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2019 PC 4.99 € 👍 95 % Overwhelmingly positive, 16,316 reviews on Steam Steam Deck playable

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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2022 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch 12.99 € 👍 97 % Overwhelmingly positive, 27,597 reviews on Steam Steam Deck verified

  • 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

Bright, upbeat tone

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.

Minami Lane

Accessible and relaxed

A relaxing small-scale management game where you design a Japanese-inspired street, run its shops and keep the residents happy. It offers short goal-driven levels plus a freeform sandbox mode.

Town to City

Accessible and relaxed

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.

Glass Masquerade

Distinctive, stylised art style

A relaxed jigsaw-style puzzle game where you assemble glass pieces into Art Deco stained-glass pictures. Its elegant art style and calm mood make for a cozy, soothing brain-teaser.

Osmos

Gameplay comes before story

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.

Outlanders

Accessible and relaxed

A relaxed, charming town-building sim where you carefully manage resources and keep your settlers happy. Each group of outlanders has its own goals, which keeps the town planning varied.

Mini Motorways

Gameplay comes before story

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.

Mekorama

Bright, upbeat tone

A relaxing puzzle game where you guide a tiny robot home through mechanical dioramas by rotating and manipulating platforms and mechanisms. The charming miniature worlds invite calm tinkering, and a diorama maker lets you build your own levels.

Camper Van: Make it Home

Accessible and relaxed

A relaxed puzzle game where you fit furniture and items like blocks into your camper van and decorate it into a rolling home. Calm, creative and completely stress-free.

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