GAMES FOR NON-GAMERS

Clean up & chill out with these games

Tidy, prune and decorate your way to orderly bliss.

None of us can control the chaos of the wider world, but finding order in the small things can help us find a few moments of peace and relaxation amid the maelstrom of life.

Forget ever-climbing high scores and tense boss battles; tidying up and putting everything in its rightful place are the main goals of these blissful, domestic experiences.

Get rundown rooms ready for resale in House Flipper Home Design.

Turn shabby shacks into radical renovations, then a profit, in this terrific tidying simulator. Wander around each realistic 3D house in an immersive first-person view, identifying what needs some TLC before getting to work.

Take out the rubbish, straighten up furniture and clean everywhere – you’ll soon have created a household heaven, ready to go under the hammer. It’s endlessly satisfying to see each unloved space transformed into the perfect place to live; which is good, as you can then do it all again with the next house!

Unbox items then neatly arrange them to discover a story in Unpacking.

After the stress of moving comes the satisfaction of finding your possessions their rightful place in your new home.

Unpacking goes one step further than the simple delight of arranging objects around each room, revealing a personal yet universally familiar story of love, loss and humanity with each item you place and each home you discover.

Goods Puzzle: Sort Challenge

We’ve all felt the urge to return a wayward food packet to its rightful place in the supermarket. Goods Puzzle: Sort Challenge tasks you with organising shop shelves against the clock, forming sets of three matching items to clear them away.

As you do, you’ll reveal more items in need of sorting behind them – put them in the right place quickly to earn bonus combo points. With a colourful array of products to sort across dozens of different levels, shelf stacking has never been so fun.

Assemble With Care

Fried electronics? Smashed ceramics? Nothing’s a problem for talented fixer Maria in this thoughtful game about repairing everyday objects.

With each object you unscrew, stick back together and make new again, you’ll learn about their owner and the place the item holds in their life. Accompanied by gentle music and voice-acting to draw you into its soothing puzzles, Assemble With Care constructs a delicate, heart-warming experience.

Gardenscapes

With the help of your faithful butler Austin, work to restore the garden of your family’s mansion to a verdant vision in Gardenscapes. Each minigame you complete, including puzzles and match-3 levels, earns you stars to spend on new decor and tasks.

Plant fresh flowers, clear out the fountain and tidy up the maze – you’ll soon see it coming together! You can truly make the garden your own too, by choosing from different customisable decorations. Once your garden is back to its former glory, you can help other characters make their gardens glow!

Transform overgrown gardens in satisfying sim It’s Literally Just Mowing.

All the joy of a freshly-mown lawn – with none of the hay fever! Hop on your trusty mower and guide it around the overgrown grass by swiping to turn. Don’t worry about accidentally trimming the petunias or crunching a hidden stone, as there’s no way to ruin your garden or get a “game over” here.

Instead, it’s all about enjoying the ride(-on mower). Keep an eye out for neighbourhood cats, dogs, butterflies and other critters as you buzz around. It won’t just be the grass looking neat; you can tune up your mower with some shiny new parts, too!