Game Distract has essentially reversed the meaning of the word “game therapy.” Traditionally, game therapy involved ways of helping game addicts reduce their addiction to playing video games. Now while that may be a thing, that is not what Game Distract is about. Game Distract suggests that everyday people should play simple and intuitive video games to help calm themselves down and deal with the ups and downs of daily life.

Gaming Distract is an online arcade with free games to help you manage your emotions. They refer to their simple games and apps as “distracts” because they shift your attention away from unpleasant emotions like worry or anger and point you toward a more balanced frame of mind.

You can play more than 500 different games on the site. Note, they designed the UI and UX of the site specifically to help people in distress find “distracts” to help them calm down. However, you can also just play their games for fun. The top navbar menu has a “Categories” option that allows you to pick games by genre, such as action, puzzles, arcade, sports, match-3, etc.

Also, they have built an economy into the site to gamify their selection of games! You start with 50 coins and earn more coins through daily prizes and repeat visits. You can then use the coins to unlock more games.

The reason for the economy and game unlocking is to put you on a therapeutic journey. You should feel better each time you visit the site and earn prize money. So the more you use the site, the more coins you earn and the more games you unlock.

You can tell they thought through the economic structure of the website. They have valued their rewards and priced their games in such a way that makes unlocking all the games at least somewhat difficult, but not so hard that it takes way too much time and you lose interest in the process.

It’s worth a look. When you land on the homepage, they greet you with a step-by-step tour of the website. The site is very simple to use, and the guide will have you operational in no time.