▶ A NEW SAVE COLLECTIVE CONTEST

The Kind
Gamer's Guide
to Kind Gaming

…and other kindnesses you can kind of do.

Some gamers make the lobby better just by being in it.
We're putting them on the main stage where they should've been this whole time.

🎮 Submit Your Story Join the Discord
Submissions open May 5th
What's this about?
▶ The thing nobody talks about

Every game has a report button.
None of them have a thank you button.

You can get someone banned.

You can't get someone thanked in any way the platform will remember.

So care goes unrecorded. Kindness goes invisible. And the only story gaming ever tells about itself is the villain's journey.

We're DONE with that.
Toxic players have had the mic for too long.
So we're TAKING IT BACK.
▶ Kind gamers are everywhere

You've already played with them.

The Quiet Coach

The teammate who mutes their own mic so a quieter player can call shots.

The Welcomer

The vet who welcomes the noob into the squad instead of griefing them out of it.

The De-escalator

The squad that pulls a lobby back from the edge before it goes sideways.

▶ What we're building

We're collecting stories.

From every game. Every genre. Every kind of player.

Tell us about the lobby that had your back. The teammate who showed up. The real friends you've made in voice chat. The moment somebody chose kindness when they could've chosen cruelty. A time you were that person for someone else.

We're building the guide — with your help. And we're putting kind gamers on the main stage where they should've been this whole time.

▶ How it works

Four steps. That's it.

01

We Show Up

Submissions open May 5th. Hit the button when it opens.

02

We Share

Tell us a story. Shout someone out. Drop your hard-won wisdom.

03

We Build

Your stories become the actual Kind Gamer's Guide.

04

We Celebrate

Top 50 submissions get Steam keys & gift cards.

Top 50
Submissions Win

★ Steam Keys & Gift Cards ★

We're not picking the best writer. We're picking the realest, most generous, most useful glimpses into what kind gaming actually looks like — across every game, every platform, every kind of player.

A selection of games in the prize pool, including Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Sonic Frontiers, Chants of Sennaar, Death's Door, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Lil Gator Game, Jusant, Resident Evil Village, and Core Keeper.

…and more from our prize pool.

▶ The fine print, basically

Questions?

Any gamer, any platform, any genre. Console, PC, mobile, handheld, tabletop-adjacent — if you play, you qualify. You don't have to be in the New Save Collective Discord (though you're always welcome).
Nope. Tell us about a teammate. Shout out your guild. Describe a lobby that stuck with you. Or talk about your own practice — what you bring to the games you play. Both lanes are valid and both will be read with care.
Up to you. We're not looking for performances of moral perfection. We're looking for the small stuff that actually changes the temperature of a lobby — the patience, the redirects, the genuine GGs, the way someone shows up for the new player. Kindness in the wild, not kindness on a poster.
As long as it needs to be. Two sentences with a real, specific tactic can win. A vivid paragraph about one lobby can win. We're judging on substance and voice, not word count.
Submissions open May 5th. We'll share the timeline for closing and announcing winners on the form itself and across our channels — follow along in the New Save Collective Discord for updates.
Yes. The Kind Gamer's Playbook is a real resource we're building with practical guidance for handling toxicity, supporting players being targeted, and building squads where bad lobbies are the exception instead of the norm. Your submissions feed directly into it. We're publishing it later this year as a free, shareable PDF and web resource. The guide is written by gamers, for gamers.
The guide is phase one. Phase two is bigger: we're building LFG:K — Looking for Kind Gamers — a recognition system that does for kindness what current platforms do for toxicity. Findable. Nameable. Real. Because the deeper problem isn't that kind gamers don't exist. It's that gaming has no infrastructure to find them, recognize them, or tell them their behavior matters. We're building that infrastructure. The guide is where we start.
A community of gamers gathering around — and fighting for — what makes gaming good. We organize, we build, we celebrate. The Kind Gamer's Guide is one of the things we're making together. If any of this resonates, come hang out in our Discord. The work is more fun with you in it.

Pull Up

Not all gamers are trying to GitGud.
Some of us are here to have fun and… GitKind.

🎮 Submit Your Story Join the Discord

Submissions open May 5th