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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Home is Where One Starts... Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 12 May 2015
Koi-Koi Japan [Hanafuda playing cards] "Hanafuda" is a traditional Japanese card game. Now you can enjoy "Koi Koi," its most well-known variation, in a purely Japanese milieu with elegant and refined graphics. Online Multiplayer!!

Price -75% 2.51€
Rating 8.7
Release 27 Apr 2015
Sparkle 3 Genesis Step into the amazing world of Sparkle – a surreal ocean, where life is thriving and conditions are perfect to make an evolutionary leap.

Price -92% 0.44€
Rating 6.9
Release 24 Apr 2015
Hare In The Hat Evil magician holds the Hare imprisoned. Your quest is to save him! Join the fabulous adventure in perfect mix of hidden object, puzzle and room escape genres!

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 01 Apr 2015
AdVenture Capitalist Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Mar 2015
Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan Save the feuding kingdoms!

Price -95% 0.88€
Rating 9.1
Release 26 Mar 2015
World of Subways 4 – New York Line 7 The series "World of Subways" features some of the most interesting Subway Routes of the world for the PC. Once again World of Subways 4 comes back to New York, perhaps the most exciting city in the world. The whole gaming world takes place in the 70ies/80ies and is created in its typical look.

Price -80% 3.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 23 Mar 2015
Dreaming Sarah Dreaming Sarah is an adventure platformer where you play as Sarah, a girl who is in a coma. Explore the world around her and help her wake up!

Price -86% 0.70€
Rating 8.7
Release 12 Mar 2015
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen.

Price -97% 0.55€
Rating 9.0
Release 25 Feb 2015
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 -86% 1.15€
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% 0.27€
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 -79% 1.72€
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 -25% 11.24€
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 8.19€
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 -79% 3.53€
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 -86% 2.13€
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 -93% 1.15€
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 -89% 1.69€
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 -80% 2.99€
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 9.99€
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 -82% 1.09€
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 -85% 1.52€
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 -87% 0.41€
Rating 9.3
Release 17 Mar 2014

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