History VideoGame / CozyGrove

->''As a ghost, it’s handy to keep a list of things that transcend the corporeal plane: birdsong. Affection. Loss. Time. And, for some reason, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers most caffeinated beverages]].''

* ComedicSociopathy: Letters from Scoutmaster Blake — who is supremely unbothered by the fact that you, a scouts-age child under his responsibility, have been stranded alone on an island significantly more haunted than what he’d prepared you for — tend to fall into this.
** One letter cheerfully informs you that he’s been in contact with your parents and they agree the waivers they’d signed means they can’t sue him.

* GameBreakingBug: It is a PlayEveryDay game, and thus when you have finished one set of quests, the next set will not pop until the next real-time day. People who are keen to get on with the game sometimes fiddle with their system clocks to get round this. The loading screen contains a message saying that fiddling with your system clock can corrupt your save file.
* InUniverseGameClock: If an NPC tells you that something will be ready in an hour, that's one real-time hour. If they tell you to come back tomorrow, then that's real-world tomorrow. Yes, this game does want you to Play Every Day. There are also cosmetic differences to the island depending on whether you're playing before or after dusk.

* MonochromeToColor: When a bear is in need of the player’s help, they and the world around them will be portrayed in a washed out monochrome. Completing the task that they ask of you sends a shockwave of color out from them that also populates their area with personal effects, furniture, and other structures. These small bubbles of color can be spread to uninhabited areas by putting down and chaining together lamps. This is necessary to fully gather the island’s resources, as trees in unlit areas can’t be harvested.

* SlidingScaleOfCollectibleTracking: Generally at the easy end. Quests mostly involve finding items which are scattered across the island. These all have hints (e.g. "Near three skulls tied to a stake"), but if you can't find them, you can buy hints from an NPC for 100 Old Coins, which will put a marker on the exact spot.

** Likewise, the description for one craftable desert notes that, under the rule of the first God Emperor, an insufficiently delicate panna cotta would result in [[DisproportionateRetribution “Death to the pastry chef!”]]

* DeadPersonConversation: The whole premise of the game, since the majority of characters you interact with are either ghosts or spirits.
* DowsingDevice: One of the tools you can get is a dowsing rod. When held, you get a hot/cold indicator, with an increasingly bigger flame icon to indicate you're getting closer. An XMarksTheSpot will appear once you've found an artifact. If no indicator appears when holding it and it doesn't shake in your inventory, there's nothing left to find for the day. Fully-crafted treasure maps function just like one, except they're one-time use.

* ItemCrafting: By way of Jeremy Gruffle’s workshop. The player can make furniture, decorations, and light sources as well as transmute resources into other forms (e.g. softwood into hardwood or quartz gems to precious gems).

* MonochromeToColor: When a bear is in need of the player’s help, they and the world around them will be portrayed in a washed out monochrome. Completing the task they ask of you sends a shockwave of color out from them that also populates their area with personal effects, furniture, and other structures. These small bubbles of color can be spread to uninhabited areas by putting down and chaining together lamps. This is necessary to fully gather the island’s resources, as trees in unlit areas can’t be harvested.

** Likewise, the description for one craftable desert notes that under the rule of the first God Emperor, an insufficiently delicate panna cotta would result in [[DisproportionateRetribution “Death to the pastry chef!”]]
* SlidingScaleOfCollectibleTracking: Generally at the easy end. Quests mostly involve finding items which are scattered across the island. These all have hints (e.g. "Near three skulls tied to a stake"), but if you can't find them you can buy hints from an NPC for 100 Old Coins, and these will put a marker on the exact spot.

* CookingMechanics: By way of Allison Fisher, who can process and combine your gathered ingredients into 112 different recipes across the categories of breads, salads, pastries, and pickled dishes. To a lesser extent, Flamey will cook fruit and veggies into roasted forms, and nuts into flower.

* CookingMechanics: By way of Allison Fisher, who can process and combine your gathered ingredients into 112 different recipes across the categories of breads, salads, pastries, and pickled dishes.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: Loading times are remarkably long. As of version 1.08 on [=PS4=], it takes ''over six minutes'' to continue from your last save. By way of comparison, ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' on the same platform takes less than two minutes.

* CookingMechanics: By way of Allison Fisher, who can process and combine your gathered ingredients into [[Mystical108 108]] different recipes across the categories of breads, salads, pastries, and pickled dishes.

* CookingMechanics: By way of Allison Fisher, who can process and combine your gathered ingredients into OneHundredAndEight different recipes across the categories of breads, salads, pastries, and pickled dishes.

* VideoGameCaringPotential: The entire game is centered around this. Your primary overarching goal is to help the often genuinely endearing ghosts around you make peace with the [[UnfinishedBusiness regrets binding them to Cozy Grove]]. You can also raise, feed, and pet the spirits of birds and deer, and even the little imps that frequently cause mischief around the island can be thrown food or gifts and guided back to each other when they get separated.

* ComedicSociopathy: Letters from Scoutmaster Blake—who is supremely unbothered by the fact that you, a scouts-age child under his responsibility, have been stranded alone on an island significantly more haunted than what he’d prepared you for—tend to fall into this.

* CookingMechanics: By way of Allison Fisher, who can process and combine your gathered ingredients into 108 different recipes across the categories of breads, salads, pastries, and pickled dishes.

** '''Dahlia''': ''Shall we dally? You and I, blushing. Alive.''
** '''Demon Bird/Deer''': ''In the great rotation of the spirits, some of us fall into the shadows.''
** '''Infinity Mask''': ''At the forbidden underground masque, a deer-like man held out his cloven hoof. Will you dance the Ten Thousand Steps of Ecstasy?''
** '''Iris''': ''The old gods’ eyes resembled this.''

* SeriousBusiness: Here is the description of the Potato Donut, which is a craftable item:

!!''Cozy Grove'' provides the following tropes: