If people tell you this game is relaxing, it's likely because they're experiencing a collective hallucination.
This game is NOT relaxing.

The moment you step outside of your house you are overwhelmed by an endless list of tasks to do like watering crops, feeding animals, chopping trees, mining rocks and shit like that. If you just thought "that's standard farm-life-sim stuff", well, think again, cause you're supposed to tackle all of that within a day cycle that goes by really fast and on top of it you have to be mindful of every decision you take, cause pretty much every action depletes the energy bar.

Now picture this: you want to gift a jar of mayonnaise to your favorite villager (everyone in this game loves mayonnaise for some reason) but the fucker is nowhere to be seen, so you wander around for several minutes in vain and the next thing you know, half the day is gone and you've accomplished nothing.
Man, did I enjoy Stardew Valley!