Viele Spiele wollen einfach nur unterhalten und keine großen psychischen Themen anreisen. Doch dann sind da wiederum Games, die sich tief mit psychologischen Themen und psychischer Gesundheit befassen. 5 bemerkenswerte Game-Pass-Titel mit diesem Thema lernt ihr hier kennen.
Wie wurde ausgewählt? Die folgenden Spiele haben unter anderem einen starken Fokus auf das Thema Psyche und geistige Gesundheit. Außerdem sind alle hier genannten Titel im Microsoft Game Pass enthalten und ohne weitere Kosten spielbar. Wer ein Abo hat, kann hier also bedenkenlos hereinschauen und die Games ausprobieren. Die Reihenfolge der hier genannten Spiele ist rein zufällig und stellt keine Wertung der Titel dar.
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Psychonauts 2
Genre : Action | Entwickler : Double Fine | Plattform : PC, PS4, Xbox One | Release : 25. August 2021 | Mental-Health-Thema : Psychische Probleme und deren Lösung
Was ist das für ein Spiel? Psychonauts 2 ist der via Crowdfunding finanzierte Nachfolger des viel gelobten Psychonauts aus den 2000ern. Es handelt sich nach wie vor um eine kuriose Mischung aus einem Plattformer und einem Action-RPG. Ihr schlüpft in die Rolle eines jungen „Psychonauten“ namens Raz (kurz für Razputin).
Psychonauten sind in der abgedrehten Spielwelt Mitglieder einer Spezialeinheit, die sich mit Psi-Kräften Zugang zu der Psyche von anderen Menschen verschaffen. Dort sollen sie dann dafür sorgen, dass psychische Einschränkungen und Probleme behoben werden.
Doch schon am ersten Arbeitstag als neuer Psychonaut bekommt es Raz mit zahlreichen Schwierigkeiten zu tun, die ihr im Spiel dann auflösen müsst.
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Was sind die besonderen Features? Psychonauts 2 setzt darauf, dass ihr euch im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes in die Psyche von andere Personen hineinwühlt und versucht, deren verworrene geistige Welt wieder in Ordnung zu bringen.
Daher erwarten euch entsprechend wilde und chaotische Szenerien. Beispielsweise kämpft ihr euch im Hirn eines Zahnarztes durch eine gruselige Welt voller Zähne und Mundhöhlen. In einem anderen Fall werdet ihr von personifizierten Panikattacken tatsächlich „attackiert“ und müsst erst besondere Taktiken aushecken, um dieses „Monster“ zu besiegen.
Die Mischung aus Rätseln und fordernden Kämpfen sowie einer witzigen, aber auch irgendwie ernsten Story machen Psychonauts 2 aus.
Wo liegt der Mental-Health-Fokus? Wie der Name schon sagt, geht es in Psychonauts 2 wortwörtlich um das Erkunden der Psyche und all den Problemen, die so etwas mit sich bringt. In den verworrenen Hirnen, die ihr im Spiel aufsucht, läuft stets einiges schief und psychische Störungen werden bildlich und (an)greifbar dargestellt.
Dabei schafft das Spiel meistens die Balance zwischen Humor und Ernsthaftigkeit. Außerdem treten die Psychonauten nicht als radikale „Hirn-Säuberer“ auf, sondern gehen behutsam und empathisch vor. Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe ist hier die Devise, nicht ein herablassendes herummurksen in fremden Psychen nach eigener Willkür.
Im Spiel werden sogar die Folgen solcher Überschreitungen drastisch dargestellt. Beispielsweise, indem Raz aus Versehen einer anderen Person eine ausgeprägte Spielsucht verpasst und so ihre komplette psychische Welt in ein albtraumhaftes Casino verwandelt.
Wer also ein lustiges, aber auch ernstes Action-Jump&Run mit starkem Bezug zu geistiger Gesundheit sucht, ist hier goldrichtig.
