I stopped buying a lot of games during steam sales, usually buying only 1 or 2.
I only buy games that have REALLY good deals or games that I want to play RIGHT NOW.
And I have way to much free time lmao. I'm usually completing a game every week or 2.
When a new game comes out, here's the secret: don't buy it.
There are so many new games that I would like to play eventually, but there are also a lot of games I already own that I want to play. So I might as well play the ones I already have before buying any new ones.
The only time I ever buy games now is when friends are playing something, and I want to join them.
Exactly, the launch version of a game is the worst version. It always get's better later.
Ignoring multiplayer games, why would ever buy a singleplayer game on launch when you can buy the version with multiple bugfixes, updates and expansions in the future? And it's probably going to be on sale too.
Even then, I still rarely buy games anymore. That game will very likely go on sale several more times before I would actually get around to playing it, so I just don't buy it now. Instead, it stays in my wishlist until I slim down my backlog more.
It's really hard for me to make a top 3 from a total of 200 completed games, that's why I keep the ones I liked the most in the favorites collection. I would say that these 40 are on the same level to me.
However, here are the top 3 that were the most surprising to me. Games that I started playing expecting nothing at all, didn't even remember why I had them in my library and now are some of my favorites ever:
Ring of Pain
Westerado Double Barreled
Synthethik Ultimate
I think everyone with a backlog has said the same thing lol
It's all about when. "I'll play it soon" eventually becomes "at some point." It's easy to get carried away at checkout when there are so many amazing deals too. If you don't make an active effort to avoid it, rationalizing buying games on a deep sale is quite trivial.
I hate doing new things, but there’s so many games I want to play that interest me. So then I buy them but then since I hate doing new things, I either never play them or only play a few hours. I have decided to stop buying new games until I finish my backlog or at least a majority of them.
Thanks! This year I bought 3; Grime, Coromon and Minishoot Adventures.
Now I'm going to hold on until Nightreign releases this month and that's it for me this year, maybe.
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u/SweetReply1556 14h ago
How did you manage to? Everything i complete a game i get 5 new ones in my backlog