Bugsnax is a whimsical adventure where you track, trick, catch and eat anthropomorphic food in all shapes and sizes.

Bugsnax is a whimsical adventure where you track, trick, catch and eat anthropomorphic food in all shapes and sizes. But as you do, you literally become what you eat.

Wobbledogs is a pet simulation where your dogs not only need care but are rapidly mutating different behaviour and appetites.

Wobbledogs is a pet simulation where your dogs not only need care but are rapidly mutating different behaviour and appetites. You breed new dogs (from eggs), create and decorate a home for them, feed them and see how they evolve.

Flock is a cooperative traversal and collecting game where you take on the role of a flying shepherd.

Flock is a cooperative traversal and collecting game where you take on the role of a flying shepherd. To play you move around the world tending to your unique herd of flying creatures.

Pikmin 4 is an action strategy game where you direct tiny, plant-like creatures to clean up the world and collect treasure.

Pikmin 4 is an action strategy game where you direct tiny, plant-like creatures to clean up the world and collect treasure. Different coloured Pikmins have different abilities, with several new types in this fourth game.

Dragon Quest Treasures is a lighthearted and more approachable version of the popular Dragon Quest role-play games.

Dragon Quest Treasures is a lighthearted and more approachable version of the popular Dragon Quest role-play games. Along with the exploration, light battles and resource collection is a central monster-hunting hide-and-seek challenge where you get clues to their location and steadily home in on where they are.

No Man's Sky is a space simulation about exploring endless planets and galaxies.

No Man's Sky is a space simulation about exploring endless planets and galaxies. It invites you to take your spaceship to explore and colonise a universe rich with diverse planets, creatures and fauna.

Ooblets is a farming and creature-collecting game where you tend your animals, explore the world and bring home new wild Ooblet animals from the wild.

Ooblets is a farming and creature-collecting game where you tend your animals, explore the world and bring home new wild Ooblet animals from the wild. You can then battle in turn-based dance-offs.

Slime Rancher 2 is a farming simulation game where rather than chickens, sheep or cows, you farm slimes.

Slime Rancher 2 is a farming simulation game where rather than chickens, sheep or cows, you farm slimes. You explore the oceanic world to find slimes to use on your farm to generate income and steadily upgrade your land.

Southfield is a cooperative farming simulator where your crops are as strange and powerful as the rag-doll antics and wacky world you explore.

Southfield is a cooperative farming simulator where your crops are as strange and powerful as the rag-doll antics and wacky world you explore. Play focuses on planting seeds and gathering resources to expand your farm and provide for the locals.

Sneaky Sasquatch is an adventure game where you sneak around in campsites and try to find food from coolers and picnic baskets without getting caught.

Sneaky Sasquatch is an adventure game where you sneak around in campsites and try to find food from coolers and picnic baskets without getting caught. From this simple premise grows a game with endless ways to play and explore its open world: race, play golf, ski, scuba dive, find buried treasure, rent an apartment, get a driver's licence or just find some books to read.

Subnautica is an open-world adventure where you explore the ocean on an alien planet after crashlanding.

Subnautica is an open-world adventure where you explore the ocean on an alien planet after crashlanding. You collect resources and fight creatures to survive.

Stardew Valley looks like a farming simulator.

Stardew Valley looks like a farming simulator. That’s partly what it is, but you also develop relationships with the other townsfolk and delve deep into the mines.

Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island is a friend-making adventure game where you help the Greek gods remember their past and unravel a mysterious curse.

Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island is a friend-making adventure game where you help the Greek gods remember their past and unravel a mysterious curse. As you explore the tropical island, you encounter rare treasures and interact with the gods, helping to restore them to their glory.

Wood and Weather is a simulation game where you play god in a wooden toy city.

Wood and Weather is a simulation game where you play god in a wooden toy city. You interact with the world using your floating blue hand to change switches and control the weather.

My Time At Portia is an adventure role-play game set after civilization has been destroyed, and humans are emerging from underground to rebuild society.

My Time At Portia is an adventure role-play game set after civilization has been destroyed, and humans are emerging from underground to rebuild society. By gathering resources, crafting and building you slowly gain the tools to collect food, store grain, chop trees and build dwellings.

Proteus is a narrative adventure game which takes you to a pixelated island.

Proteus is a narrative adventure game which takes you to a pixelated island. As you explore you discover that your presence changes the seasons and time of day.

