Eight Best Mobile Games to Relieve Your Stress and Anxiety

February 14, 2021

When you are stressed or when something is bothering you, you feel anxious. Anxiety can often make you feel overwhelmed. This will aggravate if you do not have an outlet to unwind and escape this stress. People who overthink are usually the ones who suffer from anxiety the most. Please bear in mind, the more you worry about a situation, the more anxiety can overwhelm you. At times, the best way to keep yourself calm is to take some time off and enjoy a calming game on your mobile phone. Here is a list of some of the best games that can help you calm down.

Pigment

A complete set of pencil colors and a coloring book can be a bit expensive. So, if you seek a cheaper and alternative, you can try out the Pigment application. The pigment is an online coloring big, which has an extensive set of digital colored pencils. The app is free and is available for both iOS and Android platforms. Mathew, an employee with RazorHood, shares that any time he feels stressed and anxious, the first application that he finds refuge in is the Pigment application. If you use the free version of the application, you can access only a limited number of coloring pages. However, if you want to access more coloring pages, you will have to shell out some money.

Happify

Another must-try application to relieve stress and anxiety is Happify. The application has been designed to help the players alleviate their stress and overcome their day-to-day habits, which might cause stress. The application keeps a constant check on you. This is why you will have to answer a bunch of questions about how you are feeling in the beginning.

Since the application tracks you, it aspires to help lower all your negative thoughts, which are probably making you anxious. The application presents you with some activities and supplies, along with a few quizzes to help you cope with anxiety and feel better, instead of letting anxiety overpower you.

Home Sheep Home

In this gameplay, there are three sheep. All three belong to different sizes – Shirley is heavily overweight, Shaun is medium-sized, and Timmy is tiny. Your task in the game is to employ see-saws, steps, ramps, swings, and everything else to direct the sheep to the farm. A word of caution – do not get fooled by them. They may look adorable, but are they really? Initially, the Home Sheep Home will seem to be pretty laid back, but as you move forth with it and graduate through the different levels, it gets very challenging.

Amidst all this, one thing that we can say for sure is that you will love the adorable creatures, captivating gameplay, and the calming music of the application. These are all incredible ways to help soothe your mind and calm your anxiety. It is a free game, so sit down and prepare yourself for a battle.

Casanova 

In Casanova, you are a giraffe, and you walk eastwards, and the other giraffes march westwards. Each of the giraffes has a different neck length. So, all you have to do is click kiss the other giraffe. For this, you will click and hold the mouse button, which will extend your head and both of your heads can then meet and join in for a kiss.

The objective of the game is to land a kiss on the lips of the other giraffes. Further, as you move forward in the game, you accumulate floating bonuses. All through this while, you will enjoy the 70s sitcom theme that plays cheerfully in the background. The whole game is so adorable and calming that you will love it.

Prune

Kylie, a representative of EmbraceGardening, says that as she is into gardening, her favorite calming app of all times is prune. In the application, you have to prune your bonsai tree and give it any shape you like. The whole thing is so lovely and relaxing, and the fun part is there no real objective that you have to achieve in the game. You can use your creativity and do what you like the best. The application is available for both Android and iOS users and costs you around 0.99 USD.

Worry Watch

It is a step-by-step roadmap, which helps you find your inner peace with your gut feeling. In the application, you will proceed through five steps – reflect, record, realize, reason, and refute. These are all the fundamental concepts of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. These fundamentals will be outlined through this application in a very streamlined and simplistic manner. Further, the app tracks your mental state by initially recording how you feel and gauging these feelings. After you have evaluated and identified these feelings, you are told to take some time to understand and comprehend your thoughts to know if these are realistic or not. More so, the app lets you go back after the particular situation in hand is worked upon and examine if the outcome is what you thought it to be. If that’s not been achieved yet, you will be asked to refute the initial negative thoughts to ensure that in the future, you can learn to recognize the unhealthy patterns, which may cause anxiety in you.

Monument Valley

There is a lot that will interest you about Monument Valley. From its mesmerizing gameplay to the calming music with Mountain Valley, the developers have certainly gone out and about and produced a work of great quality and style. In this game, your objective is to navigate Princess Ida through the different game phases. You will have to overcome the continually evolving manipulative realm of optical illusions and peculiar geometry. The application is available on both App Store and Play Store and is also very pocket-friendly.

Sleeping Tiger Jigsaw

Of course, jigsaws are amazing. They are addictive, and Sleeping Tiger Jigsaw is one such highly addictive game. All of you are already aware of the drill to decode the jigsaw. Hence, there is not much explanation needed in what you are to do in this calm. Now, if you take time to calm down, this is the perfect game for you. In this, solving a puzzle will take an hour. So, if you have an hour to spare and immerse yourself in a puzzle, this can be an excellent game to try. As usual, when you snap the pieces that match, next to the rightful neighbor, they join in satisfyingly. Put on your favorite music, get yourself a nice warm cup of tea, and get started with the game. It will 1005 leave you feeling relaxed and calm by the end of it.

Bottom Line

So, these are the top eight mobile apps and games that you can play on your phone to calm your anxiety and relieve your stress. If you have more to add to the list, do let us know in the comment box below.

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