I love cozy games. As someone pretty much chronically stressed out, they're great blood pressure regulators and I love the gentle pace of just wandering around, meeting weirdos, fishing, and cooking food. That said, as if I have an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other, there's a depraved, cobwebbed part of my brain that's constantly aching for the macabre, and newly announced horror life sim RPG hybrid Neverway seems like it could scratch two very different itches at once.
The debut game from Coldblood Inc., a studio co-founded by Celeste pixel artist Pedro Medeiros, Neverway really does appear on the surface to be a Stardew Valley-like with RPG elements and a thick coat of eldritch horror paint. Nothing appears terribly original, but I don't care, that's a genre smoothie I'll gladly slurp down any day of the week.
