I had stopped gaming for about 5 years to focus on my career and starting a family. I'm now turning 40 this year and have been dabbling with games again but nothing really stuck until I started the Trails in the Sky trilogy. I ended up playing it a few hours every other night. Something about it was so refreshing that I'm now about to wrap up the 3rd game.
Like others have mentioned, perhaps your mood or perspective changes as you get older and it's just about finding the right game to play.
Nearly an empty nester, I got back into it with diablo and am surprised it's not affected my marriage. She'll just sit next to me and do her thing on phone/tablet.
That's just burnout
Don’t optimize the shit out of the game, just play them for as long as they are fun and ditch them afterwards.
I stopped being as interested in video games and gravitated toward board games. It’s an activity I can do with friends around a table instead of sitting alone staring at a screen. And the same puzzles are present in board games plus you get the social aspect.
One thing I’ve noticed is that I’ll take a long break from a game I enjoy and later I want to go back to it and pick up where I left off, but I know I’ll have to re-learn it all over again before I can start having fun. I don’t want to have to expend the mental energy learning it again when I just want to have fun, so I instead end up watching YouTube or tv shows and not really enjoying my free time.
Now, whenever I start a new game I make a folder where I keep any spreadsheets or information I collect while playing, and most importantly keep extensive notes, including keybinds and UI to refresh my memory. This saves me from a lot of those squinty eye moments saying “ooohh how tf do I do that again…” and having to research something online.
Getting into Quake Champions helped cure this after realizing how bad most competitive fps games are now
Quake 3 arena and quake live are also good. And of course Titanfall 2.
As a child who grew up with nothing but a family computer I dreamed for the day we would have free games everywhere. Boy did I get my wish
Comes and goes in waves for me. I find games wbere me and my friends are just having fun still brings that feeling.
I love chess and card games
Coming from pc gaming, both multiplayer and single player i felt at a stage I was just not into gaming anymore. Went and got a Switch, turns out I just needed a change. Maybe try some indies as suggested. I had 65 hours on stardew valley, man that game is like crack.
I've jumped on the switch train lately coming from PC & Ps4, play PC every once in a while but it's been switch since my Ps4 yearly sub expired. Playing newer games was getting a little expensive so just dropped back to playing games I can only get on discount except for big games like Zelda.
Single player board games. Sounds lame but look up hunt a killer stand alone..
When I feel like this is just crack open
Red Alert 2: Yuri's revenge
Master of Olympus Zeus
Anno
Games were better in my day.
But tbh my love of gaming has died since you had to pay for online consoles and your can't have bants on COD anymore.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan this hit hard
Me for the back 98.5% of Tears of the Kingdom