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Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 5 months ago by BurntWits@sh.itjust.works to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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[–] hydroxycotton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I know this isn't all _that _ helpful but for me what worked was finally forcing myself to start playing a couple of the games in my backlog. It made me realize that I can really enjoy a lot of the games I already own which decreased my desire to buy more games.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, when I get the urge to buy, I go through my library and pretend it's a "store", and "shop" for something I haven't played.

Small psychological trick that...seems to mostly work. :)