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Zen and Slow Games

Zen and Slow Games

Navarro-Remesal, Victor

Paperback

Series: Playful Thinking

Games & Activities GeneralGeneral Eastern ReligionsGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0262553562
ISBN13: 9780262553568
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Jan 20 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.29 Depth: 7.96
Language: English
A deep dive into the reflective modes of playfulness in video games.

Slowness and reflectiveness have always been part of the video game medium, though they have been used very differently throughout its history. In Zen and Slow Games, Víctor Navarro-Remesal challenges the dominant discourse of action and quick reflexes in video games to offer an analysis of reflectiveness as a style in games, tracing its evolution from its origins to the present time. Two labels are of particular importance: the Zen modes (and later, Zen games) of the 2000s, especially during the Casual Revolution, and the slow games or slow gaming movement, which started in the 2010s and is ongoing today. The term reflective games is offered as an umbrella to bring together these and other labels to raise awareness and discussion of slow gaming.

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