The metrics that actually keep work in cozy games honest
The metrics that matter are whether readers can find the right game faster, whether recommendations stay useful beyond one launch week, and whether the notes actually describe the experience instead of only the aesthetics.
Three metrics worth pressure-testing:
- save rate on recommendation posts
- repeat traffic to seasonal or genre list pages
- how often users discover adjacent cozy genres from the hub
Source material behind the scorecard:
- Wholesome Games: wholesomegames.com/
A thoughtful public home for cozy and uplifting game curation.
- itch.io cozy games: itch.io/games/tag-cozy
Excellent for finding smaller experiments and off-mainstream gems.
If your team has a sharper dashboard, share the metric definitions and the decisions they actually change. That is what makes numbers reusable.