I will be the first to admit that I have an unfinished game backwards on Steam and Epic. It is not for lack of interest; I continue to start new games without finishing the old ones. This is why I made a rule for me: a solo game at a time. No exceptions.
Too much variety is a bad thing, in fact
Do you know this feeling when you go to a glacier with more than fifty flavors, but you end up getting chocolate or vanilla? You don’t even like a lot either, but because of the number of choices, it’s overwhelming. It is easier to make it lack of something familiar than to make an accidental decision and to regret it potentially.
This is exactly what I think of solo games. I generally have a dozen different solo games installed on my PC at any time, but when it is time to play, I almost always end up launching the multiplayer game on which I am currently hanging and activating a solo game later.
The fact is that I really want to play solo games, so I push myself to do it – and when I finally immersed myself in a game and invest in its history and its world, the experience seems much more rewarding than to undergo a fifth consecutive defeat Marvel Rivals. I expected to give me more options in solo games would encourage me to play more.
Unfortunately, the exact opposite occurred. When I was not playing multiplayer, I was constantly jumping between different solo games. For a moment, I fought demons Devil May Cry 5; The next one, I was running through the streets of Mexico Forza Horizon 5.
I wanted to try all my games installed without engaging in none of them. In the end, my office, cluttered with titles, looked more like a control list than an organized list of games that I wanted to finish. I would play a game for an hour or two, I would appreciate it and I never opened it again.
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Each new game kills the last
When I finally joined a single match and I entered the routine to play it for an hour or two every evening and on weekends, I would finish it. It was the only approach that worked. But no more games continued to get out (or I came across those I had not heard of), and each new discovery threatened to derail the progress I had made.
While the honeymoon in the current title was, fresh, could easily steal its spotlight. Of course, the second when I launched this new game, the old was as good as abandonment.
Take last month: I worked through Warfare: Ragnarök And enjoy it a little. Then it happened –Remastered oblivion Shadow fell out of nowhere. It took me completely off guard; Of course, I put God of war pending to finally dive into OversightA game that I had never played before, despite Skyrim Be one of my favorite games. Let’s face it: we will all drop what we are doing the moment GTA VI go to live, as I did with Oversight.
Admittedly, I could not have predicted a surprise release of one of my favorite franchises, but it always completely threw me when I went up in the groove to play God of war every day. It is now surprisingly difficult to return to the mechanisms and the history of the game after a break – I barely remember how far I had progressed or even the orders to switch between the ax of Leviathan and the blades of chaos.
You might say that I can always stop playing and come back to it later, but once I go away, I’m just not attracted by that I was at the beginning. The spark that made me play generally disappeared.
Focusing on a game at a time is more pleasant
The only solution I could find to put an end to my game problems was to limit my choices by deleting the whole solo game except one of my PC. Now that I have limited myself to playing only one game at a time and refusing to install anything before I finished, I can finally immerse myself in the world of a single game.
By respecting a single protagonist, I form much stronger and more significant links with the characters, their stories and even the secondary quests. It is much more rewarding than trying to juggle three both in an already busy schedule.
I also make better more thoughtful decisions in the games that offer several paths. And if I go away in the middle of a quest, this is not a problem – I generally remember where I stopped because little time happened between the sessions.
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In addition, I do not waste time relearn orders every time I start the game. Instead, I focus on controlling mechanics and improving my skills. New capacities and power-ups are really impactful, and I carefully read my options, rather than being simply random upgrades that I launch in the skill tree when I go up in terms of level.
More importantly, I am much more motivated to finish what I started. Even if I do not target 100% completion in each game, I am at least more likely to see the main story until the end, because I really care.
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The multiplayer and the Roguelikes are my cleaners in palaces
As I pointed out earlier in the article, I appreciate multiplayer games a little. In fact, I would say that I spend almost the same time in multiplayer as in solo games. This scale was much more favorable to multiplayer games, but as I get older, I appreciate how more gratifying solo games are more rewarding.
That said, I still like the competitive multiplayer rush – these games allow me to give everything I have to mark a victory.
The same goes for Roguelikes. While games love Hades II And Turned are technically solo (or cooperative) experiences, they offer the same type of action full of size and size of a bite that strikes the place where I am not in mood for a longer session.
Multiplayer games and roguelikes are like snacks with a low commitment between the main course of any solo focused on the story I work. I can jump, play for 30 to 40 minutes and leave satisfied.
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Having a large game library is not necessarily a bad thing. However, if you have too many titles installed and you have trouble engaging or finishing them as I do, the solution is surprisingly simple: delete the whole game only one player except one of your disc. In this way, when you sit down to play, you choose between a solo, a multiplayer or a rogelike – not between ten different games in competition for your attention.
