Thanks! & Good question. In the paper I consider games like Tiny Glade, Reka, Valheim, Dawn of Defiance or even Manor Lords as presenting a cozy mode of the past, but my discussion also argues that maybe we sh/could move from the term 'cozy game' to 'cozy gam_ing_', which would account for...
...cozy player engagement with games that traditionally aren't really cozy. E.g., players can approach AC Odyssey or RDR2 in cozy ways, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are prototypically cozy games, per se. There's a lot of new research on this phenomenon, but not in regards to history. So...
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