Android might not have many AAA games to its name, but it sure has its fair share of soothing and relaxing games. If you are wondering, I am not talking about those anti-stress puzzle games. While they are fun to play, they generally do not provide a storyline or goal to follow which is exactly what some users look for.
I decided to write this article when I found most of the websites include loads of anti-stress puzzle games as soothing games. Well, not here! Let us start with the 15 best relaxing games for Android without fights and action that you can find on the Play Store right now. Keep in mind that these are in no particular order, and each has its genre.
Note: The source of all images in this article is Play Store.
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1. Alto's Adventure
Above the ivory snow lies a sleepy mountain village, brimming with adventure.
Alto's Adventure is the game you would go for if you wanted an endless runner with beautiful and vast lands; filled with Llamas, and diverse weather conditions. While it does provide a level-up system by completing certain goals, in essence, it is still an endless runner.
The goals, however, would help you achieve various new objects and playable characters, each with its specialty. The first character you get by default is pretty decent and would help you get through most of the tasks and the beautiful snowscape of the mostly serene village easily.
If you still feel something is lacking, behold the Zen Mode. Endless, ad-free, death-free with no connection to game scores, statistics, and missions. You are set free to do as you wish, run as you want, fall as you want, and get up for another unique backflip. Or you can just sit there in the snow and gaze at the slowly setting sun between the mountains? It is your call.
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2. Alto's Odyssey
Just beyond the horizon sits a majestic desert, vast and unexplored.
Following the footsteps of Alto's Adventure, Alto's Odyssey provides the same immersive and beautiful experience with a different, yet unique landscape. With the crew, various skateboards, and other unlockables at your disposal, you can try to claim this desert to yourself.
Every once in a while you would be greeted by something, be it the birds of Paradise, or the slowly burning campfires left by the nearby villagers as your slide past them in front of the setting Sun paving way for the night. Soon you would find yourself going through the majestic yet old temples, and the ancient Runes.
Being a sequel to Alto's Adventure, Odyssey provides you with a Zen mode as well, where you can fulfill all your stunts without worrying about your scores, or lie with your faithful skateboard near the slowly swinging cacti as the blue sky turns dusty, filled with a storm that rages through the night.
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3. Penguin Isle
A small glacier lies in the middle of nowhere, home to adorable penguins.
Penguin Isle has only been around for 2 years now, but the amount of downloads it has garnered is an indication of how great it is. You start with a small Island that is filled with cute penguins, all working hard for a better world..erm island, I mean.
The game aims to let you collect all sorts of penguins, as well as to provide them with the appropriate habitat and places to thrive in. Watch them work and grow every day With soothing music playing in the background. What could be more relaxing?
Over time Penguin Isle has got a lot of updates, providing us with various other creatures living in peace and harmony on a glacier in the vast blue ocean. The game packs loads of mini-games, dress-ups, and 300+ decoration items to make the glacier your own.
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4. Orbia: Tap and Relax
A bizarre world filled with immortal lifeforms, considered to be the end of many.
This game is unlike others. Filled with unique creatures having glowing eyes and a forever moving temperament, they would make it hard for you to not only pass the levels but also leave the game.
You start by getting a character and a couple of immortal lifeforms revolving around the 'level'. Ensure that you have a clear line of sight and move on to the next level. Orbia provides you with a decent character to start with but as you gain levels you can unlock multiple character skins, each with its perks.
The game also has four different environments, The Mountains, the Pyramids, the Wasteland, the Islands each having hundreds of levels and increasingly bizarre lifeforms. The game might sound very 'unsoothing' but once you start playing it, the sound effects, its colorful gradient background, and the gameplay is going to win your heart.
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5. Fishing and Life
Fishing is to heal your heart.
Another great game that needed to be included in the best relaxing games for Android. The game is fuelled by a simple and normal character, bored from his daily lifestyle who has now decided to fish to his heart's content in a shabby boat.
