Farming & Life Sims
This game, created by Eric Barone, begins with the player inheriting their grandfather's rundown farm in Pelican Town.
Answer: What is Stardew Valley?
This game starts with the player getting a vacation package from Nook Inc. and setting up a tent on a deserted island.
Answer: What is Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
In this game, the player is an diver who runs a successful sushi restaurant by day.
Answer: What is Dave the Diver?
The protagonist of A Short Hike is this small, black-and-white shorebird, who is waiting for a crucial phone call.
Answer: What is a Crow (or a Blackbird)?
In Hello Kitty Island Adventure, you must give gifts to characters to level up your Friendship Level, which is measured in this unit.
Answer: What are Hearts?
In the fictional town of Sandrock, the player is tasked with being a Builder and collecting resources from the treacherous Eufaula Salvage Yard.
Answer: What is My Time at Sandrock?
To get around your massive island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons more quickly, you can use this tool to jump over narrow rivers.
Answer: What is the Vaulting Pole?
Unpacking is a relaxing puzzle game where the main task is simply to do this with all of your belongings across several different life stages.
Answer: What is Unpack (or Unbox)?
In Spiritfarer, the player must construct buildings and tend to the needs of the spirits on this kind of vessel, which is their home and main mode of transportation.
Answer: What is a Boat (or a Ferry)?
The main goal of the cozy-themed game Pokémon Snap is not to battle, but to do what?
Answer: take the best photos of Pokemon in their natural habitat
In Disney Dreamlight Valley, this character is the first resident you encounter, a sorcerer's apprentice who needs help fixing a powerful curse called the Forgetting.
Answer: Who is Merlin?
In the ghost-filled island management game Cozy Grove, the player is a Spirit Scout who helps the local ghosts find peace and bring color back to their surroundings.
Answer: What is Cozy Grove?
In Dave the Diver, this is the name of the sushi restaurant that you are helping to run and manage every evening.
Answer: What is Bancho Sushi?
Spiritfarer's protagonist, Stella, acts as the new Ferrymaster for this mythological river that separates the world of the living from the dead.
Answer: What is the Styx (or a similar river in various mythologies)?
This adorable dog character, known for his black floppy ears, is a close friend of Hello Kitty and one of the first characters you meet on the island.
Answer: Who is Cinnamoroll?
While Stardew Valley allows you to romance several villagers, this marriage candidate is the town doctor who often works late at the clinic.
Answer: Who is Harvey?
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, this small, white, time-traveling boar visits your island every Sunday morning to sell you turnips.
Answer: Who is Daisy Mae?
The main conflict of Dave the Diver centers on this mysterious, massive, and deep body of water that the player explores.
Answer: What is the Blue Hole?
The main goal in A Short Hike is to climb to the peak of Hawk Peak in order to get a signal for this handheld electronic device.
Answer: What is a Cell Phone (or Mobile Phone)?
Instead of fighting battles, conflicts in the game Ooblets are resolved through a friendly, turn-based version of this competitive activity.
Answer: What is a Dance Battle?
In the game Coral Island, this mythological creature is a main antagonist responsible for spreading pollution and blocking off areas of the ocean.
Answer: What is the Oil Spill Monster (or the Pufferfish)?
In Coral Island, the player must dive into the ocean to restore these to their former glory, which are heavily damaged by the oil spill.
Answer: What are the Coral Reefs?
The only restriction on where you can place an item in the game Unpacking is that it must fit logically, a concept the developers call "allowing the object to be this."
Answer: What is Happy?
In Spiritfarer, the spirits are ultimately traveling to this final destination, where Stella must bid them a permanent farewell.
Answer: What is the Everdoor?
In the Pokémon Legends: Arceus game, the player belongs to this expedition team, which is tasked with surveying the Hisui region.
Answer: What is the Survey Corps?