18 best cozy games like a warm blanket
Try to imagine something cozier than wearing a loose, body-hugging Christmas sweater, there’s a flickering fire and you’re calmly and methodically putting the pieces together. Lovely 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle. That’s the holiday proverb, you can practically see the first few snowflakes fall out of a frozen window, as a kind aunt rushes to bring you a lovely cup of hot chocolate. And while all of that sounds unlikely this year, you can get very close to recreating it with Dream Jigsaw Puzzles.
This is unlike any other jigsaw puzzle you may have seen released on Steam. First of all, it’s all set in a 3D house that you can decorate as you like. Second, it embraces physics, where every other jigsaw loses its concept of all its tangible life. So whether you’re sitting at a table, on the landing upstairs, or just lounging on the living room floor, you can choose from any of the game’s dozens of jigsaw designs or import any your own, then click all of them together. You can choose as many pieces, down to ridiculous numbers in the thousands, then meticulously arrange the edges from the inside, stack them up or spread them out however you want and get to work.
It’s true entertainment, but with loads of puzzles, no mess, and no missing pieces on the couch. (Though you can actually knock them off the table, due to the precision of physics.)—John Walker