The reverse of cozy games that are actually psychological-horror: A psychological-horror game that is actually a cozy life-sim.
You start in a creepy abandoned town full of nightmarish horrors, and you beautify it bit by bit. You befriend the monsters and help solve their problems so that they don't want to murder people anymore.
In the same way that fake-cozy games still have the gameplay of cozy games, this game would still have the gameplay of a psychological horror game.
You'd be beautifying the town by solving obscure puzzles. Your monstrous residents communicate with you via cryptic hand-written notes.
You boot up the game on your birthday. There's a bloody note your welcome mat that reads:
"the day of emergence has come --- rejoice!"
Then a spider-creature made of baby limbs drops a rusty pendant from the ceiling and skitters into the darkness.



















