Melissa Kagen shares feelings of trying to live up to Leah, the perfect woman of Stardew Valley, and to occasionally take out the trash.| Sidequest
Connie Ricketts shares how The Sims serves as a safe place to both escape and process the complex, difficult feelings of grief.| Sidequest
Emma Hartley discusses how Animal Crossing: New Horizons's concerning emphasis on development connects to the Washington Consensus.| Sidequest
We never meet the video game's Mom character, so my mind fills in the blanks with the face of my own.| Modern Loss
Rae Maybee shares how her life's loves and losses haunt her long-running game of Tomodachi Life, forming a strange sort of interactive journal.| Sidequest