cozypxls

Silent Pines, 1998 - V.2

Special Credit: Silent Pines is heavily inspired by and uses a very similar style to the stunning @windbrook savefile by @folkling, the gorgeous portsim savefile by @florwal, and the amazing builds by @moonwoodmillz. Thank you all for your hard work, I take a lot of inspiration from you all.

Silent Pines is a base-game only save file inspired by Life is Strange with 3 major worlds, a whole new set of townies, and a complete mystery to solve.

Version 2 contains;

Willow Creek as Silent Pines

Oasis Springs as Eclipse

Newcrest as Twilight Bay

DOWNLOAD, INFO, AND SCREENSHOTS BELOW

Playtesting @cosmoosims's upcoming Silent Pines V2 save file which includes the beautiful pixel towns of Silent Pines, Eclipse, and Twilight Bay. I'm starting out a bit of rotational gameplay with a household with some simmering tea.

I'll be posting a gameplay miniseries to showcase some of this beautiful save file's townies/worlds while also testing a new personal gshade I'm working on.

🌸 Sugar Glow — from my game to yours ☁️

like powdered sugar at golden hour, melting into every scene

This GShade preset is for the ones who love golden light, soft shadows, and stories told in whispers – for that magical time when the sun lingers and everything looks like a memory. Whether you're storytelling  or just following your sims through the slow, sweet parts of their lives, Sugar Glow will wrap it all in warmth.

more screenshots✨

🍯 sweet features

 what Sugar Glow brings to your world:

golden hour warmth across all lighting

hazy whites + milky glow on light colors

warm but balanced — not overly orange

shadows + bokeh for cozy storytelling

crisp where you need it, dreamy where you don’t

📸 best used for

vibes Sugar Glow loves:

moody mornings and cozy evenings

rainy days turned warm and cinematic

slow living moments and legacy storytelling

rooftop confessions under the city glow

🛠️ preset info

just a few helpful notes:

built using GShade lastest version (has not been tested on earlier versions or Reshade) 🌸 edit: someone said it works with reshade!

uses quint shaders

tested in daylight, dusk, and nighttime — especially dreamy during golden hour

optimized for screenshots and all modes of gameplay

turn off MXAO/DOF in gameplay for smoother performance

screenshots above taken with Milk Thistle lighting mod, but works well with Sunblind. Here are some examples using Sunblind (1 & 2)

includes Relight settings but also works without

Please note: This preset used the old preset ellcrze 2.0 as a base. I have included a comparison of the original preset to how mine now looks after years of making tweaks and downloading new shaders etc. If the creator of the og ever returns and requests I remove the preset I will do so. My intentions are just to share my preset with the community and also wanted to give credit where credit was due.

🧁 terms of use

just a little sugar + kindness please ♡

don’t reupload or claim as your own

feel free to tweak for personal use – make it yours, just don’t re-release edits while I'm still around

this preset is free, warm, and made with love – let’s keep it that way ♡

📁 download on patreon

sharing is sweet! if you post edits or use Sugar Glow, feel free to tag #sugar glow preset or @cozypxls so I can swoon over your game ✨

days that behaved

Tamsin liked days like this. Days that behaved. During the day, San Myshuno had offered her small, orderly moments – the scent of perfectly cooked samosas from a market stall drifting on the wind, a coin dropped into a fountain with a wish she didn’t linger on. Nothing dramatic, just enough magic to acknowledge the unique city moments, check off her to-do list, then move past. By evening, Tamsin returned to her routine. The steady hum of the elliptical, muscles burning and then rewarding herself with something from the comfort of her kitchen. Even the emails that lit up her phone promised to bring even more clarity and discipline into her life. One email stood out to her, only because it didn’t try to. Forwarded resources. Practical context. A line about wishing someone had done the same for him once. Tamsin found she liked that too. The thoughtfulness without expectation and the steadiness of it. Working alongside someone like that made sense… and unexpectedly, caught her attention. She set her phone down and exhaled. Everything felt aligned, yet something shifted. Not static, not yet. Just a faint awareness that stillness was only temporary.

New city. New life. And some carefully managed chaos. ✨

Tamsin leaned over the balcony of her new apartment, the city lights stretching endlessly below her. Someone’s car alarm echoed against the hum of electricity, the thrum of a night club nearby — probably Waterside Wharble that she’d seen today. She wrapped her fingers around the cool railing and sighed, dropping her shoulders just a pixel.

Everything seems right from up here, she thought to herself, for now at least. Doubt pricked at the edges of her focus.

— soft static legacy ✨

I’m writing a 6-8 generation legacy challenge so why not combine some of my 2026 creative sims goals by storytelling with it? I have the outline of the challenge in its final form and am still writing all of the rules and fine-tuning the storytelling aspects, so stay tuned for the challenge rules + generation graphics.