Prosocial Games

DIYSPY is a prosocial game.

What does that mean? Aren’t all multi-player and party games social? Prosocial refers to the kind of interactions, not whether people are social or not.

It can refer to positive, healthy relations between characters, players, and I’ll add, animals and plants, etc. It’s about actions that benefit the group and society, not just the individual. So, rather than anti-social interactions like competing, attacking, deceiving, undermining, and putting-down, you’re more likely to be cooperating, supporting, building each other up, being straight-up, and entertaining each other. This doesn’t mean there are no difficult relations, it’s just that they’re not predominately driven by anti-social player behaviours and goals.

Tabletop games that do this, include the following co-operative games:

Prosocial Player-to-Player with (when applicable) NPC interactions

Prosocial Player-to-Player with Anti-social NPC interactions

Haven’t categorised yet:

I’ll keep adding more as I remember and learn about them. Let me know of ones you enjoy or have made too!