Without combat, at least "twitch and shoot" combat.

Relaxing type of game would be good (although I realize this is probably not a "relaxing" type of crowd.)

Er, Fallout 1 and 2?

Otherwise, are you looking for stuff like Bejeweled or Plants vs. Zombies?

Dangerous Waters. And get the printed manual from Subsim.com. Very relaxing and cerebral.

Or Silent Hunter IV if you prefer older boats.

Sub sims are slow paced, relaxing, and very rewarding when you slam a torpedo home after stalking for awhile.

Cheers!

Rick...

Have both of those on the Android phone, not aware of Fallout? What is that like?

Yeah, had SH3 via Steam, could reload it, I guess.

Actually was thinking more on the lines of Spore, or something like that--no real pressure, and funny (or at least, entertaining) graphics.

Curse of Monkey Island? One of the funniest games of all time.

Fallout is post-apocalyptic RPG, turn-based, old graphics (coz it's an old game...) but very fun game. And it is a "proper" RPG, wherein you can solve problems with a gun, by diplomacy, or by science. However, some things are always best solved with a gun.

Fallout is a very large scale RPG. I've not played 1 or 2, but 3 is based in a post-nuclear-apocalyptic, 1950's USA. You head out into the world with basic commodities, and work your way up through armour, weapons and skills which reflect on how you play the game. It's very open in the sense that you can be a bad guy, loot people and murder your way to the top, or you can play the good guy, who talks his way out of confrontation and earns an honest pay. Or of course anything in-between!

It's an excellent game, but you need a lot of time to see a good return on the game. Personally I faded away from it after about 20 hours of gameplay, after feeling the game got a little repetitive.


Now, I'll probably get some stick for sounding like every other gamer kid of December 2011, but, I'm going to have to vote for Skyrim if you're not already playing it. It's made by the same developers as Fallout, and the concept is very similar, however you're playing in the typical fantasy world of magic, sword and shield.

I've honestly never been one to jump at that type of thing, but after all the rave reviews, and what seems to be the entire gaming population being taken over by it, I had to give it a go. For whatever reason it may be, I am totally in love with this game. All the reasons I got bored of Fallout don't seem to be getting to me yet (after 60+ hours of gameplay). They seem to have hit a home run with it, because it's truly one of the best games I've played. It's much slower paced than Fallout, primarily because of the huge natural and beautiful world it's set in, and I think having no firearms speaks in volumes.

Other honourable mentions would have to be the Stalker series (Similar RPG style, however set in Post meltdown Chernobyl/Pripyat - a world that completely fascinates me - both in game, and in real life!), although it's suffered the same drop that Fallout did for me, and of course firearms aren't particularly relaxing.

The Silent Hill games are fantastic, particularly 2 and 4 IMO, but of course you have to be into scary stuff! Very slow paced however, so you can sink a lot of hours in without getting strained.

OK, going to try Fallout from GOG, hope it works.

Spore was a great game, but I was done with it in a few days, and never picked it up again. Will Wright had big hopes for its replayability, but personally I never saw it.