Your phone is always there
Find a soothing Game
Puzzle Solving
Pet Rescue Saga
One of the reasons I like Pet Rescue has little do with the gameplay itself and lots to do with the haptic feedback from the game. When you click on one of the pets your phone vibrates and I find the vibration soothing.
Pet Rescue is developed by King.com, you can download it from lots of app stores, see the King.com Website for details.
Match 3 Saga
Matchington Mansion
This is a match 3 adventure (where you also get to decorate a home with the rewards from winning levels). I tend to spend more time playing the levels and then save up the rewards and decorate and follow the storyline probably once a week.
But again, it’s about more than the game play that helps with the anxiety. I love, absolutly love, the animations when you make a match. They are very sunshiny and happy. You also receive positive feedback even though you’re losing a level. Brilliant. Luxurious. Fantastic.
Love this game
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Make someone Happy
Toy Blast
Toy blast is also a match 3 style game, but the main character in this game has the most wonderful expressions.
There are two in particular that I absolutely love, the first: if you are about 3 moves away from losing a level she looks so sad and despondent, but if you manage to win in those 3 moves she changes to a happy face. I always think to myself, “Look how happy I’ve made her”
The second is when you win a level. The animation is wonderful. Never has an on-screen game character looked so happy. And without realising it, you feel happier too.
An oldie but a goodies
2048
This is my fall-back go-to game, you can play it “mindlessly” for ages without losing lives (it is ad supported).
inspired by Gabriele Cirulli game available on the web: at http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/
While playing games won’t cure anxiety (and actually if I spend too much time playing, I end up feeling very down), in those moments when you can feel an attack coming – it sometimes acts as a very good distraction.
Let me know what games you love.
