Cozy farm sim games have a problem: We still don't have a good name for them. Sometimes I call them farm sims, but the ones that don't actually have farms are life sims—not to be confused with Sims-like life sims—sometimes I mash them up into farmlife sims, and sometimes they're just games like Stardew Valley when I give up entirely.
None of those things roll off the tongue. More importantly, none of them really capture the whole of the genre. Cozy farming games aren't always set on an actual farm (sometimes it's a graveyard or a workshop) and although they are about life, calling them life "sims" has always felt a little incorrect too. Out of desperation I just call them "games like Stardew" a lot, but sometimes they're really more like Animal Crossing, actually.
