Caring Games

14 Sep 2018

This is a personal compilation of the answers to this question:

I want "healing" to be a genre of games. It's means they're touching, gentle, warm and/or make you feel healed when you're done. Are there any games you'd put in this category? (They can still be intense or even scary at times, but overall healing.)

— Der Zack (@williamzwood) 10. September 2018

Probably the thread will be longer and have more entries in it, that would deserve to be mentioned, when you go there, but even the list I have here is enough food for thought (and healing). I put it here to have a place to find it outside of the fleeting nature of Twitter.

First thing I read was this Carewave-manifesto. Great thoughts there.

So this is an incomplete, unordered list of games:

• I Feel So Lost
• Monster Garden
• Untitled Goose Game
• Animal Crossing
• Get Comfortable
• Donut Country
• Katamari
• Reditum
• Mods that remove enemies from games
• Wunderdoktor
• A Wish for Something Better
• Unravel
• SelfCare
• MIND: Path to Thalamus
• Journey
• Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
• Slime Rancher
• Undertale
• What Remains of Edith Finch
• ABZU
• Okami
• Luna
• Little Bug
• Night In The Woods
• The Minims
• Lucah: Born of a Dream
• Flower
• The Book Ritual(on itch.io)
• Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture(on steam)
• The Collage Atlas (still in dev)
• FarmVille
• Stardew Valley
• Solitune
• Competitive Cuddling Simulator

An article: Florence – This Mobile Game Rekindled Something in My Soul

A talk: Intimacy Games: Unlocking The Inner Heart Of Fighting Games

While his games is not available yet, through @jacopocolo I learned about the artist James Turrell.