Banished

Years 1-4 of the game may be quite intense as you learn the game (Your people seem to randomly starve or wander off into a blizzard, or you realize too late that you've used up all the stone with no hope of obtaining more). However, as you become familiar, the difficulty curve drops significantly and it becomes more of a relaxed village-builder with resource management. The base game isn't terribly deep and the only real goal is to keep the village alive and growing, but it's pleasant, nice to look at and has calm music.

Vanilla version is nice sweet and quickly done, though I don't really feel like playing it again. However... I am going to mod the humpback whale out og it and see where that takes me :D

Best, unique, city-building game!

This game is a pleasant little city-builder without a lot of outside distractions in the form of enemy invasions or anything, however, despite the lack of foreign complications, it's a fine line you walk between feeding, housing and employing all of your citizens and avoiding death from starvation and disease. Timing is everything in this game, with the player needing to establish his priorities right out of the gate in assigning workers, deciding what needs to be built first, and so on. As new buildings, pastures, orchards and farm fields are set up, it is vital to man them intelligently in order to get the most out of your crops and laborers, and then, during the winter, you need to hastily reassign your labor to new tasks, such as hunting, fishing and gathering in order to survive the winter. Every step of the way you are managing resources and deciding just what you need in order to keep your community going. As time goes on, you begin working on better ways to gather resources, such as quarries, mines, tool makers, clothing makers, and so on, and meanwhile trying to balance that with trade, a tavern, even a church and graveyard. There are a LOT of variables to dal with, and you need to be clever and adept in assigning workers and projects so you can continue to grow your community with "just in time" construction and worker assignment. All in all very challenging without being too stressful.

you almost need to only focus on food