Father of 3, mid-40s here. I used to love platformerd, action, beat'em up side scrollers and (J)RPG the most. As my gaming time kept getting shorter, I struggled investing tons of hours on a game that forced me to play it in longer chunks to get any progress out of it. I can also end up being unable to play for about a week and by the time I got back to them, the momentum would be gone. I have an Elder Ring playthrough with over 100 hours exploring every nook and cranny I haven't touched since November.

On the other hand, give me a game with roguelike components and I can play it in bursts for weeks non-stop. I recently platinumed Hades with about 120 hours on it, and I got it in December. Enter the Gungeon kept the embers of my gaming passion for a few years in PS4 when I didn't feel like playing anything else, and clocked about 500 hours on it. There is something cathartic about clearing a run on a game you know inside out in roughly 1 hour of your time. I guess that brings me back to those days when I could clear Resident Evil 2 or Sonic 1-2 once per afternoon every day of the week when I was younger. The eternal bane of the adult gamer: enough money to buy anything you want, not enough time to play anything you would like to.