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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 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.

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.

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.

Sonic.exe

• 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".

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

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.

Crafting ones.

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

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 that is a “Game as a Service”

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.

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