Have you ever experienced gaming burnout?

Several times over various reasons. Overcoming it comes down to two things. Life circumstances influencing burnout changing or just simply taking a long long break from video games and doing other hobbies.

I don't know why you felt the need to include a dig at other hobbies though. What passes for average movie or tv show usually still has better writing than most video games. I definitely burnt my hope over video games ever improving story wise fundamentally-only gameplay truly keeps me going back to them lol.

As a fellow completionist, I experience it quite often when I grind very long games that take me 150-300 hours or more to complete.

I spoke about this in one of my videos where I give tips how to overcome it.

Thanks. Have a bump. I once tried to avoid burnout, to play three games at the same time. I would play a second time to not get bored of the first one. Didn't work out

I try to vary games and usually play shorter games after very long ones to reduce potential burnout. Currently I got 1 month of free game pass. The time limit sure does act as a great motivator to be honest. If the game is super long I also try mixing in other games as I play it, that current game for me is Muv Luv. I also catalog my game times and completions which act as fun motivators to complete the games I'm playing.

Sometimes I waste away my time on Youtube though, so that's something I kind of need to work on. A lot of the games I like aren't too cutscene, dialog or story focused, so I have youtube videos on in the background for those games a lot.

I also feel like getting a gaming handheld (like Steam Deck) would work wonders, although not something I want to invest money into yet.

Finally I've tried to be more open to just quit games I'm not enjoying or not slogging through 100% of a game if I'm not enjoying the extra stuff.

Quite recently actually, I had no motivation to play anything, even though I wanted to. Recently, I started a new Terraria playthrough and I got hooked again and it has been really fun so far. 60 hours of quality gaming. It feels nice to be focused on a game again.

I kind of just played whatever before I started playing Terraria again. I also really enjoyed Forza Horizon 4 (although getting those now unobtainable achievements was sometimes very frustrating), it was a very nice journey if I look at it as a whole. After being done with FH4 I kind of just played whatever felt fun at the time, played some Insurgency: Sandstorm for a few hours every day and had a blast, then won the original Insurgency on here and enjoyed that as well. I also tried to start playing Sniper Elite 4, but besides just wanting to see those really sick x-ray shots, I didn't feel captivated enough to keep playing the story and whatnot.

In a way, I still have gaming burnout? I still really want to finish Trepang2 but the missions feel overwhelming(ly grand). I suppose it's a lack of motivation, perhaps just not liking the story aspect of the game. I am still having a lot of fun with Terraria, been fishing a lot which I used to hate. Since I've already had 2 previous playthroughs, one vanilla and one modded, I have accumulated a few achievements and I decided to just start getting achievements and it's pretty fun! They feel challenging yet simple enough and straightforward to get.

It feels exhausting losing passion for video games, but maybe it'll come back more grand than ever. SOMEDAY, I PROMISE, I WILL FINISH MY ENTIRE BACKLOG!

Why is this under Deals?

I think it is normal. And maybe useful.I change my priorities from consuming to creating. I started to making my own board games. I have more option to relax. I started dancing and learning languages and read more books. And that makes my life more social and finally I understand value of persons in my surrounding.

I get burnout every few months lol. Playing multiple competitive games, fps games with battle passes, battle royales, mmo's, and trying to sneak in a single player game here and there, all while trying to develop yourself and also sustain yourself at the same time is an easy way to get burnout.

My last burnout was like 2 months ago after playing path of exile. Joined the league late, no one wants to sell items at cheap price, hard to farm currency after everyone exploited in the first 3 weeks, GGG had fixed all the exploits so you're kinda told FU. Thankfully I just finished this season now so I got till december till new poe season. Poe 2 launches in november tho so we'll see if the alpha is any good. Then you got fortnite something going on every week like you can't stop or you miss idk what exclusive emote or sticker or skin or whatever.

My singleplayer burnout was Cyberpunk tho, hard to find another game of the same caliber to keep up. Pretty much impossible tbh. It did a lot of things right.

I've experienced it.

The wow-burnout due to excessive raiding/playing, but also game burnout in general.
Last year I just lost interest in gaming in general, I'd see games that seemed interesting but actually playing them felt like a chore.

Got out of it eventually by just not playing games for 4-5 months, and than something peaked my interest again and from there I started getting more interest in actually playing other games, too

There have been times where I've found myself tired of games and not wanting to play them. However, like what happened to you, I snap out of it when I start playing a really good game--often one that's not all that different from games I've enjoyed in the past--and I realize it wasn't so much burnout as much as the fact that it's just really hard to find good games when you've already played the popular ones.

It does help if you switch it up. Doing anything repeatedly will have deleterious effects. However some people need structure in their life for various reasons. Different strokes for different folks. Right now I've been hopping back and forth between Assassin's Creed and Pathfinder with some light stuff like solitaire sprinkled here and there.

Yes! I do feel so after games that are lengthy.

• It was Witcher 3 many years back. I played 1 and 2 prior to it. I didnt enjoy the DLCs as much as I should have because of the fatigue or impatience of getting to the end.
• In 2022, it was MGS5:PP. I LOVED the game. Was engrossed in it for hours at a stretch. When I finally finished it...I didn't feel like gaming at all.

The lesson I would take from these experiences is that I need to learn how to practice self control when it comes to gaming. I should have been the one to control these games. Not the other way around. With time, games will be even more addictive and toxic to my health. Most Games are designed to hook us in. I cant afford to loose myself like that again. I probably wont ever quit playing games, as I feel that is a ridiculously drastic step.
But I can make efforts to be wise while selecting the games I play.

What do I gain from this game? What sort of value can it add to me? Escapism? Brilliant story? Aesthetics? Nostalgia? Innovation? Emotional Ride?
This is the golden age of media, entertainment and information. I cannot afford to consume everything that is interesting.
There is probably a lot more psychological to this aspect of giving in to games. But I hope I keep posing these uncomfortable questions to myself time after time.

achievement hunting is the only thing that brought me back to gaming

I don't know if I would call what I experience burnout. I can burn out on a specific game when I play it, but when it comes to gaming in general, it feels more like "enthusiasm shifting elsewhere" than "active burnout". I do go through periods of gaming more, gaming less, and no gaming because other hobbies are better at capturing my interest sometimes.

I'm the opposite of a completionist. I'm perfectly fine not getting all the achievements (I have games that are missing 1 achievement, and that doesn't bother me). I'm also perfectly fine quitting a game halfway if I'm not enjoying it as much or even if I really love it but can't complete it. It's easy for me to move on to other games. I had to quit Witcher 3 about 80% through because certain aspects of it became too overwhelming. I actively felt burnt out so I closed it and never opened it again, but I still consider it one of the best games I've ever played and worth every penny. I don't need to have completed a game to judge the quality of the time I spent playing it.

on occasion, mine usually hits genre/gameplay style burnouts. For example... Danganronpa I am burned out on for a bit, did the first 2 to close together. While great games... the game play can be draining.

Also happens to my forever games Genshin and Path of Exile... where you just need a break then come back to it and be in love with them again.

same goes for anime, I usually got to 20-30 shows a season... these past few seasons I am struggling to keep up with a fraction of that.

"Gaming burnout"? That either means gaming is your job which is not paying off, or you're doing it wrong. Stay away from FOMO, perhaps. If you play games for entertainment, what the hell is "gaming burnout"?