While the Switch has plenty of games that feature intense action and craziness, there’s absolutely a significant portion of titles that can be found in the eShop that move in the opposite direction. Sure, hardcore gamers may not appreciate many of them, except perhaps as a palette cleanser between other titles, but there’s obviously a sizable contingent out there that seeks them out. Of course, not all cozy games are made equally, and some show a higher degree of care in their design… so even in that space there are both winners and losers.

Secret Paws - Cozy Apartments would easily be considered to be on the more minimalist end of game design, pretty well identical to its predecessor. Working out as sort of a three-dimensional hidden object game, you’ll simply be moving from room to room in your apartment in search of cats… a truly preposterous number of them. When I saw the count of cats in the first room I entered, I knew I was in for a challenge. Armed with the ability to pan around, zoom in and out, rotate the room in 90 degree increments, and to manipulate some objects, you’ll need to make use of it all to locate every one of these small feline figures hidden in every nook and cranny.

The downside is that at some point, once you’ve searched around a room to find a load of hidden cats for a while, it starts to feel more like an exercise to be completed than fun. The thing is that many of them are literally out in plain sight, but in order to get all of them in every room you’ll be reduced to simply clicking on everything you see. The problem is the fact that most objects in each room are benign, and won’t do anything when you click on them, but then there are others that will open up or in some other way reveal another hidden cat. That makes the exercise also feel a bit cheap in the end for completionists, at least providing a little more challenge, but doing so in a way that doesn’t feel intuitive so much as desperate. Still, if you love cats and searching for hidden items, this may at least have a little appeal.