The Garden Path is a slice-of-life simulation game about the small pleasures of gardening.

The Garden Path is a slice-of-life simulation game about the small pleasures of gardening. You tend to a world and make it your own through fishing, growing, trading and making new friends.

Supraland is an adventure game that involves exploring, running, jumping, solving puzzles, and fighting monsters.

Supraland is an adventure game that involves exploring, running, jumping, solving puzzles, and fighting monsters. You play a member of the Red Village and you must discover why the Blue Village has sabotaged your water supply.

Palworld is a role-play game where you befriend and collect creatures in a vast open world.

Palworld is a role-play game where you befriend and collect creatures in a vast open world. It takes the Pokemon formula in an open-world survival (and gun-touting) direction.

Dave the Diver is a simulation game where you manage a sushi bar by night and hunt for the fish to sell by day.

Dave the Diver is a simulation game where you manage a sushi bar by night and hunt for the fish to sell by day. You explore the depths of a lagoon, using your harpoon to catch fish and solve puzzles to unlock new areas.

Lonesome Village is a simple dungeon adventure that also simulates life in a cosy mysterious village.

Lonesome Village is a simple dungeon adventure that also simulates life in a cosy mysterious village. You play by exploring, collecting and talking to the other villagers, before heading to solve the puzzles of the adventure.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf is a life simulation game where you design your dream village in a world filled with anthropomorphic animals.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf is a life simulation game where you design your dream village in a world filled with anthropomorphic animals. Like other Animal Crossing games, you design and decorate your home, collect and sell items, chat and play with villagers, and partake in activities throughout the days and weeks.

Loddlenaut is an ecological adventure where you are sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet.

Loddlenaut is an ecological adventure where you are sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. You explore the sea, cleaning up waste products and repurposing marine debris while taking care of friendly alien creatures.

Summerhill is a narrative traversal game where you are a young shepherd and their dog.

Summerhill is a narrative traversal game where you are a young shepherd and their dog. Play involves exploring a mysterious land to find your lost flock to guide them back home.

Sid Meier's Civilization is a long-running strategy game where you develop a society from hunter-gatherer to space travel.

Sid Meier's Civilization is a long-running strategy game where you develop a society from hunter-gatherer to space travel. There are many ways to approach this challenge; socially, militarily, politically or perhaps by building wonders to impress other nations.

A Little To The Left is a puzzle game where you tidy a house into meticulous order.

A Little To The Left is a puzzle game where you tidy a house into meticulous order. Each puzzle presents everyday objects and some evidence of how they should be organised.

Astroneer is an open-world space adventure where you colonize planets by creating habitable structures, farming and mining resources.

Astroneer is an open-world space adventure where you colonize planets by creating habitable structures, farming and mining resources. There is no specific story, although the challenges of each planet give rise to struggles of achievement to placate the wild landscape.

Pikmin 3 is part of a series of puzzle games where you direct hordes of titular plant-like creatures to navigate garden locations.

Pikmin 3 is part of a series of puzzle games where you direct hordes of titular plant-like creatures to navigate garden locations. Different coloured Pikmins have different abilities so the challenge is to get enough of the right ones to destroy obstacles, avoid hazards and fight fauna.

Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles is an adventure where you explore a world seeking out and collecting magical creatures, known as sprites, to banish an ominous shroud known as the Murk.

Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles is an adventure where you explore a world seeking out and collecting magical creatures, known as sprites, to banish an ominous shroud known as the Murk. As you do this, you make your way in the world, farming, fishing, and crafting while exploring the island.

Island Saver is an action-adventure about cleaning up litter and goop to make money.

Island Saver is an action-adventure about cleaning up litter and goop to make money. It was created by Natwest with the aim of teaching children how to manage money.

Potion Craft is a puzzle adventure game where you create potions in an ancient looking workshop to send you bottle around the map.

Potion Craft is a puzzle adventure game where you create potions in an ancient looking workshop to send you bottle around the map. You combine ingredients, fire and water to move your bottle along the map to the target location and brew a potion to help your village.

Journey to the Savage Planet is an adventure-shooting game played from a first-person perspective.

Journey to the Savage Planet is an adventure-shooting game played from a first-person perspective. You explore a planet to catalogue various alien flora and fauna and collect the resources you need to craft items and upgrades like jetpacks and grappling hooks.

Little Dragons Café is a strategy game about running a cafe.

