The calm library

Relaxing games, sorted by how gentle they are

24 cosy and relaxing games, each with a calm profile. Filter out combat or timers, set how long you can play, and choose your platform — the list rearranges itself softly as you go.

No combat
No timers
No online pressure
Save any time
Typical minutes per session

Showing all 24 games

Home & cosy A Little to the Left A tidy puzzle game about sorting, stacking and straightening household objects, often with several correct answers and a mischievous cat who undoes your work. PEGI 3 · Paid · PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch…
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 10 min
Forest A Short Hike A small exploration game about a bird called Claire hiking up a mountain to get phone signal, meeting other hikers and finding treasures along the way. PEGI 3 · Paid · PC, Mac, Linux…
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 15 min
Sea & shore ABZU An underwater adventure from the art director of Journey and Flower, about swimming among thousands of fish and exploring vivid ocean ecosystems. PEGI 7 · Paid · PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One…
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 20 min
Sea & shore Alba: A Wildlife Adventure A short, sunny adventure about a girl spending the summer with her grandparents, photographing wildlife and rallying the town to protect its island. PEGI 3 · Paid · PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS (Apple Arcade)
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Save any time
- Sessions from about 20 min
Sky & flight Alto's Odyssey An endless sandboarding game across desert dunes, canyons and temples, built around a one-button trick system. PEGI 3 · Paid · iOS, Android, PC (The Alto Collection)…
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 10 min
Creatures Animal Crossing: New Horizons A life-sim on a deserted island where you fish, catch bugs, craft, decorate and reshape the landscape while animal neighbours go about their day. PEGI 3 · Paid · Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2 (Switch 2 Edition)
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 20 min
Garden Botany Manor A first-person puzzle game set in a Victorian English manor, where you work out how to grow forgotten plants from clues in letters, books and posters. PEGI 3 · Paid · PC, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Save any time
- Sessions from about 30 min
Garden Cloud Gardens A small, ambient game about growing plants over scenes of urban decay, with a goal-free sandbox and a gentle campaign of diorama puzzles. PEGI 3 · Paid · PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 15 min
Forest Cozy Grove A life-sim about camping on a haunted island as a Spirit Scout, helping gentle ghosts and bringing colour back to the forest. PEGI 3 · Paid · PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 30 min
Puzzle Dorfromantik A relaxing tile-laying puzzle in which you place hexagons of forest, field, village and river to grow an idyllic landscape. PEGI 3 · Paid · PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 20 min
Sky & flight Flower A short, wordless game in which you are the wind, carrying petals across grassy fields and bringing colour back to the landscape. PEGI 3 · Paid · PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita…
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 15 min
Garden Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator A gardening simulation where you plant, water, prune and arrange a community garden, with a story mode and a restriction-free creative mode. PEGI 3 · Paid · PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5…
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Save any time
- Sessions from about 20 min
Sky & flight GRIS A short, almost wordless platformer about a young girl working through a painful experience, told through colour, music and movement. PEGI 7 · Paid · PC, Mac, PlayStation 4…
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 20 min
Music Journey A short, wordless journey across desert and ruins towards a distant mountain, carried by a Grammy-nominated score. PEGI 7 · Paid · PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 (PS4 version)…
- Has combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 30 min
Forest Lil Gator Game A playful exploration game about a young gator inventing a make-believe quest for their older sister. PEGI 3 · Paid · PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5
- Has combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 20 min
Puzzle Monument Valley A short puzzle game about guiding a silent princess through impossible, optical-illusion architecture by rotating and sliding parts of each monument. PEGI 3 · Paid · PC, iOS, Android…
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Save any time
- Sessions from about 15 min
Home & cosy PowerWash Simulator A job simulator in which you power-wash dirty vehicles, buildings and objects until they gleam. PEGI 3 · Paid · PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5…
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 30 min
Sky & flight Sky: Children of the Light A free-to-play online adventure from the makers of Journey, in which you fly through seven realms, free trapped spirits and meet other players. PEGI 7 · Free to start · PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS…
- No combat
- Some timers
- Some online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 20 min
Creatures Slime Rancher 2 A colourful first-person ranching game in which you collect slimes with a vacuum pack, feed them and build up a conservatory on Rainbow Island. PEGI 3 · Paid · PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
- Has combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 30 min
Music Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley A story-rich musical adventure in which you play Snufkin, using his harmonica and a light step to undo the ugly parks that have sprung up across Moominvalley. PEGI 3 · Paid · PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 30 min
Sea & shore Spiritfarer A cosy management game about death, in which you sail a ferry, care for spirit passengers and eventually help them move on. PEGI 12 · Paid · PC, Mac, Linux…
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 30 min
Garden Stardew Valley An open-ended farming life where you grow crops, raise animals, fish and get to know a small town at your own speed. PEGI 12 · Paid · PC, Mac, Linux…
- Has combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 30 min
Puzzle Townscaper A building toy rather than a game: you click to place coloured blocks on the water and the game turns them into houses, arches, stairways, bridges and gardens. PEGI 3 · Paid · PC, Mac, iOS…
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 10 min
Home & cosy Unpacking A zen puzzle about unpacking boxes into a new home, across eight house moves that tell a quiet life story. PEGI 3 · Paid · PC, Mac, Linux…
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Save any time
- Sessions from about 15 min

Reading the calm profile

No combat means there is no fighting you have to do to make progress. No timers means nothing in normal play counts down against you. No online pressure means you are not pushed into playing with strangers, keeping daily streaks or chasing time-limited events. Save any time means you can stop whenever you like without losing much.

The minutes figure is our rough sense of a satisfying sitting, not an official number. Ratings shown are PEGI ratings; where a game has in-game purchases or online chat, the profile says so in its "Worth knowing" note. See how we work for the full method.