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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Tasty Blue Tasty Blue is an underwater side-scrolling eat 'em up game. You start as a small goldfish with an insatiable appetite. After being overfed by your owner, you'll escape into the ocean and eat everything that you encounter. The more you eat, the bigger you get!

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.4
Release 10 Feb 2015
Grow Home Experience the freedom of unbounded climbing as you take control of BUD, a procedurally animated robot on a quest to save his planet. Create your own path through an alien world as you control and ride a giant plant on a vertical journey to the stars.

Price -61% 3.19€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 Feb 2015
Particula Destroy negativity, clear your mind! Particula brings you a new perspective in gaming, helping you to concentrate and relax. A three players co-op tower defense experience with a relaxing soundtrack, smooth visuals and gameplay.

Price -99% 0.42€
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Feb 2015
The Old Tree The Old Tree is a short free-to-play cinematic puzzle game about a newborn alien baby. Witness this microscopic entity's first moments of life and help it emerge from its underground lair and ascend towards an unknown destination.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 26 Jan 2015
Among Ripples Control a pond's ecosystem; experiment with what you can do and see what happens. Among Ripples is a meditative ecosystem management simulator; you add different creatures to the pond and see how they interact.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 22 Jan 2015
Cat Goes Fishing Start out on an island with a basic rod. Progress into a radar-wielding master fisher-cat scouring the sea for the biggest and baddest fish. Each fish has unique behaviors that you will learn to exploit as you tailor your arsenal of fishing rods to suit your style of play. Mrrrow!

Price 6.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 19 Jan 2015
Tengami Tengami is an atmospheric adventure game set inside a Japanese pop-up book. Fold and slide the beautifully crafted paper world to solve puzzles and discover secrets.

Price -92% 0.56€
Rating 7.8
Release 15 Jan 2015
About Love, Hate and the other ones About Love, Hate and the other ones is a puzzle game, in which you influence your surroundings by the force of Hate and the power of Love. Find a way through caves and ice, castles and factories, all by the might of your puzzling!

Price -93% 0.62€
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Dec 2014
Rising World Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 03 Dec 2014
Bloons TD 5 Five-star tower defense with unrivaled depth and replayability. The Bloons are back in full HD glory and this time they mean business! Build awesome towers, choose your favorite upgrades, hire new Special Agents, and pop every last invading Bloon in the most popular tower defense series in history.

Price -50% 4.09€
Rating 9.2
Release 19 Nov 2014
Farming Simulator 15 Welcome to the new generation of Farming Simulator!With a brand new graphics and physics engine, Farming Simulator 15 offers an immense open world, filled with details and visual effects transporting the Farming Simulator franchise to a new era.

Price -66% 5.81€
Rating 9.0
Release 30 Oct 2014
Eufloria HD Experience the celebrated strategy gameplay of Eufloria HD. Conquer asteroids in space and use their resources to grow floral creatures that do your bidding. Expand your empire and fight against several teams of AI opponents that all vie for the same resources and can offer fierce opposition.

Price -69% 4.77€
Rating 8.4
Release 14 Oct 2014
Hexcells Infinite Hexcells Infinite is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 01 Sep 2014
Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride Enter an enchanting world of legends and magic, where your destiny was written in blood and whispers of true love.

Price -82% 2.74€
Rating 9.1
Release 21 Aug 2014
Mountain Existential Nature Simulation

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 18 Aug 2014
Morphopolis Morphopolis is about transformation and discovery. Morphopolis takes you on a puzzle adventure through a fantastical insect world. Starting as an aphid grub, you embark on an epic journey of metamorphosis toward your spawning ground.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 14 Aug 2014
Sokobond Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.

Price -87% 2.00€
Rating 8.8
Release 21 Jul 2014
World of Subways 2 – Berlin Line 7 Volume 2: "U7 - Berlin" is the next release continuing the successful product series " World of Subways" introducing famous subway lines around the world to all subway enthusiasts. After Vol. 1, Vol. 2 contains the route U7 of Berlin`s subway.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 12 Jun 2014
Floating Point Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 06 Jun 2014
The Floor is Jelly The Floor is Jelly is a game that answers the question: what if everything you touched was made of jello?

Price -52% 4.88€
Rating 7.8
Release 30 May 2014
Strata Simple. Elegant. Challenging.

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.1
Release 29 May 2014
A Story About My Uncle A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...

Price -94% 0.90€
Rating 9.0
Release 28 May 2014
RollerCoaster Tycoon®: Deluxe One of the best games from acclaimed Tycoon series, with well designed gameplay mechanics, appealing graphics, and really high re-playability value. There’s no limit to what you can create so design and build the most thrilling roller coaster the world has ever seen!

Price -84% 1.01€
Rating 9.2
Release 21 May 2014
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly World of Guns: Gun Disassembly lets you delve into the inner workings of guns from the largest gears to the smallest screws

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 21 May 2014
Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube QBEH-1 is an atmospheric 1st-person puzzle platformer that takes players on a quest through a series of divergent worlds. Each world is filled with new puzzles that require special cubes to solve as well as fun secrets to uncover. Includes a LEVEL EDITOR and STEAM WORKSHOP support!

Price -92% 0.86€
Rating 8.3
Release 15 May 2014
Pixel Puzzles: Japan Pixel Puzzles: Japan combines traditional jigsaw puzzle style gameplay with light video-game interactivity.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 17 Apr 2014
LYNE Deceptively simple. Infinitely complex. LYNE is a minimalist puzzle game that will knot your brain as it calms your soul. Connect the shapes. Fill the board. Lose yourself in the interflowing paths of LYNE.

Price -84% 0.48€
Rating 9.3
Release 17 Mar 2014
Hexcells Plus Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Price -86% 0.42€
Rating 9.1
Release 19 Feb 2014
Hexcells Hexcells is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 19 Feb 2014
Banished In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Price -77% 4.49€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Feb 2014
The Plan A fly ascends to the skies, pondering the pointlessness of its brief existence.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 14 Feb 2014
realMyst: Masterpiece Edition Released in 2014, experience one of the first 3D adaptations of the renowned puzzle-adventure game Myst! Each discovery you make, every puzzle you solve, will bring you closer to reversing a wrong that has gone unchecked for ages.

Price -95% 0.93€
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Feb 2014
KAMI KAMI is deceptively simple: fold out coloured paper to fill the screen in as few moves as possible. Relaxing and easy to pick up, you'll soon find yourself deep in contemplation to perfect each puzzle. Created by State of Play, famous for their handcrafted aesthetic, KAMI has been created with real paper in an elegant Japanese theme.

Price -90% 0.43€
Rating 9.0
Release 23 Jan 2014
OMSI 2: Steam Edition Off to the next round! Experience a new omnibus simulator with OMSI 2 and start discovering Spandau while driving the omnibus. OMSI 2 is the successor of the well-known and awarded omnibus simulator "OMSI - The Bus Simulator".

Price -61% 11.87€
Rating 8.3
Release 11 Dec 2013
Race The Sun You are a solar-powered craft. The sun is your death timer. Hurtle towards the sunset at breakneck speed in a futile race against time. Delay the inevitable by catching speed boosts which reverse the setting sun - if only for a moment. Don't crash, stay in the light, and don't slow down!

Price -92% 0.80€
Rating 9.1
Release 09 Dec 2013
Knytt Underground The legendary Knytt series continues with Nifflas’ latest creation; Knytt Underground. In this Knytteration; humans have long since abandoned the planet after practically destroying it in a war, five hundred years ago.

Price -90% 0.68€
Rating 7.9
Release 25 Oct 2013

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