Stardew Valley

If your ideal holiday break involves fantasizing about quitting everything and moving to a farm (like many of us), Stardew Valley for iPhone is dangerously perfect. It’s an open-ended RPG where you inherit a small plot of land and slowly turn it into a thriving farm, complete with crops, animals, fishing trips, mining runs, festivals, and friendships with the locals.

The mobile version includes the full game with more than 50 hours of content and touch-friendly controls. There’s no hard time limit, no “game over” if you don’t play every day, and no pressure to play a specific way. You can spend an entire in-game week just fishing, decorating your farmhouse, or wandering around town talking to NPCs, and the game will happily let you do it.

This is a great one to sink into on longer travel days. Throw on some music or a podcast, plant a few crops, clear some rocks, and let the cozy routine chew through hours without ever feeling demanding.