Never trust people like Moebius. And somebody like Kain could be not so as evil as you thought.

Edit: The game is Legacy of Kain, of course ;)

From Factorio, but also some select others, i learned sleep is overrated.

I got my first taste of software development by playing around with the scripting engine of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. What I learned there was enough to push me to pursue further education in software development starting in high school and basically led me directly into a career in software development, which I have now had for over a decade.

Knights of the Old Republic 2, specifically Kreia.

She taught me that you should be careful with your choices, that even good deeds can lead to bad outcomes, one instance that comes to mind is with the beggar, that asks for Credits. Made me think about my own actions and how they affect others.

But love potions do!
I've bought a few from a trusty guy, here on GOG.

There are so many things I've learned from video games. Most had positive effects in my life, though I'll confess some had the opposite effects. I guess if I had to narrow it down to one game that was helpful, let's see.

Curse of the Azure Bonds comes to mind.

That game brings back so many memories. The teen years weren't the best years in my life and when SSI released this game, thinking back it was probably a huge life raft in the ocean I aimlessly drifting in.

It came at the right time when I was struggling with a lot of personal things, most likely from school.

It offered my mind a chance to leave behind the problems of my current reality, even if only briefly. While I played a few computer games before this, this was probably the one that truly started my love affair with gaming and the RPG genre. I was a pen and paper DnD fan or at least I owned the DM and player manuals lol. Hmm, come to think of it, it was around that time I got into the Forgotten Realms books series too.

The most important thing was that this game got me past was the gloom that was taking hold of me during that time. And it was likely what kindled an adventurous spirit inside and a thirst for more. There's a lot more to it I'm sure, but some things are private, even from me.

All I can say for certainty is that the game came at a time when my mind needed a little break. So this game will always have a special place in my heart.
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I learned from Anachronox that just because something is bad, that doesn't mean its replacement isn't worse. The guards in the Bricks are a bunch of violent thugs, and there is a petition going around to replace them with the Pax guards. However, the Pax guards turns out to be extremely corrupt and worse than their predecessors.

Well, I'm sure many games helped in some way or another. I'm just going to say one funny way a special game helped me :) in the past. Europa Universalis 2, I've played this game more then I should've. To the point I know the names and times of certain events...

One time, about 4 years ago, maybe? True story!!! There was a Portuguese game show(I´m Portuguese btw) about answering questions correctly about all sorts of things. One of those questions was about who was the one responsible for a secret mission to discover where India was. 4 names where in display but not a moment of hesitation was in my mind when I saw Pêro da Covilhã. Immediately I said to my parents that it was him. They weren't thinking I was right. Who the hell is that dude, after all, even though we learn a lot about our history, remembering the names of all discoverers, not just the really known ones like Vasco da Gama is kind of hard. I kept telling them it was him, but they wouldn't believe me and when they showed on the show that I was right, I was like... Told ya...

So yeah, I basically now have weaponized bits of historical information about many countries of the world to use at my discretion. (づ￣ ³￣)づ

Toss a coin to your Witcher...!

From Overcooked I learn to work in team, how to distribute task and how to analyze the strengths and weakness of a team to archive maximum efficiency!

Videogames definitely helped me A LOT in learning & using English.
I remember Resident Evil 1-3 on PSX who were only subtitled in french : I learned several English expressions/words this way because I played the games soooo often. After that, it was Suikoden (yeah, the first one) who was only in english... me and my little sister wanted to play it... and so we played it together and I translated it to her ! It was hard. I was around... 13-14 years old I think ? (I still have the small Harrap's translation dictionnary -who helped me so much- with me, and it's still useful today :)) But it was so great, and I learned a lot ! And I'm still learning of course :)
That were my main first steps in English I think... and it was a lot more impactful than classroom teaching (sadly).
Now, I'm very often playing videogames in english !

But I could have talked about so many things !
It helped me to read a map and have a better orientation sense (Resident Evil 2), to manage money on financial approach (Rollercoaster Tycoon), to have programmation bases (Amstrad CPC 6128 ! ), to have some bases about driving technics (Gran Turismo on PSX had an incredible manual explaining them), some history bases (Europa Universalis 2), to be wary of big companies & their communication (Abe's Oddysee, FF7) and... well, so many more things, useful in everyday life :D

Btw, thanks for this (interesting) contest, and for permitting to participate here on the forum :)

My first playthrough of Pokemon Red has taught me that no matter how strong a single individual is, it can't win every fight alone. Sometimes it needs a team to cover its weaknesses.

Video games (also cartoons) helped me with my English as a 3rd language. Specifically Brain Age on the nDS. Kinda boring, but it worked well enough :D

'The people you love the most, will hurt you the most'

I learnt that from taking the Iorveth path of Witcher 2 game.