Amazing game that you will never play again.

Silent Wraith · Feb 202026

What is a game you loved but won't play again?
The reason could be it is a huge time sink and you don't have the free time you used to. Or maybe the developer did some bad shit afterwards and you don't want anything to do with their games now.

For me it's Amnesia the Dark Descent. That game was one of the most immersive games I have ever played and one of the best examples of storytelling. It was also so fucking scary that I had literal nightmares for a couple weeks afterwards. I love it but don't want to go through that again lol.

Terra Novan · Feb 202026

Halo series on the Legendary.

erttheking · Feb 202026

Void Stranger

Wonderful story

I think the gameplay actively hates me

Silent Wraith · Feb 202026

Terra Novan said:
Halo series on the Legendary.

Regular Legendary or LASO? Because those are two VERY different beasts lol.

MoogleEmpMog · Feb 202026

Almost any of themreally! Especially if we're talking about games that have a start to finish play experience rather than being run-based like a roguelite or grand strategy game.

Liketen years agoI think I would have regarded either Final Fantasy 6 or one of a pair of then-recent releases as the best game ever made. (Bloodborne or The Witcher 3and which would have been on top in February 2016 depends on when their patches and DLC released.) Fantastic gamesfantastic experiences.

But todayI wouldn't rate any of those three in my top twenty five games and wouldn't seriously consider playing any of them again.

Something like The Binding of Isaac Rebirthwhich would have been my fourth contender at the beginning of 2016I might go back to. It's a run-based game and I'd only be committing to an hour at a time. Plusthat game has had extensive updatesmultiple DLCs (one of which was even good! But in fairness it was veryvery good.)and lots of mod support in the intervening years. Launch Rebirthmuch as I loved it at the time? In a world where Gungeon and Roboquest and the Hades games exist? Pass.

A Slipspace Tree · Feb 202026

Nier Automata. Just playing the game again would mean I would need to Ending E again because if I don't it would feel something like I was missing the point of the game.

Captain Clever · Feb 212026

Radiant Historia. Love the game to deathbut I beat all the worthwhile contentand the added content in the 3DS version makes the game much worse than the original.

ChromeAngel · Feb 222026

I have two answers for this one with lots of rambling.

Personal: Two games. Borderlands 2I loved the first gameand absolutely played everything in the second when I was in my early 20sI think I maxed all characters with pearls and ground at least ten levels of ultimateall solo play. But after presequalthreeand now four all sucking I tried going back to two for old times sake...it just felt like a boring grind. I don't know if I moved on or it just datesbut I can't see myself ever going back to it.
Second game is PrototypeI loved the gameit's not like some amazing art or anything like a lot of games...but something about it just felt immersive. Total power fantasy gameyou FELT like you were the monster. But I tried playing it a bit back and the game just felt simple and kind of shallowstill had solid controls and looked finejust shallow.

More general and current: I go through...a couple hundred games a yearnot exaggeratingI just looked and I have over a hundred that I have yet to cycle off my hard drive dedicated to game installs. But that is for workand even though I love a lot of themI know I'll never go back to play like 99% of them. Only one or two games a year manage to get my attention enough in juuuust the right way that after I'm done with recording and such that I actually want to play them on my own time instead of gardeningcookingor tinkering on things.

This question really caught my attention and made me think about it. Felt I had a different experience then most people from what I've seen on the stats for what the metrics are for how many games people play. If I remember rightlike 50% of all the hours on steam each month are made up of like...five games. Another 40% are split between roughly ten gamesand the last 10% is everything else. Belular News - Youtube Channel did a video breaking down the numbers a couple months agodon't remember the title.

If this is too off topic please note me and I'll snip it. Thanks for the interesting question ^_^

Night_stalker · Feb 232026

Red Dead Redemption 2.

Love that gameit's amazingbut I can't replay itbecause it means I have to go through all the pain of watching Arthur suffer. Again.

Ryser · Feb 232026

Fallout: New Vegasit was (and still) goodbut I think it just looks too dated todayand I'm too lazy to reinstall the game and trying to remember my own modlists that I've used to make the game works.

And my rerun will usually more or less ended up doing the same choices and routethe novelty just wears off for me.

Yora · Feb 232026

I doubt I will return to Valkyria Chronicles and Okami to finish them.

They are fantastic gamesbut I already have so many other games that are much higher on my eternal Replay Every 2-3 Years list.

There are many games that are very popular and I enjoyed greatly when I played themin some cases several timeswhich I don't think I want to play againbut those are because I no longer think they are actually good.

mithie · Feb 232026

There are a ton of single player one and done games that I've enjoyed immensely but will not replay because a lot of it was about the initial experience.

For multiplayer games though.

I enjoyed Star Trek Online immensely and have played it continuously for decades... (I played it when it was in beta). But I will not go back. Chasing the meta was fun for a while but quickly loses the appeal once I realized how much of it is gated behind lootboxes...

OddlyI still go back to play Champions online once in a while.

The other one is Rainbow six siege. I loved it. I enjoyed it. But my MMR has vastly outgrown my skill. This is a result of their new matchmaking algo which keeps your hidden MMR consistent even though your visible rank resets every season.

Nowbecause I'm quite rusty compared to my hidden MMRwhenever I play I get matched with people who are way better than me and I either get stomped into the ground or... well... I get stomped into the ground. My MMR will go down eventually but I'm not keen to find out how many teammates I can screw over just for that to happen... so...

