Console your chores with housework 2021

PUBG may soon become Pocha G, while Grand Theft Auto players may well find the right dopamine levels in Grand Jhadoo and Bartan Redemption. Video games, once meant to be an escape from our mundane lives into a much less dreary alternate reality, are coming full circle. Makers have realised that shooting guns, dropping bombs and playing assassins and crime lords, too, can get monotonous.

So, to save us from the tediousness of it all, they are dropping us right back to where we started from — our depressing realities. And what can get more real than simulating household chores? By shelling out just $5 on the life simulation game, Sims’ new Bust the Dust Kit, players can dust their virtual homes. Gamers can live out their OCD fantasies by vacuuming the grime away by letting the dust evolve into ‘filth fiends’ that set the house on fire.

One can also buy similar kits to tackle daily inconveniences like laundry, while other high-octane games like Red Dead Redemption 2 will have you carry out Wild West chores like feeding horses, doing the dishes and splitting logs. Tilling pastures in Animal Crossing helped many get by the last lockdown. As a great monk may have said, ‘Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.’ Who knows? The next level of thrill could be found in real home chores.