Cozy Grove: What a Game About Ghost Bears Taught Me about Grief

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4 min readDec 25, 2021

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Note: While this essay focuses on the emotions of Cozy Grove, there are light spoilers ahead.

After a near relationship ending argument with my boyfriend over our shared Animal Crossing island, I needed to find a similar game just for myself. While our relationship survived two years of a pandemic, lost jobs, and parenting issues, the shared responsibility…

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QA Engineer. Nerd Extraordinaire. Lover of opossums.