i'm not sure if it qualifies, but i found minecraft classic quite wholesome.
Back in 2010 there was Minecraft 0.30 as a creative mode available free to play. People used to build houses with flowers as water tap. Good times of just placing blocks.
The mum game of all mum games in my experience is The Sims. I've got mine hooked on Sims 2 by accident and it's actually fairly innocent if your playing style is.
Even though any simmer will unavoidably become a genocidal maniac, at some point. But for sensitive people, this might still be a good game.
However, if that's too dark still (because even Sims 4, the most innocent entry, can have inter-character drama), maybe some farming games may work. The kind you'd find on Facebook. Mine is playing those a lot, but I can only think of Farmerama, right now. But that can also be a money milking machine.
I didn’t even think of the Sims, that’s a good suggestion. Thank you! The drama is okay, it’s more like murder cases and stuff that she doesn’t like.
Free games unfortunately all have item shops and those waiting times for crops to grow, she doesn’t play on her mobile because she doesn’t like these kind of features. Her gold standard in games is SimCity. If I had to guess than I’d say she played that one for 1000 hours.
I don’t know if it’s necessarily the sort of thing most people here would count, but I thoroughly enjoyed Cats In Time. It’s just a simple, casual, extremely cute, hidden object cat game with very little thought required. I found it adorable and extremely relaxing.
My favorite cozy games are A Hat in Time and Dying Light. Maybe odd choices, but these are games I can kind of turn my brain off and just relax. Whether it’s platforming around poppy worlds, or jump kicking zombies off roofs into spike traps, they relax me!
Not odd at all! Before discovering games like Stardew and Cozy Grove (which I’m now obsessed with), my go-to relaxing game was AC Black Flag, because pirates xD
Stardew is top tier cozy. Would also put animal crossing new horizons on that list.
Spiritfarer is another commonly recommended one. More of a linear story though.
Moonlighter is an older game I liked. Has some combat like the mines in stardew, but also you run a little store selling your treasures during the day 💎
Untitled Goose Game is a short cozy game.
Thanks for making this post! it came across my feed and helped me find this community :)
Unless you hate the art style, the Atelier Games (especially the newer ones, like the "Ryza"-Trilogy or "Sophie 2" that got rid of the time limit) are definitely worth a look!
And if you enjoyed Stardew Valley, then Rune Factory might also be worth a look: the newest entry (5) is the first mainline 3d-title, which was a divise change (especially due to not amazing performance on the Switch), though I enjoyed it; but the "Special"-version of part 4 is also worth a look (if you can stomach the 3DS-style visuals)
It is basically Animal Crossing, or so I have been told. I always wanted to play Animal Crossing but with already not enough time to play all my PC games it didn’t make sense to buy a console just for one game. Now I can play something similar on PC. ( ´ ▽ ` )
The other one is House Flipper. I like that I can just play for a few minutes on my break at work when I am stressed out.
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