Casual games are a big business now, with tonnes releasing across PC, mobile, and consoles. We’re here to help take the guesswork out of picking your next favourite casual game, with our list of the absolute best casual games for PC gamers.
The best casual games
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2
True Fear: Forsaken Souls combines the best of the psychological thriller with intuitive gameplay mechanics for a mind-bending mystery escape game. If you’re looking for a horror game that doesn’t sacrifice the story, this is the game for you! Skeptical that a point and click adventure can be compelling or scary? Try the free demo! Main Features: – An intense adventure brimming with psychological suspense in a plot filled with twists and turns. – Choose your adventure! Play with or without the hidden object scenes. – Includes the bonuses : wallpapers, making of and deleted content. – True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2 is the second game of the trilogy.
Crazy Ball
Balancing the ball might sound easy but the reality is that Crazy Ball Adventures offers you multiple challenges so you will always have to face new and exciting levels.
Sandwich
In this new, delicious puzzle game its your job to combine bread with lettuce, tomato, salmon, cheese, onion, and many more toppings. Full of tricky levels, this game is set to eradicate your boredom.
Stardew Valley
You’ve inherited a farm, but alas, it’s a bit of a state. That’s how Stardew Valley starts and from there it expands into a sprawling farming simulator / RPG.
You’ll plan out your farm, upgrade it, keep a watchful eye over your crops and cattle, and even romance potential suitors in the local town. There’s even a spot of adventuring, if you’re up to it.
Stardew Valley gives you an almost limitless series of fun things to do, there’s a reason it’s been a bestseller since its release.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
Sometimes you want a deep story, or a complex series of game mechanics to play with. Other times you just want to spawn six archers and have them try to fight a hundred lions.
That’s Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, a game where the only limit to what you see is your imagination. It’s all modelled with brilliantly unrealistic physics too, making it an endless cavalcade of comedy.
Slime Rancher
Slime Rancher is a game where your job is to herd and breed slimes as you build a new slime-based ranch. They’re delightful little creatures, and you’ll be seeing a lot of them as you begin your new life as a rancher on a distant planet.
There’s adventuring to do alongside your farming and ranching, making Slime Rancher a brilliant casual game that never fails to delight.
Hidden Through Time
Explore colourful hand drawn levels and decrypt clues as you play this joyful game of hide and seek. Hidden Through Time is a game about finding objects scattered through history, following clues to find just where things have been hidden.
With its built-in level creator, this is a game that can never end if you want to keep playing, there’s always another delightful and charming level just round the corner.
Golf With Your Friends
Golfing is a great way to smack a ball around a field, and Golf With Your Friends is a great way for you and your friends to smack a ball around a series of wacky levels. Incredibly easy to pick up but difficult to master, Golf With Your Friends is never anything less than a hilariously fun time as you try to beat your friends to the hole.
With tonnes of different modes, powerups, and even cosmetics for your ball, Golf With Your Friends is a casual game that’s just never-ending fun.
Human Fall Flat
What if you played a platformer, but your character was a wobbly human who can barely walk a few paces without face-planting into the ground?
That’s the core of Human Fall Flat, and it never stops being fun. You’ll be splatting your human across each level as you try to navigate through the dream-like series of worlds, and with a co-op mode, you can bring up to seven friends for more physics-based hilarity.
There are many sub-categories within casual games including: match-3, endless runners, education, trivia, puzzle, hidden objects, adventure, word games, board games, card games, and more.
I’m sure others have mused on this in the past but it dawned on me today that Minecraft is by far and away the most successful casual game on the planet right now.
What are hyper-casual games? Hyper-casual games are characterized by lightweight, instantly playable games that players revisit often because of short session length and fun game mechanics.
Hybrid-casual is a relatively new style of mobile game that incorporates the simplicity of hyper-casual gameplay with more sophisticated progression mechanics that also appeal to mid-core audiences.
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