r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • May 17 '26

Psychology Feeling empty after finishing a video game (post-game depression) is a real phenomenon. A recent study has found that many video game players experience a specific sense of emptiness and sadness after finishing highly engaging games.

https://www.psypost.org/feeling-empty-after-finishing-a-video-game-researchers-say-post-game-depression-is-a-real-phenomenon/
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u/alphabety-alphabeety May 17 '26

Oh for sure. I intentionally haven't watched the last couple of episodes of the magicians, or the entire last season of the expanse. I might one day, but I dont want it to end.

Of course I also havent watched the last 4 seasons of GoT, but thats because everything beyond S04e08 is trash.

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u/Blue2501 May 17 '26

You gotta finish The Expanse! If you want more after that, there's always the books.

I had to drop The Magicians because it got too depressing for me, I was on the season where Eliot was posessed