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Feeling like you “just can’t right now” or going totally @!#$ crazy?

There’s a game for that.

Mood: “Anxiety, my old friend.”

Treatment:Sky: Children of the Light

ConsiderSkyas your sensory spa experience.

A relaxing musical score accompanies your journey through a kingdom in the clouds.

There are no stakes, none that you feel anyway.

It’s an experience capable of soothing your standard anxiety fit.

(Use with your headphones to truly put your head in the clouds.)

Where to play:App Store,Google Play, soon to be on Nintendo Switch.

Mood: “[Googling ‘virtual therapy’].”

The premise centers on a young girl dealing with her own pain in various metaphorical ways.

Where to play:App Store,Google Play,Nintendo Switch,PC.

Mood: “Dreaming of a better world.”

Turn your island into how you want the world to be and hopefully will again some day.

Curate your zoo, recreate scenes from movies (which is alsoa thing players have been doing).

It’s your island!

Where to play:Nintendo Switch.

Mood: “@#$%!!!??!”

Treatment:DOOM: Eternal

Dog owners know this as the “zoomies.”

Humans, too, can get the zoomies, as quarantine is proving.

That’s where the remake ofDOOM: Eternalcomes in.

Match your own crazy by taking a chainsaw to a bunch of Hell spawns.

In other words, embrace the zoomies.

Where to play:Playstation 4,Xbox One,PC.

Mood: “Desperate for a distraction.”

Mood: “I need a new Game of Thrones.”

Where to play:Playstation 4.

Mood: Embracing the existential dread.

In a post-apocalyptic world that has been forever changed by a global pandemic see what we mean by wallow?

Perhaps the secret to saving the human race lies in her blood.

It’s not exactly escapism, but it remains a compelling, immersive story.

Mood: “Someone, kindly, talk to me!”

MaybeA Way Outwill be your way out of the corona-blues.

Mood: “Contemplating the nature of man.”

Treatment:Dishonored

“Is mankind inherently good or inherently evil?”

TheDishonoredseries has been unpacking this moral dilemma since 2012.

The later two games, as well as the DLCs, maintain the spirit of this choice-driven saga.

Will you prove that mankind is inherently good or evil?

Mood: “Feeling loopy.”

Mood: “I just can’t right now.”

Throwing virtual Pokeballs at virtual Pokemon monsters can fill that space.

Where to play:App Store,Google Play.