Meadow Keepers

Meadow Keepers is the comfort food of this catalog. You tend a small valley farm, trade with neighbors, and slowly restore the surrounding village. Crucially, there are no energy bars or wait-timers, so you can play for five minutes or an hour without hitting a wall.

The progression is gentle and open-ended. You decide whether to focus on crops, animals, or crafting, and the game never rushes you. We appreciated that it saves constantly and picks right back up where you left off.

It's not trying to be exciting, and that's the point. After a long day it's the one we reached for to switch our brains off.

What we liked

• No wait-timers or energy
• Relaxing open-ended progression
• Picks up instantly where you left off