Samorost 2 and the Battle of Polytopia

A pair of super simple games.

Samorost 2

This funny point and click hand drawn adventure sees you journey through space to save your dog who has been captured by aliens. It's a short upbeat game (unlike Happy Game) and while there are some obtuse trial and error bits to it, its not nearly as bad as Machinarium. This is a fun short ride if you can get it for free. 

The Battle of Polytopia

This is basically a boiled down version of Civilization with block graphics. You spend turn based action points to grow your villages, move your troops and basically try to either wipe out all the other civilizations on the map or just be the "best" after [x] amount of turns (usually 30 in the base mode). It is super simple to learn and quite fast and relaxing to play - but it does feel a bit... hollow? Not a bad little game, but it probably only serves as a bridge to actual Civ games.