Negotiating Anthropocentrism and Ecologies in Cozy Games

https://doi.org/10.18778/2391-8551.11.09 As we sit at the precipice of this planet's sixth mass extinction event, we need to use every tool at our disposal to advocate for our ecologies. Human self-interest and anthropocentric thinking act as barriers to communicating ecocrisis. Cozy video games can create safe spaces to explore the ecological effects of human actions with the aim of prompting reflection and action on environmental issues.