rhe original post's replies actually got me into wobbledogs, all of these are VERY different games but they follow the same principle of being weird in some way and having a whole bunch of creature in them. god knows what fucking genre this is. creature freakture.
Adore the flavor of creature collectors. You can go from the physical manifestation of human ideas and will, a parasite who'll change your body and mind from the inside out, to a fella with rad dance moves.
i started playing ooblets again to get the halloween oobmobiles (i hadn't played since the game was unfinished early access) and that game is honestly so dangerous. one minute i'd gotten home from work and the next it was past my bedtime. i wasn't even listening to podcasts. i was just grooving to the ooblets music while tending my farm and foraging for mushrooms.
The best video game genre name is "cozy games." It tells you absolutely nothing about the gameplay but that you might want to have some hot cocoa while you play.