Addicted to gaming

[Angrboda]

You don't specify in what way you feel your gaming is dysfunctional or detrimental to your life, so it's difficult to even suggest anything. As festive1 noted, 12 step groups don't necessarily emphasize the role of the higher power (though the exact way 12 step groups help is not altogether clear). I was in a 12 step group for nicotine and tobacco products and it was made clear that what and how you interpret the "higher power" language was up to you; many in the group used the group of 12 steppers themselves as the so called higher power. And if there are no atheist/secular twelve step groups for gaming, you might stop in on a secular twelve step group for some other addiction or obsession. (I found the time I spent in ACOA and alanon to be very useful.)

But again, the nature of the complaint is unclear. College, and that age, are periods of rapid development, change, and extremes. (In Japan, college is when young adults are free to drink outside of controlled social environments for the first time, often leading to great excesses.) I've always been a very shy person, so, even though my gaming in college occasionally resulted in academic failures, it was a great social experience and likely had enormous benefits for my social development. College is a time of extremes. If you're failing all your classes, that's one thing, but it's unclear from your post in what way your gaming is impacting your life. And I would also caution against over-generalizing. People, college students I mean, are frequently prone to fads and obsessions. Is this just "something you're going through," or is it "Godzilla meets Tokyo?"