LEARN. PLAY. CONNECT.

iThrive's Game Guides are resources for parents, educators, and others looking to foster connection with the teens in their life through popular video games. Each Game Guide features an overview of the game, a breakdown of notable themes that arise in gameplay, and discussion prompts to use when watching or playing along.

A version of these Game Guides are available for clinicians, helping them use video games in therapeutic settings with teens. Explore them here.

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is an open-ended, life simulation game that invites players to explore a world of possibility and create their own paradise.

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League of Legends

League of Legends is an online multiplayer battle arena video game set in a fictional universe with role-playing, cooperative and competitive elements.

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Minecraft

Minecraft is a popular sandbox video game set in a three-dimensional world that encourages players to be creative as they craft their own customized maps.

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Mario Kart

Mario Kart is a series of racing games with exciting solo, multiplayer and battle modes that feature historical characters from the Nintendo franchise.

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Kingdom Hearts 3

Kingdom Hearts 3 is an action-packed role-playing game that takes players on an immersive journey across familiar Disney and Pixar worlds powered by friendship.

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a crossover fighting game that features familiar characters from Nintendo’s franchises, and a mode that invites adventure.

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Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley is an open-ended, role-playing game that simulates country life on a farm plot and invites players to make a once-bustling town thrive again.

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Overwatch

Overwatch is a team-based, multiplayer first-person shooting game set in a fictional, futuristic world that invites players to act as one of many heroes.

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Persona 5

Persona 5 follows the Joker and the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as they navigate real-life and Metaverse, a supernatural realm created from subconscious desires.

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Super Mario Odyssey

Super Mario Odyssey is an adventure-filled sandbox-style platform game powered by curiosity and wonder, where players collect Power Moons across kingdoms.

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Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is an action-adventure game with an immersive story set in a stimulating world that invites challenge and wonder.

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Fortnite

Fortnite is an online, free-to-play video game that features three engaging game modes that invite challenge, creativity, cooperation, and adventure.

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Destiny 2

Destiny 2 is an online multiplayer first-person shooting game set in a mystical world that features role-playing, cooperative and competitive elements.

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Splatoon 2

Splatoon 2 is an action-packed, third-party shooter game rich with cooperative and competitive elements where players go to ‘war’ as Inklings or Octolings.

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