It’s time for gamers to free ourselves of the shame we feel when we think of our backlogs. Every unplayed title is like a little reminder of one moment of weakness, and it can be tough to see all of those reminders listed alphabetically in your Steam library when you’re about to start your fiftieth Skyrim playthrough. But hey, it’s a collection! People fill their bookshelves with novels they’ve never read. We should be able to do the same with games! Here’s a list of the perfect titles to get you started.
For most of the games on this list that are also in my library, I have started playing them, got bored and told myself I’d come back to them later, and then never did.
Except Witcher 3. I played for like 30 minutes and was just completely turned off and regretted buying it, so I didn’t even bother lying to myself about that one. Not my kind of game at all.
Yeah, I’m in the same boat. For every game that I actually own that’s on the list I’ve at least played it enough to find out it’s not quite for me or I got halfway through and put it down with the intention of coming back, which is just a bad habit for RPGs in general for me because I tend to burn myself out on them. I had to stop playing Witcher 3 halfway through because my brain hates me and I need to find and clear every map objective.
The only actual exception is Dwarf Fortress and that’s only because I have over 1500 hours in Rimworld and I know how much of a learning curve there’s going to be when I start it. I’ve just never had the mental fortitude to devote the time to it yet.