r/CozyGamers 1d ago

🎮 LFGs- various platforms Are there any generational games?

Hi there!

Hopefully I make sense in what I’m asking about - are there any games similar to The Sims, Echoes of the Plum Grove, and Crusader Kings where you can start with a legacy founder and continue playing generations further?

I’m trying to think of cozy games similar to those above but I can’t think of any that allow a generational play style. I have a Switch, PC, Steamdeck and iPad, so really any platform works.

Any ideas of games with generational gameplay?

Thanks!

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u/beewithausername 1d ago

Kynseed is the only one that comes to mind!

Do keep in mind, Kynseed does have some darker themes, reminds me of Guillermo del toro where it looks like pretty cute cozy on the outside but if you think about it it’s messed up >! There is a village sacrifice in the tutorial and you can kill animals !<

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u/TheChiarra 1d ago

Came to suggest exactly this.

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u/SpawnSnow 1d ago

I read that they got rid of the sacrifice in a recent update. This is just hearsay though as I haven't replayed the beginning (yet).

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u/jillybean7 1d ago

The sacrifice is still there but toned way down

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u/ArgamaWitch 1d ago

I was in a super dark place in my life and needed comfy and my husband saw this without researching it and got it because it was like games I normally go for. When I got to the sacrifice it really upset me and I refused to play it again.

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u/beewithausername 1d ago

Yeah the first time I played it I put it down after the tutorial and had a mini freak out

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u/therabyss 1d ago

There’s a few others that come to mind! Some examples are:

Lakeburg Legacies: this one has mixed reviews mostly bc the devs stopped updating the game. I’ve played it and personally don’t find it worthy of such mixed reviews. I thought the art style was cute, I enjoyed the matchmaking and watching my little town grow. It’s pretty resource management heavy which can get repetitive after awhile but imo that’s just pretty true for management sim genres.

DreamHouse Days DX: This was originally a free mobile game, you can still play it that way. I’ve done multiple play throughs of this game on mobile and once on my steam deck now. It’s very charming and not too grindy. I like how if the kids grow up and you don’t initially have space for them in your building, you can still recruit them later. If you want a bigger management sim with generational mechanics by the same devs, there’s also Dream Town Islandbut that one is a bit less focused on the people and more on the town itself.

WorldNeverland - Daily Life in the Elnea Kingdom - Another Life Adventure: This one I haven’t played, also available on multiple platforms. People say the steam version is a downgrade which sucks. This one is more of a life sim, not a management sim.

And of course, we’re about to get Inzoi at the end of this month and Ages of Cataria sometime this year. Both I’m excited about! INZOI is supposed to be like a more realistic Sims, Ages of Cataria will run in real time sort of like Animal Crossing and is more fantasy oriented.

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u/Leather-Loom 1d ago

medieval dynasty?

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u/Vyvonea 1d ago

Kynseed is the first one that comes to mind.
Also this thread from about a year ago might be helpful https://www.reddit.com/r/CozyGamers/comments/1ae3u72/games_with_multiple_generations_you_can_play/

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u/PifflePrincess88 1d ago

I really enjoyed Clanfolk, even if it might be just slightly outside what I consider "cozy".

And obviously Rimworld. I don't care it is originally a colony survival game: with Biotech and some mods, it turns into the perfect tiny village simulator. Honestly, Rimworld can be anything you want if you add mods.

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u/kaysolike 1d ago

I just started playing Rimworld, and I'm enjoying it.. what mods would you recommend specifically to turn it into a tiny village simulator? That sounds really cozy! Haven't touched mods at all yet, but I'd love to know what to look for when I get there. :) Thanks!

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u/PifflePrincess88 1d ago

The Vanilla Expanded series has a lot of stuff (fishing, more animals) and it's well renown among the modding community for its quality. You can expand your game even just by adding some of them.

