There are many times in your day in which you might have just a few fleeting moments of waiting. It could be standing in line, sitting in the waiting room, spending time in the bathroom, or if you're really adventurous, while sitting in traffic (don't do this). There are plenty of games you could play, but for those brief waiting periods, you really want a game that can be played at your own pace, with one hand, and without constant attention. You want a passive game like solitaire rather than a 3D first person shooter. With that in mind, check out these games to play in your spare moments.
Solitaire is most well known by the vanilla version Klondike. There are all new modern twists on solitaire that let you play as a thief, keep away nightmares, mix potions, and more just by playing cards. These games are perfect to play one handed at your own pace. You can look away from the screen without your performance being impacted, and still have a compelling and enjoyable experience.
Play cards for an RPG adventure
Meteorfall is an exciting and challenging roguelike card game that packs quite a punch.
Brew potions with cards
The makers of Card Thief and Card Crawl have a new card based challenge for you to play. Play cards at the right time to create the best potions.
Slay creatures with Solitaire
Solitairica is an interesting mashup of classic solitaire gameplay with roguelike RPG battles. It's one of the most interesting and fun games you'll find on the platform.
Guide your thief through the dungeon as stealthy as possible with specific cards.
The board game is composed of three rows and three columns of cards. You try to move your thief past guards, through traps, and to collect gold. The game gives you limited stealth, and every move costs stealth points, so you need to be careful with every card you move to.
Play cards at the right time to open doors and avoid nightmares.
Onirim challenges your ability to strategize the usage of different colored and symboled cards. Your goal is open the colored doors either with using rare keys, or playing three of the same colored cards in a row with alternating symbols. It takes patience to balance when to use your hand of five cards, especially when nightmare cards pop up to try to zap you're whole hand.
Block sliding puzzle games let you swipe the screen with one hand to try to figure out the solution. The genre has advanced beyond simple blocks to deliver complete worlds, themes, and adventures. You can play through an actual journey at your own pace with interesting puzzle mechanics to boot.
A block sliding puzzle game transformed into an adventure.
Swipe the screen to slide Red across the castle grounds, through dungeons, and more in this new adventure game. It's an interesting genre mash-up that offers a simple mechanic to let you focus on the neat world to interact with.
Slide into being Jason Voorhees
Are you a fan of Jason Voorhees of "Friday the 13th" and love puzzles? Then this game was made for you.
A new Little Red Riding Hood themed puzzle challenge.
A block sliding puzzle game with a Little Red Riding Hood theme. Slide to send red through the level to try to collect cakes to bring to grandma. As you advance, the big bad wold is introduced among other enemies that move as you slide.
Your goal is to figure out the right order of operations. These games let you take your time to think about the right sequence of movements to find the solution. There is quite a bit of variety, but the core ideas require you to move this here and flip that there to solve the given puzzle.
Do You Wanna Build A Snowman?
In A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, you will help the monster create friends from snow. You will use your puzzle-solving skills in little areas of the town by rolling snowballs into the correct sizes and then assembling the snowmen.
Start up the campfire, and get ready to think about roasting marshmallows.
Gather 'round the campfire and cook some tasty meals in this scrumptious puzzle game.
This puzzle game provides a mix of challenge and elegance.
In Loop:puzzler, just hold down on the anchor to rotate the orb and release when you reach your desired spot. This will also move Loop, so your goal is to guide the robot to the bright tesseract. The game offers 100 challenging puzzles, 14 achievements, and five Game Center leaderboards.
Logic puzzles require you to contemplate the answer for quite awhile. These are the types of games in which you look at the puzzle, and then can stare off into the distance as you try to think of a solution. Get ready for puzzles that will keep your brain occupied and engaged as you're waiting.
A logic puzzle game in which you try to deduce the proper order of puzzle pieces.
The game gives you 20 tiles to arrange in the proper order by using the visual clues. It's all about "if this, then that" as you try to use deduction of the given clues to figure out how everything fits together. It's a visual logic puzzle game, rather than the...
Host a party, and try to keep everyone happy.
It's time to host a party with an eclectic invite list. Partyrs is a logic based puzzle game in which you need to keep all of the different party animals happy. Each partier wants to be next to certain other guests and away from others, and your goal is to...
These games emphasize precision aiming, and you can take your time in lining up your shot. The goal is to take out as many enemies as possible with each one of your limited shots. You can fire at your own pace, and play one level at a time.
A skill shot challenge that emphasizes precision in your shot and ricochets. Help Pete Pagassi save the city from an evil energy drink corporation using only a racket and tennis balls in this physics-based puzzle game. Aim your shot, and try to take out as many enemies as you can.
Take aim, and try to take out every zombie in as few shots as possible. The third installment keeps up the ricochet bullet idea, and implements an enhanced graphics engine. There are 200 all new levels as well as four new weapons to try out.
There's a reason people still play games that came out years ago. Each one of these gained the classic designation for a reason. They're great to play in your spare moments, even as new versions, sequels, and updates are released.
You choose the bird in this fun, flinging follow-up to Angry Birds.
Angry Birds 2 employs the same concept as the original Angry Birds, but takes it to a new level. Features include choosing which bird to fling, magic spells for special effects, multistage levels, and big boss pig take-downs. You can also challenge opponents in the Arena and connect to Facebook...
Take on your Facebook friends in the ultimate word game for pals.
Words With Friends puts you against your buddies on a Scrabble-type of game board. Players take turns making words that connect to each other in hopes of outscoring their opponent using double and triple boosts for letters and words. The winner is the one with the highest score after all...
Soda goes great with some Candy Crush.
Candy Crush Soda Saga is a sweet and tasty followup to the original Candy Crush Saga. You'll find more of the same match-three puzzle madness in Soda Saga, but with some new game mechanics thanks to the fizzy awesomeness of soda. Fulfill the level requirements, earn stars, and rack up...
