Need to relax but don’t have much free time?
Here are the best short cozy games you’re able to beat in just a few hours.
Finishing chapters offers plenty of helpful rewards, too.
Get Moving
Chase some frogs.
Run around the pondribbiting at frogsas you run toward them.
Using Items
Chop down a tree.
Any freestanding tree, in the grass or the water, counts.
Excess Baggage
Open your inventory.
The E key opens your inventory for two more rows of storage.
Taking Out the Trash
Trash an item.
Move any inventory item to the garbage slot, even if you grab it back immediately.
On the Menu
Open a crate.
There are a few free crates right outside the Carpenter’s Shop.
Look it Up
Check the encyclopedia.
Moving On
Tools Of The Trade
Closer Look
Inspect a frog.
Using a magnifying glasson items gives you information at a glance in the bottom-right corner of your screen.
Catching Flies
Catch a bug.
BFFs
Equip any frog.
Hammer Time
Bonk something.
Axe You a Question
Plant a tree.
After chopping trees, you’ll receive seeds of some kind to replant them to keep the ecosystem plentiful.
Sleeping In
Sleep until morning.
All Together Now
Drop in the Bucket
Stick in the Mud
Get some mud.
While standing in mud, equip an empty bucket and punch the ground to collect a bucket of mud.
Hold Water
Get some water.
Snug As A Bug
Grocery Shopping
Looking Like a Snack
Eat some bugs.
Trade Secret
Read the text and tap the button to continue, collecting 20 Dracoflies.
Mushroom Magic
Down to Earth
Mother Nature
Inspect spores.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Get a composter.
Trade five logs and one bucket of mud to Hopert.
In the Mix
Make leafy compost.
Green Thumb
Get a cultivator.
Trade one log and one waterproof coating to Hopert.
Perfect Conditions
Reap the Harvest
Harvest mushrooms.
Mushroom Master
Read the text and tap the button to continue, collecting 9 Leafy Composts.
Hop To It!
Box of Frogs
Catch Me if you could
Catch a frog.
Use your net to catch any frog you see in the pond.
you’re free to ribbit at them to draw them in.
You and What Army
Release any frog.
Open your inventory and place any frog from there onto the ground around you.
Home Sweet Home
The Birds and the Frogs
Gather Frogspawn.
Not Mushroom
Get Stout Funnels.
These mushrooms grow in the water during rainy conditions.
You’ll see three tall blue mushrooms grouped together, all with white stems.
Daily Grind
Grind mushrooms.
Grind any mushroom you’ve found into a pile of powder.
Toil and Trouble
Make +3A mud.
+3A mud is mud that adds three points of Amplitude to the resulting frog.
It can be made with three piles of Stout Funnel powder in the cauldron.
Born of the Mud
Get tadpoles.
One Born Every Minute
Grow new frogs.
Spice of Life
Key to Success
Read the text and smack the button to continue, collecting two Arches.
The Long Road Ahead
Playing God
Create Vast Mudlurker.
Time to Reflect
Use the Central Pool.
Unlock the central reflection pool by placing a Long-Legged Dazzler into the reader when you interact with the pool.
See the Future
Find the Predictor.
There are predictor machines in almost every building around the central pond.
Selective Breeding
Find the Breeder blueprint.
Sleeping Spores
Get Dream Mushrooms.
These mushrooms can be found mud during wet, balmy weather in the dream world.
Lost in a Dream
Check the Reception Notice.
Read the notice board outside the Reception building.
Looking for Clues
Find the Reception Key
You’ll find the reception key after opening the Pontoon Reflection Pool.
Warm Reception
Find a way north.
Place a Vast Mudlurker from your inventory onto the pressure pad nearby to permanently compress it.
Heavy Lifting
Meet the Historian.
Find Dendro on a wooden pier to the north of Reception once the new stepping stones appear.
Down the Ages
Find the Progenitor.
The blueprint is in the Ancestry Research lab, and can be given to Hopert to facilitate for trades.
One Giant Leap
pop kick open the Northern Pool.
Bring a Pungent Green with a Furious Lurker as the previous generation - this pool checks ancestry and lineage.
Learned the Ropes
Read the text and hit the button to continue, collecting a backpack.
Breaking The Seal
So Close, So Far
Mile a Minute
Use a Gateway.
You may have done this already if you’ve been exploring the Gateway Nexus.
In Full Bloom
Get the Kindergarten Seal.
Down the Drain
Get the Residential Seal.
The Ice-Frog Cometh
Get the Control Seal.
A Bite To Eat
Sidequested
No Filter
Use a filter.
Knowledge is Power
Give Ribbert Research.
Special Delivery
Install a bucket.
Not the Sharpest Tool
Install a backup bucket.
Busy Bees
Install an extra bucket.
Down The Drain
Cleaning Duties
Home and Dry
Harvest a Mushroom.
Butter Wouldn’t Melt
Work to Do
Let it Snow
Get a heater.
Speak to Annura and trade for a heater.
Heating Up
Harvest a Frosty Jack.
Place a heater in the water when it’s sunny.
Brass Monkeys
Thaw the Sensors.
Turn it On and Off Again
Reset the System.
Seal the Deal
Make a Seal.
Use the Sealmaker to create the Climate Control seal for the main storyline.
Pursue these goals in Mudborne to learn the story’s truth!
