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Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing is the perfect getaway package for the mind, allowing you to create and explore in a low-stress environment with user-friendly systems.
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Video games can often reflect real-world issues and feelings. As mental health awareness has grown, more developers and storytellers are utilising games as a vehicle to say something, or to share an experience that is personal to them. Listed below are a range of games that were created to challenge how we think about mental health as well as help gamers cope with or understand their own mental health journey.
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Bloodborne
In Bloodborne you must learn to take risks, prepare for uncertainty and accept that failure is inevitable. These lessons probably sound like your worst nightmare as an anxiety sufferer, but are key aspects to address in order to progress - in Bloodborne and in life.
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Persona 5
Persona 5 is a social-simulation JRPG that puts you in the shoes of a high school student who is on a quest to right the wrongs embedded in society.
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Fran Bow
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
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Fractured Minds
Winner of the BAFTA Young Game Designers Award, Fractured Minds is a game created by 17-year-old Emily Mitchell, with the hope of aiding understanding and awareness of mental illness.
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Shadow’s Edge
Explore the mysterious city of Shadow’s Edge and the worlds of Disruption, Disillusionment and Discovery
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Catch It
Catch It is a joint project between the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester, to help users better understand their moods through use of an ongoing diary.
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Mental Health Recovery Guide
MHRG contains the most up-to-date, evidence-based treatment and self-help remedies that have proven to be successful worldwide.
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Daylio
Daylio enables you to keep a private journal without having to type a single line. This format keeps track of your activities and helps to understand your habits better.
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Happier
An award-winning mobile app that helps you stay more present and positive throughout the day. It helps lift your mood and capture the small happy moments that you find in your day.
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Life is Strange
An award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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Actual Sunlight
Actual Sunlight is a short interactive story about love, depression and the corporation, following the life of a young professional in Toronto as he moves through three distinct periods of his life.
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The Cat Lady
A suspenseful psychological horror game featuring Susan Ashworth, a middle-aged cat-loving woman suffering from depression, and Mitzi Hunt, a young woman bent on avenging her lover's suicide.
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Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.
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Pry
Pry is a look at the life of a soldier who is wrestling with demons and PTSD. It fuses film, games, and literature to re-imagine how we can touch, close and pry into a character’s consciousness.
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The Town of Light
The Town of Light is a psychological adventure told in the first person using the basis of the players choices to develop the story in different ways.
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Neverending Nightmares
Never-ending Nightmares is a horror game drawing inspiration from the lead designer Matt Gilgenbach's personal struggles with obsessive–compulsive disorder and depression.
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Gris
Gris is a platform-adventure game free of danger, frustration or death about a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life.
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Celeste
Celeste is a narrative-driven, single-player adventure with a charming cast of characters and a touching story of self-discovery.
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Psychonauts
Psychonauts follows Raz, a young boy gifted with psychic abilities who runs away from the circus to try to sneak into a summer camp for those with similar powers to become a "Psychonaut", a spy with psychic abilities.
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Depression Quest
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game dealing with the subject of depression. It aims to show other sufferers of depression that they are not alone in their feelings, and to illustrate it to people who may not understand.
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