Review: Brewing tea in a cozy game can be tiring


Working in the farm-like setting and making tea wasn’t always peaceful. Commanding exclamation points appeared over customer heads when they required tea or wanted to make a minor point. — Annapurna Interactive

Wanderstop, a chill but cheeky experience with characters who exude dry humour, appears to be about harvesting and making tea. But it is also full of musings about fatigue and burnout. In other words, is the daily grind worth the harm it can do to the psyche?

Cozy games like Animal Crossing, Nintendo’s funny animal series, became extra popular during the stress of the coronavirus pandemic, and the new studio Ivy Road is trying to change the nature of the genre.

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