On the environment-destructive probabilistic trends: A perceptual and behavioral study on video game players

Currently, gaming is the world's favorite form of entertainment. Various studies have shown how games impact players' perceptions and behaviors, prompting opportunities for purposes beyond This study uses Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH)—a real-time life-simulation game—as a unique case video can affect humans' environmental perceptions. A dataset 584 observations from survey ACNH players Hamiltonian MCMC technique enabled us to explore relationship between in-game behaviors Here we show probabilistic trend towards exploiting environment despite perceptions, suggesting that simplification commercial game design may overlook engage educate in pro-environmental activities.