The landscape is breathtaking, with a distant lighthouse, the stars covering the globe at night, and the occasional fading of the Sun and the Moon into the sea. Paired with ASMR sounds and soft wave sounds, this would heal your heart from any tiredness.
For those looking for a bit more than just relaxing fishing scenes, the game offers more. You have multiple types of boats that take you farther into the sea and all sorts of marine creatures ranging from tiny beautiful fishes to scary sharks. The game even has giant whales to fish for, if you have got the capability to!
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6. My Oasis: Calming, Relaxing & Anxiety Relief Game
The Oasis is home to all. The foxes come here, so do the Elephant, the Giraffe, Penguin, and even the Whales.
My Oasis is a tap interactive game, bearing a very close resemblance to Penguin Isle. The only difference is that you get a whole lot of other tropical animals that are otherwise not found in the Penguin Isle.
The game provides you with high-quality sounds, Soothing unique graphics, and a plethora of creatures that spend their day enjoying the Oasis, just like you would. This makes it a great anti-anxiety game.
As for the features, My Oasis has multiple mini-games to keep your mind stress-free and includes an island builder to build your dream Oasis. You would be able to collect as many animals and let them roam free in your Oasis while you spectate and grow them.
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7. Leo's Fortune
Watch the whole world unravel as you seek answers about Leo's Fortune.
Leo's Fortune has been around for quite a while now and has gained tremendous positive feedback despite being a paid game. The players start with Leo following the trail of a thief that stole his Fortune. The adventures of this green fluff ball would take you through Mossy forests, running trains, large cities, deserts, and whatnot, all filled with physics-based puzzles and traps.
Leo's Fortune might be one of the only games in this list that do happen to have traps, deaths, and tricks; lots of them. As you progress through the story you would find baffling and challenging tasks that need to be achieved, making a player question if it is a soothing game.
But this game more than makes up for it by providing insanely good graphics and a superb gameplay experience that you might not encounter with other games. The sounds are as good as ASMR, and Leo's movements are very satisfying, to say the least. The whole landscape, be it forests or cities, has been handcrafted beautifully for the best gaming experience.
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8. Let's Create! Pottery 2
Your journey to a stress-free life begins with Pottery.
A 10 out of 10 relaxing game that just calms you down each time you progress and create something. The focus of the game is entirely on crafting various urns, pots, and containers using your pottery skills, which happen to be portrayed in a very satisfying way.
The game provides various patterns and decoration objects to use on your pots as well as your progress or with purchases. The previous game, Let's Create! Pottery Lite did not include an online community to share your creations, but this version makes it possible.
Let's Create! Pottery 2 provides a fantastic way to display your creations as well, with great lighting and camera angles to make turn the pots into something that you could gaze at for hours.
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9. Microtrip
Simple, squashy, and with plenty of just one-more-go addictiveness.
Microtrip adopts the meaning of relaxing differently. It is stress-free gaming, while still having gameplay, although simple. The game features an organism's body through which you navigate as a little microscopic creature, avoiding bacterias and other harmful germs.
You can collect white blood cells for more health to survive a collision with the bad guys and pills for unique powers that help you go deeper and deeper into the system. The game is filled with tunnels and passages, making the creature use soft-body physics to satisfyingly squish through them.
It is Gyroscope (tilt) or touch-based gameplay and is available on Google Play Store as an Instant App, which means you can simply try it out and even keep playing it without having to download the application to your phone! This little blob game is sure to keep you busy and happy for days.
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10. Mekorama
A tiny robot tries to find its way home, stumbling through puzzling mechanical dioramas.
Mekorama has been on Android since 2016 and never got out of the satisfying or challenging games list. It is about a lost clumsy robot trying hard to pass each puzzle, ultimately looking for a way to go home.
The game has great mechanics and creative angles to look at it from, requiring you to think deeply about how to proceed. Each level gets a little tougher than the previous one until you get to level 100 and find the little robot a way home.
