Year Developer Carl Burton This interactive art installation stretches the concept of a game, but it's an incredible, atmospheric experience all the same. Mundane objects and settings appear before you in the form of minimalist, stylish dioramas, but slowly mutate into surreal, unpredictable dreamscapes.
The artist behind Islands is Carl Burton, whose work outside of games includes the gorgeous animated vignettes he created for the second season of the Serial podcast. Read more The dreamy interactive art of Islands: Non-Places.
Year Developer Bohemia Interactive This sedate, science-based simulator sees you exploring the surface of the Red Planet with a variety of realistic rovers and landers, and the the feeling of being alone on a distant planet is palpable.
The quiet howl of the wind as you trundle through the dust creates an evocative atmosphere, and the steady pace of the rovers makes for a weirdly hypnotic game. The manned survival missions, inspired by The Martian, aren't quite as chill, however. Year Developer Ubisoft Reflections This colourful 3D platformer started life as an experiment in procedural animation, but eventually became a game in its own right.
Navigating robotic hero BUD around this blocky, stylised world is oddly relaxing, especially when you get the ability to glide and float around. The sequel, Grow Up, is worth a look too. Read more Grow Home review.
You can take your ship and lazily hop between systems, checking out random planets as you go, and it's a great way to experience just how many different landscapes and life-forms the game is capable of generating. Honestly, life's too short to spend hours stuck on a shitty toxic planet with no fuel.
Year Developer Ed Key, David Kanaga This surrealist exploration game marries sound and visuals in a really captivating, imaginative way. As you wander around a procedurally-generated island, constructed from simple, abstract shapes, the dreamy music reacts to your actions. Then the seasons begin to change, dramatically transforming the landscape around you, and you feel your worries slip away. It only takes an hour to finish, but the layout of the world is different every time.
Read more Proteus review. Year Developer Giant Army Universe Sandbox is an enjoyable and completely physics-driven simulation of the universe. The game is simple and not extremely challenging, which can work well for relieving stress. Bejeweled is available on iOS and Android. Like Bejeweled, Plants vs. Zombies is a classic game that has been around for years. The game has a slight learning curve but does a good job of guiding new users in how to play, along with the capabilities of the various plants and zombies.
Plants vs. Zombies 3, the newest version of the game, retains the magic of the previous version but is a little more complicated to play. Both are available for iOS and Android. To learn more about our maintenance-free, supportive living community, please contact us today. Please click here to see an update on Coronavirus planning and preventative actions at Edenwald. Drop7 Drop7, available for Android and iOS devices, is a puzzle game that requires you to flip numbered circles into the correct rows and columns.
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These participants showed a stronger relationship between work-related fatigue and the use of games for recovery than participants receiving more social support. Video games can provide us with a safe and fun outlet for developing our emotional awareness and coping skills. One study from the Behavioral Science Institute in The Netherlands studied proficient gamers who were playing Starcraft 2 to determine if their in-game coping mechanisms were related to their overall stress levels.
What they found was that several players who became upset during gameplay found useful coping strategies to handle their negative emotions. The most useful strategies were those that either sought a resolution to the negative feelings either by problem-solving or by using personal coping strategies or ones that sound out social support from other players.
One key difference between those who coped well and those who were less effective copers was the ability to monitor their own feelings and internal states—what is known as interoceptive awareness—and then take steps to maintain a healthy balance, either by making beneficial decisions to change their situation for the better, or by seeking support.
In fact, most games reward players for being able to manage their emotions and work toward solutions in the face of stress. In understanding what worked best for these gamers, we can use this information in our own lives: developing our own interoceptive awareness and using it to maintain emotional balance is a vital part of healthy coping.
Even more importantly, by playing games, we can provide practice scenarios for developing these skills in a way that is non-threatening and fun, which is one of the advantages of playing games. Another study also showed that action-based video games not only reduce stress but can sharpen cognitive abilities such as reaction speed. This can help gamers think more quickly on their feet and likely be more proficient in problem-solving , which can reduce stress in other ways as well.
Overall, there is significant evidence that video games are not only fun, but they can be great stress relievers as well for many reasons. Here are some recommended video games to help relieve stress.
These games can be picked up and played for a few minutes, and then put down again. They can include simple challenges, short matches of gameplay, or the ability to stop and save at any time. Casual games are enjoyable because they can offer a quick break, a challenging-but-not-stressful experience, and a change in focus. These games involve challenges that can be completed with other players. There are several benefits to this. One of the main benefits is that players can create a network of friends through the game, which can be comforting and may also be empowering.
Another benefit of cooperative gameplay is that players can help one another, offering symbolic support and enabling one another to develop problem-solving skills. As subjects have reported, cooperative gaming can relieve stress and create positive feelings among players.
Some games were actually created to help players learn to manage stress more efficiently. Some games train players in meditation while others can even train in biofeedback, helping players build skills in these powerful stress management techniques that can be used in virtually any stressful situation.
Games that teach stress management skills are rare, but there are a few. An older game that teaches biofeedback is known as Relaxing Rhythms by Wild Devine , which uses finger sensors to provide in-game feedback. There is also a "brain-sensing headband" known as Muse , which provides feedback for meditation: you listen to nature sounds as you meditate, but once your mind begins to wander, the atmospheric nature sounds become more intense until you bring your thoughts back to the present moment.
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