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Genre : Action-Adventure | Entwickler : Ninja Theory | Plattform : PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch | Release : 08. August 2017 | Mental-Health-Thema : Schizophrene Wahnvorstellungen und deren Überwindung
Was ist das für ein Spiel? Hellbalde: Senua’s Sacrifice ist ein düsteres Action-Adventure. Ihr verkörpert hier die namensgebende Kriegerin Senua, die zum keltischen Stamme der Pikten gehört. Ihre Familie und ihr Liebhaber wurden von marodierenden Wikingern getötet. Senua entschließt sich daraufhin, in die düstere, nordische Totenwelt Helheim zu reisen und der grimmigen Totengöttin Hel ihren Geliebten wieder abzujagen.
Was hier auf den ersten Blick wie eine Wikinger-Version der Orpheus-Sage klingt, entwickelt sich aber im Laufe des Spiels in ungeahnte Richtungen. Denn Senua leidet unter Schizophrenie. Sie hört Stimmen und hat beängstigende Halluzinationen. Oft ist nicht klar, was gerade wirklich passiert und was Senuas Wahn entspringt.
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What are the special features? Lightblade leads you for about 8 hours for a trip through Senuas Psyche and your journey into the underworld. The game renounces disturbing UI elements and other tools that tear you from the immersion and the atmosphere of the game.
Without living bars, map and compass you have to beat a gloomy world in the truest sense of the word. When you die in the game, Senua continues to slide in the delusion, which is displayed in the game through a steady rotting of the body.
If the rot is your head, the game is out. Wonderful! Who dies too often, can start the whole psycho-trip from the beginning.
In the game, bizarre nightmare also encounter puzzles passages in which you will find certain hints before it continues.
Where is the Mental Health Focus? The whole game was developed under the premise to portray the shredded psyche of a young warrior. For this purpose, the developers also have extra experts, including Dr. Paul Fletcher, psychiatrist and professor at the University of Cambridge, pulled to rate.
So it was ensured that the psychoses of the heroine do not stand them as a cliché faith. Rather, Senua does not unfold despite, but just by her mental illness her true potential as a strong protagonist.
So you experience an exciting and sometimes disturbing journey into the psyche of a strong, young woman who has worked out through their experiences their trauma and possibly overcoming at the end.
So if you are looking for a single action and presentation unique action adventure with strong relation to psychoses, then it is essential in light blood.
Sea of Solitude
Genre : Action Adventure | Developer : Jo-Mei-Games | Platform : PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch | Release : 05. July 2019 | Mental Health Topic : Overcoming Mental Traumata
What is this for a game? Sea of Solitude is an action adventure that treats the emotional journey of the young woman called Kay, who tries to fight their loneliness and mental trauma. But Kay is not a human, but a Pechschwarz monster with coat.
With the boat you explore a flooded city here. On your way, scary monsters and tricky puzzles that stop you. With the help of light sparks you can keep track and your way through the fascinating and terrible world of Kay Railways.
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What are the special features? As Action Adventure, it’s all about exploring the world and overcoming obstacles in Sea of Solitude. This can be puzzle episodes, as in the spot where a thick, black oyster blocks the path and find a solution to move the thing away.
In other places, it is important to cross a large water surface with the boat without grabbing a monstrous fish beings out of the depth. Again, elsewhere you have to flee from a horde of gloomy creatures and use your light to drive them.
The excellent atmosphere of Sea of Solitude is still underpowered by the special graphic style. The world acts both gloomy and scary, as well as beautiful and dreamy.
Where is the Mental Health Focus? Sea of Solitude comes from the German studio Jo-Mei and partly represents the personal psychological experiences of the project manager Cornelia. So in the game scenes present what past trauma is pictorially.
A traumatic form of marriage of the parents from the childhood of the heroine is presented, for example, through the epic fight of two colossal monsters, which is ruthlessly trampling everything around him. In other places, the heroine sinks literally in darkness. You can not see anything anymore and you have to get out of this inner Düsternis again.
