Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

A 12-step process for gaming addicts.

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A Skyrim-style warrior with an axe, ringed by inventory icons for keys, potions, hearts and swords.
Illustration by Edward McGowan

Online Gamers Anonymous (OLGA), a grassroots self-help fellowship for thousands of gamers suffering from a habit-forming, treatable addiction to videogames, isn’t playing. Since 2002, the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous have brought peace to OLGA members longing for a permanent pause. These are the values that have resurrected digitally buried lives.