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Are there any decent archery simulators/video games out there?

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So my story is kinda depressing.

I was never very good or really interested in any sports when I was growing up, but when I started high school, the school I went to actually had archery as a school sport! I have always been a huge fan of medevil war films and video games, so the idea of being a "real archer" immediately caught my attention and I signed up in my first year.

My parents bought me a wooden recurve bow and I started going to practices and competing in the school competitions. I was actually pretty good at it, and I came second in the recurve bow category in my first school competition. Then I started noticing something strange.

As time went on, my progress started deteriorating. My arrows were straying further and further from the bull's eye every week, even though I was always shooting from the same distances and never changed my sight settings. I also noticed that the effort needed to draw my bow string back was getting greater and greater, which made no sense because my arms were getting stronger.

Just one year later, at my last school competition, I just couldn't get my bow string back and I forced it back with all of my might. I felt a sharp, painful pull up the right side of my back and I collapsed to the ground in agony. My parents took me to the doctor and after an examination, I was diagnosed with severe scoliosis (curvature of the spine) and I needed to begin bracing treatment immediately.

That was when I was around 13/14 years old. I'm 26 now and I have since fixed my back up quite nicely. When I began my treatment though, I was told that I could never shoot a bow again because of the back muscles I would be putting under strain and reverse my treatment's progress.

Since then, I have always craved some sort of archery video game or simulator that I could play instead. Something with bow customizations, competitions to shoot in, etc. but I have never found anything like that. Anybody know of any decent archery games?

Thanks for any suggestions and for reading my story. I was really excited to stumble upon this sub. :)

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