Games that calm you down: Home Sheep home

I, Sogning [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons I already talked about how puzzles are very good ways to help distract yourself from your everyday life and how they can be therapeutic. I talked about it in my post about riddles  and the one about jigsaw puzzles. But technology is a wonderful …

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Games that calm you down: Temple Run

By Malikbek (Own work) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons In this post I’m going to be talking about a mobile game which actually isn’t that old, but if you asked almost anyone (especially a kid) they would call it borderline ancient. You already know what game it is thanks to the title, but I’m …

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Games that calm you down: Destroy your computer

By tara hunt from Montreal, Canada (Broken Computer) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons A few posts ago I talked about an extremely violent game called Whack Your Boss where you try to find different ways to kill your annoying boss (if you haven’t seen that already you can check it out here -put link …

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Try this: Escape Rooms

By Escapeguy (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons You are just taking a lovely stroll in the park, playing Pokémon Go, trying to catch a Pikachu when all of a sudden you feel a sharp pain in the back of your head and then blackness. You wake up to find yourself in a …

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Games that calm you down: Whack your boss

By Trizek (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons For the people who have a narcissistic, self-absorbed, unsympathetic, unforgiving, uncaring, annoying and downright bad boss (feel free to add in any other attributes of a bad boss I might have missed), this game was made for you. It is a very violent and blood …

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Games that calm you down: Best fiends

Today I am going to tell you about a mobile game I recently started playing called Best Fiends. It’s a fun and simple puzzle adventure game made by a company called Seriously. Seriously that is their name, seriously. It has a very cartoony style and has these adorable little creatures (fiends) that you need to …

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Games that calm you down: Zen and the art of transhumanism

I like to consider myself a gamer, and even if I am not that good at them I still like to play. There are a lot of games out there, board games, card games, video games, computer games, mobile games, you name it, and people play games for various reasons, mostly when they are bored …

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Gaming to control stress

In this blog I talk a lot about different ways to help calm yourself down, relax and manage your stress. I even try out these techniques myself because it seems unfair to tell other people what to do to manage stress and relax but then not try them out yourself. To me that’s a bit …

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