How Many Games Do You Rotate Through?

How Many Games Do You Rotate Through?

  • There can only be one.

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  • Two

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  • Three

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  • Four

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  • Five

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  • More than five.

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  • I don't have time to play games at all anymore

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ugly

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I used to only play one game at a time, and play it until I was done with it. Then move onto the next game.

Now I usually rotate through two games at a time. Usually one longer game (like a big RPG) that takes a bit more focus. And another secondary game, that's a bit less intense. More like a game that you can play while listening to a podcast. These are usually remasters of old NES/SNES games, or Metroidvanias. Usually shorter games.

I think I've changed to two games at once because it's harder to find time to dedicate to gaming. Usually I find it tough to even get 45 minutes of dedicated gaming time during a weekday. So getting through long games takes forever. And then I'd never play the smaller and shorter games.

Because of working from home, I can get away with staying up later now. So I like to play an easier game where I can just play a bit mindlessly and listen to a podcast until I start falling asleep. I can manage to get through more games that way. Games that I used to keep in my backlog forever.

I see some of you guys post about playing times of games at once. Are you guys even finishing all the games you play?
 
Poll doesn't seem to be working for me.

Anyway for me it's either one or two games at once. I might play one new game and keep playing an older MP game in the background. It's pretty rare for me to leapfrog between two new games. I finish 90% of the games I start playing.
 
Poll also broken for me.
I can have quite a few games on the go at any time. Usually a variety of genres, a strategy, an RPG or adventure, a puzzle game and probably a sim or two. Add to that I'll probably have an odd game to drop that is suited for a single quick session.
Right now I've got five games that could I could play until an actual end; Tower of Time, Minute of Islands, Ace Attorney, Vengeful Rites and RDR2. But I'm also taking periodic missions in DCS, Train Sim and Gunner Heat PC, titles that I will expect to keep coming back to for years without any obvious completion.
 
Generally about three for me. I went through a phase where I forced myself to focus on one game at a time, per day on a 3 day rotation. It worked pretty well but I didn't keep it going. God Eater was one if them and that game was a complete wast of time.

The three are a mix of genres, FPS, racing, and RPG is probably my gavorite mix.

For right now I'm replaying Witcher 3. No time for extra game BS pretty much since December.
 
I rotate through Quake 2, UT2004, and Desktop Tower Defense, but I'll also go back and spend alot of time in Crysis every time I upgrade my computer.
 
Poll is broken for me as well. If it’s a major release (Anything I’ve been waiting for) it’s just that one game until it’s complete. If I’m between games like now, I spend time in Returnal, some souls-likes, Dying light 2 or whatever looks like a fun time sink for a bit.
 
I realise there was a second part to your question, Ugly. Do I finish games?
Yes, with a couple of exceptions. I used to be very bad for getting distracted by the next shiny thing to come along. Now I either finish a game or truely abandon it. There have been quite a few lately which have simply been bad or boring and I have quit them with no expectation of ever returning. The exception, as mentioned before, are the sim and strategy titles which don't really have an end and I will just regularly have a quick play, either a single or multiple sessions, then set them aside to return again later.
 
I'm not sure if the poll issue with the new forum update. When I made this thread, I got a 'Working' message for a long time and then it threw up an error. Now it looks like the poll doesn't work.

I guess I didn't really answer my own 2nd question. I do finish the games that I play. And I usually try to go for a completionist finish. As much as I complain that achievements sometimes ruin the gaming experience, I can't help but try and be a good little boy and check all the boxes and get 100%.

I figure I'm probably only going to play the game through once, so I might as well try to do everything. Sometimes, there's a really shitty achievement, or one that makes you play through the entire game again and I'll usually skip those.
 
I usually have one big single player game I'm playing, and something on the side for shorter, less committed sessions.

The "on the side" games are stuff like Rocket League, Quake Arena, racing games (Assetto Corsa or MotoGP), strategy games (Company of Heroes, Red Alert 2), or Valheim.

The "main" games are stuff I finish and (usually) never go back to once the credits hit.

I've never felt the need to play multiple big games side by side, and I've pretty much always played games with the intention of finishing them. It's either a refund in the opening two hours, or credits. The exception is free games - I'll play those for as long as I like them.
 
If we're talking single player games, I generally only play one at once, but there have been exceptions when I've been playing a game that I couldn't handle playing nonstop for some reason. For example, I tag teamed The Talos Principle with Saints Row The Third, because TP was too draining intellectually, and SR3 was so frenetic that it also became tiring after a while. By combining those two totally different experiences I was able to enjoy both without getting burned out. Still that is by far the exception and for the most part I've only ever played one major single player game at a time. I'd rather just focus on one game and polish it off before moving on.

Now, if we expand this to also include co-op or MP games it's possible that I have multiple going because I'm playing with different friends. So, for example, right now I have 3 co-op games going. That is very situational though, and up until the last couple of years I wasn't so engaged in co-op gaming. And even then until recently I only had 2 co-op games going, and probably will get back to 2 again once we polish off MW5:Mercs.

If we count single player, co-op/MP together then I'd say on average over the past two decades I'd have one to three games going (more often one or two): a single player, a co-op, and a "time waster" MP like Killing Floor, Dead By Daylight. etc.

As for finishing games. I almost always finish games I start. There have only been a handful of games that I've abandoned over the years, most I've forced my way through even though sometimes I've regretted it. I try to be thorough and go through all of the major story content, but I don't do completionist stuff like random grind or side content just for achievements.
 
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Poll broken.

I typically have a set number of games I have installed at a time (I like my Steam library to be even with only full rows and I think I have 6 rows of 7 across so 42 on PC and on Steam Deck I have 40, though a few are duplicates).

I try to have just a couple epic 1st player story-driven games going at a time, and the rest are mixes of various types of action, puzzle, roguelite, etc.
 
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