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Change Your Perspective

"Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life." Barbara Kingsolver

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My goal/journey here is to broaden my own perspectives, but do join me. I have created 6 lists so far for games fitting into categories around training yourself to have empathy, or if you like, games to just relax into. It is largely true that men have low empathy, but also true that it can be leaned, or we can at least enjoy trying. Some categories may require a box of kleenex.

Relaxing and just chilling (easy)
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41773079-EmpathyGames/list/90741/
Walking simulator type games
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41773079-EmpathyGames/list/90678
Hugs needed (slightly sad ones)
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41773079-EmpathyGames/list/91358/
Physical pain or distressing games
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41773079-EmpathyGames/list/91748/
Labour of love/Indie standalone games
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41773079-EmpathyGames/list/90740/
Connections to others
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41773079-EmpathyGames/list/166620/
Free games
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41773079-EmpathyGames/list/93017

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I aim to Curate and review one game per week initially, until I run out of suggestions from you for Empathy rich games. I intend to score the games I'm curating at some point and use a set of icons. I'll try keep Steam Announcements low, but I'm aware it's a good way of reminding people they belong to an active group.
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Criteria for inclusion revolve around a game being story rich, commonly around things people typically associate with walking simulators, and also game mechanics. Game mechanics cannot involve a lot of distracting strategy, mass killing stuff, scoring and parkour. Normally I don't do horror, but I'm making a concession and including horror in the curation as an example of my own empathy journey. I don't have a VR set, so will have to make some considerations there too, your assistance with reviews in such cases would be appreciated. Games that consider people with disabilities, blindness etc, or use unique mindfulness training mechanics also will be getting a place in the rankings. Finally I hope to create a safe place for people to learn to be more chill. Lord knows, I need to learn to chill out more, jump in and join us.

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200 reviews

14 March - zaphodikus | 3 Comments

Today I noted, that I have hit 200 reviews, since January of 2022.
Which gets me to a run-rate of around 1.2 reviews per week. Which vastly outstrips my goal of 2 reviews per month.

Now that does not mean I will slow down. Because to be fair a few of those reviews were written before I started this group, and a fair few are for Freebie games which are often quite short and thus get a very brief review too. Check some of them out here https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41773079-EmpathyGames/list/93017.

My Journey

My personal journey continues, I might share a bit more of that soon enough. Right now I have so many projects to try and start on. I have to finish a new power cable installation to the garage for the leased EV. I gotta fix the smashed cabinet door on something I built 20 years ago. I want to re-launch my blog posts, I want to start a brand new more focused blog as well. I'm pretty sure there will be an amount of copy-paste there once I get that far. Work is busy, which is good, I have 2 adults living at home with me, they are not in work yet, so that is a problem and a huge load on my mind. The war in Ukraine continues, and to be honest I do not trust any politician even remotely anymore. It is all a bit Nuts. The governments of this world appear to no longer be the smart people we thought they were. Even America looks dumb for a change, the govt have this cool space program and fund loads of research, which they cut back on when the Orange Man took charge. And all I can say is, why is there not a NASA equivalent to Anthropic?

So yeah, the economy might be in a bad way, the climate may be getting much warmer than anticipated, jobs scarce and crime rising while healthcare falls. But mostly, wars continue to pollute and waste. And the Bette Midler song comes to mind, From a Distance. All you can do is step back, and look after you and those nearest and dearest to you. So do that, go into this world each day with bravery and love. God bless.

A new list : Online games

16 February - zaphodikus | 0 Comments

I recently played 2 games which had an element of online state being community generated. In Lo fi beats to write to you get to write little short love letters to the world, or ask for positive messages when you are struggling with anything, or even write positive replies to anyone asking for encouragement in return.

And so I decided, just to make things a bit easier to dig through, to slowly move a few games into a new list. A bit of spring cleaning if you like. I hope people like the name I gave the list, it's rather broad as a genre, in my own mind still. But I hope folk can get behind it a little and I can continue to try and keep up with reviewing and holding down a day job.
https://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3667711114

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"Change your emotional perspective in games that are really digital experiences. Story driven, Choices matter, Introspections and the Human condition. Death, Life, the Meaning of the Universe, and sometimes 42."

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A SIMPLE COUNTRY LAWYER 21 Jan, 2024 @ 7:15pm

Srak Frun Pindle-Frober.

zaphodikus

18 Dec, 2022 @ 5:23am

Always good @fiestyFox, I started this group almost a year ago, partly to get myself on a level keel. "Don't start fights anymore" I said, "be less grumpy" I said, well that last one is not working out yet.
But yes TSORF discussions was a good exercise in defusing internet arguments that stem more from disinhibitions that come from the anonymity of the web. Arguments that really made me think hard about other topics too.

Ghost_in_training 4 Dec, 2022 @ 11:19am

Hey, noticed a few of your comments on the discussion section for 'The Suicide of Rachel Foster', agreed with a lot of your views and found myself here - hope that's okay. LOVE the theme of empathy games because that's right up my alley! I'm looking forward to checking out some new ones, they can be a bit niche.

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