Life isn't always easy if ever at all. Sometimes life becomes too impossible and can be depressing, but in many instances younger people won't go seek help to get them out of their funk. A new game hopes to present a way for younger gamers suffering from depressing to find an outlet and a way to find help.

From the article:

Online games take a lot of heat these days over issues like violence and addiction.

But an online game developed by a youth welfare organization in Australia is designed to help 16-25-year olds who are going through rough times.

Reach Out Central lets players “test-drive life,” according to the Inspire Foundation, which developed the game. As reported by Stuff:

Helping and befriending the computer-controlled characters that inhabit the online world is essential, and Inspire hopes skills developed in the game - and choices made there about friends, partying, work and life in general - will transfer to the real world.

Said Inspire’s Jonathan Nicholas:

The purpose of the game is to build social standing with other characters and progress through the storyline, and to do that and progress well you have to maintain your own happiness, maintain self-confidence and you have to have physical energy.

[Reach Out Central] should be a place where young people want to go, rather than the classic educational games that may be good for you but you didn’t particularly enjoy.

Read the full article over at gamepolitics.com