Well, this thought came to me thanks to the new ahem "amount of free time" I have now, so I decided to play the games I had left unfinished, and I found BioShock, and I don't know why I thought about whether Asterios could play it, that is, with a bigger controller for his hands, although I doubt it a bit, but I think it could still help him? What do you think?
Edit: Nope, I regret it
I feel like Asterion would enjoy logic/puzzle games, exploration games (since he is stuck in the Hotel for now, it might be a cool way to see the outside world), farming/simulator games...
I don't really see Asterion getting into violent video games considering everything he has been through... But I could be wrong
Edit: I bet he'd like Minecraft!
we kill humans all the time in videogames, i doubt that'd be a problem. i just don't know how sensitive he would be to combat overall. how gory is too gory? castlevania at least has a parallel in that the dracula's castle is kinda like the hotel, being able to appear anywhere and reshape the internal layout, along with having been around across many generations.
oh wow, the valley even spawns monsters to specifically torture asterion. conceptually this could go really wrong, in hitting too close to home, or really great, as in him taking it as having a chance to fight back his traumas in a safe space.
In the first God Of War there is a boss that is a Minotaur protecting the entrance to the underworld if I remember correctly, which will surely remind him of his own experience (not to mention the different enemy minotaurs that you kill throughout the Greek saga).
There is also the fact that you dedicate yourself to killing gods, among which are Hades and Hermes, which, knowing how devout Asterion is, would certainly not make him happy and would even horrify him. Not only because of the excessive violence, but because of everything you do throughout the trilogy.
I was looking at some of the old games I have in storage and I came across what I think might be the perfect game for Asterion: the PS2 classic ICO. A protagonist with horns leads a prisoner out of a "labyrinth" of sorts. There's even a prominent room near the beginning that features a large spiral staircase, similar to the hotel. There is some combat, but it's very rudimentary and is secondary to the main draw of navigating a vast environment.