Special interesting is the presentation of Kay himself. The young woman is plagued by her feelings of loneliness, hopelessness, anger and self-doubts so that she also turns into a monster, but despite everything lovable and still more vulnerable.
So Sea of Solitude is looking for inner demons specifically and makes them visible as tangible beings and obstacles in a sometimes gloomy, but also fascinating world.
Spiritfarer
Genre : Manager SIM | Developer : Thunder Lotus Games | Platform : PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, Stadia | Release : August 18, 2020 | Mental Health Topic : Handling dying and death
What is this for a game? In spirit farmers you play the ferrywoman Stella, which has taken the role of the grim soul ferryman Charon. Your job is now to find the souls of the deceased (in the form of animal beads) and to fulfill their last wishes. After that, it is important to accompany the souls, which finally found peace, on their last journey to the gate into the beyond.
But until you all have redeemed the souls, you have to expand your ship in a mix of management simulation and Jump & Run your ship and breastfeed the needs for each animal. For this purpose, there are raw materials, such as ore, to find wood and carrots and fishing fresh fish.
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What are the special features? Spiritfarer impresses with a beautiful, lovingly designed comic graphic. Everything in it radiates joy and cuteness, from Stella himself with their oversized hat over their loyal cat “Daffodil” to the lovable animal bodies, who are happy to assist on their last trip.
The complexity of the game is limited, who knows who knows games like Animal Crossing or Stardev Valley, will not find a big challenge here, but in the face of the story, everything does not improve.
Because one just wants to collect all the cute animals and help them, whether that is playfully demanding or not.
Optionally, the game is also playable in the coop, then a player takes over the part of the cute cat Daffodil.
Where is the Mental Health Focus? Despite the cute and lovingly designed environment, the topic behind Spiritfarer is extremely serious. Because the cute animals are all the souls of deceased who can not find their peace due to unfinished things.
By finding the souls, give them a home and fixes their unresolved problems, they make a valuable contribution to their literal soul healing.
However, so that the topic is not depressed, the game puts you a frewing nature with the heart-like main character Stella, which first holds a warm embrace for every1. And that’s exactly how Spiritfarer is: a game-became a game of warm hug, after which one feels better (link leads to Gamestar Plus).
So if you are looking for a consistently positive and yet profound game to the difficult topic of death, dying and mourning management, it is guaranteed here.
What Remains of Edith Finch
Genre : Adventure | Developer : Giant Sparrow | Platform : PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, iOS | Release : April 24, 2017 | Mental Health Theme : Handling death and transience
What is this for a game? What Remains of Edith Finch is an unusual game that works almost without appreciable gameplay elements. You explore the history of your family from the perspective of the 17-year-old Edith.
The finches suffer from a curse, which in every generation all family members except one of them. Edith is the last survivor of the clan, which did not know any of the speeches of their relatives.
As the last heir, she explores the abandoned estate of the family and passes the tragic fate of their contributed.
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What are the special features? The game itself offers little gameplay elements. Rather, in this “walking simulator”, you explore the rooms of the finch estate and experiences each room of a deceased as a kind of time capsule.
You then play the last moments of the appropriate figure, learns them and know their character and then accompanies them to the abrupt end through a tragic incident.
So if you are looking for exciting puzzles or alternative solutions for the fate of the figures in the game, will not find it. The game is limited to the after-life of the last moments of Finch family members.
Where is the Mental Health Focus? At first glance, What Remains of Edith Finch looks gloomy and oppressive. After all, every character that finds her dies. In fact, every day is already dead at the start and you can not change anything.
And that’s the special thing about this game. Because through the close-up own life of the respective last moments in life, the individual finches get to know all the better and is also aware of the transience of life.
However, instead of mourning the ever-deceased persons, one learns to appreciate life and transience as well as fragility all the more.
What Remains of Edith Finch is thereby an emotionally valuable game, which never slips into horror and splatter characters despite the gloomy theme or loses itself in exaggerated pathos.
So if you are looking for both exciting and comforting game with the subject of death, dying and joie de vivre, you should definitely invest some time.
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