How To Never Overcome Your Gaming Backlog

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Between PlayStation Plus, Microsoft Game Pass, and the hole in your heart where the ability to love used to be, it’s easy to build up a huge backlog games. Games often take hundreds of hours to beat - heck, even ‘shorter’ games tend to run the full length of a television season. So it’s only natural that, during a Steam sale, you buy twenty JRPGs that move with the speed of frozen molasses.

Having a backlog of games can feel like a blessing and a curse. On one hand, you’ve got all those games! Remember as a kid when you thought, “One day I’ll spend my money on as many games as I want”? Well, good news: that day is today! You’re already doing it!

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On the other hand, by now you’ve learned that life is meaningless and kindness is only a transaction. Having thousands of games across decades of console generations isn’t always the key to good times you want to believe when buying entertainment in bulk.

Rather, game backlogs can often feel like homework: Do you take on the triple-A adventure game everyone’s talking about now or the indie game about depressed plants visiting a burn ward? The fighting game with beloved pop culture characters or a game called Sex With Hitler? That last game literally exists, folks. And no, I haven’t played it, so if it’s subversive in a cool way or something, hurrah hurrah.

But what if there were a way to clear out your backlog? What if you could play as Garfield in a fighting game and have sex with Hitler? You’d feel great! Briefly. Until you realize that the only thing you had going for you was complaining about your backlog. Without that backlog, you won’t have an excuse to avoid playing remakes of The Last of Us that seem to be released on the