
For people who play video games, the setup in the photo above may look at least kind of familiar. Maybe, after this year, a little too familiar. 2020 has been an emotionally draining period of our lives, and while we’ve taken slow and steady steps to improve ourselves, our lives, our mental health, relationships, and stay supportive of those we love, sometimes we need to just release the tension with a video game.
For many of us in The Young Folks gaming collective, it’s meant diving into our backlog of games we never got the time to play before or revisiting comforting old favorites. When we felt the need to be social, we had platforms like Twitch and Discord there, not only to share our experiences with the single-player games we live, but to discover new ones, and gather to play multiplayer games as though we were all in the room together.
At the…

