Best Relaxing Games on Steam
Games designed for calm play, low pressure, soothing rhythm, or decompression.
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1Stardew Valley - You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Feb 26, 2016
In this game, you can…
- marry someone with the exact salad you found in a trash can.
- build an 8-player farm together and even tweak the group profit split for a harder run.
- spam bombs in a monster-filled cavern to blast straight through floors for loot.
- run the mines in co-op, with one person fighting monsters while the other grabs ore and bolts.
- restore a run-down community center to reshape the whole town, or buy into a big corporation instead.
- ignore farming and still build a whole life by fishing, mining, foraging, cooking, and specializing into different work paths.
- befriend townspeople by learning their schedules, catching them at dawn, and steadily unlocking personal cutscenes and secrets.
- turn an overgrown inherited farm into a working homestead by clearing debris, planting crops, upgrading tools, and expanding your setup.
2Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Oct 12, 2012
In this game, you can…
- practice alley-docking so much in-game that it carries over to real CDL-style trailer backing tests.
- join online convoys where a small bump can turn into a cross-country chase, or into a friendly honk-and-wave road trip with strangers.
- install major map mods and end up convoying through places like Iceland on custom roads with new physics and navigation.
- start with quick jobs, buy your first truck, take out loans, hire drivers, and grow into a multi-garage fleet that earns while you're out hauling.
- hammer down the highway with the speed limiter off, then sweat every speed camera and fine as you try to keep the delivery on time.
- reverse a full trailer into a tight loading bay and park it cleanly.
- cross a border and immediately deal with new road rules, new signage, and suddenly driving on the opposite side in the UK.
- haul everything from fuel and chemicals to oversized machinery and vehicles, then adjust how you drive to keep the cargo intact.
- tune in to live local radio stations as you drive and switch countries until the music and traffic rhythm sync up with the route.
3American Truck Simulator - Experience legendary American trucks and deliver various cargoes across sunny California, sandy Nevada, and the Grand Canyon State of Arizona. American Truck Simulator takes you on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes and widely recognized landmarks around the States.
Feb 2, 2016
In this game, you can…
- get stuck in a traffic jam because there's a small plane sitting on the highway behind cones and a cop car.
- neglect your truck and have it get worse mid-trip, like the engine starting to fail or the gearbox losing high gears.
- start as a hired driver, buy your first truck, then build garages and hire drivers until your fleet's income covers your tickets and repairs.
- choose a hard backing-in, an easy pull-in, or skip parking at the end of every delivery.
- back a long trailer into a loading dock using only your mirrors, with handling that can feel real enough to train the skill.
- roll into a delivery yard at night with a double load, thread tight turns without clipping anything, then inch the trailer into place a few feet at a time.
- hit the brakes and downshift an 18-speed in fog and rain when a car blows a stop sign, then still make the dock, grab a new trailer, and keep hauling.
- run convoys with friends, drive side by side, refuel together, and deal with the same chaotic merges while everyone watches it happen.
4Balatro - The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Feb 20, 2024
In this game, you can…
- reshape your deck until it's 20 Aces or a single suit.
- turn a normal poker hand into an impossible one, like five of a kind.
- stack two effects so one adds a new card every round and the other immediately buffs it, creating a self-feeding deck growth loop.
- make a straight or flush using only four cards.
- reroll the shop until you find the exact upgrade you're missing, burning all your cash to do it.
- start from a basic deck, buy wild upgrades between rounds, and watch one tiny combo turn into billions of points.
- skip early rounds for cash, ride interest, then pivot your whole deck plan and crush a 1M+ blind later.
- keep playing after you "win" in Endless mode, turning runs into a high-score lab for crazier combos.
5DAVE THE DIVER - DAVE THE DIVER is a casual, singleplayer adventure RPG featuring deep-sea exploration and fishing during the day and sushi restaurant management at night. Join Dave and his quirky friends as they seek to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Blue Hole.
Jun 28, 2023
In this game, you can…
- harpoon fish all day, then run a sushi restaurant at night by setting the menu, managing staff, and serving customers for upgrade money.
- hunt Godzilla in a crossover event during your dives.
- care for a Tamagotchi-like fish on your in-game phone by feeding it, cleaning up poop, training it, and putting it to sleep.
- dive into a shifting underwater sinkhole where each trip turns up new fish, loot, and surprises.
- go from peaceful exploration to fighting sharks and a megalodon when something huge shows up in the dark.
