Cozy Fantasy

Cozy fantasy is one of the fastest-growing genres in 2025. After a decade of grimdark, system apocalypse, and ever-escalating power scaling, readers have started showing up in huge numbers for the opposite — fantasy where the stakes are low, the worlds are warm, and the protagonist's biggest problem is whether the bakery's new sourdough starter will take.

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree blew the doors open on this genre as a mainstream success, but the web-serial tradition runs deep: Beware of Chicken turns cultivation into farming, The Brightest Shadow trades epic stakes for daily routine, and a wave of new authors are writing cozy LitRPG, cozy cultivation, and cozy slice-of-life fantasy as their main genre.

The audience overlaps heavily with progression fantasy readers looking for a palate cleanser, romance readers who want fantasy without the war, and anyone who's tired of stakes that get bigger every arc. IlorisNovel hosts cozy fantasy the way it's meant to be read: ad-free, with audio for falling asleep to, and the authors keep 93% of every coin readers spend.