I played “Infinity Nikki” for 10 hours in 3 days—and I would do it all again.

I’ve escaped to the pine-scented mountains of Lebanon far too many times in the 20 years I lived there, finding tranquility in the serene views that I couldn’t find in the suburbs of a crowded Beirut. It’s not unlike Luisa, the protagonist in the video game Dungeons of Hinterberg, who escapes her big-city lawyer job to find peace in a small Austrian town surrounded by prominent peaks and valleys. And a little bit of magic.