Apart from the gameplay the app itself is very great in design and provides a level builder for players who would like to create their challenges and offer them to others. Similarly, Mekorama also has other levels created by its players that you can enjoy apart from the 100 main levels.
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11. Sky: Children of the Light
In Sky, we arrive as the Children of the Light, spreading hope through the desolate kingdom to return fallen Stars to their constellations.
One of the few games that are open world with a unique element to it. This game is to be explored with your loved ones and is a completely social game unlike most on this list. You can even team up, meet new people and socialize with others in the game.
Talking about the game itself, it is an adventure set in the kingdom of the Sky, where you uncover seven realms and their deep mysteries along with your family and friends. With graphics and landscape that give downright chills at times, the game is paired with beautiful and soothing music.
It is updated by the developers regularly, getting several updates and expansions as the players celebrate and share gifts. If you are looking for a social open-world game with breathtaking landscapes to travel through but with zero toxicity, this is it.
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12. Mars: Mars- Space Explorer
Grab your jetpack and jump your way into a great adventure: Mars!
A 2D minimalistic adventure game that would make you addicted to itself. Mars is a space exploration game where you bounce and fly from one platform to another like an endless runner.
The game introduces various new objects such as UFOs, creatures, and so on as you progress through each level or platform. You have to stay safe, using your jetpack for jumps to each platform in this vast & mostly barren land of Mars, or become a UFO yourself if you want!
Contrary to how it feels, the game is not endless. As a part of Mars's mission, you would be on this planet-hopping your way through each difficulty until Mars is terraformed into something humans can call their second home, and it all depends on you!
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13. Monument Valley
An illusory adventure of impossible architecture and forgiveness.
Monument Valley has been critically acclaimed for its brilliant design and gameplay. Discover the hidden paths, mysterious monuments, and optical illusions as you guide the silent princess Ida, outsmarting the enigmatic crow people.
The landscapes are so surreal, you would be lost in the game within minutes, the designs so soothing, they would be a feast for your senses. Overall this game is like Mekorama but works on a much tougher and more addictive scale.
Its sequel, Monument Valley 2 won the hearts of the players as well with its incredible new designs, however, the challenges were far easier and less absorbing, thus being less fun than its prequel. A complex puzzle knitted together with satisfying gameplay, Monument Valley is a must to try for every player out there.
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14. GRIS
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her world.
The story revolves around a girl, Gris, who is lost in her world, in her pain. As the players progress through the story, her dress grants her new abilities, taking her on new paths and places, all filled with light puzzles yet quite deep in the thought.
The graphics are mesmerizing and instill something inside your heart that you can only be felt when you play it. You would get to explore a meticulously designed world brought to life with delicate art, detailed animation, and an elegant original score.
GRIS takes an innovative approach, going almost textless. All you would find are the faded universal icons displayed in the charming and sometimes dark colors of the world Gris travels through, trying to wake her emotional subconscious little by little.
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15. Stardew Valley
Move to the countryside, and cultivate a new life.
The famous Stardew Valley is now on Android, and it is mind-blowing. Experience the countryside, the beautiful farms, and the lovely people who thrive in it. Grow your house and expand your little business as per your heart's content!
The players get to turn overgrown lands into lively farms, growing a variety of crops and breeding happy animals. Look for potential marriage partners, go on cave exploration and other similar adventures as well as join the community events!
Stardew Valley feels like the pixelized version of Animal Crossing, but with its perks and gameplay style. When you have got everything you aimed for, perhaps take a seat and relax, enjoying the beautiful view of the countryside on a silent afternoon.
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Conclusion:
That was all for today's article! There were many more contenders for the 15 best relaxing games for Android, but here are the top ones. As for the rest, stay tuned as they will make an appearance in other articles at one point or another! Feel free to share your thoughts with me about these games as well.
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