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Beautiful and relaxing games to play before going to sleep?

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The App stores are so full of games that it's sometimes hard to find the ones that really deserve to be downloaded. But don't worry, we'll help you with this selection of interesting and beautiful games. It is up to you to choose which ones pick your interest. 🙂

  1. Limbo icon
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    Limbo (stylized as LIMBO) is a puzzle-platform video game and the premiere title of independent Danish game developer Playdead. The game was released in July 2010 as a platform exclusive title on Xbox Live Arcade, and was later re-released as part of a retail game pack along...

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    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • SteamOS
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
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    Limbo plunges the player into a monochrome and mystical universe. Playing on the effects of light and shadow to create a very special atmosphere, it also uses all the physical possibilities that the environment can bring (rotation, gravity, etc.). The player is thus mistreated, and must find a way to solve the various enigmas in order to reach the end of each chapter.

  2. Solve puzzles, quests, brain-teasers and mini-games to rid the city of the wicked Black Cap Brotherhood robots. Gorgeous hand-drawn graphics and animations bring the robot's story to life, using unique comic bubbles and symbols to convey the plot.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Blackberry
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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    Machinarium is an independent adventure game in which you play as a little robot unjustly thrown into the garbage. He must return to the city from which he was driven and repair this affront. On his journey, he will meet strange people and will have to solve many puzzles and enigmas based on the workings of an entirely mechanical universe.

  3. Inside icon
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    The dark and eerie sequel to the hit platformer game, Limbo.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Epic Games Store
    • Steam
    • GOG.com
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
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    Inside is a platform game with a dark universe, like the famous Limbo icon Limbo game. In Inside, you play a young lonely boy who is chased to escape as he finds himself drawn into a dark project. In the heart of a heavy atmosphere, you control the facts and actions of your hero, to accompany him in his quest for freedom.

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    Oxenfree is an innovative adventure game with an dark stroyline and spooky atmosphere. A group of friends has unwittingly opened a ghostly rift. Play as Alex as you unfold the eerie plot.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
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    Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller that tells the story of a group of friends who unintentionally open a portal for spectra to enter our world. We then follow Alex's adventures, with his half brother Jonas, in a party that ends terribly badly.

  5. World of Goo is a physics based puzzle / construction game. The millions of Goo Balls who live in the beautiful World of Goo dont know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Steam
    • Nintendo Switch
    • GOG.com
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    A new generation puzzle game, World of Goo invites you to get to know the Goo Balls. These small balls of tar are assembled and allow you to realize different constructions or improbable structures. Create towers, bridges or ladders to get your Goos to the next level.

  6. This War of Mine is the first game that lets you experience war not as a soldier, but as a group of civilians in a besieged city, struggling with a constant threat of disease, starvation and death, either from hardship, a sniper's bullet or at the hands of bandits.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Steam
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    Survival game, This War of Mine allows you to play a group of civilians who must survive as long as possible. Following a cycle, the principle of the game is based on two main phases: the day, when you must protect yourself from sniper attack, and the evening, when the search for food becomes your main objective.

  7. In Monument Valley you will manipulate impossible architecture and guide a silent princess through a stunningly beautiful world.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Nintendo Switch
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    Monument Valley is a video game of reflection featuring Princess Ida, the main character of the game, in a scenery composed of buildings with impossible geometric shapes. The game is presented in isometric perspective. The player must help Ida find her way out of each level. The game has ten levels called chapters of increasing difficulty.

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    Fireproof Games are very proud to bring you our greatest creation, a mind-bending journey filled with beauty, peril and mystery in equal measure. Be transported into a unique space that blends spellbinding visuals with intriguing problems to solve.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Steam
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    The Room is an adventure and puzzle game. The player, following an invitation, finds himself in the attic of an old abandoned house. Then, he has to figure out how to open the safe within.

  9. Explore the ancient, mysterious world of Journey as you soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets. Play alone or in the company of a fellow traveler and explore its vast world together.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Epic Games Store
    • Playstation
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    Journey is a game in which the player takes a mysterious and initiatory journey. During his journey starting in the middle of a desert, he will meet other players with whom he can make a part of the way, trying to understand the secrets of this particular universe.

  10. Join Alto and his friends as they embark on an endless snowboarding odyssey. Journey across the beautiful alpine hills of their native wilderness, through neighbouring villages, ancient woodlands, and long-abandoned ruins.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Apple TV
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    Alto's Adventure is an endless runner taking place in the mountains. The player plays Alto, who went on a ski adventure, in his exploration of the Alps. During his journey, he makes many encounters, saves animals or challenges other players.

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    Lifeline is a playable, branching story of survival against all odds. Using your device, you will help Taylor make life or death decisions, and face the consequences together.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Steam
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    Lifeline is a text-based adventure game developed by Three Minute Games for iOS and Android. Through a texting conversation between the main character and the player, the player must guide the main character, Taylor, to survive an unknown moon after their space ship crashed.

  12. Sky: Children of Light is an enchanting 3D open-world adventure and exploration game. In Sky, you arrive as the Children of the Light, spreading hope through the desolate kingdom to return fallen Stars to their constellations.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Nintendo Switch
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    Sky: Children of the Light is an adventure game developed by thatgamecompany (https://alternativeto.net/software/journey-by-thatgamecompany/). As a child of light, you will have to recover the lost stars and bring them back to their constellations by exploring the seven dream realms of a world in perdition.

  13. Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, reconciliation, and hope. Entrenched in a beautifully sunkissed and handcrafted world, embark on a heartfelt journey interwoven with lighthearted and pressure-free puzzle solving.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Steam
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    Old Man's Journey is a puzzle adventure game. The player must shape the landscape to guide the old man on his journey. The purpose of this trip is to reconcile him with his family.


Well, that's all for now. Feel free to tell me in the comments if you'd like more lists on games or if you want to see a list on a particular subject or type of game next time. 🙂

Comments

tibi97427
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Alto's Adventure and the next episode Alto's Odyssé are really beautiful games (I have a preference for the soundtrack of Alto's Adventure however). When you hit the Zen mode and have a headphone... It's kind of magic. I don't know how it is on App Store but on Android Alto's isn't commercial but freemium.

coralinecastell
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I sincerely would not call Limbo, INSIDE, This War of Mine and Lifeline relaxing, having played all of them. Limbo's challenging, especially if you're going for full completion. INSIDE is a wonderful game, but set in bleak, depressing and, some times, disturbing dystopia. This War of Mine is angst-y and involves too much survival and sad subplots. Lifeline conveys the feeling that it requires some kind of urgency, gets your heart pumping.

Overall: just don't play games before you sleep... haha

Not listed but I highly recommend: Viridi icon Viridi

robertheadley
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This War of Mine is too depressing for me to ever play.

amritkarmacharya
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all apps are commercial. Only one freemium and that is not in android. Any free ones for android?

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ralaud
Replying to @amritkarmacharya

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tgc.sky.android

Seems like the freemium one, is new on android.

[Edited by ralaud, October 10]