[latentsea]

I can barely get myself to play games I'm actually interested in, since there's always something slightly more interesting than that. I can imagine this would be not only a complete non-starter but also... how is this specific video game supposed to help?

[tossandthrow]

My guess is that this is indeed what gaming would practic: prolonged focus on a single activity.

For me it seems like other games would also do, as long as they don't promote "scatterbrain".

[TeMPOraL]

Prolonged focus on a single activity isn't what people with ADHD have problems with. Rather, it's being able to control when they're focusing, and on what, and keeping that focus for any activity, not just the engaging ones.

Playing video games is thus usually a problem, not treatment - games are just more interesting in the moment than anything else you can or should be doing, so it's hard to stop playing. Ripping out everything that makes the game interesting and stimulating doesn't turn it into a therapeutic tool, it turns it into a bullshit chore that's done on a computer. In comparison, doing your taxes may seem more appealing, because while it's mind-dumbingly boring, it's at least not a make-believe time waster. Which I suppose could be of therapeutic value, if not for the fact that other videogames still exist.

(And so do books, TV shows, parties, substances, whatnot.)