Free relaxing games
Seed Hollow, Sky Hamlet and Ripple Lake are slow games about growing, building and catching. They play in the browser on a phone or a computer, with no download and no sign-up.
Seed Hollow
An idle garden game sewn in cross-stitch. You plant a cress in a windowsill pot and spend the seeds that grown plants earn on more plants, until the pot is full and the view pulls back to a back garden of 100 beds, then to a valley of 84 fields. The plants keep earning while you are away.
Sky Hamlet
A village builder on floating islands. You clear woods and rocks, place cottages, shops, wells, parks and schools yourself, and grow one town across five islands carried by an airship. A cottage gains storeys as the charm around it rises, and a paper glider flies you over the village.
Ripple Lake
A fishing game on a sea chart. You sail a small boat across three waters, stop beside a school of fish and cast. Every new kind goes in a logbook of 30 fish, and each fish bites at its own hours of a 12-minute day.
The three compared
| Seed Hollow | Sky Hamlet | Ripple Lake | |
|---|---|---|---|
| You | Plant and water | Clear land and build | Sail, cast and reel |
| The goal | Fill the pot, the back garden and the valley | Anchor all five islands, then raise a crown on each | Fill a logbook of 30 fish |
| A first run | About 3 minutes to fill the pot | A card on Meadow Rock takes you through the first four steps | A bite comes 1 to 3.5 seconds after a cast |
| While you are away | Plants keep growing, for up to 8 hours | The town goes on, for up to 8 hours | The game stops while the tab is hidden |
| Touch | Tap the plant button, Water, a bed or a plant | One finger builds, two fingers pan and pinch | A stick to steer, a Cast button to cast and reel |
| Keyboard | Tab, then Enter or Space | Left button builds, right button pans, wheel zooms | W A S D or arrows, Space or Enter to cast |
How each one paces itself
Seed Hollow asks for a tap now and then: a plant button that offers the best buy, a can of water that refills in 45 seconds, and visitors, a butterfly, a hummingbird or a rain cloud, that stay 12 seconds over a grown plant. Sky Hamlet has the most to work out, since the charm of every home depends on what stands within a few cells of it. Ripple Lake is the most hands-on: a bite must be hooked within about a second, and a rare fish fights.
Coins and saving
All three pay Tacs, the coins every game on the site shares, for awards and milestones. They also buy paint for the boat in Ripple Lake and the glider in Sky Hamlet, which change nothing in play. The garden, the town and the logbook are kept on your device.
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