Feel a need to ask for help? Vent to someone without judgment? Or did you just want to help folks you’ve never met? Kind Words will let you do all that with gentle letters.
Kind Words asks you to write anonymous requests for letters about your problems. You can then send your request out into the universe, and strangers can write back with advice, words of encouragement, or a bit of sympathy. It pushes you, and the other people playing it, to use their words to help lift each other up, and show that even strangers can care about you.
Writing letters is not only uplifting, but you also get cute stickers for doing it. You get a random allotment of stickers when you start the game, and you can send these out to other players to show how much you appreciate their nice letters. This allows that player to use your sticker, and if you get a sticker from someone else, then you gain access to it as well. This allows for a neat sticker collection element (and you get a toy for your room for each sticker, too), encouraging you to keep sending those letters out.
Kind Words is an encouraging experiment in empathy – a call to all of us to share our pain with one another and work to heal together. You can just take a moment with your needs and sadness to hurl them out into the void, and then listen to the wonderful, positive, helpful words that come flying back at you. It reminds me a bit of Selfie: Sisters of the Amniotic Lens in its power to confess and call out to the darkness for help, with both titles seeking the best in us as we work to heal one another. Games like these make me feel like there is true good in this world.
Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) is available now on Steam.
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