox · Switch · Paid

    Short and pretty. Two yarn creatures, one thread.

    • Co-op
    • Puzzle
    • Relaxing
    Read our Unravel Two review
  8. Snipperclips characters Clip and Snip stacked on top of each other so Clip can carry a ball toward a basketball hoop on a graph-paper background.

    8 Best first game

    Snipperclips

    Switch · Paid

    Cute paper puzzles that need zero gaming experience.

    • Puzzle
    • Couch Co-op
    • Co-op
    Read our Snipperclips review

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