Relaxing anti-stress games: gentle puzzles, fishing and cosy rooms

Not every game needs to keep you on edge. These ones skip the ticking timers and sudden twists, so you can put your phone down at any point and pick up where you left off.

The genres vary a lot. In Fish Master you sit with a rod among hand-drawn scenery, and with a bit of effort you can land exactly the fish you're after. Rumbox Designer is about furnishing tiny rooms in a box, drawn in a soft pastel isometric style. Rotate the Pipe! has you turn the whole level rather than the ball, guiding it to the far end of the pipe. Voxel Crusher is an ASMR clicker where steel rollers grind 100 models from 10 collections into thousands of voxels. If slow-paced management is your thing, try Food Empire, which starts you off with lemonade, pizza and ice cream, or PrintMaster 3D: Printing Tycoon, where a whole workshop grows from a single printer.

It's a good pick for unwinding after work or filling a commute. For the simplest possible start, open Three in a Row: Rings! and line up three rings of the same colour on a 3x3 board, whatever their size.