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I stopped playing games that try to monopolize my time with battle passes and dailies, as well as games that take 60+ hours to complete. For me that included not playing Animal Crossing.
Since I started working from home Iāve had a hard time motivating myself to play Steam games on my PC. I bought a Steam deck and a dock for it and it really changed my approach. I install 2-3 games from my backlog at a time, play them for about 2 hours before deciding if Iāll finish them or move on and uninstall to make room for a new one.
Iāve been meaning to stream and review games but kept putting it off because I didnāt have time and energy, and this meant thereās a bunch of games Iāve stopped myself from playing because I wanted to make vids for them. But Iāve realized that nothing forces me to record gameplay to talk about games. Zero Punctuation gets his impressions across in 5 minute videos with no footage whatsoever. So playing tons of short games in succession kind of renewed my motivation.
Also, putting stuff out there is success in and of itself. Donāt let your motivation be driven by views or income, or you wonāt be doing it for the right reasons and youāll burn yourself out.
Iām usually way more into short arcadey yet narrative games like Hotline Miami, but based on your list Iād wholeheartedly recommend What Remains of Edith Finch. Itās a bunch of very short story vignettes, so even if you only have 30 minutes you know youāll complete one.
Night in the Woods might also interest you. I would always play one in-game day (which is about 1 hour each) to relax before going to bed.
Filter by Hot, Active and Top Day are godsends for Lemmy. I understand the lack of blackbox algorithm but zero control over your timeline outside of Chronological and tags kills Mastodon for a lot of people.