Cozy Caravan - Review

Cozy Caravan - Review

Retro Gaming Goods

Cozy Caravan

A Cute Cozy Cuddle in game form

Developer5 Lives Studios
Publisher5 Lives Studios
ReleaseJanuary 15, 2026
Price£16.75
PlatformsNintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Steam Deck, PC
Played OnNintendo Switch 2
⚙️ Technical Performance
Platform
Nintendo Switch 2
Framerate
Occasional Stutters can be jarring, but they occur in certain areas of the map.
Playtime
Around 10-20 hours depending on how much time you want to play around. There's plenty of content here to keep the markets going for a long time.
✦ Pros
  • Cute Characters
  • Driving the caravan is satisfying
  • Photo Mode
  • The world is pretty
✧ Cons
  • Frame rate Issues
  • Occasional Crashes
  • Market days can be hit or miss
Overall Score
7.0 / 10
Story
6
Gameplay
8
Visual & Audio
8
Performance
6
Value
7
🧠 The Premise

Jump on board your cozy caravan pulled by your loveable bee Rigby and earn your badges whilst preparing cakes, clothes and helping others.

📖 Story

You're a novice guild rookie, you're tasked with heading out in the world and prepare for the whizz bang fair.

You play as your own custom character which ranges from: Axolotls Badgers Beavers Bunnies Capybaras Dogs Foxes Frogs Parrots Raccoons You travel the road with Rigby the bee who is your trusty steed and Bubba the frog who's your best friend and roadie!

The world is spread out with lots of npc's to help and talk to. You need to upgrade your caravan with new items to help you on you journey around the map. Initially you're forced to take the long routes to lots of places but as you progress there's plenty of shortcuts on the map!

🎮 Gameplay

The game is easy to learn, you can be a waiter, a chef, a market stall trader so many different things. You're basic job though is to help people and collect resources. You have to do lots of tasks to earn guild tokens. These are used to upgrade your caravan, buy outfits and other general upgrades.

🔁 The Loop

The game is played out in days, you have a certain amount of minutes to complete tasks and do jobs before you head back to your caravan to sleep at night. The days are important as you spend the week preparing for market day. Market days are where you show off your weeks hard work. have you been cooking? farming or crafting? What you prepare is what determines how much money you earn at market. If you go too complex you might struggle to sell out of items.

🎯 Gameplay Strengths

Preparing all week is fun and rewarding if you get it right. The limited time and resource management is well balanced but i can see later in the game you'll eliminate the farming and grinding quite easily.

🎨 Art & Visuals

There's no getting around the fact this game is visually stunning and oozes charm with loveable and cutesy characters.

The Switch 2 and Switch version does suffer from frame rate issues during docked and handheld mode. It's by no means unplayable but it is noticeable when it happens. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon.

🎵 Music & Sound

The soundtrack and effects are very relaxed and chilled out they fit the game very well. Again it goes well with the cozy relaxed vibe.

🏆 Final Verdict

Overall if you're looking for a cozy life sim that isn't one of the more popular titles this is definitely worth considering. Especially is you want to be an Axolotl.

💰 Value

Worth Full Price it's a great game for it's price point.

 

Back to blog

Leave a comment