Tag Archives: relaxing

Available for: PC, iOS, Android Desert Golfing is exactly what it says on the tin, and nothing more. There is a ball, a hole, and some procedurally generated desert land in between. That’s it. No par, no club selection, no music, no items, no pause menu, no restarts, not even an avatar. Only dragging a cursor back to determine the next …

What if your home had a secret place for you to zen out (or just hide from your exploding email inbox)? Well, you can build that sanctuary. Some adults are creating an “adult calm corner,” a dedicated nook in their house to help them unwind. These spaces encourage relaxation through calming elements like cozy seating, sensory items, nature-inspired visuals, and …

Cooking sims run the gamut of intensity, but if Diner Dash is at the sweating-bullets end of the spectrum, Galaxy Burger is at the other end. This space-themed burger flipping game, developed by Galactic Workshop, is dripping with the weird — astronaut cats, delivery bots, aliens, and elvish humans are your customers across the various planets in our galaxy, rendered …

Back when I reviewed Ouros ($2.99) from Michael Kamm on Steam Deck, I enjoyed it a lot, but thought it was better suited to playing on iOS since it was best with touch controls on Valve’s handheld. Fast forward to today, the spline-based puzzler about forming curves has hit mobile, and I’ve been enjoying replaying it on my iPhone and …

There are many museums, zoos, botanic gardens, and other institutions that are good at translating their educational and preservational assets to social media. And then there’s the Monterey Bay Aquarium and its oceanic lo-fi livestreams. Monterey Bay is an internationally respected aquarium that real nerdy-ass fuckin’ nerds will know as the shot-on-location stand-in for the Maritime Cetacean Institute as featured …