Video games can be used as a tool for self care during stressful moments. Even online gaming can keep us socially active with our friends no matter where they might be. Here our some games that we recommend!
Playne
Create a beautiful island and watch it grow and transforms with your mindfulness. Experience deep relaxation and learn straightforward exercises that help to care for your mental wellbeing.
Destiny 2
Destiny 2 is an action MMO with a single evolving world that you and your friends can join anytime, anywhere, absolutely free. Eye’s up Guardian!
Celeste
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Stardew Valley
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Anxiety exe
Relaxing, cute and informative game about anxiety disorders and mental health in general.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Escape to a deserted island and create your own paradise as you explore, create, and customize in the Animal Crossing: New Horizons game. Your island getaway has a wealth of natural resources that can be used to craft everything from tools to creature comforts.
Night in the Woods
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world
Duru
Duru is a 2D puzzle adventure about mole rats and depression. It shows how we all can help people affected by this illness. Set in a West-African inspired mole rat colony you play Tuli, one of the gatherers of the colony.
Child of Light
The Black Queen has stolen the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. You play as Aurora, a young princess with a pure heart whose soul is brought to the kingdom of Lemuria. Embark on a quest to recapture the three sources of light, defeat the Black Queen and restore the kingdom of Lemuria.
Journey
Explore the ancient, mysterious world of Journey as you soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets.
Tetris
Puzzle solving can be very rewarding. The goal of Tetris is to score as many points as possible by clearing horizontal lines of Blocks. The player must rotate, move, and drop the falling Tetriminos inside the Matrix (playing field). Lines are cleared when they are filled with Blocks and have no empty spaces. Tetris, appearing on nearly every gaming platform available and can be played for free online.
Limbo
Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO. Limbo demonstrating loss and grief with a kind of attack on the player’s senses of sight and sound.
Amaru
Amaru: The Self-care Virtual Pet is a mobile game for Android and iOS (Ages 13+) that supports your self-care habits through a relationship with your very own virtual pet! You'll feed, pet, and play with the adorable Amaru while also engaging in guided mindfulness exercises and journal activities that build focus and resilience to stress, anxiety, and depression. Explore the mysterious world of Enso, earn rewards to customize your experience, and build an Aura that inspires Amaru to maintain his peace of mind.
Pry
If you play it, be aware it comes with significant trigger warnings; after all, this game’s main aim is to express what it is like to live with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
PRY is a hybrid app that fuses film, games, and literature to re-imagine how we can touch, close and pry into a story, moving seamlessly among words and images to explore layers of a character’s consciousness.
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before.
Destiny’s Sword
Destiny’s Sword is a living-narrative game, featuring unprecedented character depth and diversity. Join thousands of players to create intertwined adventures, and shape the evolution of the story together.
AVA
Ava, is a role-playing platform adventure by the wonderful individuals at Social Cipher that follows an autistic star mapper as she works through social challenges with space pirates, battles self-doubt, and finds community.