Daily Mirror news report, 13 August 2016, by Ryan Brown: Experience what it’s like to suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome in this free video game ‘Robin’

Chronic fatigue syndrome (also known as ME) is a largely misunderstood condition that seriously affects sufferers’ day-to-day lives, and this free video game hopes to visualise that.

Chronic fatigue syndrome, otherwise known as ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis) is a largely misunderstood and invisible condition that roughly 250,000 Britons currently suffer from. The symptoms of this illness tend to include debilitating fatigue that affects everyday life regardless of sleep or rest, as well as causing painful muscles or poor
memory for some.

For sufferers, it can mean that even the most menial of day-to-day tasks are excruciatingly difficult. For those of us lucky enough to not suffer from the condition, it can be easy to not
understand the struggles of those that do.

A new video game created by a group of game design students at Media Design School aim to fix that, thanks to an interactive experience that may help players better understand the debilitating nature of the illness. In the game, free to download for PC via GameJolt, you play as sufferer Robin in an attempt to get through day-to-day life with chronic
fatigue syndrome.

It’s up to you what you do over the course of the 3 days in-game, but although there are 3 possible endings, the developers explain that ‘there is no such thing as a perfect ending’ – accentuating the troubles of dealing with the illness.