All the players play video game for several reasons. Regardless of each person's tastes for certain genres, one of the most common reasons to play is to abstract from the real world and relax / de-stress after a hard day of work or study.
Well, we got a curious news related to one of the most outstanding titles of Nintendo and that is that A study by Comfy Sacks has revealed that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one of the most popular stress relief titles.
These are the data that has been shared:
- They surveyed 1,007 players from United States with a series of questions related to the stress around their gambling habits.
- For this survey, respondents had to play video games occasionally, almost every day, or every day.
- Of the respondents, 293 reported that they played occasionally, 356 reported that they played almost every day, and 358 reported that they played every day.
- The group of respondents was 58.4% women, 41.3% men, and less than 1% non-binary.
- A preliminary survey of 150 respondents was conducted to gather the top 50 most played video games.
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild became the second in the list of the best games to relieve stress from the study, losing first place to The Sims.
- Other games like Minecraft, Pokémon, and Tetris (the latter could cause both stress and relief) were also in the top ten.
- Games like Call of Duty, Fortnite, and Halo were voted the most stressful.
- No game published by Nintendo reached the top 10 of the most stressful.
If you are interested in reading the full study you can do it here.
What do you think? What games do you play to de-stress you? Let us know in the comments!
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