Ask Lemmy

Mate, i did 12 hours overtime last week and still got my game on.

I have two kids and still game probably 3-4 nights/week, it's just much shorter sessions. I'm not pulling full gaming days on the weekends anymore, I'm playing for an hour or so before bed.

I find that most people who say there isn't enough time for gaming simply choose things like watching TV instead 🤷‍♂️ which is fine, to be clear, but it's a choice

Sure.

Energy to play? Well that's a tough one...

It helps to not have kids. Also helps to have a job with downtime, like when i. recompiling the software or publishing which takes forever sometimes.

Depends what kind of adult. I'm in my 30s and I still game for hours on multiple days in the week. But I don't have a family with kids to maintain.

Yes, but I often sacrifice sleep to find the time for it.

the only reason I have time is I never got married or had kids on purpose

Yes, no kids.

I dom't have kids so yeah.

Very seldomly.

Gaming for me at this point is playing Rimworld on my work computer while I am waiting for something / someone.

As a working class adult you have to start applying time management skills to your life or you'll be overwhelmed.

One of those skills is budgeting time for recreation and hobbies. If something is important to you, put that time on your calendar.

I have teenage kids and a busy life. We plan for game nights on the PC, usually Tuesday and then one other night during the week as long as there's no sportsball practices or whatnot.

Unfortunately the old "I'm bored, time for gaming" won't work anymore. You have to assign value to your activities. Doing nothing on the couch can be an activity, gaming can be an activity, doing the dishes can be an activity. If you don't assign values to activities and schedule them then you'll get overwhelmed because you won't have time to do anything.

My husband and I are in our mid 30’s and don’t have kids. I even work from home 90% of the time so no commute time. I have so much time that I do volunteering next to my full time job. And then I still have time for hobbies.

Yep. Just don't have kids.

we should always make time for play (in general)

Yes. mid-40s, no kids, and I work from home.

Wife and I play RPGs on the weekends (currently enjoying Last Epoch and waiting for the next Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader DLC), and during the week I usually play single player games (right now in the middle of Lies of P and Fire Emblem: Awakening).

I do, but I don't have a whole lot else going on

I do have time. Working an 8-5 with no kids makes it easy, so long as you plan your meals out.

That being said, I have gravitated towards reading recently and have been forgoing the games as a result.

I don't have a "battlestation" that I game at anymore. No more 5 hour raids in Naxx. I have a steam deck and thats all I need for now.

Yes. Make time.

yes. especially without kids.

Yes, pretty much every evening after 8 or 9 I have time to play games. I need my unwind time. I can't always find something I feel like playing though.

I got a wife and kid, theres usually an hour or two between our bedtime and kiddo's so gaming can still happen.

I'm 37 with two young kids. I don't play as much as I did before marriage and kids, but I still find time. Mainly in the evenings when everyone else has gone to bed (though that's also time I might put toward other hobbies).

I also have a weekly time set up with some buddies, which is especially great since social time also took a big hit with having kids.

If you can't find ANY time for gaming, then you just don't actually want to game.

If you truly have zero time for any sort of hobby or interest after work, kids, etc. then you need help of some kind.

Like anything competing for my time, it has to be something I’m really interested in watching/playing/doing. Too many other things going on to devote time to crappy games, books, or tv shows.

My wife and I have no kids, and plan to keep it that way, so we have plenty of time to play video games together several times a week.

Absolutely.

I will always make time for my hobbies.

If some optional obligation would prevent me from getting enough me time then I don't agree to it.

The time I get to be free during this short, indentured life is worth more than anything else.

I make time but now a days I just don't have the same zest for it as I did when I was younger. I think I also just don't see it the same as I did before. I'm sure there'd be games I'd love to spend 100+ hours on in one sitting but I just don't have the time. It no longer feels fun or accomplishing to spend so much time on games and I just feel like I'm wasting my time which could be spent being more productive. That's just me though....

Yeah. What else would I do after work?

i have time because i have no life

No, most definitely not, and it.... Sucks.

I just wanna sit down and play Minecraft or something again.

Not really. I got 2 kids. I sometimes have an hour a day to play. And even then it’s decision paralysis of what to play that I can get a satisfying enough session in the little time I have.

I have a steam deck and it’s handy, but I also have game pass and I’ve been wanting to play some gamepass games on it. So it becomes the decision paralysis of what do I play. I would love to play games like Heroes of Might and Magic 3 or Civilization or Cities Skylines but I don’t have that kind of time to dedicate to complete a FULL session anymore.

Lately is been Doom Dark Ages.

Everyone's life is different. Some people spend more time working but have more opportunities for breaks, and others have shorter hours but more a clearly delineated work-life separation where they must be working through the whole period. There are people with a large amount of responsibilities outside of work, and others that have little to none.

Anyway, it's not true for all but many people do have the time they just choose to spend it on other types of entertainment. Sometimes consciously, other times because TV and social media are the path of least resistance, even if it's less satisfying.

My suggestion is to consider a Steam Deck and use the suspend function readily. You might not have hours to play, but maybe you can pick up 15 minutes here and there, which is more satisfying then you might think.

Yes, I play practically every day. I'm a teacher, so plenty busy with work. But I come home to a kid-free environment, so I can really relax.

I work from home so I can play a round or two of my fave shooters to break the monotony in the middle of my work day. Then around two hours after work.

I have gobs of free time. Too much, really...but I'm also 35 and my main hobby was still video games two years ago. There's a lot of "been there, done that" fatigue setting in when you've played thousands of games for decades. Even going back to retro, I've played most cream of the crop including fan translations by now. Once and awhile a genuinely old good foreign game still gets translated and I'm all over it.

Now I play less on average, but if a game comes out now that grabs my attention I'll still dump 60-100 hours in two weeks into it for RPG or play shorter games in 8 hour chunks no problem still. It's just a matter of capturing that attention.

I got other new competing hobbies now where I don't know everything yet and that's more fun. I my have drifted away from games slower than most, but I still did eventually. It's natural and I don't force myself to play. I'm okay with change.

I do mourn the loss of my core 4 player co-op group still :s

Looking forward to when my office moves into a new building; I will then have an hour-ish commute by train where I can whip out my Steam Deck and catch up on my backlog.

Until then, it’s basically just getting whipped out for a couple 15-ish minute sessions most days.