When I was recovering from a heart disease, getting really, really invested in League of Legends esports helped me feel like I was part of a community. It’s so isolating, and I can absolutely relate to the ways video games help me feel more connected. There’s been a period of time in my life where I’ve been very sick, and stuck at home for six months to a year. Chronic illness is hard - really, really hard. Thank you for sharing your story with us. Thanks Polygon, and as we all love to say, keep on gamin’ in the free world. It’s nice to live in someone else’s story when there isn’t much going on in your own anymore.

So I suppose I just want to know what games left big narrative impacts on you! What games provided characters and plotlines that left you enormously invested in a whole other world, even if only for a short while.

If anyone knows about this kind of hidden gem, it’s Polygon Dot Com. I do worry how many incredible video game stories out there get overlooked, that find innovative ways to get across beautiful moving narratives and yet fly under the radar for all but a dedicated few. When I’m too out-of-it to engage with some Hardcore Gamer Gameplay, I love having the door open for a short little indie game that is devoted to using the medium in interesting ways to tell its own unique story (many of which I’ve discovered through Polygon, I suspect lots of you share my taste on this one). But no matter how many years go by, and how many plans and hobbies I’m forced to drop, it never becomes any less of a treat to live in a video game narrative for a little while.

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