{"id":44610,"date":"2018-02-26T03:09:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T10:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/these-relaxing-adventures-are-a-peaceful-getaway-from-the-real-world\/"},"modified":"2018-02-26T03:09:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T10:09:57","slug":"these-relaxing-adventures-are-a-peaceful-getaway-from-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/these-relaxing-adventures-are-a-peaceful-getaway-from-the-real-world\/","title":{"rendered":"These relaxing adventures are a peaceful getaway from the real world"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When people talk about escapism in video games, they usually mean huge, sprawling worlds you can get lost in. There are vast fantasy realms like in The Witcher<\/em>, a post-apocalyptic wasteland of the Fallout<\/em> series. The kinds of games you can play for dozens or hundreds of hours, losing an entire evening while the real world around you slips away. But who has time for that? Lately I\u2019ve found myself searching for a different kind of escapism. Smaller spaces that don\u2019t offer an entire world to explore \u2014 instead, they\u2019re a brief getaway to calm my nerves.<\/p>\n

Over the past week, two great examples of this have come out. One is the snowboarding adventure Alto\u2019s Odyssey<\/em> on the iPhone<\/a>. An endless snowboarding game where the goal is ostensibly to rack…<\/p>\n

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When people talk about escapism in video games, they usually mean huge, sprawling worlds you can get lost in. There are vast fantasy realms like in The Witcher, a post-apocalyptic wasteland of the Fallout series. The kinds of games you can play for dozens or hundreds of hours, losing an entire evening while the real… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t