Hollowreach

Hollowreach is quiet, moody, and lovely. You play a surveyor charting an abandoned stretch of coast, and most of the game is wandering, reading notes, and slowly piecing together what happened here. There's no combat and barely any failure states — it's about the mood and the discovery.

Controls are a virtual stick plus a context button that changes based on what you're near. It sounds fiddly but it almost never asked me to do two things at once, so it stays comfortable one-handed. The settings include a generous text-size option, which I used.

Because the art is flat and stylized rather than heavy on effects, it barely touches the battery — easily the most efficient game in this batch. If you want something to unwind with before bed, this is the one I'd point you at.

What we liked

• Calm, no-pressure exploration
• Extremely light on battery
• Comfortable one-handed controls