I’m in my late 30s now and over the past 6ish months, I have been gaming a lot less or I find myself gaming but not enjoying it.

I used to always have a game I wanted to play or revisit, but it seems that nothing is really catching my interest.

I’m mostly a retro gamer so I was always happy to revisit old titles. But now I get bored of them quickly.

  • sasquash@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Late 20s and I have the same. When I work I am often looking forward to play something after work or when I have time. But when I finally have time and want to start, I look at my library, can’t decide for something and lose interest.

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      You might just need to reduce choice anxiety.

      Once my library got really big, I would find time to game, but then waste it on figuring how exactly I want to spend the time. End up on youtube or something and not actually get into a game at all.

      The solution was to keep just a few games favorited, and forget the rest existed.

      When I’m done with a game, it gets unfavorited. When I buy a new game it gets favorited.

      If the list gets too short, I might do some spelunking in my library to favorite something from my backlog.

      This way, each time I sit down to game, I have a very short list of stuff to start or continue that I might actually manage to pick from.