10 Games To Play When You're Lonely

This is key. Sometimes, I can find the idea of an open world, where I can do anything, overwhelming. But when my anxiety is incredibly high, playing a game that doesn’t have set goals is very rewarding and cathartic. When I’m overwhelmed, I often revisit older games as well.

If a player gets time-sucked by the game, there’s certainly less time to actually put feet to pavement, look someone in the eye, feel the endless heatwave. Wilson wrote that we are “terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence,” and god games appear to mitigate that. But we do play against ourselves during that “private time” of reverie, rez... See more

If you have depression – play something like Pokemon Go (as an added bonus – it forces you to leave your house and get some exercise)

The mystic psychologist Carl Jung suggested that such sensations do ‘not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.’ In other words this kind of loneliness arises from feeling not fully seen, held, celebrated or u... See more

An hour of gaming at 100% attention > an hour of passively watching TV. Many games are also social, with multiplayer mechanics built into the core design. The most memorable stories are the ones we create and share with those who are close to us.