According to World Health Organization (WHO), pandemic means the ‘worldwide spread of a new disease’. Pandemics are large scale outbreaks of infectious disease that can greatly increase morbidity and mortality over a wide geographic area and cause significant economic, social, and political disruption. Evidence suggests that the likelihood of pandemics has increased over the past century because of increased global travel and integration, urbanization, changes in land use, and greater exploitation of the natural environment. Pandemics Covid-19 has caused all people around the world need to control their movement and stay at home most of the time. It has affected the changes in human lifestyles for every age. Parents need to work from home and most of them have lost their job. They are now working remotely, and they cannot afford to go out with friends or family. This is a big problem for many people who do. Young people such as students also have to do online classes and study on their own. For the first week or the first month it is difficult to adapt to new lifestyles and new norms. People were so boring and stress at home. They started to find new activities as a routine to fill their time daily. But after a few months, they start to get more comfortable in an online games and become more active in online gaming. They can learn how to get used to different lifestyles. In this era of technology, people spend most of their time with gadgets. They are doing their business, money transactions, social life, and education through their gadgets or smartphone. During Pandemics Covid-19, people also doing e-sports such as playing online games or participate in online game tournament to reduce their stress at home. They play video games with their family and friends to get connected each other in a fun activity. But, there are many video games have been developed by humans such as Mobile Legend, Candy Crush, PUBG, and others. But, Among Us have been the most popular during pandemic covid-19. Among Us is an online multiplayer social deduction game from developer Innersloth, similar to Mafia or Werewolf. We can play with four to ten people either people we know or online with strangers. Even though we cannot play football, basketball, badminton or any sports with mass gathering but we still can release or stress by doing some fun activities at home such as e-sport and play Among Us! In this game, we can play as a crew member aboard a spaceship, sky headquarters, or planet base. We must keep our ship together and return to earth. But there is a problem at the spaceship because one of the crew members has been replaced by a parasitic shape-shifting alien who wants to eliminate the rest of the crew before the ship reaches home. So we need the find who is the impostor! The problem is the impostor looks similar to all the players and will sabotage the ship. The impostor will sneak through vents, deceive fellow players and try to frame others to remain undetected and kill off the rest of the crew. And it is more challenging when we have many players and we can have more than one impostor! The crew members must perform tasks to fix up the ship and cannot talk unless death is reported. Then, the surviving crew can openly debate through chat who they think the impostor is and make the best guess for whom to vote off the ship. If the impostor is voted off, the crew wins. But if the group accidentally votes off a crew member, everyone back to maintaining the ship until another body is found and they voted again. Among Us was released in June 2018 but suddenly shot to the top of steam and application download during lockdowns and reaching more than 86 million downloads by mid of September. As it is lockdown, people search for many ways to communicate with their friends through online games. Good facts about online games are it can build brain power or specific abilities. The benefit is that not only can they help to take your mind off of what is stressing you, but they can also help you to build executive function abilities that can help you to solve problems and stay organized in your regular life abilities that can relieve stress!
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