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…and the game doesn’t has a pause button.
There's an app for that!
It's called UniversalPauseButton (no link because on phone, but you can Google it). It basically makes the PAUSE/BREAK button pause any active process. Press it again to unpause.
Will likely cause issues with online games, but if you're playing offline or in single-player, like Witcher 3, Remnant, Baldurs Gate 3, etc it works wonders.
Signed, a new parent who often has to go comfort a waking baby at night.
I remember when I was a kid my buddy and I were raving about some game because you couldn't pause it. It was so cool. Emersive. You really had to make good decisions with you inventory, etc etc.
Today I'll just turn the game off if it tries that bullshit lol
The Witcher 3 NextGen has been pretty good in this regard. You can already pause in combat, or in long dialogue trees and even in cutscenes.
Link here: https://github.com/ryanries/UniversalPauseButton
There's also https://github.com/Merrit/nyrna
which supports linux, and I believe takes a slightly different approach on windows so where one app might not work for one game you could try the other
Wow thank you, I knew something like that existed but I thought it was a per game hack/mod not an universa solution. l
It instantly turns me off any game. Much of my free time for gaming on the weekends is really when I'm doing less active chores, like laundry. If I can't pause to change loads and fold, I can't play that game.
I play a lot of souls likes and most don't have pause. But they usually save your position if you go back to the main menu; so I pause by just quitting to the main menu.