People fill their bookshelves with novels they’ve never read. We should be able to do the same with video games!

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6343551

It’s time for gamers to free ourselves of the shame we feel when we think of our backlogs. Every unplayed title is like a little reminder of one moment of weakness, and it can be tough to see all of those reminders listed alphabetically in your Steam library when you’re about to start your fiftieth Skyrim playthrough. But hey, it’s a collection! People fill their bookshelves with novels they’ve never read. We should be able to do the same with games! Here’s a list of the perfect titles to get you started.

  • cRazi_manEnglish
    16·
    21 days ago

    Factorio, civilisation, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Dwarf Fortress are on my list. They sound amazing, but no.

    • Zgierwoj@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      8·
      20 days ago

      Dwarf Fortress is such a real one, like, I have no idea what things do, there is no tutorial, there are like 100 mechanics you get to see but who the fuck knows how those work. I opened it like thrice and every time I left almost immediately and confused af

      • ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        20 days ago

        The steam version has a fairly good tutorial, but it’s really long. I only played for like 4 hours and didn’t get through it, but I think it helps you get situated and managing things.

    • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

      Factorio seems great, but it takes ages to play, and triggers my need of wanting to build ahit perfectly on the first try intead of just doing it.

      Also I simply enjoy watching DoshDoshington playing the game, he has various youtube videos trying various mods and challenges.

      • FrederikNJS@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        20 days ago

        The trick is to realise that even if you could build it perfectly, your requirements will change causing even what was perfect before, to be less than perfect now. Of course it was never perfect, only an approximation. Sometimes you rip something out to rebuild, and sometimes you build something better, and leave the crappy setup behind.

        At the point where you feel like everything is a massive bowl of unmaintainable spaghetti, you unlock construction bots, and can start to rebuild and redesign your factory on a massive scale, striving for perfection, but always coming up just slightly short, ripe for yet another redesign.

        All of this is exactly the same when programming.

        • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          20 days ago

          I think that’s my main issue with it, I do programming for a living, feels too much like work, without getting paid for it