Video games
These suit you!
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Just dive in and hide reality? Goes great with video games! But which game offers which character virtual home? Let's let the cat out of the bag.
The eliminator
Sit there, I'll take care of it now!
THAT'S HOW IT LOOKS: Even as a toddler you bullied your parents with targeted spinach cannonades. You tamed the yapping neighbor dog with a baby tooth bite in the ear. Today your family will take cover when it is your turn to do the housework. Because you are practicing the Marie Kondo method: throw everything you don't love in a heap and eliminate in one fell swoop. Because you basically achieve your goal, your boss would like to promote you. But you only work without a team. Success, after all, is a single player mode.
MOTTO: Lie in wait and drink tea.
ROMANTIC SIDE: Netflix and chill for one.
SOUNDTRACK OF LIFE: "Hit me baby one more time".
MATCHING PARALLEL WORLD: Playing trains social skills, is creative, sociable – and really nothing for you. You load up your gun in first person shooters like "Call of Duty" or "Battlefield V" and start shooting. Go then!
The Olympian
No pain, no gain
THAT'S HOW IT LOOKS: You still wonder why your parents didn't baptize you Steffi. When the other children rattled the front doors at dusk – for fear of missing the sandman – you chased hedgehogs across the lawn with your tennis or hockey stick. In the office today you celebrate successes with your meanwhile legendary hurdles over the desks. Where a lame handshake is enough for others, you will give you a high five with a good dose – also for the pastor after church and your tax advisor.
MOTTO: The first will be the first, damn it!
ROMANTIC SIDE: Snogging in the locker room.
SOUNDTRACK OF LIFE: "You neheeeeveeeeer waaaaalk alohoooonne".
MATCHING PARALLEL WORLD: With sports games like "Fifa 21" or "Ultimate Rivals: The Rink" you can sweep the digital snoopers from the opposing team as they deserve.
The strategist
I've prepared something
THAT'S HOW IT LOOKS: You already planned your retirement provision when you were 14. While others fell short in their youth, you and your team of up-and-coming brokers can increase the value of your portfolio by playing the stock market game. Today your colleagues do not decide anything without first asking for advice. Even your boss calls in sick as a precaution when you're not there.
MOTTO: Those who do not honor Excel are not worth success.
ROMANTIC SIDE: Leave the regulator of the model railway to great love
SOUNDTRACK OF LIFE: "You gotta fight for your right to bureaucracy".
MATCHING PARALLEL WORLD: In strategy games for PC and console like "Anno 1800" or "Civilization VI" you win what the personnel department simply does not want to allow you: world domination.
The Haudegin
Oh, back then
THAT'S HOW IT LOOKS: What do we wear today: black, black or would you prefer another dark? In any case, you can tell from your wardrobe that you prefer a medieval market to any outlet mall. For this your children don't call you "Mama", but reverently "Khaleesi". When you retreat to the garage on the weekend to polish your mail shirt, the house is as quiet as a mouse. Who dares to disturb the mother of the dragons during her me-time?
MOTTO: Create, create, build castles.
ROMANTIC SIDE: A jug of mead and a dance to the shawm.
SOUNDTRACK OF LIFE: "Harry Potter – live in concert".
MATCHING PARALLEL WORLD: Everything used to be better: You were allowed to wear armor at work and the police did not look at you because of the ax you had forged yourself in the trunk. That's why you go where the Middle Ages are as fantastic as you imagine it to be: in fantasy role-playing games like "The Witcher" or "World of Warcraft".
The explorer
That's adventurous!
THAT'S HOW IT LOOKS: You have always found it inspiring to go new ways, especially as a toddler – much to the suffering of your parents, who had to search for you for hours after every visit to the weekly market or walk in the woods. At 16, you were banned from Interrail because you overstimulated the ticket. Thanks to your urge to explore, you can be yourself orientate easily in confusing terrain: You can even find air-dried tomatoes straight away in other XXL supermarkets.
MOTTO: All roads lead somewhere.
ROMANTIC SIDE: Fold maps together over red wine.
SOUNDTRACK OF LIFE: The old Air Berlin song on hold: "Airplanes in your stomach, kerosene in your blood".
MATCHING PARALLEL WORLD: One world is not enough for you. In open-world games such as "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" or "Assassin's Creed" you can expand your multiple horizons.
The point collector
What an opportunity
THAT'S HOW IT LOOKS: No, you won't become a nerd anymore. You always swipe in the wrong direction on your smartphone. If you call the IT department about a computer problem, the colleagues will put you on hold. You are nicknamed "Lord Helmet" because you keep confusing "Star Wars" and "Star Trek". You still win at the film karaoke: Who else knows all the dialogues from "Bridget Jones 1–3" by heart
MOTTO: Angry Birds make crap too.
ROMANTIC SIDE: Sudoku, plus coffee with icing.
SOUNDTRACK OF LIFE: The best of the 80s, 90s and today's hits.
MATCHING PARALLEL WORLD: If you play, it is at the bus stop: Your time-outs are casual games like "Candy Crush" or "Alto’s Odyssey". Use a small plastic stylus pen to prevent your screen from smearing. So practical!
The caretaker
Everything under control
THAT'S HOW IT LOOKS: As a teen you always cleaned up after your parents. The neighbors were queuing up to sign up for watering flowers, feeding rabbits or looking after children. If you didn't have time, children / rabbits / flowers would shed bitter tears. Although you have to look after a country house, a bonsai garden, three dogs and a pony yourself today, you don't miss a party: tidying up afterwards gives you the opportunity to finally Bringing system into the kitchens of others.
MOTTO: Well-cared for trees do grow to the sky.
ROMANTIC SIDE: First thing in the morning, put out outfits for the family. And for the dogs.
SOUNDTRACK OF LIFE: The title melody of "Use in 4 Walls".
MATCHING PARALLEL WORLD: Because there is nothing to readjust in your life, you lack challenges. Find new ones in life simulations like "The Sims 4" or "Animal Crossing: New Horizons".
The legionnaire
Brushed on riot
IT LOOKS LIKE: That you can take yours at the Saturday evening bath Barbies compete against each other in the bathtub for a death match, thought your parents were just so cute. However, they never intervened – probably out of concern that you might otherwise sharpen the cats' nails again. Today your children's football coach gets hands wet with sweat when he sees you standing on the sidelines. The children win every time you intervene in the constellation. But to untangle the little ones after the final whistle is just tedious.
MOTTO: All good opponents are three. At least.
ROMANTIC SIDE: Holding hands while playing paintball.
SOUNDTRACK OF LIFE: Something classic – the triumphal march "Entry of the Gladiators" by the composer Julius Fuík.
MATCHING PARALLEL WORLD: If you really want to relax, you cuddle up on the sofa, put your feet up and take care of the avatars of your fellow players in multiplayer fighting games like "Dota" and "Fortnite".