Quiet games for when you just want to switch off

Not every game needs to challenge you. Some evenings the best thing on a phone is something slow and undemanding that gives your brain a break.

Garden of Cogs is our current go-to. It's a building sim with no clock, where you just tinker with a mechanical garden until it looks right. Twenty minutes of quiet rearranging and the day melts off.

Hollow Lantern is calm in a different way, a slow atmospheric adventure you sink into with headphones. Both share one thing: they never rush you or beg you to return.

If your day already has enough stress, these are the games worth keeping on your home screen.