Gaming: Almost All The Cozy Games Of March Have Demos To Try And I've Been...

A well-timed Steam Next Fest means we've been trying out tons of new cozy games right before they hit release day this month.

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If there's one thing cozy games love to do, it's shifting a release date by a couple days or even a month, only a week before launch. I've seen more than one try to pull that over on me in March so far. They probably don't love it, really, but they sure do it a lot and it makes keeping track of each month's cozy game releases a real juggling act.

To keep you from feeling like a cozy circus clown dropping farm sims on the ground all month, I've gotten PC Gamer's cozy gaming collective together again to track down the most up to date releases—though I make no promises about dates that change after the month begins—and make a pitch for the cozy games we're personally looking forward to playing the most.

This month begins with the Steam Next Fest, the big event where tons of upcoming games offer free demos ahead of launch. At time of writing, almost every cozy game we want to play in March has a demo available. Next Fest does end right at the beginning of the month on March 2, though. In past Next Fests, some games pull down their demos after the event, but others may leave theirs live until launch day. I've marked which games have a demo right now in the release calendar below, but you may find things change over the course of the month!

I'm not a horse girl in real life, but I'm friends with a few and have great affection for the surprising Venn diagram overlap of horse-loving gamers. Horse enjoyers have been burned before by wonky animations and misunderstood mounts but I want so badly for The Legend of Khiimori to be the one that really gets it right. Open world horse taming and breeding as a courier in 13th century Mongolia sure feels like it could supplant the place Red Dead Redemption 2 holds in the horse community's heart. Trusted horse game critic and developer Alice Ruppert was consulting on this one, which gives me some extra hope too.

There's a lot to say about Yakuza Kiwami 3 as a remake—but I'm still hitting the remaster's UFO catchers hard. Frustrating? Sure, but all of that virtual practice earned me a Miku Hatsune figurine in real life, so I can't rest on my laurels now. As such, I can't wait to test my mettle in the upcoming Cupiclaw. While the crane machines here are simplified down to two colourful pixel art dime

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