Little Dragons Café is a strategy game about running a cafe. Unlike other farming and friendship games, you don't have to earn money or toil to gain ingredients.

Viva Pinata is a strategy garden simulation where you tend and care for 60 different piñata animals.

Viva Pinata is a strategy garden simulation where you tend and care for 60 different piñata animals. Play involves interacting with the Pinata themselves, but also creating the right environment to attract new creatures and helping them thrive.

Summer in Mara is a farming game with a strong narrative about an adventurous girl called Koa.

Summer in Mara is a farming game with a strong narrative about an adventurous girl called Koa. With a full day-night and season cycle, you can take the challenge on at your own pace as you build your farm and explore the world around you Take care of the island, harvest crops, create tools and buildings and sail with your boat to discover new islands and secrets.

Star Stable Online is a hugely popular adventure game where you care for horses, take on daily challenges, solve mysteries and explore a fantasy online world.

Star Stable Online is a hugely popular adventure game where you care for horses, take on daily challenges, solve mysteries and explore a fantasy online world. Originally only available for PC and Mac, it's recently come to mobile devices.

Animal Crossing: Wild World is a quirky life simulation game where you live in a small village and build your dream home.

Animal Crossing: Wild World is a quirky life simulation game where you live in a small village and build your dream home. You develop relationships with the animal townsfolk, collect fossils, fish and insects and build a home to help the village grow.

Forager is an open-world adventure where you manage resources in a simple pixel world.

Forager is an open-world adventure where you manage resources in a simple pixel world. The collecting, crafting and consuming requires you to tap buttons.

Ollie & Bollie: Outdoor Estate is an adventure game in a simulated world.

Ollie & Bollie: Outdoor Estate is an adventure game in a simulated world. You help Ollie and Bollie, who are two bird-like people, look after their farm in the countryside by completing simple tasks.

Wildmender is a world-building game where you unearth the past in the desert.

Wildmender is a world-building game where you unearth the past in the desert. Play involves exploring to discover what has gone before, so you can restore the environment for your future.

From Dust is a strategy game.

From Dust is a strategy game. You play as an all powerful God of a primitive people.

Temtem is a role-play game like Pokemon but played online against loads of other players.

Temtem is a role-play game like Pokemon but played online against loads of other players. You collect and train Temtem creatures (of which there are 161) while exploring the world.

Tinykin is a puzzle game where you play Milo.

Tinykin is a puzzle game where you play Milo. You have landed on Earth in 1991 but are tiny.

Koral is a diving exploration game where you play as the sea current.

Koral is a diving exploration game where you play as the sea current. This sounds a little odd, playing a flow of energy, but works brilliantly.

Before We Leave is a city building simulation and strategy game.

Before We Leave is a city building simulation and strategy game. Humanity has been living in bunkers after a great calamity, and are emerging to start a new life by building farms, industry and trade routes throughout the solar system.

Frogun is a traversal game where you use a frog-shaped gun to interact with the world and navigate the levels.

Frogun is a traversal game where you use a frog-shaped gun to interact with the world and navigate the levels. You play Renata, who comes from a family of explorers, archaeologists and inventors but finds herself alone in the jungle.

Llama Villa is a simulation game about managing a llama farm.

Llama Villa is a simulation game about managing a llama farm. You buy a llama, sell the wool and build him a mansion to live in with lots of llama friends.

Staxel is a strategy farming game.

Staxel is a strategy farming game. It looks like Minecraft and has block building tools that are similar.

Super Mario Sunshine is a running, jumping and water-shooting game.

Super Mario Sunshine is a running, jumping and water-shooting game. It follows Super Mario 64 as the second 3D Mario game.

DokeV is an open-world adventure game where you explore a bright K-pop backed world.

DokeV is an open-world adventure game where you explore a bright K-pop backed world. It's a chaotic mix of Pokémon creature collection, Breath of the Wild exploration and Monster Hunter battles.

Fae Farm is a simulation game where you build a farmstead, harvest your crops, and go adventuring.

Fae Farm is a simulation game where you build a farmstead, harvest your crops, and go adventuring. It's an increasingly common set-up for a game.

Icarus First Cohort is an adventure survival game where up to eight players work together to endure the wilderness.

Icarus First Cohort is an adventure survival game where up to eight players work together to endure the wilderness. Your task is to survive the brutal environment as you explore, harvest, craft and hunt.

Botany Manor is a peaceful puzzle game where you explore a 19^th-century English home and gardens and care for the plants you find.