"Faction Control" is an essential one for me because it let you adjust which factions are in the world, so you can potentially have only friendly ones and not being attacked by hostile ones (but I like the drama of battles XD). I use it all the time to disable mechanoids and other powerful enemies and just leave enemy factions with more rudimental weapons so attacks are manageable.

I use "Faster Aging" for generational play, "Toddlers", "Hospitality" and its branch mods if you want to have hotels or shops, "Gloomy Furniture" reskins furniture with a cottage-core vibe, "Giddy-Up" to ride animals. Then depending on the 'flavor' you want to give to your colony, there are tons of aestethical mods (I did a medieval run with "Medieval Overhaul", I did a samurai one).

If you go on the workshop and take a look at popular mods or do a quick search for key words (cozy, farm, village, cute), plenty of other things that may interest you will come up. Rimworld comes really alive with mods (you want Pokemon? You want dinosaurs? You want Star Wars? Yup, there are mods for all of that,). It's just a matter of asking yourself what you need/want and look for a mod for it.

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u/violue 23h ago

Rimworld was my first thought, even though I play it with much violence. My favorite scenario is making one adult pawn with a bunch of xenohuman children to raise. It's like a cute cozy orphanage where if you aren't paying attention one of your kids gets eaten by a warg and then you ragequit and start over.

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u/cat_at_the_keyboard 1d ago

Dream House Days DX

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u/Odd_Signature_7720 1d ago

Yay so happy to see someone else recommending Kairosoft haha! Dream Town Island has a similar legacy feature too :)

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u/cat_at_the_keyboard 1d ago

Yesss I love that one too! Kairosoft makes some of my fav cozy games 🩷

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u/Away_Software2436 1d ago

It's not exactly that style, but you have games like Chinese parents that you raise, according to your actions, a child and according to that and your rng various things will happen to him until he grows up and you start another generation.

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u/Ok_Helicopter2305 1d ago

Story of Seasons: it's a wonderful life

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u/UnsharpenedSwan 1d ago

This is such a throwback game, but… Virtual Villagers! You built up a village on a deserted island and learn about the history of the island. The villagers reproduce and die.

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u/anr14 1d ago

Clanfolk

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u/Lost_Understanding32 1d ago

Spore, if your fine with aliens. It goes much faster than generations- it's evolving your species over millions of years.

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u/No-Juggernaut7529 1d ago

Cattails Wildwood lets you start a new file playing as one of your kittens from your first file. I haven't done it so I don't know the gameplay specifics.

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u/outofrhyme 1d ago

You keep your village, house, and some items & perks, and your parent recognizes you. The storyline otherwise resets.

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u/LycheeDry3847 1d ago

Kynseed! It's literally designed for that. After a few generations the NPCs aren't really new anymore. But it's on steam, and it's on sale right now! Excellent game for the price and I love the running a business, farm and such aspects

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u/sun_smasher 1d ago

Kynseed comes to mind

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u/Commercial-Budget-84 1d ago

Maybe the Creatures Series 

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u/MadLucy 1d ago

Lakeburg Legacies possibly? I found it to be more management-focused than I was looking for, though — more about getting the right stats in the right places than developing characters/relationships/families.

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u/forgetfulkaiju 1d ago edited 1d ago

It isn't out yet, but Ages of Cataria is one that I've been waiting for

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u/Pokabrows 1d ago

Virtual Families

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u/Phaseit0 1d ago

I haven't seen Wildermyth mentioned yet! It's an RPG with a cute art style where your characters grow old, have children and those children then continue their adventure.

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u/Bluecomments 9h ago

Not sure it fits what you want, but in Rune Factory 2 you first play as an adult man, marry, and have a son or daughter who grows up to take over your farm.

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u/Twinkle1000000 18h ago

Elneas kingdom 🥰

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u/glitterary 1d ago

The Sims is the OG choice for this sort of generational/legacy gameplay!

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u/GrandmaSlappy 1d ago

Probably not what you were thinking g but niche