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Sometimes, the stress is just too much (Image credit: Red Hook) It was a cult hit when it launched on PC, PS4 and even the PS Vita back in 2016, and continued to attract players and sadists alike on Xbox One and Nintendo Switch in 2018. When the first lockdown began in the UK back in March, I found myself finally picking up Darkest Dungeon, a monstrously punishing adventuring party management sim, which tasks you with recruiting, training, and sending off mercenaries into tunnels filled with Lovecraftian horrors.

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But while we all know supporters of the calming, meditative genre of games – such as Animal Crossing: New Horizon’s cutesy economy, the slow farming of Stardew Valley, or the relaxed adventuring of A Short Hike – there’s another way to cope with stress, and that’s adding even more stress to the pile.

What wonder, then, that many of us are turning to entertainment as a means of escapism. I’ve lost family to Covid, and spent most of 2020 in a state of confused terror – unsure of my own safety and the future, with no clarity incoming. Not to belittle any of those things, either.