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

Luckily never. I had always lot of fun playing videogames. Hope I can play videogames in my future retirement home. Or I will lose interest in playing and actually get a normal life!? (but I doubt that)
Edit: of course there are phases in life where gaming is not the most important thing (ok, it should be never the most important thing, but you know what I mean) and you have other things in mind/to do. But that's not a burnout, that's life happening I think.

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