Best Relaxing Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated relaxing games.

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Darkarta: A Broken Heart's Quest Collector's Edition Haunted by strange curses from her orphanage days, Mary never knew the story of her dark past until that day. Enter the enchanted 'Netherworld' where your destiny was written in blood and which whispers of true love. A multi-award winner epic adventure game! Rated by many as their all time favorite!

Price -76% 2.39€
Rating 8.7
Release 08 Mar 2017
Faeria With its unique living board, Faeria is also the only card game where you can gain all 300 cards in less than 50 hours.

Price -90% 1.98€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Mar 2017
Linked Relaxing, minimalistic 2d-puzzle game.

Price -97% 0.14€
Rating 8.6
Release 20 Feb 2017
Canvas The Gallery Use spraypaint to paint whatever you want in a blank art gallery. Send your galleries to your friends for them to view your artwork.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 16 Feb 2017
theHunter: Call of the Wild™ Discover an atmospheric hunting game like no other in this realistic, stunning open world – regularly updated in collaboration with the community. Immerse yourself in the single player campaign, or share the ultimate hunting experience with friends.

Price -98% 0.47€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Feb 2017
Hidden Folks Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Unfurl tent flaps, cut through bushes, slam doors, and poke some crocodiles! Rooooaaaarrrr!!!!!

Price -95% 0.81€
Rating 9.4
Release 15 Feb 2017
Oik Casual physics puzzle

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Feb 2017
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.

Price -90% 1.00€
Rating 7.3
Release 14 Feb 2017
Linelight Linelight is an elegant puzzle game set in a world of lines.

Price -86% 1.15€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Jan 2017
Zup! 3 Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 12 Jan 2017
Pictopix Pictopix is a puzzle game where you use logic to color squares on grids in order to reveal pictures.

Price 6.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 05 Jan 2017
Zup! 2 Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 05 Dec 2016
Hade Hade is a minimalist logic game with severely difficult puzzles softened by relaxing ambient music.

Price 3.29€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Dec 2016
Pinball FX2 VR Creating a brand new way to play pinball that deftly combines the look and feel of digital pinball with the sensation of a real-world experience, Pinball FX2 VR is the premiere place for pinball action in VR!

Price -65% 5.27€
Rating 7.9
Release 29 Nov 2016
Quern - Undying Thoughts Discover the truth about Quern’s past, unfold the mysteries of its present, and be the explorer who shapes its future. Quern introduces reusable puzzle mechanics to the classic genre, making the player think about the game as a whole, and not just as a series of individual challenges.

Price -75% 5.74€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Nov 2016
Disoriented A first-person puzzle game. Simply walk to the door.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 21 Nov 2016
Glass Masquerade Welcome to Glass Masquerade - an artistic puzzle game inspired by Art Deco & stained glass artisans of the 20th century. You need to combine hidden glass pieces to unveil clocks and themes exhibited by various cultures of the world at the 'International Times Exhibition'

Price -82% 0.92€
Rating 9.4
Release 18 Nov 2016
ISLANDS: Non-Places The familiar becomes magical in this critically acclaimed interactive artscape. Explore ten scenes inspired by the everyday and let your expectations of reality be transformed. Carl Burton's other work has been featured in the New York Times, Serial, Colossal, and Medium.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 17 Nov 2016
Planet Coaster Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.

Price -99% 0.43€
Rating 9.0
Release 17 Nov 2016
The Herbalist "The Herbalist" is a smooth and meditative game from the creators of "Everlasting Summer". You'll need to recreate some recipes of ancient potions with Slavya.

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 15 Nov 2016
Notruf 112 | Emergency Call 112 Emergency Call 112 – The Fire Fighting Simulation is an exciting, fully detailed simulation of the eventful life of a big city fire department. It was developed in cooperation with and modelled on the fire brigade of Mülheim, Germany. Mülheim has one of the largest and most modern fire stations in Europe.

Price -55% 6.78€
Rating 7.4
Release 09 Nov 2016
Transport Fever Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!

Price -98% 0.80€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Nov 2016
VOI Do you think 1 + 1 = 0 is correct? So what do you think about "black + black = white" statement?

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Nov 2016
Wayout Relax, clear your mind and find the way out.

Price -75% 0.51€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Nov 2016
Meadow - A Shelter Game Explore the vast and open landscape as a wild animal. Meadow is an online fable experience that lets old and new fans of the Shelter game series come together and explore a peculiar and wondrous world together.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 Oct 2016
Slayaway Camp A killer puzzle game where you control Skullface, a psycho slasher bent on slaughtering camp counselors at the title campground. Slide an adorable voxel murderer around hundreds of isometric puzzle levels to squash, flay, and decapitate hapless victims in this darkly comic homage to 80s horror.

Price -73% 2.05€
Rating 8.9
Release 25 Oct 2016
Razortron 2000 RAZORTRON 2000 is a retro top-down endless racing game. Try to beat your highscore, unlock new cars and climb your way to the top of the leaderboards on this love letter to coin eater arcade machines era!

Price -93% 0.35€
Rating 8.2
Release 12 Oct 2016
Zup! Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 04 Oct 2016
Giant Machines 2017 Take control over seven of the biggest industrial machines in the world. During the 14 mission campaign you will punch through the snows of Greenland, plow the steppes of Wyoming and travel all the way to sunny Florida. Your hard work will be completed by launching a space shuttle into space.

Price -95% 1.14€
Rating 6.9
Release 29 Sep 2016
Seasons after Fall Seasons After Fall is a 2D platform-puzzler game that will let you dive into a captivating universe and explore a land governed by magic and nature.

Price -88% 1.27€
Rating 7.8
Release 02 Sep 2016
Fernbus Simulator The world of coach drivers awaits you! Drive along motorways and country roads to the bus stations in over 40 cities in Germany. Thanks to the cooperation with FlixBus and true-to-the-original MAN buses, you will experience the game world in a realistic way.

Price -78% 6.75€
Rating 7.3
Release 25 Aug 2016
Shift It's a fun puzzle game. You have to connect as many figures as possible together. Use yellow "shifters" to change direction of the line. Get more points for longer line.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 16 Aug 2016
Grow Up Leaping from mind-boggling heights, bouncing off Champolines, soaring inches from floating islands, BUD can do it all - that look of mild terror, that’s his daredevil face. Help the adorable little robot collect MOM’s scattered ship parts and return them to the moon.

Price -25% 7.55€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Aug 2016
Voodoo Garden Welcome to the Voodoo Garden! You're owner of a little hut in a bustling swamp. With the help of little spirits you can earn powers and gold by producing various voodoo supplies.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 Aug 2016
MANDAGON Explore Mandagon, a world inspired by Tibetan theology and philosophy. With a focus on life and death, discover what it means to make a true sacrifice . . .

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 03 Aug 2016
ABZU From the art director of Journey®, ABZÛ is a beautiful underwater adventure that evokes the dream of diving. Immerse yourself in a vibrant hidden world bursting with color and life as you descend into the heart of the ocean. But beware as you swim deeper as dangers lurk in the depths.

Price -90% 2.06€
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Aug 2016

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