‘The fantasy is just ordinary life’: How gamers are returning to ‘The Sims’ to escape the pandemic

Misbin has begun playing Sims Freeplay to pass the time while she is stuck at home due to the coronavirus. — The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS

PHILADELPHIA: The way Franny Mestrich built her town, it has a psychic. She’s really a phony, a Miss Cleo type, but Mestrich made sure she was living in a Victorian mansion that’s also home to an occult coworking space.

It reflects the novel Mestrich wants to write.