'Our list is not 'Christian' games, but rather a list of games that pose important spiritual questions to those who play them. 'What if video games have more to offer than just an exciting diversion into a digital battlefield, fantasy war, or alien invasion? While these types of games are certainly the loudest and most financially successful, there are a growing number of games asking important questions about life, the human condition, and even God.' LTN exists to be the love of Jesus to nerds and nerd culture, you can read more about them on their website. It starts with 12 with a challenge us to be a good neighbour, and follows with others added over time. In this list, provided by the LTN (Love Thy Nerd) editors, we bring together video games that have the potential to offer more than entertainment. Whether you are a parent playing with a gaming expert son or daughter, or a partner of someone who plays less or more games, these are a great place to find common ground. Finally, there are single player games, like Detroit Become Human or Return of the Obra Dinn where one player can control things while the other makes suggestions. Some games like Tick Tock A Tale For Two or Get Together let you play on separate devices and talk to each other to solve collaborative puzzles. Then there are games, like Affordable Space Adventures or Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes where each player takes on a different role. Other games, like Kingdoms or Chariot let you work together to progress with enough time for one player to help the other. Some of these games, like Super Mario Odyssey or Spiritfarer, let one player help the other. This list is designed to help you find games to solve this. Finding a game to play with another person who has less (or more) expertise of playing can be a challenge. We all have a different level of experience, ability and connection to video games. It offers a chance to pause, take in the action and the world as you pan the camera, frame an image or adjust the depth of field.įinally there are games like Animal Crossing, Conan Exiles, that don't offer specific meditation but let you sit on benches, stare out to see, or watch the sun rise. There are also games that offer Photo modes that don't specifically depict the feature as meditation. Spiritfarer is similar, you have to find a snake named Summer and complete their quests to be invited to meditate with them. Or there are hidden moments of meditation in games like Uncharted The Lost Legacy where Chloe will work through her Yoga poses on top of a tower. In The Witcher 3 you can stop and meditate to restore your health and pass time. In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Origins and Valhalla you can use meditation to see the sun to quickly shift across the sky. Stopping in Death Stranding or Ghost of Tsushima means you can simply sit and relax. Then there is Sky Children of the Light where you need to go to special locations to meditate.Įven violent or desolate games can offer powerful moments of stillness. Then there is Journey that allow us to sit when we stop moving or Flower that encourages us to slow our pace with scenes of where we have just been. Games like Kena depict the breath slowing and draw attention to the sights and sounds of the natural world. This can be a specific meditate option, like in Sable, or the ability to get your character to sit and listen when you stop moving, this is a powerful way to get a taste of how meditation in real life can help us come back to ourselves and in so doing, rediscover the world around us. The games in this are those that include the chance to get your character to actually stop and meditate themselves. We have other lists of games that players use to gain a sense of calm or meditative state.

However, some games create space for us to pause the action, sit, and take in the environments they have created. They invite us to continually engage and interact with the worlds they create. They invite us onto a ride that takes us to all sorts of places.

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