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Powerwash Simulator is weirdly calming.

I spent all Saturday playing it in VR. When I was done I was like "hold up. Did I just waste a Saturday... Cleaning shit? Shit that wasn't even real?!"

Had to go play some more to calm myself down.

It was a flash game called flOw. You're just a microbe wandering around eating things, and you occasionally evolve, based on what you ate. I can't find an instance that works properly with a flash emulator, but that game would actually lower my heart rate.

Firewatch, the walking simulator.

Truck simulator either the American or European version.

I just like wandering around in Skyrim picking flowers and not doing any quests.

Dorfromantik it's a sort of puzzle game that's deeply relaxing

Factorio. It is as relaxing or as stressful as you want it to be.

I'm in the Animal Crossing boat. It's the right kind of cozy.

A Short Hike and A Little To The Left were also pretty chill.

Monument Valley. No rush, no timer, pretty puzzles. I keep replaying it now and then.

Unpacking

Stardew Valley. It can be stressful, but even when it is, the stakes are pretty low.

Journey.

Minecraft in peaceful mode

Journey on playstation 3. It's now on pc too

I've never been into gaming, mostly due to this stress thing. The suggestions in this thread makes me want to try taking it up.

I have a jailbroken PS3 that was handed down to me few years ago and is lying unused. Can someone suggest me a simple tutorial on how to find and load games onto it. I would prefer to try the games out before I buy them. High seas are familiar to me, but what exactly am I looking for?

Thank you.

Osmos.

Sable

It's not 100% pure relaxation, but 1010 Klooni is nice once you get good at it. It's available on f-droid; you should be able to find alternative versions if you search for Tenten.

Stardew valley.

As long as you don't try to min/max. I also make the days longer.

It's just got such an amazing vibe. One of my favourites.

There are some good games mentioned already but I'd like to pitch in Planet Crafter. No enemies, no time pressure beyond an oxygen/food/water system, just you and the long-term goal of terraforming a planet by yourself.

The award for almost-but-not-quite-relaxing goes to Hardspace: Shipbreaker, where you can fall into a comfortable trot after you figure things out – and then the storyline makes you want to strangle someone with their own necktie. But the gameplay can be very relaxing.

I play Merge Dragons which is just a game where you endlessly merge and build worlds. It's relaxing.

Picross 3D and Picross 3D 2 are among my favs for chill games. There is technically a timer, but once you get the flow of the game the timer really doesn't impact anything at all.

Either A Short Hike or Minecraft, sometimes.

Anyone play "the longing" ? It looks like it ought to be really chill. I guess I will have to find out.

I personally find it relaxing sometimes to just boot up the mahjong or solitaire game on my laptop. Absolutely no pressure to perform well, unlike how I sometimes feel in most other games.

~~League of Legends ranked solo queue~~

The long dark. The game drips with atmosphere, sleeping when there is a blizzard outside your little cabin is just fantastic. Hearing the snow crunch as you're exploring, or the haunting sound of wolves howling as they follow you while you're hauling your latest kill of fresh meat.

The feeling when you come across a rare find that saves your life, like a nice jacket or leggings.

Oh! Once you learn to navigate in a blizzard? You can't see and it can be so hypnotic. Walking until you find a landmark and adjusting your path, crunching along while the wind howls hoping you find shelter before you die.

The feeling of seeing the Aurora borealis in that gorgeous sky at night?

It all almost makes you forget that you're probably starving/freezing to death.

Orbit. You're just trying to achieve and maintain a stable orbit. I would play it one-handed while rocking my infants back to sleep. So peaceful.

Tetris attack (panel de pon) on easy difficulty, the soundtrack is absolute catharsis,

It gets intense when the screen starts to fill, can give you that jolt of adrenaline (it can be a really intense jolt, that soundtrack gets intense), but you're not in any real danger of losing because it's so very simple. Swapping the blocks gives a very satisfying swish sound, the bubble popping noise as blocks remove themselves, the character noises as the combo counter goes up.

Poochy imo is the best character, but all of them have great backing tracks and unique combo noises.

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