Botany Manor is a peaceful puzzle game where you explore a 19^th-century English home and gardens and care for the plants you find. By reading the newspapers, postcards and posters in the house, you discover how to look after each species, from pot size to location to temperature.

Breakwaters is an adventure set in an ever-changing oceanic world.

Breakwaters is an adventure set in an ever-changing oceanic world. Unlike other games, Breakwaters isn't satisfied with day-night and weather cycles, it stands out for the fluid mechanics of its water.

Lost Nova is an adventure game where you explore an alien planet searching for resources to fix your spaceship.

Lost Nova is an adventure game where you explore an alien planet searching for resources to fix your spaceship. With no enemies or time limits, you take your time interacting with the local sentient vegetables, completing side missions, and exploring the rich and varied landscape.

Ground Divers! is a traversal game where you guide a sleepy robot as he mines through the crust of a distant alien world in search of its hidden secrets.

Ground Divers! is a traversal game where you guide a sleepy robot as he mines through the crust of a distant alien world in search of its hidden secrets. You must ensure you don't run out of energy, otherwise you fall asleep and have to start over.

Paleo Pines is a simulation adventure where you befriend dinosaurs to help you fix your ranch and farm crops.

Paleo Pines is a simulation adventure where you befriend dinosaurs to help you fix your ranch and farm crops. Play involves exploring the island, meeting the locals, taking on quests and working towards taming the dinos.

Peridot is a pet simulation game from the makers of Pokémon Go.

Peridot is a pet simulation game from the makers of Pokémon Go. Rather than training and fighting your pet, here the focus is on digital care, teaching tricks and taking it with you on walks.

Clive ‘N’ Wrench is a 3D running and jumping game where you play duo, Clive the rabbit and Wrench the monkey on his back.

Clive ‘N’ Wrench is a 3D running and jumping game where you play duo, Clive the rabbit and Wrench the monkey on his back. Like Banjo Kazooie and more recent Yooka Laylee, you explore the world to collect tokens and unlock new areas.

Heliopedia is a world-building game where you create and manage tiny planets.

Heliopedia is a world-building game where you create and manage tiny planets. You play by exploring a solar system, collecting elements and combining them together to create new discoveries.

Lightyear Frontier is a peaceful open-world game about farming a new planet.

Lightyear Frontier is a peaceful open-world game about farming a new planet. From a first-person perspective, like Slime Rancher, you gather resources and build a working farm to harvest alien crops.

Petting Zoo is a narrative game where you interact with hand-drawn animals to get them to do amazing and amusing things.

Petting Zoo is a narrative game where you interact with hand-drawn animals to get them to do amazing and amusing things. It's ideal for very young players, but doesn't pander to simplicity.

Retreat to Enen is a peaceful survival game where you explore a tropical island and make your life there.

Retreat to Enen is a peaceful survival game where you explore a tropical island and make your life there. With no hostile creatures, you craft a base that must exist alongside nature rather than treating it as an endless resource.

Just A Guy is a running and jumping adventure where you explore a colourful world with your ragdoll hero.

Just A Guy is a running and jumping adventure where you explore a colourful world with your ragdoll hero. Play involves using the physics of the work to get around and discover all the different themed activity areas.

The Planet Crafter is an Open World Simulation game where players need to explore, gather, craft and transform a barren world so human life is possible.

The Planet Crafter is an Open World Simulation game where players need to explore, gather, craft and transform a barren world so human life is possible. You play by exploring a world using a mouse, clicking things to collect them and gathering them into your inventory, so that you can combine them to build other things.

Animal Crossing: City Folk (called Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City in Europe) is a life simulation game where you settle into a small village filled with anthropomorphic animals.

Animal Crossing: City Folk (called Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City in Europe) is a life simulation game where you settle into a small village filled with anthropomorphic animals. Like other Animal Crossing games, you design and decorate your home, collect and sell items, chat and play with villagers, and partake in activities throughout the days and weeks.

Giblets is an action game.

Giblets is an action game. Over 22 levels you must herd oven-ready chickens off the edge of a platform, but you only have 10 seconds per level.

Light No Fire is an adventure game where you explore a planet the size of Earth.

Light No Fire is an adventure game where you explore a planet the size of Earth. As you traverse rolling hills, deserts, mountains and oceans, you take on monsters, build a home, gather resources, meet characters and discover new civilisations.