Definitely. I'm an impulse spender with no practical limit, and Steam has 5 million interesting things on it.
Very recently I came to the conclusion that you did, that it was getting stupid to buy something, and then either not play it, or play it for like 2 hours and then get distracted by the next shiny thing.
Particularly when so many games promise hours and hours of exciting content.
And it's a long running list. 18 years worth! This bloody Steam account is 18 years old! I really, REALLY did not enjoy this revelation. But it is what it is.
I'm also making sure to play very recent games, not just old ones.
Right now I'm very focused on both Age of Wonders 4 (this one on the Xbox), Conquest of Elysium 5, and Neon Chrome. AoW 4 is a 4X game, so it is gigantic... I've only scratched the surface of it... CoW 5 is a very odd strategy game, and Neon Chrome is an action roguelike (with a sequel due out soon). Also Lingo, which is a brain-melting puzzle game, I'm totally enthralled by it lately. I'm not sure if I *can* finish it, but I'm going to try.
Looking deeper into the library is... an experience, is what it is. Why in the world do I have a copy of Metal Gear Solid 5? I never bought that. What the heck is it doing there? How did it get there?
I'm really into both turn based strategy games, and also puzzle games recently, so I'm particularly looking at some of those. Phoenix Point is a real sore spot now that I notice it. One of the few Kickstarters I ever went for, that one.
Also, there's the Xbox... my abnormally generous friend just out of nowhere gave me a Series X (brand new) and a ton of games (physical copies!), and I havent played a bunch of those yet. The box of them got wedged in the backroom somehow, I'm guessing my father did that. I found them recently. My friend also for some reason gave me like 12 games on Steam a few months back, I havent gone into those yet.
Monster Train, someone else gave me that out of nowhere... ya know there's quite a few games where someone just randomly handed them to me. I'm not sure why people keep doing that.
Dwarf Fortress, now I HAVE played that one... I watched like 50 tutorial videos to learn it... but that was the free version. I was so excited for the Steam version's release, and then somehow just didnt touch it.
The worst ones though are the "dead" games. The ones that were pulled, with the only evidence that they ever existed being the bizarre gray listing of them on my game list. There's no images for them, no background, just a blank gray listing with a generic font. Trying to go to the store page for any of these just boots you straight to the storefront. They're outright gone from Steam, and that's not exactly a common thing on there. Missed my chance.
One way or another though, no more buying things I'm not going to play. Enough of growing the stupid backlog.
I also have a very small backlog for board games. In that hobby, it is commonly referred to as a "shelf of shame". Many players have one. For some, it can be ENORMOUS. Like a couple hundred games (bigger than my entire collection!) For me, it's just a few. But it's a sore point, definitely. I'm playing board games more lately than I had been in awhile, since my chronic pain is lessening more and more, so I'm going to get to those.
Fortunately I have nothing but free time, all the time, so...
