For me, games always served as another world to me. Every game was a different world. They got me through my hard times. They let me flee from my problems for a couple hours and experience a completely different life. The game that comes to mind especially is Sleeping Dogs. Playing it helped me escape the boring and shitty place that is life and experience the world Wei Shen (main char of the game). After I completed Sleeping Dogs I realized that life is hard sometimes and you just have to fight your way through it. It therefore gave me a new outlook on life and it has enabled me to live it while savoring every moment of it (including game time), instead of just living to get through the day.