Video games for artist with brain injury?
March 26, 2020 9:42 AM   Subscribe

Trying to help a friend find a conceptually easy, but beautiful, engaging, or artistic game to play during lockdown. Their partner is willing to purchase a game system, and they are on a mac. Artist is an abstract painter, if that helps at all. Something that doesn't require remembering rules or specific controller movements beyond one or two. A world they could 'get lost' in and ramble around in might fit the bill? I'm not sure. Thank you.
posted by MountainDaisy to Media & Arts (11 answers total) 8 users marked this as a favorite
 
Feather sounds perfect!
posted by DarlingBri at 10:01 AM on March 26, 2020


Eastshade? The player is an artist who travels around a beautiful game world, painting pictures and solving quests. No combat.
posted by all the light we cannot see at 10:20 AM on March 26, 2020


Animal Crossing? I know a ton of people who are spending quarantine lost in this game.
posted by fshgrl at 10:29 AM on March 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


ABZÛ, Journey, or (especially) Flower might be good choices.
posted by sourcequench at 11:11 AM on March 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


Gorogoa definitely fits the bill.
posted by Grither at 11:15 AM on March 26, 2020


My occupational therapist suggested Lumosity to support my recovery from a brain injury. There is a lot of variety in the games, and some of them are artistically designed, and I rambled around for months during the early stages of my healing process.
posted by katra at 12:08 PM on March 26, 2020


Zelda: Breath of the Wild might do the trick? There are controller movements to learn, but it's a huge and engaging world that you really can get lost in - and I'm maybe 40% of the way in (I think?) and haven't really had to use the more complicated button combos at all - I'm sure combat would be more elegant with them, but button mashing gets me through most fights just fine. Last year I externed in an outpatient center where I worked with a lot of people with TBI, and one of them was SUPER into Zelda - he felt it challenged his executive function in a lot of ways and while I obviously can't prove that to be the case, I can see how it could.
posted by DingoMutt at 1:44 PM on March 26, 2020 [2 favorites]


I love playing Zelda: Breath of the Wild in this way. In fact, if you pay for the EX package and get Majora's Mask, it makes it so most of the monsters won't even attack you, so you can just wander around this enormous world and explore, and choose to engage with what you feel like engaging with.
posted by MythMaker at 2:19 PM on March 26, 2020 [1 favorite]


Yeah I've never even been in a fight in Zelda, I don't even know what the main quest is or whatever. I just wander about. It's really pretty.
posted by fshgrl at 6:07 PM on March 26, 2020


Animal Crossing (the new one). I've played Breath of the Wild and it would've been too much for me when I had a TBI, but Animal Crossing would've been fine. It's engaging, but not beautiful or artistic. Very soothing. You can stand and fish and just.... stand and fish. But it's nice.
posted by The corpse in the library at 8:48 PM on March 26, 2020


If they have an iPad then *Monument Valley* would fit the bill. On Mac I'd suggest *The Witness*. It takes place on a beautifully designed island that you are mostly free to wander around. There is no rush, no combat, no physical dexterity required. Puzzles start easy but become fiendishly difficult and clever, but the game is enjoyable without having to solve them all. The game is a very artistic experience.
posted by snarfois at 4:28 AM on March 27, 2020


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