Cozy Grove Review (Xbox Series S)

by Jim Smale · April 20, 2021

Welcome to Cozy Grove, a game about camping on a haunted, ever-changing island. As a Spirit Scout, you’ll wander the island’s forest each day, finding new hidden secrets and helping soothe the local ghosts. With a little time and a lot of crafting, you’ll bring color and joy back to Cozy Grove!

Pros:

Decent graphics.
2GB download size.
1000 Gamerscore.
3 save slots.
Character creator-skin color, hairstyle, and color.
Survival adventure gameplay.
Tutorials play out as you explore.
Shows real-time and date.
Chilled out soundtrack.
Animal Crossing like in that it has a set amount of progress you can do in one real day.
The game originally starts out almost black and white with hints of color but as you play the world gets colorful.
Crafting-earn new blueprints gather materials from the island.
Fishing-simple cast power, aim and release system, and the pad vibrates when a fish bites.
You play as a spirit scout who can communicate with ghosts, do tasks for ghosts to help get them closure.
Each ghost has a progress bar.
Light-place lamp posts and help ghosts to have a light on an area that in turn will generate color into the map.
Can buy/sell materials/items/clothing.
You can change your appearance whenever.
Even after you have done all the progress stuff in a day you can still play afterward and do some material gathering and selling.
Can skip interactions/cutscenes.
On-screen Hud is clear and gives icons for tasks.
A lot of tasks will have you trying to find materials or items that are hidden in the World.
Collection-hand in items, materials, and animals to register them in the collections and earn rewards.
Gathering spots-bushes and digging spots will randomly spawn around the map.
Spirit logs-you get so many of these a day and as a reward from people you help. These will eventually upgrade your camp.
Badges-bit like achievements, you earn rewards for doing certain actions.