"Hexcells Infinite" is a great stress-free (and cheap) game. It plays like Minesweeper, but every puzzle is completely solvable with just logic (there is never a need to guess!)
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Slay the Spire!! It's all single player but it's a ton of fun. It's a single player deck building card battle game. I've got nearly 2000 hours in it. Very light weight to run, and that computer can definitely run it.
Rimworld is a great game and will run on your laptop.
Cities Skylines is often the perfect game for me to just zone out and chill, it surely didn't run on a smooth 60 fps for me on my i7 laptop with no gpu but it performed well enough for me.
I just like to spend a couple of hours laying new railroads and streets and just expanding my city, be aware though the game can be a timesink if you're not careful.
What do you think of turn based games like XCOM? I've found I can enjoy the planning and execution of a plan more when I'm not stressing about actions per minute or micro managing a ton of things.
Hardspace:Shipbreaker
Do you have a console or is it just the laptop?
You could try StarSector from Fractal Softworks. Its not free but an awesome game for what you may be looking for.
Starsector (formerly “Starfarer”) is an in-development open-world single-player space-combat, roleplaying, exploration, and economic game. You take the role of a space captain seeking fortune and glory however you choose.