Most anything PvP.

I just can't do anything with games that don't allow me to pause (or go idle) as I just have constant interruptions.

It doesn't help that many PvP games also have sweaty tryhard metas that put you on a different level if you're not reading up on forums or discussions.

Silksong. My muscle disease has progressed too much to physically play it. That really stings because Hollow Knight was one of my favorite games ever.

Rdr2. I'm not making a damn account just to play the game offline.

Clair obscur.

It looks so good, and the music is great, and story is apparently fantastic, but I just can not get the hang of the counter/block mechanic in combats, and without it the battles are pretty much impossible.

I’d love to play games like Fortnight, PUBG, and League of Legends (I know, don’t judge me), but they don’t work on Linux, so they’re just a no-go for me. I used to play GTA V Online, but they added kernel anticheat to that too, and now I don’t play that anymore.

I have Windows, but I’m not booting into another partition just to play a game. I use it for compiling my software for Windows users, and that’s already too much of a pain in the ass. I cannot stand Windows. It’s a bloated mess, and I don’t understand how anyone gets any actual work done on it. Just navigating it feels like a chore.

Cyberpunk 2077 - it still doesn't go on steep enough sales to justify buying when I have hundreds of unplayed games on Steam. But I'm keeping an eye on its downward progress. Maybe when it reaches £10-13...

Outer Wilds.

I very much want to play this game. It's everything I want from a detective puzzle game, but actually playing it gives me motion sickness.

Diablo III and IV don't have a monopoly on the genre. There's Titan Quest, Grim Dawn, and the Borderlands games, all playable offline, even in multiplayer. They're not exactly Diablo, but you'll hardly get closer than Grim Dawn, and there's no reason you need to be married to the Diablo IP anyway. That kind of brand stickiness is how you get taken advantage of.

Personally, when something like that doesn't respect my values, I'm not even finding myself tempted by them these days. Oh, it's always online? It's dead to me. There's a deluge of other stuff to play, including games that are similar but respect my values.

I really wish I could sit down and engage with the heavier stuff in my collection, but it comes to me with much difficulty.

Currently, as we speak, I’m playing SETI—kind of a slow-burn research builder where alien life gets discovered. It’s a lot of brain load though.

However, I know that I’m in a precarious spot. With the brain damage I’ve already sustained, if I’m not pushing my brain as hard as I can, it’ll start falling apart.

Don’t have strokes, kids.

I wish I could understand Stellaris.

World of Warcraft. I'm honestly at my happiest when all I have to worry about are dailies and raids. Unfortunately, that's not compatible with family life, my work, etc etc.

Silksong.

Love the game, but playing a few times a week isn't enough investment for me to build up the necessary skill to complete it. Got to a point now where I literally spend the entire gaming session refreshing my fingers from last week, and decided to take a break until I can commit enough time to it. Maybe if I lose my kids or legs or go to prison or something.

I love the story of Final Fantasy XIV, but it can easily categorize as "One of the most expensive singleplayer games of all time". On top of buying the expansions, you'll need to pay for each month you play; and unless someone's really speedrunning, that will start to add up. Worse, for a first timer setting up their account, their website and payment system is really stuck in 1998, making giving them money an obtuse task. And, while the story has its great moments and excellent side content, a depressing amount of it is extensive polite dialog with just simple quests where you move to a location and right-click on someone. I've finished Dawntrail, and am glad I experienced it, but I can't blame anyone who sees it all as beyond them.

Minecraft. I love building things, and I especially love the idea of building things you can walk through in first person. I also loved the little of it I did play. Sadly, it makes me incredibly nauseous and gives me a headache after about half an hour of playing.

Alan Wake 2, I loved the 1st but I'm not using Epic's shitty store. Especially with Epic's general anti-linux stance.

rust,

1. i'm on linux
2. its rust

Heard all the good things about Disco Elysium and found it on sale for the Steam Deck... Could not stand playing a character with traumatic brain injury. I thought I did something wrong generating the character, no, fanbase assures me that's the way it's supposed to be... Refunded it in less than an hour.

I want to check out Black Myth: Wukong. But I ain't paying for something with Denuvu and I can't pirate something with denuvu either.

BeamNG, but it’s Windoze only and I only have relatively older Macs.

I should get steam deck or cube maybe if it’s affordable.

Deadlock. As a parent and full time worker I don't have time to commit to a new live service multiplayer. It would be amazing to be a teenager or student again and just grind that game as nolife.

Wow is kinda similar. Housing update seems like fun thing that they finally added but no way I have time to play wow.

Battlefield 6. But Kushner and Windows 11 are not for me.

Battlefront 2. Australia doesn't have enough people to populate kyber servers.

Even if you don't mind the online only part, ignore this abomination. They botched the D4 campaign. It's too easy and almost impossible to die during the regular campaign. It takes roughly two minutes to beat a world boss on the first play through.

There's like a boatload of really classic Xbox 360/One era games that I'd love to play on PC.

Problem is they were made by Ubisoft or EA. Repurchasing them is already dubious from the get-go, but chances are the versions in Steam, if they're still there at all, are old neglected buggy builds. And things are not much rosier on the Uplay or Origin! They may have gotten a patch or two, but old shit's janky. These need the GOG treatment.

I did get the Mass Effect trilogy rerelease for a pittance. Also found out I somehow had Dragon Age Origins already. These should keep me occupied for a while, as (to paraphrase a certain video game villain) at this very moment, EA burns.

AC Shadows

I want to play it but fuck Ubisoft

I was looking for something to play this morning, and I fired up D4. I finished the story with a Druid, and hadn't really been back. So I rolled a new Wizard, wondered around aimlessly for a few hours and quit. It just doesn't have the pull that D2 had for me.

You're not missing much.

Elite Dangerous. Extremely beautiful, especially impressive in VR - but way too time-consuming for me.

I like liked the look of Subnautica but because of my thalassophobia I can't play it. Now I wouldn't play it anyway after the bullshit that was reported last year.

The newer Anno installments. I'm not buying another Ubisoft game unless they get rid of their stupid Launcher, and I'm also not buying anything with Denuvo and similar BS.

Immersive Sims: BioShock. Dishonored, Deus Ex… etc. I can't do FPS, it's so unnatural for me not to be able to see my character. I struggle to establish spatial relationships with anything else inside the game world, and I don't find aiming fun at all.

To a lesser extent, yet for similar reasons, fast-paced action FPS like Doom. Looks super fun, but I can't get over my fundamental issues with the genre.

Cyberpunk 77.

I don’t have a big enough SSD or SD card to put it on my Steam Deck haha.

Similar. I played a lot of Diablo 2 back in the day, but Blizzard got a lot worse as a game publisher during the years they were focused on WoW. I'm not super interested in starting up on Diablo 3 or 4 or even Starcraft 2.

For a different direction on this -- I played Subnautica. It was terrifying. I'm not going to get the expansion or Subnautica 2 when it comes out. shudder