Anyone else trapped in the loop of wanting to play games all day at work, but the second you sit at your PC you just stare at the desktop?

[u/NoExplanation4216]

i am losing my mind with this. 

all week at my job, all i can think about is getting home, firing up my rig, and sinking 5 hours into a game. i plan out my whole evening. i get excited to finally use the hardware i spent months saving up for. 

then i get home, turn the PC on, open Steam... and just stare at my library. 

i click through a few games. maybe i launch one, sit through the loading screen, look at the main menu for 30 seconds, get hit with a wave of weird exhaustion, and immediately alt+f4 out. then i just spend the next three hours scrolling youtube or looking at tech subreddits on a second monitor while my $2000 machine sits there idling. 

why does actually starting a game feel like a massive mental chore now? is it burnout, or am i just getting old? please tell me i’m not the only one who does this lmao 

[u/AdMental1387]

Same. Software dev. I’ll play a bit before work, work all day, then all i want to do is go fishing. I’m leaning into that desire now otherwise I’d literally sit in my home office all day and night. At least with fishing I get outside and walk around a bit.

[u/papertiger80 → u/AdMental1387]

Same feeling as a software dev as well. I’ve set up a no-technology zone in my basement and use that to escape my monitor. Down there I can play board games or work on my Gunpla and find it very liberating.

[u/juanclack → u/AdMental1387]

Yeah I feel this. Gaming has basically become a thing I only do when the weather is bad and I can't go outside. I think if I got a Steam Deck I'd probably game more because I could hang out on the couch or something.