“People in their 40s… even if you have kids, you have more disposable income than you did in your 20s, but you have less time. So you might still want to play games, but I feel repressed by games that want me to play every week.”
Oof I feel that.
This shit is why I stopped playing Rust, Eve Online, and a bunch of other games. I can’t do the time sink anymore and to be honest, I’m not sure why I ever tolerated it.
I’ve been playing Abiotic Factor and Journey to the Savage Planet with my wife and enjoying them a lot, and a big part of why is that I don’t need to log in every day. With my guys I also occasionally hop into Dinkum, Volcanoids, Darktide (post-progression update), Helldivers 2… Even Darktide and Helldivers 2 are borderline too grindy for me.
Yeah I keep falling off Elite Dangerous, despite loving it. I’m been playing Caves of Qud and ToTK and loving them.
CALLING OUT ANIMAL CROSSING
That shit keeps track of how long you are away and then GUILTS you about it. “We thought you’d never come back we were sad” “we missed you”.
My wife never goes back to that game because they guilt her haha.
Yeah. I really want an animal-crossing style game that just doesn’t keep track of how long you were away.
Okay so I don’t have an example that matches IRL time like Animal Crossing but a game with similar style I can do. If you’re down with time progression like Stardew Valley, check out Dinkum, best summarized as “Outback Animal Crossing”
That does look neat! Thanks for the recommendation.
I’m in my early 40s and my one weird trick… was to not have kids. Sorry dad but this is the end of the line.
You’re not wrong, but at least I get to experience games with him, so that’s fun most of the time.
That has to be super rewarding. You always have a player 2!
