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ACTing Minds
Players Join Steve in ACTing Minds as he embarks on a journey into his own mind to face some painful past memories.
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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.
Players Join Steve in ACTing Minds as he embarks on a journey into his own mind to face some painful past memories.
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In Valiant Hearts, the lives of all these characters are inextricably drawn together over the course of the game. Friendship, love, sacrifice and tragedy befall each one as they help each other to retain their humanity against the horrors of war.
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A woman alone in a house. Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss in Before I Forget.
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APICO is a laid-back beekeeping sim game about breeding, collecting, & conserving bees!
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Players take on the role of Aletris, a moth that struggles with social situations and leaving their home due to the anxiety that they feel.
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Unpacking is a game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home.
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Travel between the real world and the virtual world of Pokémon with Pokémon GO for iPhone and Android devices! With Pokémon GO, you'll discover Pokémon in a whole new world, your own! Join Trainers across the globe who are discovering Pokémon as they explore the world around them.
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Molehill Mountain is an app to help autistic people understand and self-manage anxiety.
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Deep is a virtual reality meditative experience controlled by breathing. It allows players to navigate an underwater world, whilst controlling your movement and direction through deep breathing, aimed to reduce and relieve anxiety.
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A small child falls into the Underground, where monsters have long been banished by humans and are hunting every human that they find. The player controls the child as they try to make it back to the Surface through hostile environments, all the while engaging with a turn-based combat system with puzzle-solving and bullet hell elements, as well as other unconventional game mechanics.
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The award-winning Life is Strange is back with Life Is Strange True Colours. Players take on the role of Alex Chen who has long suppressed her "Curse" The ability to experience, absorb and manipulate the strong emotions of others, which she sees as blazing, coloured auras.
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Another Day is a narrative driven game that portrays the daily struggle experienced by those living in isolation in a claustrophobic environment during lockdown while experiencing depression and anxiety.
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The player inherits their grandfather's old farm plot in the beautiful town of Stardew Valley
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Pause: Daily Mindfulness is a free self-help app that provides many mindfulness techniques that are best suited to the user.
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You Feel Like Shit, otherwise known as YouFeelLikeShit Is a website that is aimed at helping you ground yourself whether you've woken up and had a bad day or at the end of the day perhaps something hasn't gone quite right.
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"Stay inside. Stay safe. Don't let anyone in.". That's what they told you to do, and now you're alone. You've been alone for a while, well... except for Lamb shank, the strangest dog you've ever seen. Taking on the role of an unknown person stuck in an apartment building with a horrific purple presence looming in the distance.
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Hymble Ventures is a 2.5D sci-fantasy platform game about an insect-like alien on the autism spectrum. Players join Hymble on their adventure through Hymborgia, Eukaterra, to find and discover a mysterious, wandering, maegent.
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The Samaritans Self Help App is designed to help people keep track of mood and also help you in many different ways.
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In Sound Mind is a psychological survival horror game developed by We Create Stuff and published by Modus Games.
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Rainbow Billy: The Curse Of The Leviathan tasks players into saving the world from the big bad Leviathan who wants to corrupt the world.
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Lake lets players take on the role of temporary postal worker Meredith Weiss in a fictional 1980's Lake-town.
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Psychonauts 2 puts players back in Raz's shoes for a new adventure that will take you on a wild ride in Double Fines wonderful creation.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 lets players fly in any location from around the world, whether it's the Alps or a small village in Yorkshire.
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Sym is an indie platformer that puts you in the shoes of Josh, a teenage boy trying to navigate life with social anxiety.
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