"Beyond Blue", "Among Trees", "Sky" ... Zen games for the summer

Animal Crossing: New Horizons was THE game of containment, to better overcome boredom and change your mind, but will it also be the game of the summer? Not sure that the players all want to find the sensations of this period and strange parenthesis. Especially since the deconfinement went through there, and went through The Last of us Part II , a violent and visceral experience that left the community in PLS. She needs more than ever vacation, travel, moreover, calm ... 20 Minutes offers a selection of Zen video games.

"Beyond Blue", the big blue

Since Ecco the Dolphin Mega Drive, Big Blue has fascinated gamers and creators, with games like BioShock , Subnautica , Abzu or the recent and biting Maneater . Beyond Blue, available on PS4, Xbox One and PC,invites in turn to dive into the depths of the oceans, in the Pacific, in the company of Mirai, a young passionate scientist. If exploration and contemplation are at the rendezvous, it is above all a question of discovering the fauna through a futuristic technology and a fun-educational approach. You will sometimes feel like you're watching an interactive BBC documentary, and that's normal since the E-Line Media studio was directly inspired by the Blue Planet series and the work of oceanographers.

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"Among Trees", stress-free (over) life

Survival, a stroll of health? The video game more often accustomed us to escape from hordes of zombies, or to experience the hard way the adage "the hell, it is the others". Available in early access on PC, Among Trees returns to an old-fashioned survival, literally, as in the book Copain de bois . The real ... the old know. The player is therefore quite alone "among the trees", and must survive, or rather not die, by building a shelter, feeding on fishing and hunting, and avoiding dangerous animals, which he can even zap completely with Zen mode. That's all ? And it's already a lot. Among Trees invites you to wander in a minimalist and poetic level design a la Long Dark and Firewatch , another masterpiece that hides the forest.

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"Sky: Children of Light",

With Flower and Journey , Jenova Chen has established herself as the Zen master of poetic and contemplative games. With Sky: Children of Light , he drops consoles for smartphones, and he has a good reason. With his hero child of light, whose cloak allows you to fly and whose mission is to bring the light back into magical realms, the Chinese creator remains true to himself, and to an enchantment of softness and colors. We even come across other characters, spirits, and in fact anonymous players, as in Journey . Except that there, it is possible to communicate with them with music, gifts or a simple conversation. A social and community aspect facilitated by the smartphone and which deepens the game, not only a source of emotions but also of links. After passing 10 million downloads on iOS, Sky is now available on Android and soon Nintendo Switch.

"Marvel's Iron Man VR", stealing is not played

"I'm ... Iron Man. Sony's new game takes the final punchline of the 2008 film literally, and invites players to put on their PS VR headphones, and by extension the armor of the famous Avengers. The first reflex, and interest, is of course to take off and fly in the air. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s you fidgeting in your living room. The grip is direct, the immersion rather cool, but you have to quickly realize that this Iron Man VR does not want you to believe you can fly. You must especially save the world of the Ghost, mysterious hacker and militant anti-multinationals (we could not play it rather?). The title remains in the end a classic action and shooting game, far from the exhilarating effect and the letting go of a Spider-Man.

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