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Yonder: Cloud Catcher Chronicles Bought it in the recent "chill games" sale. It's one without any combat; all the beasties on the island are just for luring to your farm, and the "Murk" which is the bad stuff in the game is just an environmental obstacle. I'd say I've completed it purely because I got to the end of the story, but there's still loads for a completionist (got like 16 side quests still open, and one pretty much requires each part of the island to be 95% happy - which means building up all the farms, completing most the quests, and finding all the fairies) Overall an enjoyable fun game - one for if you're wanting nothing too intense or one for younger gamers. I'd say it could have done with a few bits of QoL improvements that make it a tad clunky (and definitely driving me off from completing the game as it'll just be purely grinding). A big one is you have various tools - hoes, hammers, sickles, pickaxe, seeds to plant, etc. But they're all on a row so if you're cracking open a stone with a hammer then go to pickaxe some ore you need to cycle through seven or so tools. Annoyingly it knows what tool you need for each as you get a thought bubble pop up each time you're near one - so not sure why it couldn't just have you auto-use that tool for that interaction. It has no fast travel per-se - but it's such a smallish interwoven island that it's kind of fine. There's some day/night activated beacons that connect to opposite ends of the island, and you can also do quests to unlock "sage stones" which take you to a hub world. They're not named so it's a bit hit and miss sometimes to come out at part of the island that you intended to (as you can't open the island map in the hub world). Farming isn't too complex - mainly involves kiting animals to your farm. I had only one farm set up though as it takes an inordinate amount of resources to be able to build any of the animal pens (resources required to do anything is basically why I have the quests left that I do. There's a bit of the island I'd like to visit but Iv'e already had to build a couple bridges and they use hundreds of "stone" before even turning that into the components of a bride). So yeah, it's chill for the main story. Not too difficult, but becomes a nightmare for the end game. Worth picking up for £10-15. It's on most platforms - a good gift for the younger gamers in your life (and they're probably fine with the grinding aspect. Gosh I know I was as a kid)