9 Video Games That Reward Charity

The last couple of entries we have on this list will give you the warm fuzzies not just because they’re lovely things to do for your fellow IRL man as opposed to NPC man but because you get a little something back for doing them, too. Souls games, and Elden Ring, let you leave little messages for your fellow likely suffering players that they can read in their own games and approve of if they so choose.

This is a situation in which it pays to be nice since you’re far more likely to impress other players if you’re entertaining them or helping them out by letting them know there’s a threat around the next corner, that chest up ahead has teeth, or if you found a creative way to combine the words ‘but’ and ‘hole’. 

In Elden Ring your messages can be appraised and you can appraise the messages of others. When said message achieves a ‘Good’ rating the author gets a flask of Crimson Tears’ worth of health for free. If you want to see some joy in the world, the Elden Ring subreddit is peppered with videos showing how someone narrowly avoided death thanks to a health boost that came from others appraising their messages.

So keep on appraising!