What are you *not* playing at the moment?

Loads and loads. There's quite a few things I've never played but which were a "bargain", so I had to get them.

Worst offender is probably... And my brains just gone on holiday. Something with Luigi.

Ah yes, Luigi's Mansion.

Oh god, so many of these on the Xbox

Return of the Obra Dinn - installed for months if not years, after I played the first hour and thought it was a neat idea deserving of a full evening at some point

What Remains of Edith Finch - bought after playing and loving Gone Home, never seems to be the right time to start it

XCom 2 - waited ages for a sale, played the first few missions, didn't quite click, now I can't uninstall it or I wasted my money

That's just a few of the ones I keep on the hard drive, either because they're small or I'm stubborn. If space wasn't an issue there would be dozens more

This is basically my default state. Have loads installed, start them and then get distracted/bored. Especially the more indie titles from PS+

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon

Made it halfway through the game but for the life of me I can't be arsed to finish it. I adore its retroness, but just like with the NES Castlevanias to me it's more about legacy than actually having fun. Whenever I try to give it another go, I quickly think I could have actual fun instead and replay Ritual of the Night for the umpteenth time.

Sonic Mania

Sonic is cool and I love how well Sonic Mania does it. But there's always the realisation in the back of my head that I don't actually enjoy Sonic games as much as I want to. But I just can't bring myself to uninstall it.

Outer Wilds: Echo of the Eye

I absolutely loved the base game, I preordered the DLC but still haven't played more than a single cycle after reaching the station. It looks like there's no space flight involved which was such a central part of the main game to me, and I always think I need to be in the right mood to really enjoy it. Sadly, I never seem to be in that mood.

Across various Xbox and PS4,3 I would say around 200, that I will definitely get around to playing before/hopefully before I fall off my perch.

It's probably a different thread for a different time, but I think there's a particular type of game that's much more annoying/shameful to have failed to complete.

Like, I don't care that I bought all of the Crysis games and all of the Metro games (except Exodus) and fell off them. But Fez is a game I desperately wanted to like but didn't, and The Witness I absolutely loved but hit a wall. Maybe it's the games that make you feel smart for working them out - or dim if you give up on them.

Prey - I keep saying I'll give it another shot when I'm in the mood for it, but that never happens.

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - I love a good walking sim if I'm in the right mood, but again I've had this one installed since launch and just never got around to it.

Destiny 2 - guess I'll go back to my main squeeze for the anniversary event, but this is very much a play other stuff month.

My current shame includes:

Alien Isolation
Bloodborne
Disco Elysium
Dishonored 2
Hades
Obra Dinn

As games I intend to play or replay. But thanks to Rogueyone the PS4 Pro has a massive amount of storage and almost my entire library is installed at moment.

I’ve got about 10 PS4 games still in the wrapper including Alien Isolation and The Witcher 3

Not sure what’s going to tip me over the edge to ever play them

I have a whole bunch. My backlog is stupid huge, but I do try to play through things. I generally try to keep my list of installed games to about a single unscrollable list in Steam, and work through those. There are a few on there right now that have sat guiltily for a long time:

Dark Souls. I've mentioned this on RPS, but I have played through Undead Burg multiple times and then just stopped. Over and over. Its still on the list because I keep looking at it and thinking, one day I'll break through.

Valkyria Chronicles 4. Played a couple of hours and then stopped and haven't come back to it for what may be a year?

Shadowrun: Hong-Kong. Was enjoying this, but just fell off and then didn't pick it up again.

Horizon Zero Dawn. Waiting for a time to focus on this. Played through a chunk on PS4 but was struggling to maintain interest vs the sluggish loading times I was experiencing. Bought on PC and seems to run okay but its a big game and never seem to be in the mood.

Ahh a thread about my retirement pile!

- Gears 5
- Persona 5
- RDR2
- Nier Automata
- Far Cry 5 (lots of '5's)
- Prey
- Hyrule Warriors: AoC
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Luigis Mansion 3
- Super Mario Odyssey
- Watch dogs 2
- Jedi fallen order

And that's the only ones I can remember...

MS Flight sim.

Storing a load of indie games for a future unlikely to happen isn't really an issue, but storing a massive space hog in a genre I have no interest in 'just in case' is a bit silly.

Ha, no! They're still all shrink wrapped! I should open a shop...

Oh whoops, I missed the bit about them being installed.

So:

- GTA5
- Kena Bridge of Spirits
- Days Gone
- God of War
- Immortals Fenyx Rising
- Ratchet and Clank

I too don't understand buying a game and not even opening it... Surely you buy it because you want to play it at that point?

I have a few I've played through but they sit on my switch hard drive just on case I go back those are Smash, BOTW, Sayonara Wild Hearts and Links Awakening. There's also a few I've put time into over the years but not completed that are sitting there. Resident Evil 4 springs to mind