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
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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.
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 10 min
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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.
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 15 min
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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.
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 20 min
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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.
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Save any time
- Sessions from about 20 min
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Sky & flight
Alto's Odyssey
An endless sandboarding game across desert dunes, canyons and temples, built around a one-button trick system.
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 10 min
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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.
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 20 min
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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.
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Save any time
- Sessions from about 30 min
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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.
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 15 min
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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.
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 30 min
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Puzzle
Dorfromantik
A relaxing tile-laying puzzle in which you place hexagons of forest, field, village and river to grow an idyllic landscape.
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 20 min
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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.
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 15 min
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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.
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Save any time
- Sessions from about 20 min
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Sky & flight
GRIS
A short, almost wordless platformer about a young girl working through a painful experience, told through colour, music and movement.
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 20 min
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Music
Journey
A short, wordless journey across desert and ruins towards a distant mountain, carried by a Grammy-nominated score.
- Has combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 30 min
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Forest
Lil Gator Game
A playful exploration game about a young gator inventing a make-believe quest for their older sister.
- Has combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 20 min
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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.
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Save any time
- Sessions from about 15 min
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Home & cosy
PowerWash Simulator
A job simulator in which you power-wash dirty vehicles, buildings and objects until they gleam.
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 30 min
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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.
- No combat
- Some timers
- Some online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 20 min
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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.
- Has combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 30 min
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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.
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 30 min
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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.
- No combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 30 min
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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.
- Has combat
- Some timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 30 min
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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.
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Saves at set points
- Sessions from about 10 min
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Home & cosy
Unpacking
A zen puzzle about unpacking boxes into a new home, across eight house moves that tell a quiet life story.
- No combat
- No timers
- No online pressure
- Save any time
- Sessions from about 15 min
Nothing fits every filter at once. Try a longer session or any platform.
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.