Tag: Chill
Games that are designed to be cozy and help you unwind. They tend to have less in the way of difficult challenges or complicated stories, and are just about getting that dopamine.
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A Little To The Left
Another chill relaxing game. I think the heat has been getting to me… This one is about organising and arranging things.
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A Place Full of Cats
Cat spotting. It’s like bird watching. A relaxing activity for when you’re struggling and life is being overwhelming and you just want something to do to take your mind off it.
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Nova Lands
A cute automation incremental game in the same style as Forager but a little smaller in scope.
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Nurikabe World
Nurikabe is a challenging logic puzzle about rivers and islands. The objective is to ensure all islands have exactly 1 number and are the correct size, and all rivers are connected and don’t include any squares.
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Train Station Renovation
A game about renovating train stations, very simple premise, mostly simple (though repetitive gameplay loop), perfect to occupy the time when sick.
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2024 Mosaic Retrospective
Quick one for the start of the year. Mosaic is a type of puzzle similar to a minesweeper, but with all numbers visible from the start. Each number indicates the amount of coloured cells in the 3×3 region centered on the number.
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Shapez 2
A (relatively) recently released factory building game about processing shapes. You get dropped on a platform in a huge empty void, with some patches of squares and circles nearby, and it’s your job to cut, spin, stack, and paint them before delivering these new processed shapes into the giant hub in the center.
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The Planet Crafter
A game about terraforming a planet. “Wait isn’t that a lot of games?” Yes, but this one does it in a first person survival format, not an overhead strategy or management format. Oh and unlike most first person survival games, there isn’t anything that’s explicitly trying to kill you.
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A Guidebook of Babel
A surprisingly emotional half time travelling puzzle, half visual novel about a potential afterlife. Follow the story of the Babel and its crew and passengers as the passengers navigate towards reincarnation.
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Linkito
Not too much to say about this one, it’s just a very pretty puzzle game about connecting components together. Some of the puzzles shift into zachlike territory, but it’s more of a puzzle since you still interact with your creation and rewire it on the fly mid puzzle.
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The Elephant Collection
So do you remember those flash elephant games from when the internet used to be good? This is them bringing that through to Steam in a playable form. Of course you could still just play the original versions on Flashpoint, but this collection has extra developer commentary, challenge achievements, and secrets.
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Islands of Insight
It’s finally out! The biggest open-world puzzle game has released, and it’s just as- if not more -obnoxious for the “ooh shiny” among us.