If you struggle with keeping a pen and paper journal, try playing a productivity game!
I've always loved the idea of keeping a pen and paper bullet journal. I've been on the Hobonochi side of Tiktok and the bullet journal side of Pinterest and I've tried to keep a physical journal going. But I always end up skipping a day and that turns into skipping it forever.
If, like me, you work on your computer and spend too much time scrolling on your phone, consider using a productivity app or a cozy productivity game to help meet your goals in 2025!
Cozy productivity games on either PC or mobile help you keep track of your habits, set timers while you focus, and make to-do lists. If you're already on your computer or your phone for work, you will have an easier time using a habit tracker app that's on your phone versus pen and paper!
Here are the 8 best habit tracker apps and cozy productivity games to help you stay focused in 2025:
Habitica
Habitica turns your boring 9 to 5 and dreaded fitness goals into a fantasy RPG! After creating your character, you can set the habits you want to track, your daily tasks, and create a to-do list and watch your character level up. Completing your tasks will reward you with coins that you can use to unlock new pets and cosmetics.
If you have friends that also have goals they want to achieve in 2025, you can form a party together in Habitica! Habitica is available on the Apple Store and Android.
Pokémon Sleep
Need a reason to get a full 8 hours of sleep? Pokémon Sleep gives you something to look forward to in the morning if you commit to going to sleep on time. In the night while you're sleeping, adorable sleeping Pokémon will gather around your snoozing Snorlax, and you'll get the see what you caught when you wake up in the morning!
Pokémon Sleep is now functional with smart watches for a more precise sleep measurement. The habit tracker app also has new events every week, changing the Pokémon and bonuses you can get. Pokémon Sleep also has ASMR background noise that you can play for a deeper sleep! Pokémon Sleep is available on the Apple Store and Google Play.
Forest
Forest is a productivity app that helps you stay off your phone while trying to get something done. If you have a tendency to open social media a hundred times while trying to get through an hour of focus time, this free app is perfect for you!
To use this app, plant a tree when you're ready to start focusing. If you switch to a different app during your focus time, your tree will wither away. If you stay focused until the tree is fully grown, you'll have another tree added to your forest! The Forest app also makes an impact in the real world - players can redeem their in-game rewards to plant real trees through Trees for the Future.
Forest is available for free through the Apple app store and Google Play.
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions is a completely customizable productivity game available if you have Windows. In this cozy game, you create your character and build your dream bedroom. You can customize everything from the decoration on the walls to your furniture, light fixtures, and the view from your window.
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions has a built-in journal, habit tracker, to-do list, and timer. You can overlap an in-game lo-fi playlist with other background noises like a crackling fire, soft typing, and soothing rain. While your character is typing away or knitting by the fire, you'll gradually unlock new spirit companions to keep you company!
Virtual Cottage
Virtual Cottage is another cozy productivity game that's available on both MacOS and Windows. And this game is completely free! In Virtual Cottage, the game will prompt you every day with what you want to focus on - whether it's work, studying, writing, meditating, or something else.
Set your task and how long you want to focus for, and your avatar will also work quietly at their desk in the cozy cottage. This game lets you customize your avatar, a furry companion, and also has lo-fi music and background noises like thunder and a fireplace.
Rusty's Retirement
Rusty's Retirement is an idle farming simulator that's designed to sit at the bottom of your screen while you work on other tasks! Instead of being a separate windowed program, Rusty's Retirement displays on the bottom or side of your screen.
Watch Rusty and a team of cute robots get to work growing and harvesting crops. This idle farming sim encourages you to keep working on your tasks so you can see your farm grow as well! Now you can play a farming sim while getting something productive done on your computer. Rusty's Retirement is available on Steam.
Chill Pulse
Chill Pulse is another cozy productivity game on Steam that integrates productivity tools into a cozy game. In Chill Pulse, you can set your to-do lists and use a timer to stay focused. There's even a mini game that pops up during your timer breaks to craft a cup of coffee for your avatar!
In Chill Pulse, you can customize your avatar and change the background to everything from a sci-fi city to a peaceful countryside. While the game is up, you'll unlock new rewards and follow a peaceful narrative unfolding around your avatar.
Window Garden
Window Garden is an idle lo-fi game available on the Apple Store and Google Play for free! Window Garden is a free productivity app that encourages you to set tasks and complete them while growing your adorable window garden.
In this cozy habit tracker app, you can listen to a lo-fi playlist, grow and discover new plants, decorate and unlock new rooms, complete missions, play mini-games, collect butterflies and birds, and look forward to new items being added around different holidays.
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