Heartopia. It’s probably the best f2p phone game out there right now. It’s gacha, and the gacha is ridiculously expensive, but you don’t need to buy anything, unless you have FOMO. None of the gameplay is paywalled. It’s slow, like Animal Crossing.
The discord gives you free codes for stuff every week. The translation is a little iffy, the controls on the pc suck balls. But I still highly recommend it.
My other recommendations, all available on Steam or PC because I don’t have a console other than the Steam Deck. All of the games I mention are Steam Deck verified or playable because I can’t really sit at my desktop anymore.
Potion Permit
Fields of Mistra
House Flipper - especially with the dlcs.
Coral Island - better with mods at least last time I played, which was a few months ago
Graveyard Keeper - a little dark, but hilarious. Also much much MUCH better with mods
Powerwash Simulater 1 & 2 - serious dopamine booster
Littlewood
Palia- f2p mmo
American Truck Simulator- only fun with a mod to disable damage and ticket penalties, then you can drive 100 mph down the freeway and crash into cars and generally cause mayhem. For the European’s Euro Truck Simulator is the same thing.
Hytale - early access, Minecraft with lots of extra features
Terriara - you can turn off gore and attacking the friendly animals
Minecraft
Tiny Life - 8bit pixel The Sims
I’ve also heard good things about these, but haven’t played yet:
Lake
My Time at Sandrock
Cult of the Lamb