Cozy games for when the day's been rough

Some evenings I don't want a challenge. I want a game that asks nothing of me and lets me unwind, and there's a whole quiet corner of mobile games built exactly for that.

Lantern Hollow is my top pick here. You relight a sleeping town, solve gentle puzzles, and the whole thing is told through scenery rather than walls of text. It's three hours of calm and then a tidy ending.

Skybound Depot scratches a different itch — the organise-everything one. Sorting cargo on a floating platform sounds dull written down, but there's something deeply soothing about watching a little system run smoothly because you set it up right.

Neither game nags you to return or dangles a timer over your head. They just wait patiently until you want them again, which is exactly what a cozy game should do.