Yati: Play Your Way to Calm

Current wellness apps are often passive and demanding. Most apps designed to reduce stress, improve focus, or enhance sleep rely on meditation-based approaches that are time-intensive and require high levels of self-motivation to use consistently. The people who need these solutions the most often lack time and mental bandwidth for self-care. Many chronically stressed individuals turn to highly distracting games or social media as a form of escape, which often worsens their overall mental state over time. Yati is an active wellness game designed for engagement and consistency. It aims to uplift users while remaining highly engaging, encouraging them to return regularly and build sustainable wellness habits. Yati creates a mind-body connection through avatar embodiment. Players embody their in-game avatar and begin to mirror its physiological and emotional states—when the avatar relaxes, the player relaxes; when the avatar becomes sleepy, the player may begin to feel sleepy as well.