- watch customers taste your special dishes and launch into over-the-top Food Wars-style reaction cutscenes.
- unlock a whole farm loop where you grow crops, raise and name chickens for eggs, and feed it all back into your restaurant recipes.
- keep unlocking side activities like seahorse racing, card collecting, photography, gambling, rhythm sequences, and brawling missions as the story escalates.
6Starbound - You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Jul 22, 2016
In this game, you can…
- colonize a fiery planet, build a whole city of residents, and watch a single giant meteor wipe it off the map.
- build and fully customize a mech, then fly it through space into enemy ships and space stations.
- take bounty missions, track down criminals across planets, capture them, and send them to space jail.
- start stranded with a broken ship, beam to a planet, and rebuild it until you can jump from star to star.
- upgrade your starship into a moving home, recruit crew from your colonies, and bring them along as you travel.
- land on planets with radiation, no oxygen, acid seas, and frozen oceans, then gear up to survive each environment.
- teleport into a robotic-knight castle with a rocket launcher, loot everything valuable, and even rip out the doors.
- collect artifacts, fossils, fish, and bugs from ruins and villages, then turn them into a museum you built yourself.
7House Flipper - House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!
May 17, 2018
In this game, you can…
- turn a 350-square-foot wreck into an open-concept home with a kitchen, full bath, and a bedroom that fits a double bed.
- place a single toilet in the middle of a room, or fill a house with only bathtubs, just to see which buyer prefers it.
- mow lawns, plant gardens, enter a garden competition, then auction the house on Saturdays.
- take a cleanup job, haul out trash, mop filth, paint walls, install heaters and showers, then fully furnish the place for the client.
- smash out walls, rip out windows and doors, and sell the pieces while you redesign the whole house layout.
- build a house with no kitchen and two bathrooms, then still sell it to whatever bizarre buyer shows up for it.
- shuffle objects until the game re-labels a room, like making a living room suddenly count as a kitchen to satisfy buyers.
- buy your first trashed house, gut it, remodel and stage it, then list it and hope the right buyer pays for your choices.
- find a hidden room on the minimap, then smash through a wall to reveal it and rebuild the space around it.
8Planet Zoo - Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
Nov 5, 2019
In this game, you can…
- have an antelope herd get spooked, jump the fence into the guest crowd, and trigger a full-on panic as people sprint for the exits.
- select breeders by multiple genetic traits, track rare genes through family lines, and end up with unusual offspring like albinos.
- rotate, overlap, and clip building pieces to make custom shops and restaurants, then save them as blueprints to reuse in other zoos.
- zoom in and just watch lemurs or red pandas roam, with lifelike animations and realistic calls.
- dig rivers and lakes, raise mountains, carve caves, and build a huge custom zoo for hours with no money pressure.
- build a habitat from scratch, tune humidity and planting, add enrichment and climbing, then watch the animal move in and thrive.
- save a custom restaurant as a blueprint, then drop it into other zoos and blend it into whatever theme you're building.
- release new generations back into the wild after breeding them, so your zoo's animals become part of a continuing lineage.
9GRIS - Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
Dec 13, 2018
In this game, you can…
- turn into a literal square.
- paint platforms into existence with light to make your own path.
- survive being chased by nightmarish figures in scenes that feel dangerous, even though the game has no normal death state.
- restore color to a dead black-and-white world, and watch new routes and spaces appear as it comes back.
- get shoved around by hostile wind, then become heavy as a cube to force your way forward.
- flip gravity and platform while the whole world reorients around you.
- gain new movement powers as your dress changes, from double-jumping to swimming, dolphin-like dashes, and gliding.
- reach an ending where you sing as darkness closes in, and a second voice finally sings back with you.
10CarX Drift Racing Online - CarX Drift Racing Online is your chance to immerse yourself in the real world of drifting. Get together with friends, tune your car and burn some tires!
Nov 17, 2017
In this game, you can…
- slam into a wall at 300 km/h and keep driving.
- run 10–16 cars in a single tandem line through a mountain road without breaking formation.
- drive modded mega-maps that stitch dozens of real-life mountain passes into one connected route with highways.
- stumble into a lobby and end up tandem drifting with five strangers.
- build absurd swaps, like dropping a V8 into a Miata.
- tune a car until it goes from undrivable to a dialed-in drift machine.
- wrestle a force-feedback wheel when the car snaps back mid-drift.