The other game that I've stopped playing is Starcraft 2 and that's more due to me moving to China and being matched up against Koreans. I'm quite good at Starcraft 2. I'm just not at the Korean level.

I don't like to stereotype people but if there's ever a nation of people who are stupidly good at one single gameit's the Koreans and Starcraft.

Rabiddog · Feb 242026

Assassins Creed 1-3
I really enjoyed them but theyre not really that replayable and Ubisoft can eat my whole ass....

Likely Mass Effect after the Saudis got EA and lo and behold theyre updating their privacy settings for EA origin. Shame too but fuck EA and their Saudi masters.

Starcraft 2 actually was really fun until they tried telling me the Queen of Bladesbutcher of billions and destroyer of worlds (destroyer of worlds just within 2 not just going back to her brood war incarnation) is actually a girl boss bad bitch savior of the universe and gets to go be a space god while everyone wishes her a tearful farewell. Also fuck Blizzard.

Uh....hmmm....I enjoyed spec ops the line but its not replayable really and its story is done.

The FEAR games were good but 1 doesn't play well on modern systems2 is kinda meh and 3 is just disappointing.

There's also games I loved that are just gone nowno longer in print and not available for download. Just gone forever.

RandomGuy96 · Feb 242026

Silksong. I had enough fun to finish it and overall think it's well-made. But the chances that I ever play it again after almost 100%-ing it (aside from doing the DLC) are very low. I have no desire to redo all the monotonous and annoying areasboss runbacksfetch questsand trial and error platformingwhich comprises a huge amount of the game for no apparent reason.

Xzarg · Feb 242026

Expedition 33? Great gamebut mostly for its story then the gameplay loop. Going through all the fights again would just feels tedious.

Devastated · Feb 242026

Hotline Miami 2at least the base game. Genuinely very well writtendesigned in such a way that the gameplay perfectly conveys what the devs were trying to tell you. Also becomes an exercise in pulling teeth by the end with the game absolutely obliterating you for deviating from the 'intended' way to play. One of those 'games as suffering' things that I respect a lot but find hard to play through more than once without some kind of modification.

Trentmillenium · Feb 242026

Breath of the Wild and I guess by proxy Tears of the Kingdom.

I think after buying TOTK on release and yet I only able to finish the Wind Temple and barely the Water Temple. I really don't know if I could have finished BOTW again. Something just changed when I finished BOTW in 2020 and when TOTK got release 2-3 years later that I don't think I could finish both games let alone play them again.

TOTK and BOTW aren't that different at the end of the day. HeckI think that's even a complaint some have when TOTK came outexcept I would complain so much about that Tutorial Island with TOTK. I think the scale of the games and how I want to go all in with finishing a game like this is what actually prevents me from going back again.

Psyga315 · Feb 242026

The Movies by Lionhead Studios.

Was practically a machinima creator mixed with a movie tycoon but was fucked over by the serial key DRM and Lionhead shutteringmeaning there's no way for me to play this game again.

And unfortunatelythere isn't really a lot of good indie studios who are able to make a "Planet Coaster" version.

Ser Serendipity · Feb 242026

Pretty much any longstory heavy game is a oner for me. Red DeadGod of War/RagnarokGhost of Tsushimaetc. I love games in that but there's no way I have the time to go through them twice.

Griever123 · Feb 252026

Bravely default… I love the game but between all the grinding you need to do (final boss practically requires a max level character) and the 4 cycles of timeloops you need to do… it just a pain to play. Sequals are similar in that regard.

Naqu2o · Feb 252026

Cultist Simulator.

It just ain't fun anymore if I know everything you know. I beat the game so many timesI knew it like the back of my hand

Rikion Invictus · Feb 252026

God of War 2018 and its sequel.

I loved both games. From beginning to endit was great in all aspects but the sheer time investment into them means that my single playthrough is my only playthrough. That saidbefore reaching the endI did try and ensure I did all the things to get the most out of that single go.

toothflick · Mar 42026

For meit's Shin Megami Tensei 1. I absolutely ADORE the overall vibe and story of the gameI was constantly amazed and unsettled by every story beat in the gamelike my jaw dropped when

like a quarter of the way throughyou accidentally cause the world to be nuked to oblivion and return to the world decades in the future where all your hard earned money becomes worthless since no one used Yen anymoreor how the Chaos Hero fuses with a demon in a desperate attempt to gain poweror meeting Alice and just her politely asking your party to die for her and straight up stealing the soul of the Law Hero

it's all incredible stuff... I just wish that the encounter rate wasn't so highsince you're basically going to wind up getting into a fight whenever you take a single step forward which led to me having literal migraines and dropping the game as a result. It's probably the coolest game that I have no intention of ever finishing.

Falzyker · Mar 62026

Expedition 33I will never play that game againit's fantasticI loved itthe story was amazingthe combat incredible...

I played it a second time just to see how much Verso liedbut that was itI can't bring myself to play it again.

Briar Rose · Mar 62026

It's not amazingnot even particularly goodbut I dearly love Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life (and after some simple moddingits Story of Seasons remake). I won't ever play it all the way through againthough. It does not respect your timeto put it bluntlyand it's not very deep from either a gameplay or story perspective. It's still my ultimate chill-out gameone that captivated my childhood self despite being boring and repetitiveand I will defend its honor with a high-stakeshigh-octane wrestling match to be broadcast on live television. You weren't thereman. You just don't get it...

Amazing game that you will never play again.

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