Interested in seeing how other people approach their backlog. I’ve finally made a list of all the games I want to finish, and I’m forcing myself to play one of them a day for at least an hour.

As an added incentive, I’m forcing myself to wait to finish a backlog game before I can buy a new one. I’ve got a lot of playing to do between now and October.

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[–] flux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I actually have a few strategies.

I never ever buy a game without knowing that I will play it in the next 3-4 months. At least the first intro/level.
When I see a new game in a series I won't play/buy it unless I've at least giving the game two generations a good amount of investment. Example: sniper elite 5 is out and I went back and played through 3. It scratched the itch for that game and I'm not considering buying 5 for a little more time.
Same as two but with developer. If I really love developer. Like Supergiant and am going to play all their games. I won't start a new game until I've given sometime to the previous game if I own it. I played through Pyre before Hades and glad I did.
If I see something new I usually just double check I don't have a "similar /type / style game" and give it little time just to make sure I'm not interested in playing it over the shinny new thing. I've been able to pull out some really good games just sorting by genre and giving it a shot.

I'll break these rules if

my friends are playing a game and I need to play with them before they get bored.
It receives all 10's everywhere. Like Elden Ring.

Ultimately it's your time. I have the theory that you you should try a lot of games you already own but if it's a struggle to get through. I'm not talking about the difficulty. Challenges can be fun and not a struggle. If it's mentally a struggle and you don't care about the reward or the ending of the story then stop playing it. If you aren't having fun or find some satisfaction after you play find another game.