Why video games like The Sims and Animal Crossing are so soothing right now. (via CNBCMakeIt)
, the open-ended computer game that allows you to craft a fictional world and determine the fates of different characters or "Sims."
And "world-building" or "life simulator" games, might be especially useful during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's why:Building a dream home and crafting characters in The Sims "gives you the sense that you can create a world and have control over the decisions that are made for that world," Ferguson says. "You can feel like that world makes sense, and at the very least it has rules that you can understand....
While The Sims takes place in a virtual world, players still have to make decisions and meet goals, Thaddeus Griebel, who has studied the "Games like The Sims or Animal Crossing help remind us that we'll get this back, and return to normal life," he says. "Rather than, you know, worrying too much about how bad are things going to get."
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