At the moment basically anything competitive/ranked. I don't want to compete online anymore because I know that I'll have to go on an insane grind to get good. Only exception is trackmania because it somehow doesn't upset me quite like other ranked online games. But even then I only play the "arcade" mode and not ranked

99.999% of them. I don't desire variety. Give me one good game and I'll waste infinite hours with it for the next 15 years. The newest game I've played is from 2018

EA and Ubisoft, some kernel level anti cheat, and typically speaking, i dont enjoy games that have tower defense mechanics (and i hate when its shoehorned in, e.g Monster Hunter Rise). Korean MMOs. Mobas in general

Anything that doesn't work on Linux

I echo a lot of the sentiments expressed by others about avoiding games from bad publishers or games employing milking practices, avoiding multiplayer and toxic people, overly hard games, and many other points already stated.

My two things that are different are that I enjoy hard games so long as the reset is instant or near instant. Like Katana Zero and Hotl8ne Miami. Without that I don't want any part of a hard game. I get it, I died, let me try again already. So fuck games with long reset times.

And more unusual is I really don't like most isometric games but especially clicky isometrics. If I can't wander freely with WASD, fuck it, I'm out. Not going to sit here going clickclickclickclickclickclick just to go half a screen and open a chest. Fucking hate overly clicky shit like that with a passion. I also dont like how up is more like diagonal up and left is diagonal up etc. It's just annoying. My only exceptional has been project zomboid.

Any game that uses kernel level anti cheat, for obvious reasons.

• Anything from EA.
• Anything from Ubisoft
• Anything Epic exclusive.
• Anything with Denuvo (or whatever is the next intrusive DRM).
• Anything competitive PvP multiplayer.
• Anything "free" to play.
• Probably almost all general multipler & live service by now - or otherwise full of dark patterns to keep me "engaged".

Anything from Ubisoft. I’ll still consider an EA game. It’s that fucking bad the garbage that Ubisoft puts out and the shitty practices they hold towards the people who have been fans forever and monetarily supporting them.

Fuck them.

Most of the multiplayer ones and all of the ones that require voice chat.

sports games, always online games, games with denuvo still on, mmo, party games, shooter games where the main focus is PvP, picture-puzzle games, find-in-picture games, games with 30% or more QTE that is not rhythm games

anything that is a “Game as a Service”

Standard 3D shooter/War games like your Call of Duties, Battlefields, etc.... It's not that I'm a prude per se, I'll happily play a single player campaign similar settings if they respect the material. Though I prefer science fiction where what I'm killing is aliens, or Fallout raiders and Super Mutants, or Zombies, etc...

But (and this is MY OPINION only...I don't judge anyone who feels differently) there's something creepy and wrong about using very realistic modern-day set human-to-human war shooters when the end result is to tea-bag your friend when you kill him and have 13 year old kids calling out slurs in open chat. It just denigrates and cheapens a subject matter that I think should be treated with a lot more solemnity and respect.

Sports games, most racing games, JRPGs, fighting games, party games, MMOs, soulsborne type games, precision platformers, dating sim games. None of these are inherently bad, I've just learned that I don't get much out of them.

Pay to win games or games with heavy focus on in game purchases. Having an in game store to supplement development costs? Cool no problems. 5 interactions to get into a game but 1 interaction to purchase something? No thanks.

Not saying they can’t be fun. But not a practice I like to support if I can help it.

General war and military style games. When I was younger, my favorite game was battlefield but as I got older, I lost interest in such games. I much prefer simulation and strategy games, abd games that are more relatable.

Anything multiplayer, free-to-play and/or gacha. Nowadays I also avoid FromSoftware and anything trying to ape them, I used to love these kind of games but I just don't have the patience and fortitude for them anymore.

Oh and Nintendo, then again it's easy to avoid them considering I haven't owned one of their consoles since the Game Cube.

Soulsborne type games

Games feeling like a chore and force me to 'get good' in order to enjoy them? Miss me with that shit, or at least pay me for it.

Online games

Same as above, plus annoying people who take the whole thing too seriously.

Anything along the lines of Civ, Stellaris. I have no self control with that type of game. It's the only type of game where I could go hours skipping everything healthy for the body.

Any game mobile advertised on Youtube, if it was good they would not need to advertise

MOBA games, I spent years playing heroes of newerth and Dota2, but as I got older and had less time to play it got increasingly harder to keep up with all the changes, and I realised it was just making me stressed playing it rather than enjoying it. Still enjoyed watching The International for a few years after I quit though.

Crafting ones.

At this point, anything that isn't Smash Brothers or Apex Legends.

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