I am a winter baby. My birthday is very close to Christmas, and so you think this can make me immune to the serotonin effects of the gray season in a game I was born from the cold. Casted by it. There is no such luck, I’m scared. So, because there are only many vitamin D supplements and the joy of gin and tonic for people who can consume, I think I will ask: What is your favorite game in the gloomy months? Special places that you can always rely on an exit when the weather is scary and the 4K (10 -hour) cozy fireplace environment continues to be interrupted by advertising for cryptocurrency scammers and thunder wars.
When Graham recently touched his excellent NaIAD review, relaxing games mean different things for different people, and often those who have rules and consequences that are more strict, feel more real, more attractive, more liberated. Some of my favorite winter gaming memories in recent years have reserved Shin Ramyun for half of the glorious week for the heads of Cyberpunk 2077, or spent weeks in a relentless discovery as a dragon: infinite. A happy place in which your brain with bicycle is still a happy place. The happiest place, even.
But I also like to read about all games like Stardew Valley has a great significance for many people, even if it never caught me in the same way. It is more for the ‘cozy’ end of the spectrum, but I think something can be underestimated when we talk about games and mental health is the approach to a set of tasks that are clearly defined but can still be structured.
There are also games that I think that we all have, the games we know we can return to whenever we need them for a happy escape. The game feels winter and warm. For me, it is PlayStation JRPGS of the 90s: Suikoden, Final Fantasy 7, Wild Arms. Grandia. So, what about you? Which game helps you overcome winter? Or, if you love winter – and although all, I too – you have some traditions of winter gaming just feel like they are suitable for the season? Please say!
