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2019 PC

A minimalist, relaxing city builder where you cleverly place buildings on small colorful islands to score points and unlock new ones. Calm music and charming low-poly visuals make it a perfect wind-down game.

What defines Islanders:

  • Cosy, great for unwinding
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

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Dorfromantik

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2022 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch

  • Cosy, great for unwinding
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Gameplay comes before story

You place hexagonal tiles to slowly grow a picturesque countryside of fields, forests, rivers and rail lines. A relaxing tile-matching puzzler about smart placement and completing quest goals, with no real pressure.

Terra Nil

Distinctive, stylised art style

Terra Nil is a calm reverse city-builder where you restore a barren landscape into a balanced ecosystem, then dismantle all your technology and leave without a trace.

Town to City

Bright, upbeat tone

A relaxed city builder where you freely design a 19th-century Mediterranean town and grow it into a thriving city. The focus is on cozy, creative placement and customisation rather than pressure.

Osmos

Cosy, great for unwinding

You pilot a tiny mote that grows by absorbing smaller ones and moves by ejecting mass, which shrinks you. Physics-based puzzles, a minimalist ambient soundtrack and a meditative mood define the experience.

Glass Masquerade

Distinctive, stylised art style

A relaxing jigsaw-style puzzle game where you assemble glass pieces into Art Deco stained-glass images and clocks from around the world. Its elegant visuals and calm music set it apart.

Mini Motorways

Cosy, great for unwinding

A minimalist puzzle-strategy game where you lay out roads for a growing city so houses and destinations stay connected. Calm visuals and music meet mounting traffic pressure that rewards clever re-planning.

Lyne

Cosy, great for unwinding

A minimalist puzzle game where you connect matching shapes with lines while filling the whole board. The simple rules grow tricky over time, all set to calming music.

Linelight

Cosy, great for unwinding

A minimalist puzzle game where you guide a glowing line through a world made of lines. Its puzzles introduce new ideas gently and feel calm and elegant.

Townscaper

Distinctive, stylised art style

Townscaper is a goal-free, relaxing building toy: place a few colored blocks and a clever algorithm turns them into charming seaside towns full of arches, stairways and gardens.

Reus

Cosy, great for unwinding

You play a god commanding four giants who raise mountains, oceans and forests to help tiny human villages flourish. Placing and combining plants, animals and minerals makes for a puzzle-like planning game where humans never do quite what you want.

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