The Best Relaxing Games for Linux

Update 26 January 2025: Goppy added at rank #44.

Here are our 10 Best Relaxing Games for Linux, position 11 to 20:

APICO
Boxville
Please Fix The Road
SiNKR 3
ISLANDERS
Pilgrims
A Monster's Expedition
Rain on Your Parade
Voxelgram
Hook

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APICO (2022)

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APICO is the latest game in the sims genre, combining elements from Stardew Valley, Graveyard Keeper and Animal Crossing. Join your grandfather's beekeeping business on an island and craft, build and breed bees to discover extinct species. Experience a chilled adventure as you create your own unique world.

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What we like:

Crafting and building features are easy to pick up on
Chilled experience which allows you to complete the game at your own pace
Incorporates science into fun gameplay

What could be improved:

Initial NPCs lack personality compared to similar games
Tasks can be time consuming once you have a rhythm going

simulation
relaxing
education
farming
nature
immersive
management
crafting
cute
sims
building
exploration
life-sim
sandbox
top-down

Boxville (2022)

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Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories. Made in Ukraine.

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logic
emotional
point-and-click
hand-drawn
investigation
family-friendly
puzzle
relaxing
cartoony
experiences
colourful
atmospheric
exploration
adventure
story

Please Fix The Road (2022)

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Please Fix The Road is a colorful, minimalistic, laid-back and casual puzzle game in which it's probably not hard to guess... you're fixing roads! Your road repair doesn't have to be beautiful, it just needs to get the job done! Your mom will like this game too!

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transportation
minimalist
puzzle
building
relaxing
trains
stylized
casual
colourful
city-building
tutorial
difficult
family-friendly
top-down
simulation

SiNKR 3 (2022)

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SiNKR 3 is the culmination of the award winning minimalist puzzler series. SiNKR 3 offers a new slant on the familiar contraptions with new diagonal layouts and billiards-style physics. BY PLAYER DEMAND: multi-step undo.

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minimalist
logic
puzzle
relaxing
abstract
billiards
strategy
family-friendly

ISLANDERS (2019)

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Build beautiful cities without the stress of resource management in ISLANDERS. Explore infinite procedurally generated islands, unlock new packs of buildings and expand your settlements to vast cities. With intuitive and rewarding city-building gameplay, a relaxing atmosphere, beautiful vibrant colors, and no complex tutorials or overwhelming menus to navigate, ISLANDERS is the perfect game to just pick up, play and beat your high score. It's a simple game that lets anyone create and explore their own little worlds at an affordable price.

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What we like:

Very tranquil and calming game
Simple yet challenging gameplay
Stunning graphics and soothing soundtrack
Addictive and time-consuming
No complex tutorials or overwhelming menus to navigate

What could be improved:

May not be as calming as intended due to the need for improvement in each island
May not be what some players expect from a city-building game
Limited explanation on where to place pieces and clunky snapping of the pieces together
The addition of certain achievements may ruin the game for some players

city-building
relaxing
minimalist
strategy
colony
beautiful

Pilgrims (2019)

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Pilgrims is a playful adventure game, created by the team behind Machinarium and Samorost. Roam the land as you please and make new friends, share a laugh with your fellow travelers and help them complete their little stories, your way. How many different solutions can you find?

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card
cartoony
hand-drawn
short
nonlinear
relaxing
stylized
replay-value
family-friendly
point-and-click
2d
funny
comedy
experimentation
puzzle

A Monster's Expedition (2020)

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An adorable and relaxing open world puzzle adventure for monsters who love to learn about humans!

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sokoban
relaxing
puzzle
nonlinear
family-friendly
open-world
post-apocalyptic
exploration
surreal
3d
historical
cartoony
alternate
funny
atmospheric

Rain on Your Parade (2021)

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You are a mischievous Cloud set to rain on everyone's parade! Travel the world and cause mayhem in numerous short-and-sweet levels, each with unique objectives. The ultimate Schadenfreude Simulator!

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